Here's Fatima Al Qadiri:

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It sounds just like it.

http://youtu.be/A7MjpAA_3Fk

dandan said:

Is it a Prince one because I hear Michael Jackson's "Jam".?

iZsaZsa said:

dandan said:

Is it a Prince one because I hear Michael Jackson's "Jam".?

Morris Day x Trinidad James

iZsaZsa said:

It sounds just like it.

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http://thequietus.com/art...sch-review

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'Shanzhai', the opening track of Fatima Al Qadiri's debut album Asiatisch, takes its title from a Chinese term used to describe counterfeit Western goods. Literally it translates to "mountain village", evoking both the outlaw nature of the industry and the crudeness of its reproductions - copyright-evading spoonerisms of sportswear brands and fast food chains. While such knock-offs are commonplace, there is perhaps more craft and sophistication to some imitations than that definition grants. Electronic giants such as Apple, slow to meet Chinese demand, have had their official stores outnumbered by dozens of simulacra, painstakingly recreated down to the uniform of their employees - to all intents and purposes the real thing. The term has come refer not just to products but lookalikes and parodies more generally, such as the track itself, a cover of Sinéad O'Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' sung in Mandarin, only with nonsense lyrics - a joke at our expense. Much like the Apple stores, we might have never known the difference.

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In a way this is correct:

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a cover of Sinéad O'Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2 U'

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... because it is Sinéad's version she covers, not The Family's.

BartVanHemelen said:

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Fatima Al Qadiri, 'Asiatisch'

Fatima Al Qadiri
The debut album from Brooklyn's Fatima Al Qadiri is an exploration of Chinese music in the same way that Las Vegas' New York-New York Hotel & Casino is an exploration of metropolitan life. A concept record ostensibly about orientalism in the grime scene, Asiatisch constructs chillingly artificial worlds that sound somewhere between PlayStation blips, Oneohtrix Point Never cheese-synths and cut-ups of Chinese poetry. The Mandarin cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" finds a new layer of false-nostalgic beauty in a year when artists are still covering "Wicked Game." C.W.



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Averett said:

http://youtu.be/A7MjpAA_3Fk

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callimnate said:

Averett said:

http://youtu.be/A7MjpAA_3Fk

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TOO FUNNY!!

bonnie184 said:

And Zapp's "Doo Wa Ditty".