With a fiercely anarchist agenda and voracious appetite for exotic global music, Filastine has a reputation for intense—and often illegal—live performances.

This Barcelona-based, internationally sought-after artist handles the richest and most complex styles with total ease, taking the sounds of the street into the most inhospitable corners: electronica packed with tricks and a special predilection for percussion and ethnic sounds, allowing him to mix Bollywood with Balkan beats, breakcore and hip-hop and emerge unscathed

Hip-hop and jungle mix seamlessly with Middle Eastern strings, French and Spanish rapping, dancehall toasting, Hindi singing and countless other global sources. What sets Filastine apart, though, is his mastery of the drum. Having studied under Indian tabla masters and Moroccan percussionists (namely, the Master Musicians of Jajouka), Filastine layers his tracks with a hypnotic variety of both sequenced and live percussion. Murky hip-hop beats melt into rapid tabla workouts and then further transform into intricate patterns