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"Stop the Earth, I Want to Get Off serves as both astute soundtrack to an around-the-world journey and as good party music." -Time Out Magazine (full review Feb 6th 2007)
"His dub selections make speakers melt & bassbins bleed" -RE:UP Magazine
"This album is so deep and well thought out. It really represents all his inspirations as a producer." -Turntable Lab
"Dancefloor veteran Zeb drops the Afro-disco bombs in a preview of his upcoming CD."
-XLR8R Magazine
"Africa meets Arabia IN DUB! A classic album from the very versatile ZEB."
-Nickodemus (Turntables on the Hudson)
"Truly 21st century global beats - open minded, eclectic and
respectfully mixing disparate sounds like dance electronic, dub and
funk with Afro-Latin and Middle Eastern influences." -Mehmet (Giant Step)
"His display of fury and softness in his persona translates to some of
lifeˆs greatest paradoxes: the ability to pull from light and darkness and,
most importantly, understand that all of existence is a play of opposing
forces that dance in harmony. Stop the Earth, but donˆt let him off quite
yet. His work has just started." - Derek Beres (Global Beat Fusion)
Written and recorded in Zeb's home studio in the Lower East side of Manhattan during the Winter of 2002/3. Spy From Cairo's 'An Eye On The World' album is a melting pot brimming over with intense emotion and feeling.
Zeb says "I started working on 'Don't Panic I'm Islamic' about two days after the World Trade Centre disaster (I don't want to use the word 'terror' because I'm sick of hearing it!) and I used that title as an ironic protest against the crazy people who went around harassing and sometimes even killing innocent American Middle-Easterners in retaliation for the Towers... every song that I wrote on this album after 'Don't Panic I'm Islamic' was part of my healing process... because I'm not American, I'm not English, I'm not Egyptian and I'm not Italian - I'm a citizen of the World."
10/08/09