The true story of Fatima Al Qadiri, who became a successful musician after a childhood spent playing Castlevania to escape the horrors of the Gulf War.

Aoife Wilson and Julia Hardy are best mates who love video games and have worked in the industry for years. They find the most shocking, moving and inspiring true stories about how gaming changed people’s lives forever. Join them to hear about the guy who works for NASA because of a game, the couple who fell in love on an MMORPG, the man who turned his escape from civil war into a video game and the gamers who caught a killer in real time.

Music included from Castlevania (1986) © Konami Digital Entertainment.

Producer: Nathan Jones

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Chloé Cenard vous parle d'une wonderwoman venue du Koweït, Fatima Al Qadiri. Elle a 9 ans lorsque les troupes de Saddam Hussein envahissent le Koweït, initiant la Guerre du Golfe. Elle se plonge alors dans les jeux vidéos et se passionne pour la musique electronique. Dans sa musique, elle aborde différentes thématiques comme la brutalité policière. Elle a signé la musique du film Atlantique, Grand Prix du Festival du Cannes cette année

Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised and Berlin-residing producer Fatima Al Qadiri pulls together personal and political geographies. As a child, she experienced the Gulf War firsthand – a trauma that was furthered by her love for video games and playing the Desert Strike video game barely two years after she saw her native Kuwait destroyed. Memory is a crucial element of her own hyper-digital, often beatless landscapes. Here, she recounts her personal history and talks about reframing disparate sounds and ideas.

We're a hot mess this week as Anthony has returned from Brugge with a handful of Belgian beers and a whole host of musical treats. We have experimental electronics from Kuwait and Japan, synth ambience from Pittsburgh, Angolan afrofunk, Chicago punk, Australian digidub, Mexican acid cumbia and loads of industrial, rock, and stunning folk music

Pete Namlook / Bill Laswell, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Rapoon, Rian Huber, Valiska, Fatima al Qadiri, Jan St Werner, Deadbeat, Nils Petter Molvaer / Moritz von Oswald, Kaitlin Aurelia Smith, Galerie Stratique, Tim Hecker, Building Castles out of Matchsticks, Tortoise, Slime, Radiohead, Braids, Majical Cloudz,
Brian Eno / Carl Hyde, LAL, Zones, Prince Rama and Underworld.