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Azad" begins softly, with brain-tickling beats, deep bass grooves, bird songs, and various electrical noisefunk variations- the culmination of which is the masterful blend of sights, smells, sounds, and emotions we've come to call Muslimgauze. This album is more playful and adventurous feeling than some of the others- the dervish is not whirling quite so desperately.

Where some Muslimgauze albums feel to me like being strapped to the back of a jet-propelled camel, racing through a sandstorm across a long lonely desert floor, "Azad," is more like being on the camel by choice, and just loping through the oasis. This one doesn't peel the skin of your face back. (Not that such an effect is ever a bad thing!)

Muslimgauze occupied a strange place in the musical world. He was a powerful, prolific innovator, releasing albums that were alternately beautiful and visceral, full of ambient electronics, polyrhythmic drumming and all kinds of voices and sound effects. The recordings earned him a devoted following in underground, experimental and industrial music circles worldwide.

The New York Times 1999