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These are some of those beloved by MazaJ.


Beats and arabiZms

100 Copies

mahmoud refat's excellent cairene electronicist label

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Badawi

the mighty and righteous dubalizer, plays the meanest dombak this side of Jerusalem

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Bigg Al Khaser

hip-hop casa style

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dajjah

the dark heart of arabist jump up....

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Dj Lethal Skillz

lebanese turntablist

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Fantazia

rootsy gnawa, chaabi dance

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Filastine

who am i? a specialist in counter-hegemonic brown sound..........and he's not wrong.

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Zeid Hamdan / Lebanese Underground

beiruthi producer's label feat. RGB, Scrambled Eggs and more.

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Ipek

Eklektik Arabesk-konFUSION OrAsia

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Joi

urdu / arabic house fusions

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Soap Kills

chic leb art-pop outfit

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Ludu Mix

arfa and the boys london rai

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MoMo

marakech vs hackney, phat arabesque

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Muslimgauze

contentious mancunian sonic jihadi

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Mutamassik

de-nile-ator and purveyor of saa'idi roughed up beats

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Nasha

hard edged estern breaks crew

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Dj / Rupture

beat mangling strike against geography.........and a hard-core scholar and gentleman

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Skander Besbes

tunisian mashed electronica

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Omar Faruk Tekbelik

turkish legend of aural pleasures: breathing god...

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U-cef

the original purveyor of halal-hop, beats with finesse

 

Sound Art / Improv / Composition

Halim El Dabh

The real pioneer of electronic music.
Egyptian composer who transformed zar sounds back in 1944, before
Pierre Schaeffer's widely cited "first" performance of electroacoustic music.

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al maslakh

essential lebanese improv label run by mazen kerbaj...

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Raed Yassin

lebanese-swiss audio / video works. ideas thrown with the utmost precision

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irtijal festival

international free improvised music festival in Lebanon

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Soliman Gamil

egyptian musicologist and avant-garde folk/classical composer.
No comprehensive site for him, but here's a lead.

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Nuri Iskandar

syrian musicologist of ancient religious traditions, and composer, creator of the Bacchanten project.
No official site, but here's a lead...

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Jason Kahn

sound artist whose works seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention. And he does.

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Mazen Kerbaj

the superb lebanese improvisor who brought us duet for trumpet and israeli bombardment.

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Hassan Khan

cairene artist, enfant terrible and multimedia agitator. Look and learn.

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Mahmoud Refat

Cairene producer. MazaJ has much love for this man and his stripped down aesthetic.
Check The Physical Volume.

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Alireza Mashayekhi

Electronic pioneering Iranian composer.

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Erhan Muratoglu

Audio-visual artist and NOMAD originator.

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Sharif Sehnaoui

guitar improvisor attracted by the mean of time?

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Christine Sehnaoui

improv alto sax and experimental cinema

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Michael Zerang     

first gen american-assyrian and all out scronk percussion improvisor -
check the Al Maslakh with Brotzman.

 

 

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