These are some of those beloved by MazaJ.

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mahmoud refat's excellent cairene electronicist label

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....

lebanese turntablist

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Fantazia

rootsy gnawa, chaabi dance

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

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

Eklektik Arabesk-konFUSION OrAsia

urdu / arabic house fusions

chic leb art-pop outfit

arfa and the boys london rai

marakech vs hackney, phat arabesque

contentious mancunian sonic jihadi

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

hard edged estern breaks crew

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

tunisian mashed electronica

turkish legend of aural pleasures: breathing god...

the original purveyor of halal-hop, beats with finesse

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.

al maslakh

essential lebanese improv label run by mazen kerbaj...

Raed Yassin

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

irtijal festival

international free improvised music festival in Lebanon

Soliman Gamil

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

Nuri Iskandar

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

Jason Kahn

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

Mazen Kerbaj

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

Hassan Khan

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

Mahmoud Refat

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

Alireza Mashayekhi

Electronic pioneering Iranian composer.

Erhan Muratoglu

Audio-visual artist and NOMAD originator.

Sharif Sehnaoui

guitar improvisor attracted by the mean of time?

Christine Sehnaoui

improv alto sax and experimental cinema

Michael Zerang     

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