We conclude the first season of [episode_1] with an experimental sound piece by Cairo-based producer El Kontessa, accompanied by a text from Shavi Lortso.

The episode is an attempt to illustrate the anxiety, fear and confusion induced by long stays at the Intensive Care Unit, and the long-term psychological effects of immobility, solitude and sedation on patients.

Shavi Lortso is an inactive character fluked into existence through failed attempts at creating a relatable, contemporary superhero. Its limb design was too ambitious and its skin too thin, so immediately upon assembly, it collapsed on itself and turned into black sludge. It serves as a digital ink substitute in some cyber spaces. 

El Kontessa is the stage name of Cairo-based producer, DJ and multidisciplinary artist Fajr Soliman. She experiments with Egyptian Pop and Mahraganat music elements. In her production and Dj-set, she deconstructs familiar/nostalgic sounds, adds textures, and blends it with Cairo's soundscapes, giving them fresh and astonishing results akin to a live set.

In collaboration with Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Middle East Office, Beirut

نختتم الموسم الأول من بودكاست [الحلقة_الأولى] بمقطوعة موسيقية تجريبية من عمل المنتجة المصرية الكونتيسا٬ مرفقة بنصّ من شافي لورتسو.

هذه الحلقة محاولة لترجمة القلق والخوف والارتباك الناجمين عن فترات إقامة طويلة في وحدة العناية المشدّدة٬ والآثار النفسية طويلة المدى الناجمة عن الوحدة والتخدير وعدم الحركة على المرضى.

شافي لورتسو هي شخصية رقمية غير نشطة خُلقت من خلال محاولات فاشلة لإنشاء بطلة خارقة معاصرة. كان تصميم أطرافها طموحًا للغاية وجلدها رقيقًا جدًا، لذلك فور التجميع، انهارت على نفسها وتحولت إلى حمأة سوداء. تُستخدم أحيانًا كبديل للحبر الرقمي في بعض المساحات الإلكترونية.

الكونتيسة هو الاسم الفنّي للمنتجة المقيمة في القاهرة، والدي جاي والفنانة متعددة التخصصات فجر سليمان. تتلاعب فجر بعناصر موسيقى البوب المصري والمهرجانات٬ كما تفكك الأصوات المألوفة والحنينية في إنتاجاتها ووصلات الدي جاي التي تلعبها، خالقة قوامًا جديدة ممزوجة مع البيئة الصوتية في القاهرة. 

بالتعاون مع مؤسسة هاينريش بُل، مكتب الشرق الأوسط، بيروت

Shavi Lortso: If it weren't for this beep | شافي لورتسو: لو لم يكن هذا الطنين

Unknown Album

01 REC-2023-04-01 (1/4)

MOSHTRQ is an audiovisual collective from Cairo, Egypt, comprised of Ambi, Ashrar, Balla3058, Belahadaf, Karim Serry, Postdrone, Timo1_2, and Yaseen.

This mix compiles original productions by the MOSHTRQ crew, including selections from our upcoming debut VA album.

https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-15th-april-2023

FAK AGZA2 W POSTDRONE & MOSHTRQ 150423

This set is an attempt to discover and explore the sounds of the different stages of the circulation of leaving something and arriving to another new thing going through rarefaction,demolishing, displacement, obituary and arriving to finally,reach and adopt repetitive comfort and stability again, before something new and strange happens.

GalalaLive Set for Postdrone's FAK AGZA2 on NTS 19.03.23

Highly influential Egyptian musician/artist Youssef Abouzeid, father of Panstarrs & member post punk/rock groups from 2012 to present days. Groups such as Kelab, Ana w dada & El Manzouma (maybe more) also co-founded the record label @[hizz.me](https://hizz.me/) & started the first Egyptian guitar pedal company @nmrpedals - Youssef's music has inspired me so much growing up and continues to inspire me on so many levels.

https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-15th-july-2023

FAK AGZA2 W/ PANSTARRS 150623

This playlist is curated from very low-quality records that have been recorded on the streets in local religious ceremonies, but that is what we found fascinating because you don't just listen to a guy in his band singing their religious poems, but you enter full interactive performances in the middle of the street every one on the streets is involving in a way you will see someone goes grab the mic from the vocalist and says something interrupting the whole thing, and other people dancing carelessly between the cars and others screaming.
So you enter an overwhelming atmosphere but for us, in a very inspiring good way, those events are like a sanctuary.
  
https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-12th-august-2023

FAK AGZA2 W/ DAHB & OMAR 120823

Fak Agza2 (disassembled parts)
Dissecting various corners of Cairo’s underground, that make up the sound of the city. Presented by Cairo-based music producer/DJ. Postdrone 
https://www.nts.live/shows/postdrone/episodes/postdrone-2nd-september-2023

FAK AGZA2 W/ POSTDRONE 020923

Down she stared to the valley sin.

9ar5
otteswed

Down She Stared

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Fuel from the archive - big zuhour - 23 Nov 2023

a snippet from an upcoming release with @beat-craft-music .
جزء من اصدار جديد مع بيت كرافت

Mangal - حنجل

26.11.2019

ON VIOLENCE

The personification of the calumnious voice of the world, begotten of Envy and Detraction.

Down She Stared

Abdullah Meqdad [9AR5]

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