Name: NTS Radio - FAK AGZA2 W/ ASHRAR by Ashrar
Duration: 59 min 36 s
Description: Recorded a non club mix for one of the closest people to me, the one and only Postdrone.

Swag Lee - 2add w 2add

Takeover by Ashrar(@ashrardj)

TRACKLIST:

Jahbar/Ashrar - Intro
ZULI - Trigger Finger (Daniel Ruane Relapse)
Reso - Cerberus
410 - Think Again (Ship Sket edit)
Klahrk - NuNegative
Assyouti - Unreleased
Postdrone - Qaha
Klahrk & Roxas & Kattie - Hidden Process
Kinlaw & Franco Franco - Tetsuo 2019
Ashrar - Unreleased
Granul - Cypher VIP
Dalek One, MYTHM - Apocalypto
Postdrone - Unreleased
Katatonic Silentio - Waiting For The Dust To Settle (ZULI Remix)
De Grandi - Easy Mongo
Sueuga Kamau - Claridad Extatica
KAVARI & MYEN - Lagging
Didier XCX, GRIG & pan_x - It’s Late Not Latte (/pulsr_Remix)
Abadir - 2030
Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam

Noods Radio show 035 w/ Ashrar | 17.12.2021

Untitled by Muqata'a (@muqataa) and Mazen Kerbaj (@mazenkerbaj). Taken from Mazen Kerbaj new album Sampler / Sampled, out February 25, 2022, via Morphine Records (@morphinerecords)

Read: https://bit.ly/3GbOaed

Sampler / Sampled is an album made of two interdependent parts rather than a double-album.

The first part of the project, Sampler, is a trumpet solo album that catalogues the unique sounds and extended techniques that Mazen Kerbaj developed for the instrument in the past 25 years; it consists of 318 pieces ranging from less than a second to forty seconds each, and presenting different sonic materials.

This catalogue of sounds works on various levels: first and foremost, it is a trumpet solo that could be played in its original order, or in random mode to create different pieces of music. But it is also a collection of samples that could be used for various applications (ringtones, phone sound effects, cinema) and, of course, to create new pieces of music based on sampling.

The second part of the project is the composition Sampled for a musician working with loops and/or samples. The composition has one instruction: create a piece of music using solely tracks from Sampler as your sound source (with the possibility to use all kinds of effects or treatment).

Each interpreter/musician becomes thus a co-composer who appropriates the piece and makes it their own. In this regard, the musicians that were commissioned to play Sampled were chosen from different geographical origins and musical genres to create highly different and personal pieces of music.

One important output of this project is putting in practice the overused idea of music as a universal language. This idea is very present in “free improvised music” where musicians from different origins can meet for the first time and make music together without the need to adapt to different musical traditions.

But here, the collective part of creating music in real time is not involved. It is rather the contrary: it starts with one middle-eastern musician creating a new language/vocabulary for his western instrument, to be later used by other musicians from around the globe who will appropriate this vocabulary and use it with their own language/grammar.

The final output of this double faceted album that was recorded during the Covid lockdown proved to be a very efficient new way to collaborate from a distance in times of world isolation, and ultimately put in practice the universality of music by breaking the boundaries of genres that are the most difficult to break.

Sampler / Sampled

Premiere: Muqata'a and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled [Morphine Records]

Tracklist: 

Tinariwen - Imidiwaren (KMRU Remix)
Azemad - Afriki
Yaseen - Siteh ft Dakn
Nikki Nair - once upon
Xzavier Stone - RESTLESS
Hassan Abou Alam - Hanshoof 
KAVARI - Uppe'ntra - Lust (Klahrk Reeemix)
Cassius Select - WHERE U AT
AKA AFK & T9 RJ - Frequência (prod. by Amor Satyr)
Nazar - ATL - LAD ft. Brodinski
Osheyack - Thrall
Air Max '97 - Ice Bridge
Rattlesnakke ft. EL PLVYBXY - ESTRÉS
Liliane Chlela - Swordfish
Postdrone - Dawsha FM (feat. PostTawheed)
A.Fruit - The Party is Inside (Instrumental)
ABADIR - Another One
Granul - Quarantine
Moktar - Immigrant
Badsista - NAGINATA ft. EVEHIVE
Ayesha - Downpour
tarxun - tattoo fold تای تتو
S1AM - AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT

Garage Noord - Echobox Radio hosted by Noise Diva - 02.09.2022

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

KOMBILE 003

Centum - KHART

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

Recorded a non club mix for one of the closest people to me, the one and only Postdrone.

NTS Radio - FAK AGZA2 W/ ASHRAR

Grain Flux 3ak

Jessika Khazrik - Ra2i7a رائحة لا تذهب

Lil Asaf - Sawa Sawa
APR126 | Out July 31

Out Now: astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa

Following January's "Msll777" single, we're proud to deliver Lil Asaf's Sawa Sawa. Produced by Beirut-born, Berlin-based artist Khadije, Sawa Sawa bundles fragmented sonics with Lil Asaf's devilish vocal performance. Air horns, chimes, blast beats and wheezing rhythmic arrangements make up Sawa Sawa's backing. The beats knock as much as they disarm, utilizing a capacious approach to empty space undergirded by a copious and pernicious drone.

Asaf, also known as Bashar Suleiman, has honed his hectic, dim lit approach to rap across previous releases for ANBA and HIZZ هز. Riding roughshod over his own and Khadije's production, Suleiman delivers line after line of scraped expression into the pitch dark spaces between beats. Dub effects and the flinty corners of broken kick patterns form walls to bounce off of, filled by repeated refrain and howling sub vocals.

Sawa Sawa means “together together,” a phrase Bashar’s grandfather would say to him and his brother when they fought as children. This spirit is embodied in the circumstances behind its recording, born from a chance meeting between the two artists and recorded in several impromptu sessions. Sawa Sawa is accompanied by a music video for “3wwe”, directed by Yusra Nazek.

NTS Radio - FAK AGZA2 W/ ASHRAR

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