A dark, Dystopian Techno journey into the heart of the Middle East!

http://www.generationbass.com/2015/04/28/techno-arabe-volume-1/

Techno Arabe Volume 1

The journey continues.....

A dark, dystopian Techno jouney into the heart of the Middle East.  

TECHNO ARABE VOLUME 2 [DJ UMB]

Mastered Download & more info coming soon....

Arabtronix Volume 5

Read all about the mix here @ Okayafrica:

http://www.okayafrica.com/news/dj-umb-africa-in-your-earbuds-mixtape-65/

Download here:
https://soundcloud.com/okayafrica/africa-in-your-earbuds-65-dj-umb-african-apocalypse

Africa in your Earbuds – African Apocalypse

Okayafrica asked me for an Africa in Your Earbuds Mix at least 2 years ago.  It’s taken me this long to get around to it because I always wanted to do something extra, extra special for this mixtape series and for this site.  It’s a site and series that I really love.  And it’s taken me over 2 years to get into this extra special mood to lay down this mix for them.  I didn’t want to turn in something mediocre or average and I’m quite sure this mix is neither of those things.  It was essential that I was in the right mood for this mix because it is based on a mood, in this instance, an apocalyptic mood.

For this mix I wanted to create a dystopian scenario, an imagined “African Apocalypse”- distorted polyrhythmic beats interspersed with static interference, a naiveté and doom laden atmospherics to create a bleak yet enthralling sounds cape with vivid imagery.  The blend of Tarraxo, Tarraxinha, Fodencia, Kuduro, Afro Bass, Afro Beat (and lots of stuff I don’t even know what to label) has created an intoxicating & cinematic 2 hour journey into the darkest depths of Apocalyptic Africa! 

For this mix I drew very heavily on the Angolan and Portuguese Bass Undergrounds.  I’ve been a huge supporter of these movements for a number of years.  I’ve supported artists on the blog and also curated many of our own digital releases on the Generation Bass label focusing on these underground scenes.

I’ve been saying for a number of years that the future of Dance music lies in these scenes and that the future generations of Super-Producers and SuperStar DJs will come to be dominated by producers in Europe with an African heritage.  The sound is raw, exciting and fresh and unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.  In many instances, the bridge between African dance floors and European dance floors is “almost” complete within the sound of these burgeoning new movements. 

A lot of the tracks in this mix have been in my vaults for at least 3 years or more.  I have decided only now to commit them to this mixtape.  I still don’t think the world is quite yet ready for a lot of this material, it’s maybe still at least 3 years or more ahead of it’s time.  Some of it we have previously released on our Generation Bass label and a lot of other stuff is either unreleased or floating around on other independent labels.  The artists who feature are self-evident from the ID tags that are shouted out on most tracks which reveal the identities of the brilliant and mind blowing producers at work.  

As usual, recorded live on CDJ’s with manual mixing, basically, a live DJ mix, like all my mixes are.
Artwork - Underdog
Beat Laden - Mastering 

Don’t book for me for gigs, book one or more of these guys below and enjoy the mix:

Dj Znobia
Dj Paparazzi
Bison & Squareffekt
Deejay Anderson
Dj Liu K
Mambos Da Casa
Nigga Fox
Dj Marfox
King Kong
Lx Monkey Beatz
Roulet
Dj Marshall
Nazar
Beat Laden
Dj Doraemon 
Dj BeBeDeRa 
Dotorado Pro 
Dj Lilocox
Dj Finicox
Dj Zulox
DZC Crew
MZK
Dj N.K
Nidia Minaj
Diamond Bass
Dj Satelite
Dj UmbFox
TxiGa Pro
DJ PutOo Helder
Blacksea Não Maya
Deejay KarFoX
Babaz Fox
Power Music Beatz
And the list goes on…….



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Africa In Your Earbuds Mixtape - "African Apocalypse" [Okayafrica Exclusive]

Tracklist & more info here:
http://www.generationbass.com/2015/09/30/future-tarraxo/

Space Age Beats from Africa, born in Angola, nurtured in Portugal and presented to the world.

A New, Mutant strain of African Diaspora soundtracked to the Future by:

Bison & Squareffekt

The Spirit of DJ Znobia

& featuring

Tilha

Arca

Photo Romance
 
Artwork by Squareffekt.


Tracklist

#FutureTarraxo

My Uncle passed away in Lebanon last year and I travelled over there upon hearing this very sad news.  Much to my amazement, my Aunty handed me his beloved record collection which she said he wanted me to have.  Amongst the sea of stuff in his collection from all over the world, I discovered some amazing Lebanese music mostly from the 80’s.  

I was familiar with Lebanese music from the 00's and beyond and some classic stuff like Fairuz and stuff by the Rahbani brothers.  I also knew amazing modern vocalists like Najwa Karam (who imho has the most beautiful female voice in the world), Haifa, Nancy Ajram, Nawal, Fadl Shaker and many others but I’d never paid that much attention to Lebanese music from the 80's and I so I didn’t quite to know what to expect. When I arrived back in England with my secret stash and listened to the Lebanese stuff from the 80’s, my mind was literally BLOWN, my heart ached and I almost died too!

So I trawled through heaps of this stuff with my jaw dropping as I attentively listened to each new track. In the process, which is still continuing, I inherited my Uncle’s aching and broken heart!

After a bit of time, I pulled myself together and I started to pick my favourite tracks.  I began to put these mixes together. I just had to because I wanted to share this wonderful music with my friends and with people who dig what I do and with anybody else who might wish to experience the music of heartbreak.

This is the sound of <3 Break….This is the sound of Lebanese Love Songs from the 80’s!



Lebanese Love Songs from the 80's Volume 2

A mix that draws inspiration from Bladerunner and gives it a Middle Eastern sheen!

Desert Wave is an Arabic/Eastern themed concept which is both ambient and rave in equal measure.

It conceptualizes a hallucinogenic & psychedelic vibe where you can trip' out in mellow mood at the Sand Dunes (Part 1) or be more upbeat at the Light Fantastic, raving till dawn (Part 2) and going back to the past to remember the future (Part 3). 

I originally did a version of Volume 3 about 6 months ago and stuck it on Mixcloud and as I continued to listen to it, unintentionally, the first 30 minutes sounded like an Arabian version of Bladerunner!  But the overall mix did not fit that same vibe.

So I felt that I really needed to change it to give it a complete Bladerunner vibe, which I hope I have now achieved with the removal of tracks from the original mix that didn’t fit the vibe and by introducing some new tracks, some of which were especially created with the Bladerunner vibe in mind.

So what you have now is a collection of ambient, electronic and futuristic 80’s club sounds with Bladerunner firmly in mind.  This is how I would like to imagine an alternate Bladerunner set in the heart of Arabia!


DesertWave - Part 3 : BladeRunner [Arabic Edition]

Desert Wave is an Arabic/Eastern themed concept which is both ambient and rave in equal measure.

It conceptualizes a hallucinogenic & psychedelic vibe where you can trip' out in mellow mood at the Sand Dunes (Volume 1) or be more upbeat at the Light Fantastic, raving till dawn (Volume 2) and going back to the past to remember the future in an Arabic Edition of BladeRunner (Volume 3) and Chillin' @ the Pyramids (Volume 4).


DesertWave Part 4 - Chillin' @ The Pyramids

ArabTronix 6 - R"N"B Arabia,

Volume 6 of the ArabTronix series takes in a heavy dose of R "N" B slow jamz from Arabia, North Africa, Turkey and includes some vintage American cutz from Aaliyah who sampled a many Middle Eastern classic.

ArabTronix 6 - R'N'B Arabia

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