   IMODDA is the band that brought modern Tuareg music to Morocco.  Starting from very humble roots, the group has worked their way to playing at major festivals and concerts all around Morocco.  Their style, desert blues, bridges between their original culture and a modern inspiration, first developed by Ali Farka Toure in Mali, Tinariwen...    
 
   Like many of the North African desert blues groups, IMODDA uses electric guitars, jambes and electronic drum to fuse between traditional and modern sounds.  However, IMODDA’s sound has its own unique take on the genre.  In their yet to be released upcoming album, Tisslit, IMODDA has experimented with mixing reggae rhythms with the desert blues and the result is hypnotic.  Their lyrics are ardently committed to preserving and engaging with their Amazigh (Berber) culture while at the same time producing rhythms that, although localized, are universally enjoyable. 
 
   All the members of IMODDA were born in the southeast desert of Morocco.  They spent their childhood in the desert, living a nomadic lifestyle, before going to school and settling in the village.  Since childhood they loved music, playing drums and singing songs passed down to them by their families.  As they grew up music was a constant in their lives and today each member of the group is proficient in several instruments.
    
   IMODDA was formed in 2007 from the coalescence of two bands, led by Hmad Laarossi and Mustafa Ouhaga.  Three years later, in October 2010, IMODDA created a charity under the same name, which operates to promote Amazigh culture and sustainable development in Merzouga.  

   Today the group lives in Merzouga, where they work and practice their music.  Drawing inspiration from their surroundings they sing about their life, the desert and their people.  However, 
IMODDA’s aim is to not only engage with people from the desert but throughout North Africa and the world.

Le  groupe crée à Agadir en 2008, fruit d’un rêve ayant atteint maturité, celui de remettre l’instrument du Ribab à sa place légitime sur la scène musicale marocaine, et par le biais de sa musicalité unique, le porter au-delà des frontières par un voyage transculturel, et faire découvrir au monde le potentiel de la musique amazighe, non par de la nostalgie, mais par un nouveau visage et une musicalité moderne, et c’est là tout le mérite du groupe Ribab Fusion, c’est de réconcilier la richesse de nos racines et de notre appartenance avec une tonalité  moderne et moderniste.
The group was created in 2008 in Agadir, the result of a dream that has reached maturity, the return of the instrument “Ribab” to its rightful place on the Moroccan music scene, through its unique musicality, to be carried beyond borders by a transcultural journey, in order to show the world the potential of Amazigh music, not by nostalgia, but with a new face and a modern musical, this is all the merit of the group Ribab fusion is to reconcile the richness of our roots and our affiliation with modern and modernist tonality .

Toukadime est un projet initié par deux dj’s Krimau et Bachir s’évertuent à faire vivre leur collection de disques vinyle en provenance du Maghreb, la partageant sur la toile, sur les ondes ou en soirée.
Les deux comparses à l'univers hétéroclite ont fait leurs armes dans le deejaying en mixant toute sorte de musique avec toutefois un attrait évident pour la culture afro américaine (Funk, Soul, HipHop…) ainsi que les musiques africaines. C’est donc logiquement qu’ils se sont retrouvés autour d’un support qu’ils affectionnent, le vinyle, et un espace géographique qui leur parle, le Maghreb. Leur objectif est simple: valoriser un patrimoine, (re) découvrir des oeuvres et satisfaire ainsi les oreilles curieuses ou amatrices du genre.

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