اوتسا

Tuqoos, Julmuds debut album release is a 15 track project rooted in heavy beats that bend space and time to subvert forms of enclosure. The sounds have an almost granular detailed texture while maintaining a gripping rhythmic flow via dense bass lines and a bitter sweetness in the melodies, blurring the lines between hanging on a street corner, at a protest or in a club. Produced in Ramallah - Palestine, Tuqoos pushes up against otherwise inaccessible space, resisting the conditions of a body in capture through sounds that morph, slip through and create breaks in times and spaces that remain occupied.


All tracks produced and recorded by Julmud
Artwork by Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas
Typography + CGI by @moonistudio
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert (Almachrome)
Bilna’es, 2022

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Basmala بسملة

Warped and dragged through the murky underbelly of the Levantine underground comes ‘Volume 1’ the x-rated left-field debut from the pseudonymous DJ GAWAD.

Via pitched up vocals dripping with delay, DJ GAWAD takes us on a tour of the region's most urgent artists, his interjections oscillating between cocky boast and frustrated lament.

Through this new persona, DJ GAWAD pulls back the curtain to reveal himself as the protagonist of the mixtape-like album, as replete with features as it is with expletives, an enigmatic ghoul in the back of the studio with an endless supply of broken sample flips, giving the album its old school feel while still speaking to contemporary hip hop aesthetics.

A Jordanian/Palestinian Memphis gangster rap parody par excellence, the album is infused with satirical commentary on the state of the contemporary music scene, yet DJ GAWAD shows as much as he tells, expertly fashioning a sound that makes you wonder about the identity of the artist behind the braggadocious persona of the self-titled “best producer in the Middle East.”

Drawing heavily from the Memphis rap mixtapes of the mid 1990s, DJ GAWAD has clearly identified the same brooding atmosphere in his own surroundings. On Mat3’anish (feat. Bleng & Fara7) DJ GAWAD makes his most explicit reference to the Memphis sound, twisting the hallmark cowbells that defined that movement to reflect the equally raw nature of his own setting.

Similarly, in Bandana (feat. Jurum), DJ GAWAD finds the perfect tension between his romantic sampling tendencies and the brutal sensibilities of his featured artist. As if liberated by DJ GAWAD's anonymity and irreverence, his menagerie of artists appear to have been emboldened, embracing the obscene free naturedness of the album, setting their lyrical prowess free to wander.

No expense was spared in the post production treatment of DJ GAWAD’s debut, with Iraqi-American artist Mark Gergis incorporating the Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck in the mastering process, as is evidenced by the crisp saturation of the album's sonics.


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DJ GAWAD, the self-proclaimed “best producer in the Middle East”, is the pseudonymous persona of the Arab artist, pioneer, philosopher and lover. The anonymity grants him complete artistic freedom to pursue his creative endeavors in full. DJ GAWAD embarked on a journey from the West to the East to collaborate with local left-field rap artists in the region to produce this masterful debut, released on Drowned By Locals.

DJ GAWAD Presents: Volume 1 is his first feature album, and he will continue releasing more projects under this moniker. Stay tuned. 


Producer: DJ GAWAD
Vocals and Lyrics: Tony Bleng, Fara7, @rknddn, Julmud, Movenwomen, MrF13 @RUUQ , Twinkie, Jurum
Master: Mark Gergis
Kingpin & Executive Producer: Sukk-Leil
Artwork: 3YN
Text: Nihal El Aasar

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DJ GAWAD Presents VOLUME 1

DJ GAWAD - Mat3’anish (feat. Tony Bleng & Fara7)

Prod. by Besh

مفيش حاجة مفيش مانع عندي 
فيك ابره قول موانع حقني
دي اللفة والامر اتعند 
مش محتاجين كلام من عمدك 
وادي الاعادة الخامسة 
كلامنا كان متبعتر 
كلامنا كان ليه يرتب
اصلا لو محتاجين للفركة فالفركة منعوها صبا 
محتاجين كلامكو في العصافرة 
ايه اللي بيحصل للمواد تبخر 
ولا الكلام ولا المعاد ينفع 
ولا الحصار على الببان ينزع 
لو الكلام ما كان في ايد تمنع 
وادي المعاني من عند الامتع
ايد نامت ايد سابت التانيه
عيش عام عيش حاف مش فانية
مش كلامي لو ما ضاع هباء 
انا وادي الذئاب له معالم عايمة 

أمشي خطوة وحاسب السادسة
وعمري يطول في أرض فاسدة
فتحت سكة تودي لجوا ودعيت لربي يفك حبسك
تنسى اسمك وتشك نفسك
الغل راسمك شكل مفكك
سقطنا منكو نلاقي الأنسب
أثق ف حدسي وسم حدثك
حاسك أوي وفاهمك بزيادة
اللي نويته ف قلبك جيت وبعته ف مزادك
اللي نويته في قلبك أصلا كان خباثة 
من أول ما شفتك شميت فيك خساسة
أساساً حملي تقل ني والمركب فيها خرم
هتشوفوا في بحري حب وهتدوقوا ف غدري ذل
شماتتك آخر لقطة منزلتليش من زور بس خلاص انت حر الايام جيابة تجر
وقلوب مليانة تخر ونفوس عيانة تضر
ف شموخي ليونة تخض وخضوع ديانا الأم
والقالب حاجة تسر وحضوري سيكا مر
أعريك بنظرة يا برص وخصوصا لو بتقر

الأرض الفاسدة (مع داود المنطقي)

Taken from @carl-gari & @abdullahmadm new album Shoot The Engine ا​ق​ت​ُ​ل​ْ ا​ل​د​ا​ف​ع, out May 9, 2024, via @amphibian_rec

Pre-order: https://zip.lu/3irur
Read: https://zip.lu/3itxb

Firing upon the engine. It is the commission of a just crime in favor of human skills. It is a revolutionary declaration of the act of walking. The oil stains the killer's arms and puts the car in a state of complete halt, forcing the passengers to walk. The engine is a signal of escape, and restraining the runaway means temporarily binding it. The spark plugs perform a crucial function, generating a spark to ignite the fuel-air mixture inside the combustion chamber. The heart of humanity is the spark plug inside the engine, it must be removed so it can stand still again. Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy step out of the way after spilling the engine oil.

The Egyptian-German collective, composed of Abdullah Miniawy, Till Funke, Jonas Yamer, and Jonas Friedlich, has been engaged in intensive collaboration after their initial meeting in Cairo in 2015. Earning critical acclaim from esteemed media outlets such as Pitchfork, NPR, Resident Advisor, and The Wire Magazine for albums like “Darraje,” “The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor,” and “Between the Bullet and The Front Sight, Casting Lots,” among others, they have showcased their unique sound at prestigious festivals and venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art London, Berlin Atonal, Haus der Kunst, Positive Education, and Rewire Festival.

Amphibian Records is teaming up with Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy to bring the first full album into the label's catalog.

Artwork by Omar El-Sadek

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Released by Amphibian Records

Premiere: Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Faqdo El A’aq فقدُ العاق [Amphibian Records]

Mastering: Heba Kadry

Artwork: Shua Bashir Massad

Yamakan (Prod. Julmud) - يامكان (إنتاج: جلمود)

Mawjodeen Outro

Written And Preformed: Lil Asaf 
Prod: Bashar Suleiman 
Mix: Bashar Suleiman & Amir Shoat 
Master: Amir Shoat

Mawjodeen Outro

Lil Asaf

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