i'm actually very open to djing this stuff. lemme know if you have an event that might fit..

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Listen to part 2 here:
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/radio-jakarta-007

Thru the "Sawtuha" project and Blitz The Ambassador playing quite some shows in Morocco I've had the pleasure to travel North Africa quite frequently lately and whenever possible I did some record shopping. This is a selection of some of the finds, music from the 60s and 70s from Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Some known some not yet. 

This is also a kick off to a new loose series of mixes by us, people we work with or people we are just friends with. Enjoy. 

UPDATE:

So here is the tracklist after the guys at ozart already deciphered a huge part of it. Sorry for the delay, I didn't have my hands on my records in the last days:

01. Assa'd Khoury - Al Gaba
02. Sabah – Dek El Kaff
03. Karim Shourhy & Andrea Rayder – Take Me Back To Cairo
04. Feddoul – (Reprise de Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag)
05. Ziad Rahbani – Intro Instrumental 2
06. Sharifa Fadel – Mawal El Ashak
07. Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
08. Golden Hands – Take Me Back 
09. Elias Rahbani & His Orchestra - Moonlight Melody
10. Mahmoud Megri - Tefham
11. Elias Rahbani – Dance of Maria 
12. Abdou El Omari - Rajaat Laayoun


"Habibi Funk 001 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 60s & 70s vinyl)

The File - Mark H Phillips (serial podcast)

pre-order: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/azmanah-salb

taken off the forthcoming fadoul lp on habibi funk. more infos and pre-order coming soon.

fadaul is maybe our fav discovery from traveling north africa. his raw and energetic recordings are pretty stand alone in the arab world. we have invested quite some time into research but we were not able to find too much infos about this guy. a mystical figure.



Habibi Funk 002: Fadaul (Fadoul) - Sid Redad (Pre-Order link in the describtion)

I realized last weekend that I had not done a mix since early 2017 and it was about time to bring the series back. So here is Habibi Funk Mix 008 with a selection of vinyl and tapes which were originally released in the 1970s, 1980s, and even as late as late 1990s. We got a couple of previews for material we have licensed and that will drop in the future from artists such as the Golden Hands, Attarazat Addahabia, The Scorpions and Majid Soula. Apart from the that I’m super happy to have Libya covered with 3 tracks, a country about whose musical heritage I didn’t know much outside Ahmed Fakroun obviously. From the obscure to the more known....
Thanks to Mehdi for the Golden Hands recording.
Photo by Robert Winter
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"Habibi Funk 008 Mix" (70s, 80s & 90s vinyl and tapes from the Arab world)

All vinyl set recorded live at Dublab Radio in Los Angeles. This mix primarily consists of new wave, disco, post punk, art pop and funky international dance tunes.

Shintaro Sakamoto – Disco Bangkok
Jean Jacques Perry – Eva
Paul McCartney – Check My Machine
Plastic Bertrand – Stop Ou Encore
Tom Tom Club – Pleasure Of Love
Bill Wyman – (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star
Sexual Harassment – If I gave You A Party
Drinking Electricity – Good Times
Deee-Lite – Deee-Lite Theme
Suburban Lawns – Flavor Crystal
48 Chairs – Snap It Around
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Fern Kinney – Baby Let Me Kiss You
Erotic Drum Band – Pop Pop Shoo Wah
Dizzy K Falola – Baby Kilode
Belle Epoque – Com’on Tonight
Angie B – Plastic Doll
Blondie – Rush Rush
Parallel Dance Ensemble – Shopping Cart
The Creams – Let’s (Justin Van Der Volgen Vocal Version)
Aby Ngana Diop – Dieuleul-Dieuleul
Daphni – Cos Ber Zam – Ne Noya
The Droids – (Do You Have) The Force
Citi & Byte Sistem – Candy Dance
Kano – I’m Ready
Mtume – Juciy Fruit
Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait
Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You
Shalamar – Make That Move

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Fever Dreams

Mix and words by @Kaaha (Instagram.com/kaahafarah) //Music that Hooyo and her friends danced to at the rooftop clubs above Mogadishu's tamarind lined streets before the civil war. Music that she played for us in our Stockholm home on an open front cassette player where I watched the black tape roll onto its new wheel. And music that I've collected since my obsession with music from my native Somalia deepened 4 years ago.