Name: Dabke! by Milan Hulsing
Duration: 59 min 44 s
Description: A mix recorded from my 45s with songs in the infectious dance style from the Levant. Excuse me if it is not all technically Dabke. On the cover we see my drawing of the beautiful Samira Tawfik who's Bedouin style music I came to love while living in Amman, Jordan. Hope you enjoy!

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Palestinian Sound Archive - Majazz project X Abu Recordings -22nd November 2021

TPS 053 - KARIŞIK LOKUM KUTUSU - Turkish record Selections by WoMu Vin

"Karışık Lokum Kutusu" translates to "A box of assorted Turkish delights", which I thought would be a fitting name to describe the variety of tracks in this all-vinyl mix recorded from OG Turkish records from the 70s and 80s, with a variety of styles including (but not limited to) modern takes on Anatolian folk, funk-infused pop and Arabesque. The mix features several artists including Arif Sağ, Zafer Dilek, Yıldıray Çınar and Hakkı Bulut, all of whom were highly influential in reinterpreting and modernising the music they performed and produced for other artists.

I am dedicating this mix to the dearly missed Mads Nimann Jensen (Instagram @madsnimann) whom we lost a year ago to the day (October 13th) as a result of terminal cancer. In losing Mads we lost a legendary collector, but more importantly, a legendary human being (anyone who has ever been in contact with him will know exactly what I mean by that).

TPS 053 -  KARIŞIK LOKUM KUTUSU - Turkish record Selections by WoMu Vin

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Mixed & Edited By Eshkounjay From My Collection
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Eshkounjay What People Don't Request ما لا يطلبه المستمعون 19// Live Mix

A mix recorded from my 45s with songs in the infectious dance style from the Levant. Excuse me if it is not all technically Dabke. On the cover we see my drawing of the beautiful Samira Tawfik who's Bedouin style music I came to love while living in Amman, Jordan. Hope you enjoy!

Dabke!

There's a lot that's infectuous in Pakistani cinema from the seventies and most infectuous are surely the plentiful dance scenes on par with the best of sister industry in India - but here the dancing ladies are more agile, sometimes even serpentinous, less bombastic, performing solo and always joyful. And, yes, sensuous too, boldly flirting with the camera, clearly having agency while they lip-sync Nahid Akhtar's singing. Important detail is that they are almost always barefooted. There's dancing guys too but they remain in the shadow of their female colleagues. This mix from the early 2000s was originally called Barefooted Funk but it didn't communicate on the little cover pic I did for Soundcloud. But still, you can hear from the songs in this selection that no footwear was involved. It's light-footed and light-hearted, grounded and - again - extremely agile. There's loads of hand-percussion, bold guitars, horn- and organ-stabs and of course joyous singing. There was something in the air in seventies Pakistan for sure!

I've lived in Pakistan for a while around the year 2000 and wrote a few articles at the time on Pakistan's genre cinema, resulting in a chapter in Cinema and Society ('Pashto Horror Film In Pakistan' - Oxford University Press Pakistan) which zoomed in on the unlikely horror-film boom in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. While staying in Lahore I was lucky to meet the owner of a cassette store called Jupiter Tuning Center who was looking to get rid of the back catalogue in the back of his shop, many hundreds of them (he used these 45's to compile tapes on demand for his customers but demand for cassettes was declining). 

After assisting Edo Bouman in releasing a few Bollywood compilations (The Bombay Connection and Bombshell Baby of Bombay), we wanted to try and compile the best of these Pakistani tracks, but Finder's Keepers skooped us with a couple of great compilations and discouraged we went on to do other things. This was before everything could be found on youtube and I mainly played this and other mixes on the local Amsterdam radio station Radio 100.

Here are some absolute favorites. I don't know if they were all compiled before, I hope there are some songs you haven't heard yet!

Lahore A Go Go - Vol 1

SWEET REBELS
The Evolution Of Pop-Raï Music, 1987-1989

Original mix focused on the new Pop-Raï wave in Algeria. 
Compiled by CHEB GERO (2014)

Cover : Cheb Mohamed S'Ghir

00'00-05'46 - 01 - Ech hale nabghik (1987)
CHAB BRAHIM

05'46-11'32 - 02 - Ya loualid (1988)
CHEB KHALED & CHABA ZAHOUANIA

11'32-17'09 - 03 - Milouda (1988)
BELLEMOU & GANA EL MAGHNAOUI

17'09-23'06 - 04 - Samra (1989)
CHEB ZAHOUANI

23'06-30'58 - 05 - Malika (1987)
HOUARI BENCHENET

30'58-36'16 - 06 - Achhal Ayagui Isnadhi (1987)
AHCENE ADJROUD

36'16-39'07 - 07 - Labes(1989)
GANAWA

39'07-42'40 - 08 - Lebnia(1987)
CHEB FAZIL

42'41-49'30 - 09 - La Tloumouni (1987)
CHEB KADER

SWEET REBELS - The Evolution Of Pop-Raï Music

Discostan Lebanon 80

An exclusive Pan-Amazigh mix (Kabyle, Rif, Chaoui, Chleuh) by TOUKADIME to celebrate Yennayer, Amazigh New Year.

Amazigh Mix by TOUKADIME

Mostly Moroccan music from vintage cassettes for your listening pleasure
Artists:
Boussouar El Maghnaoui
Cheikha Djenia
Unknown Aissawa
Zouaya
Samy Essaid
Izenzaren
Archach
Inrzaf

Unfortunately I can't give the names of the tracks as I don't read Arabic, but those are the artists in order of appearance.

Maghreb Cassette Lockdown Mix

"Barbes Blues: Ce qu'ils n'ont pas pu nous prendre" une série podcast consacrée aux luttes politiques de l'immigration maghrébine dans les années 70. Le tout en musique.

Au commencement, il y a toujours Barbès , le premier quartier historique de l'immigration maghrébine et africaine à Paris. Le coeur battant. Mais il y avait aussi un jeune homme : Mokhtar. Nous l'avions quitté sur le point de partir pour la France. Le voici donc arrivé et déjà sur le chemin de l'usine. Cet épisode pose le premier décor français et les premiers pas dans l'immigration. On y retrouve la France toute fraichement soixante huitarde mais aussi les algériens, les usines Chausson, la chanteuse Noura, les premières désillusions, les premières colères et encore, et toujours, la politique et la lutte. Et surtout nous retrouvons la valise en cuir, pas encore usé, pour son premier voyage. 
C'est un évident hommage aux premiers pas, les plus difficiles sans doute dans la vie de ces hommes, et un clin d'oeil appuyé à "Mohamed prends ta valise" d'un certain Kateb Yacine autant qu'à la Rumeur, qui court et devance déjà tout.  

Playlists - archives sonores :

La Rumeur - Le Cuir usé d'une valise 
Cheikh Younsi - El Passeport
Slimane Azem - l'Algérie mon beau pays
Archive INA - Discours du général De Gaulle 
Archive de l'émission " Cinq colonnes à la une" 
Slimane Azem - Thamour azizene felli 
Tokiko Kato - Oh, le joli mois de Mai à Paris 
Jacques Dutronc- Paris s'éveille
Archive INA- Manifestations Mai 68 
Noura- Paris dans mon sac
Archive - Documentaire 50 ans des usines Chaussons 
Ali Aougoung - Allo l'agence
Carte de séjour - Habibi

BARBES BLUES | Mokhtar prends ta valise #2

Mixtapes in Egypt are referred to as "cocktails". Back in the day, Egyptians used to go to cassette shops with a list of songs and the shop used to fish out these songs and record them on a mixtape. 

Yas Queen Selectress is an Egyptian DJ based in NYC spinning North African music, from Egyptian 80's Pop to Raï and Gnawa. Mixed with a hint of modern electronic sounds, her live sets also include occasional touches of Arab Disco, House, Dub, Afrobeat and Cumbia music.

Dabke!

Milan Hulsing

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