قط اسود ريمكس
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(وناس تموت وحش (ريمكس

Taken from Post Drone (@postdrone) debut EP Ready For Nothing, out August 20, 2021, via Rakete (@wearerakete)

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Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2W2wXCT

2020 saw the launch of Cairo-based label RAKETE alongside its first VA ‘Cairo Quest’, followed shortly by a well-received EP ‘Hope Amidst Despair’ in December. Now, RAKETE’s third release, ‘Ready For Nothing’ arrives by way of newcomer Postdrone, who draws upon the inherent dissonant noise of Cairene existence, and the suppression of left-field works in the face of a deeply commercialized musical landscape.

Postdrone’s debut presents a genre-less, intuition-driven exploration of electronic musical composition, soundtracking moments of personal connection through introspective rhythms and spacious fields, alongside two remixes by label-mate Hassan Abou Alam, who brings a warm club-focused dive into Postdrone’s original works.

Art Direction by Omar Mobarek
https://www.instagram.com/omarmobarek/

Photography by Omar Kafrawy
https://www.instagram.com/k_frawy/

Mastering by Marco Pellegrino

Released by Rakete

Premiere: Postdrone - Dawsha FM (feat. PostTawheed) [Rakete]

Untitled by Muqata'a (@muqataa) and Mazen Kerbaj (@mazenkerbaj). Taken from Mazen Kerbaj new album Sampler / Sampled, out February 25, 2022, via Morphine Records (@morphinerecords)

Read: https://bit.ly/3GbOaed

Sampler / Sampled is an album made of two interdependent parts rather than a double-album.

The first part of the project, Sampler, is a trumpet solo album that catalogues the unique sounds and extended techniques that Mazen Kerbaj developed for the instrument in the past 25 years; it consists of 318 pieces ranging from less than a second to forty seconds each, and presenting different sonic materials.

This catalogue of sounds works on various levels: first and foremost, it is a trumpet solo that could be played in its original order, or in random mode to create different pieces of music. But it is also a collection of samples that could be used for various applications (ringtones, phone sound effects, cinema) and, of course, to create new pieces of music based on sampling.

The second part of the project is the composition Sampled for a musician working with loops and/or samples. The composition has one instruction: create a piece of music using solely tracks from Sampler as your sound source (with the possibility to use all kinds of effects or treatment).

Each interpreter/musician becomes thus a co-composer who appropriates the piece and makes it their own. In this regard, the musicians that were commissioned to play Sampled were chosen from different geographical origins and musical genres to create highly different and personal pieces of music.

One important output of this project is putting in practice the overused idea of music as a universal language. This idea is very present in “free improvised music” where musicians from different origins can meet for the first time and make music together without the need to adapt to different musical traditions.

But here, the collective part of creating music in real time is not involved. It is rather the contrary: it starts with one middle-eastern musician creating a new language/vocabulary for his western instrument, to be later used by other musicians from around the globe who will appropriate this vocabulary and use it with their own language/grammar.

The final output of this double faceted album that was recorded during the Covid lockdown proved to be a very efficient new way to collaborate from a distance in times of world isolation, and ultimately put in practice the universality of music by breaking the boundaries of genres that are the most difficult to break.

Sampler / Sampled

Premiere: Muqata'a and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled [Morphine Records]

Sekket el amwal was released on Nashazphone part of THIS IS CAIRO NOT THE SCREAMERS compilation Nov 30, 2020
7 intense Egyptian shaabi remixes 
https://nashazphone.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-cairo-not-the-screamers

This is Cairo Not The Screamers

sekket el amwal

Cairo DJ and producer Azzouni (@khabtrecordings) and Palestinian MC @dakn-1 kick of the second @irshcairo compilation with a slice of tempo-shifting beat science

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-yaseen-siteh-ft-dakn

did you mean: irish vol. 2

Premiere: Azzouni ‘Siteh ft. Dakn’

Zell - No One Has

By melting about 500 cuts from TV and radio archives, found footage, commercials, forgotten songs, movies, pop trends, internet culture, and other sources of sound that whisper or shout in listeners’ ears, “Melting” engages with the romanticized consumerist vision of the past as portrayed by big corporations, capitalist entities, and authoritarian regimes.

Melting was submitted as part of Rami Abadir's master’s thesis in “Digital Media” at the University of Arts Bremen. For more info check the website designed by Iulia Radu: abadir-melting.netlify.app/

ABADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer, sound designer, DJ and music critic born in Cairo, Egypt and based in Berlin, Germany.

Produced by Rami Abadir
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Don Elektro

Special thanks to Amira Elmasry

Drowned By Locals 2023
DBL17CT

MELTING

ABADIR - sideA

Cocos de la Călărași - Aici mi a spus Dumnezeu ca mă iubește

Saint Abdullah's 'Where do we go, now?' out now on cassette and digital edition via PTP.

All proceeds of this album go to the New York Immigration Coalition: 
www.nyic.org

“'Where do we go, now?' captures the sounds, stories, and full weight of what it feels like to live in a country, and broader political context, that considers one’s identity as the root of all its problems. We are are not in search of answers, or a path forward; we are in the mood to grieve, the only way we know how.”

A cavern of noise, dizzying loops, field recordings, and free jazz. Saint Abdullah is the sonic language of Iranian-Canadian brothers, Mohammad and Mehdi.

Written / Produced: Saint Abdullah
Arranged: Saint Abdullah & Geng
Mixed: Saint Abdullah
Mastered: Jesse Munro Johnson
Artwork: Richard R Ross || Cassette Design: Geng

Tracklist:
1. The carnal soul
2. Let's mourn together
3. Nocturnal vigilance
4. Poverty as pride feat. Travis Laplante 
5. Pluto's porn
6. Philosopher Kings
7. Mined for disturbances
8. Movin' out of Harlem feat. ARP 220
9. Eastoxication
10. Broke my heart in '52

Where do we go, now? (2020) [PTP2018]

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Saint Abdullah - Eastoxication (from 'Where do we go, now?' [PTP2018])

My track for NoSR In Search Of Hope Compilation / @nosuitrecords
Release Date: 01/05/2020
Mastering: Aimée Portioli

In Search Of Hope

Muqata'a - Ikhtiraq - (NoSR In Search Of Hope Compilation)

Track 10 from our debut compilation "did you mean: irish" by @kontessa-480487752

did you mean: irish

El Kontessa - Madrab Deban

أطلقت ندى ألبومها الأول، أهوار، في شتاء ٢٠١٧ عبر نوى للتسجيلات

قدمت ألبومها عبر جولات وعروض منفردة ومع فرقتها في مهرجانات عدة محلية و دولية

Nadah released her debut album AHWAR in Nov 2017 via Nawa Recordings. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, El Shazly has been featured in local and international festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Best Kept Secret, Supersonic and many more. She continues to compose for film and visual art.

Management
Sarah El Miniawy sarah@simsara.me

Bookings
Simon Wojan simon@disk-agency.de

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