Set played at Post Bar, Brooklyn April 9, 2021

Live Set–Post Bar, Brooklyn April 9, 2021

Saphe is a Syrian, New York-based DJ and curator and co-founder of Laylit, a monthly dance party and platform that brings together DJ sets and live instruments by artists from the MENA region and its diaspora. Approaching the dancefloor as a space of experimentation through which new forms of Arabic dance music can emerge, Saphe’s sets consist of highly percussive bass music, engaging with a variety of styles and practices from breakbeats, jungle & D&B, breaky techno, and his signature Arabic electronic beats. Saphe’s exploration of rhythm also extends to different media and formats for thinking and making, namely writing, fieldwork, and audiovisual arts.

Iraqi vocalist

Instagram: @zahra_alzubaidi_

✨Celebrating music & artists from the Arab/SWANA region & diaspora
✨founders @djsaphe + @djmnsa + @nadim-maghzal

Puppets of Babylon is an experimental and collaborative project created by musician and anthropologist Omar Dewachi, which draws inspiration from intersections and soundscapes of eastern a western traditions and genres of electronic music, past and present.  