A few words from the artist:

1/ How would you describe your personal connection to music and how it influences your creative process?

Music is my life; it's the only field I've ever worked in. I've had a deep emotional connection with music since my teenage New Wave years. When I'm plugged into music, my brain is full on —not just as a DJ or remixer but also as an A&R.

Managing three music labels and a publishing company means I get creative on various levels. It's not just about my personal expression, but also about finding ways to share music with the world and nurture the growth of younger artists.


2/ As an artist, how do you see the intersection between fashion and music? 

It's boundary-less nowadays; art, fashion, and music are all intricately woven together. Younger generation's versatility with tools like Blender and Ableton, not to mention their ability to delve into art and even create their own fashion changed the rules The influence of social media has further blurred the lines. Now, everyone is their own stylist, and artists have become both talents and faces of brands.
I've always linked music to fashion. 


3/ What particularly interested you in collaborating with Études to make this mix? 

I wear Etudes every day and I listen to music every day, so it just made sense to me.
I’ve been a longtime fan of the brand, especially the bombers. I also like the collabs and the themes around the city. 


4/ How did you curate this musical sequence/audio journey? 

As Etudes' recent collections are heavily centered around the urban landscape, I aimed to create something that resonates with the city vibe. During my travels in Asia, while curating the music selection, the idea struck me to craft a mixtape perfect for driving. Simultaneously, I envisioned it as a fitting soundtrack for a video game.
The mix carries a strong influence from 90s prog house. While journeying and partying across Asia, memories of playing Wipeout in the 90s flooded my mind. The game, set in a futuristic city, mirrored the adolescent idea we had of Asia MEGAPOLE  while playing.
 
 
5/ Three words to define your mix for Études?
 
Journey, Joyful, Trippy



Lust Pattern - Choreography
Antoni Maiovvi - Widowbird 
Jordan Nocturne, Ready in LED - Over & Over
Junior M - Barbara (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix) 
Alan Dixon & Mystery Affair - NRGY (Vhyce Remix) 
Clint - Exosphere (Dance Mix)
Eden Burns - Xoh dub
Spray - Ceathair
Nyra - Energy Bliss
Jorge Suarez - Elektric Dance (Hitman Remix)
SY - Body Move 
Harrison BDP - Far Away (Alex Neri Remix)
Whitesquare - Lux Interior
CCDISCO - Chez Moi (Spray's Club Spritzz Mix) 
Robert Dietz - RIP To My Idea Of You 
Nyra - Eyes That Flow
Eliott Litrowski - Space Sugar

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Fafi Abdel Nour finds beauty in the margins and the bliss in between - a passionate artist and community builder, on a mission towards imagining better futures through musical connectivity and understanding between humans.

Growing up as a first generation Syrian-born kid, the struggles of integrating into the Dutch society while balancing his Arabic heritage and burgeoning queerness proved to be a struggle - often finding himself in between worlds, caught amidst maintaining his inner pride and sense of self against a world that he strained to see himself in.

Through the desire to find harmony within a lifetime of dissonance, Fafi found dance music in his young adulthood. While his connection to the music was powerful and provided a necessary level of personal reprieve, he soon realized there was a need for more participation from artists and DJs of color in the scene. Fafi’s queer club nights at OOST in Groningen were born out
of this resolve to create community empowerment for marginalized people to transcend beyond the oppressive dominant
culture surrounding them.

As a DJ, Fafi never fails to captivate dancers into a sense of timelessness & otherworldly joy. His sets distill the liberatory kinetics of house music down to its very essence, embodying an era of music unaffected by genre-constraints or rules.

Dissolving boundaries between sound, movement and being, dancers can expect everything from spellbinding melodic passages, house-inflected body music and enchanted breakbeats melded into flourishes of ecstatic sensation.
Oscillating between jubilance and insight with a distinctive sense of narrative and technical finesse, Fafi’s selections expand the universe of mystic, passionate and evocative strains of house - tapping into the source of music’s fundamental ability to transform lives, through a deeply personal level of expression transmuted directly from his soul through the speakers.

Always encouraging us to connect with one another and celebrate the myriad of differences we share in our world, Fafi’s vibration has radiated simply by embodying his truth and encouraging others to do the same for themselves. Currently based in Amsterdam and with a slew of gigs only continuing to manifest throughout the world, his mantra remains the same no matter where the music is played - Love is the message.

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@progressivealliance

Progressive Alliance is an artist collective with a mission to preserve, revitalize and diversify progressive "chord pluck" house and trance music from the 2010s.

Our second compilation album "Progressive Alliance: 2025" includes tracks from 6 returning artists, and introduces 6 new artists to our collective. All sales of this album from our Bandcamp will be donated to Cancer Council Victoria, who are working towards a cancer-free future through cancer research, prevention and support.

Bandcamp: https://progressivealliance.bandcamp.com/album/progressive-alliance-2025

Cancer Council Info: www.cancervic.org.au/about/strategic-plan
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Hey all, thanks for listening! This is a track I started in June 2024, and was finally able to brush it up in time for this album. It would mean a lot to us if you checked out the full album at @progressivealliance ! <3

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The Sleepless Floor at Melt! Festival.
One of the most fun experiences I ever had dj'ing.

Job Jobse @ Sleepless Floor, Melt! Festival 2015

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Opening set for one of my Strangelove nights at Institut fuer Zukunft, Leipzig. 190 minutes of metallic dance, german vox, space age synths and magical waves.

Featuring tracks by He Said / Chris Carter / Severed Heads / Logic System / DJ Bert & Eagle / Lea Porcelain / Kid Machine / Faberyayo & Stippenlift / Innershades / Unit Black Flight / Legowelt / Rude 66 / The Golden Filter / Fever Ray / Essaie Pas / Cabaret Nocturne / Inhalt / Black Merlin / Max Erotic / Fad Gadget / Bagarre / Public Relation / HNO3 / Robotiko Rejekto /  Pardon Moi / Book of Love / Curses / Perel / Conrad Schnitzler / ½ GOTT / Mick Wills / Profligate / Liaisons D / Carlos Peron / Jaures / Daniel Holt / Pankow / Hard Corps

Job Jobse - 190 minutes of Strangelove - Institut fuer Zukunft Leipzig - 2018

Today we’re all super hyped for for Lente Kabinet this weekend so to get us even more excited we’ve got Job Jobse making his entry to the series. He will play a closing set at the festival and as resident at De School is a master for serving up the perfect record at the perfect time. Initially a slow burner, he’s long been loved by Amsterdam locals for his richly melodic take on house, techno, Italo and disco, and himself is happy to call it trance. 

It’s certainly a spell being and emotional style that characterises his work here. With something of an old school slant, there are stiff vocal cuts and robotic grooves that slowly loosen up and turn to more hands in the air and zoned out fair before getting more sci-fi and occult later on. As ever with Jobse, it’s feel good and fun without being obvious.

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This is my latest live set featuring some of my previous work as well as unreleased tracks and exclusive edits. some of the new stuff will be available on my new album that will be out later this spring. thank for listening!
Live set recorded on 5-1-2013 @ Panorama Bar, Berghain, Berlin. 

Tom Trago Live @ Panorama bar

A fictional soundtrack for better days. I hope they arrive soon. ♡

Artwork by Fenna Fiction.

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