Every year, a tribe of nomadic, aquatic, music-loving, sun-kissed people gather on the Red Sea to celebrate life. 

#GIGONARIG is a legendary 7 day boat party we've been organically organising for like minded souls from all over the globe. If you would like to participate as an artist, get in touch!

This year we had an AMAZING post-lockdown journey with many beautiful souls. One of the very few places on the planet where I feel absolutely free to play whatever comes to mind, making all the sets more intimate and enjoyable than spinning at the World's best clubs/festivals even! Delighted to share one of my sets on the boat with you. Enjoy!

Peace, Light & Love <3

SAFI - GIG ON A RIG 2021 (LOCKDOWN EDITION)

Sufi Soul Music by:

Toufic Farroukh
Egyptian Project
Omar Farouk Tekbilek
Tomatito & Sheikh Tuni


Sufi Spins - The Whirl We Live In (Mystic Morning Mixtape)

Closing gift for 2021!

Remixed my favourite @massaregbariofficial track HAWI! Every time this gets played on a dancefloor, I find people vibing and relating, so thought it best to share the vibe! :)

Original track is off their 2013 album Ee'ra El Khabar

MASSAR EGBARI - HAWI (SAFI REMIX) FREE DOWNLOAD

This set took place on a truly magical night...

Sometimes you find yourself playing at the first ever festival in one of your most favourite spots on the planet. With a full moon beaming above on giant lakes and deserts, with just the right crowd on hand, to share a massively memorable journey with...

Honoured to have been part of #DAWAYER, the first music festival of its kind in the surreal Egyptian oasis of Siwa. Thank you to all the artists for the magic & music, and to those who danced and shared this with me. See you next year <3

LIVE @ DAWAYER FESTIVAL - SIWA OASIS - 12/11/21

The EGYPTIANITES series has always been my little fun playground to mess around with some classics from Egypt's rich pop culture, and attempt to remix/mash/edit them up into dance friendly numbers. I've been playing these tunes for the past couple of years, and the dancefloors enjoyed them, I hope you do as well.

On my 42nd revolution around the Sun, today I gift you with the third edition of #Egyptianites

Thank you for listening for all these years, and if you are new, welcome. Enjoy 

:) <3

Peace, Light & Love

EGYPTIANITES III - الثالثة ثابتة

Originally released on the year I was born, 1980. One of my favourite tracks for The King, Mohamed Mounir, an absolute icon of independent Egyptian & Nubian music. Wust El Dayra literally translates into "In the middle of the Circle", which we all are smack in the centre of <3

Remixed to feature as an intro to my #Dawayer Festival set. Dawayer is a gorgeous music festival in the heart of Egypt's Western Desert Oasis of Siwa, and is also the Arabic plural translation for "circles", so it all just made perfect sense!

Enjoy the "circle" whether in the middle or on the edge, و خلي القلوب دايرة 

Big Love <3

MOUNIR - WUST EL DAYRA (SAFI REMIX)

Live @ Kaynouna - Azania in Dubai, Feb 4th 2023

By FAR one of my favourite festivals recently. Inspiring to see such a lovely scene developing in Dubai. Massive love to the Kaynouna Fam! <3

LIVE @ KAYNOUNA - AZANIA DUBAI FEB 4 2023

Chill selection of Oud infused tunes by Dhafer Youssef, Anouar Brahem & the beyond legendary Hamza El Din. 

Oudism

Two utterly opposite concepts mashed together! It sounded great in a live mix (again!) so I thought why the hell not, lets bring Herb Albert & Ahmed Saad together! Since we could all use a smile these days, why not just funk things up? :D

Original Mixes:

Herb Albert - Rise (Late Nite Tuff Guy Remix)
Ahmed Saad - Eh El Youm El Helw Dah (DJ Joe S Remix)

HERB ALBERT VS AHMED SAAD - RISE RAYE2 (SAFI'S MAZAGY MASH)

LIVE @ SANDBOX 2024 - Hands down the "realest", biggest and best electronic music festival in the Middle East! This year they celebrated 10 incredible years of Sandbox.

I played this set mainly, for ME! For some reason they thought it would be best if I spun the opening set on Saturday, the last day at 1pm. A true professional never complains, believes in the process and delivers no matter what time. It was boiling hot, not a single person was there at the start, and I felt like skipping between as many genres as I could. Thankfully I was given 2 and a half hours, so I felt a journey should be taken. I wanted to go "everywhere", and not sure if I did, but I sure as hell went as far as I could!

By far one of the most eclectic sets I ever played at a festival, this one goes out purely to the Love of Music. Enjoy! <3

LIVE @ SANDBOX 2024

Silly, and quite flawed edit of Eman El Bahr Darwish's 1984 version of El Arwam. Originally his grandad Sayed Darwish's tune of course, so, an edit of an edit it is.

Featuring a Mighty Farouk El Fishawy Elektorneya intro

EBD - El Arwam (Safius Elektroneya Edit)

A few edits/remixes I've been working on & spinning live recently, mixed in with some dope original Egyptian oriented goodness!

Much love, respect & appreciation to:

Maryam Saleh & Oddisee
Abdullah Miniawy
Hakim
Hassan El Asmar
Soopar Lox
Latifa & Mai Waleed & Zaed Naes
Deif Ahmed & Roshdy Abaza

:)

Egyptianites

Little playful mashup mixing Stavroz's Silent Spring with Zaed Naes' 7awalaya Kteer featuring the enigmatically ethereal vocals of Maii Waleed, and of course an original Latifa gem :)

Much love & respect to all the original artists.


The Original Stavroz - Silent Spring:

https://soundcloud.com/red-bull-elektropedia/rbexclusive-stavroz-silent-spring?in=stavroz/sets/silent-spring-ep-mf005

The original Zaed Naes Feat Maii Waleed - 7awalaya Kteer:

https://soundcloud.com/zaed-naes/7awalaya-kteer

Stavroz vs Zaed Naes Feat Maii Waleed - Hawalaya Spring (Safius Bootleg)

An edit of Abdullah Miniawy's soul soothing "Ad For2etak" (Torn Apart). The words, delivery & resonance made it impossible not to try & put a beat to this

Original Tune:
https://soundcloud.com/abdullahmadm/torn-apart

Follow Abdullah Miniawy!!
https://soundcloud.com/abdullahmadm

Abdullah Miniawy - Torn Apart (Safius Sufi Edit)

Mashup of the uber talented, sick beats of Emiljo AC's "Sometime" with Mahmoud El Leithy's epic mawwal "Ya Donia Fiki El 3agab"

Check out Emiljo's Original track:
https://soundcloud.com/emiljoacmusic/03-emiljo-a-c-some-time

Follow Emiljo A.C:
https://soundcloud.com/emiljoacmusic

Mahmoud El Leithy Vs Emiljo AC - Ya Donia Sometime (Safius Fiki Mashup)

A Red Sea Remix/Mashup of two amazing tracks:

An amazing poem from THEEB
https://soundcloud.com/adham-safena/theeb-theme-poem

من يغوص البحر الأحمر فلا يلحق مداه
والبحر ياذيب ما كل رجل ياصله
والخوى لا من بدالك لا تخيب له رجاه
كون يمه فى يمينه بالمراجل واصله
والذيابة لو بدت ما تحقق لك نجاة
كلهم ما ينفعونك والمنايا حاصلة

BrunoBe 's epic Dub version of Angus & Julia Stone's Aeroplane:
https://soundcloud.com/brunobe/bruno-be-dub-aeroplane

Follow @BrunoBe , watch THEEB & enjoy the music :)

Theeb vs Aeroplane (Safius Red Sea Remix)

Set recorded live in Amman, Jordan in April 2016 at The Flowery Twats' secretive underground lair! The first in their Flowery Friends mixtape series.

Check out their mixcloud for more mixes at:

www.mixcloud.com/flowerytwats

"Our Flowery Friends series kicks off with our brother Safi from the shores of El Gouna in Egypt. Oriental vibes, old Arabic samples, balkan beats, and basslines fatter than yo mama. What more can a twat want in this life?"

Their words, not mine! :D



Flowery Friends Vol 1: Safi's Mix

Two soul soothing tracks mixed, mashed & merged together into ONE

Dhafer Youssef's Soupir Eternel
https://soundcloud.com/dhafer-youssef/04-dhafer-youssef-un-soupir

Dandara & Arutani's Adia Querido
https://soundcloud.com/casacaos/001-dandara-arutani-adio-querido

Peace, Light & Love

:)

Dhafer, Dandara & Arutani - Soupir Querido (Safius Mystic Merge)

The Anacopia Duduk madness of Ilya Demutsky meets Dandara's Njia Mkali. 

Resonance is key.

Peace Light & Love

Ilya Demutsky Vs Dandara - Ana Mali (Safius Duduk Dab)

Mash up of Victor Norman's "Woodwork", & Adaweya's epic "Mawwal El Mal"

Mad props to both!

Adaweya vs Victor Norman - Mawwal Woodwork (Safius Mal Mash)

The magnificent work of Syrian electronic producers, mixed with a phenomenal vocal line from a Jordanian indie band, mashed up by an Egyptian amateur :)

@boshoco just dropped an insane EP called Tressè on @souqrecordss https://soundcloud.com/boshoco/sets/boshoco-tress

Mashed up their Awal track with the vocal line from Akher Zapheer's epic Akherto Lahen Hazeen. A simple chop shop job, designed to amplify the beauty of both tracks.

Much love to both artists, may we continue having such quality musicians coming out of The Middle East. One Love!

Enjoy :)

Boshoco vs Akher Zapheer - Awal Lahen (Safius Hazeen Edit)

Recorded May 3rd, live at #SANDBOX. The biggest yearly electronic music festival in the Middle East, happening on the shores of my hometown. Come visit us in the Red Sea next year!  A festival by @nacelle.

LIVE @ SANDBOX 2018

Sounds of Souq Records  :)

Some of my favourite jams from the label mixed down for Klangextase. Much love to all the artists!

@souqrecordss
@klangextase-1

_/I\_

Sander & Jugurtha - Tunisia (Agartha Remix)
Yemen Blues - Min Kalbi (Harmonie Edit)
Boshoco - Talet (Original Mix)
Safi & Fulltone - Albeat (Timboletti Dub Remix)
Safi & Fulltone - Tudan (San Miguel Remix)
Valeron - Resha (Original Mix)
Tebra - Gora (Original Mix)
Ipek Ipekcioglu feat Hani Mojtahedi - Dame Sobh (Original Mix)
Hot Oasis - Mawawel (Original Mix)
Dizharmonia & Jugurtha - Sarpidon (Original Mix)
Vertex - Welcome to Serbia (Tebra Remix)
Bergen - Cilekes (Anatolian Sessions Remix)
Aguizi & Fahim - Ahl E Maghna (Original Mix)

Safi I Sounds of Souq I www.klangextase.de

Recorded June 15th, live at #SANDBOX. The biggest yearly electronic music festival in the Middle East, happening on the shores of my hometown, El Gouna. Come visit us in the Red Sea next year! 

A festival by @nacelle.

LIVE @ SANDBOX 2019

Ali Baba's 120 Beats

Really sounded fun in a live mix, so decided to mash Achraf Kallel & Omnia Soliman's Enta Omry cover with Christopher Schwarzwalder's Tambourines. Enjoy :)

Much Love to:
@achraf
@shuffle

FREE DL: Om Kalleltoum - Enta Tambourine Omry (Safius Matshoofak Mash)

Woke up, pressed the record  button, pretended it's a live set, and decided to share! Everyone at home, hang in there! This panic will soon be over <3

Would like to invite DJ's & Producers of the World to mix down sets to entertain everyone stuck at home. #SOCIALSETS

Peace, Light & Love to ALL 

<3

SOCIAL DISTANCE

My first ever radio show was Planet Rock! Some of my first gigs were spinning out straight up rock tunes! Will always & forever be my roots. An hour of nothing but remixed classic rock tunes <3

Much love to the original artists & producers!

Rock On!

Peace, Light & Love to ALL!

ROCK REMIXED

Found this forgotten recorded set from Aug 2019, and for the life of me, can't remember why I recorded it, or for whom.  It matched my thought patterns the past few days on all the forgotten ones out there amidst this madness. Those isolating home alone, the elderly, those needing every penny to scrap by. We can't help everyone, but we can certainly make sure they are not forgotten. This is a time for all to rediscover our empathy.  Help where you can, and spare a thought for The Forgotten Ones <3

Much love to the original artists & producers.

Peace, Light & Love to ALL!

THE FORGOTTEN ONES

This one goes out to all those who enjoyed Egyptianites in the past few years. Never thought that little mutant 30min set would achieve 500K plays!! So to thank YOU, and to celebrate, I've mixed down some new tracks/edits/remixes for your pure listening (and dancing!) pleasure.

This one is for YOU <3

Tracklist:

- Dandara & Arutani vs El Atmony - Hombre Del Desierto (Safius Souq of Man Mawwal Mash)
- Adaweya vs Victor Norman - Mawwal Woodwork (Safius Mal Mash)
- Boshoco vs Aly El Haggar - Fi Alb Talet (Safius Khuf El Leil Bootleg)
- Abdelbast Hammouda - Mafeesh Mostaheel (Arrab Remix)
- Sheba vs Eurythmics -Sweet Zahr (Safius Tawil El Bal Bootleg)
- Dr Alfons - Ana Mesh Bangere7 (Club Mix)
- Ehab Tawfik - Sahrany From Space (Tjade x Zuma Dionys x Safius Re-Werk)
- Cairokee vs Arturo Escudero - Eadet Nazar (Safius Matloob Mashup)
- Om Kalleltoum - Enta Tambourine Omry (Safius Matshoofak Mash)
- Hot Oasis vs Emad Hamdy - O2man (Safius Mastool Mix)

Much love to all the original artists & producers, please support them and follow:

@dandaramusic
@arutani
@vicnorman
@boshoco
@3arrab
@dralfons
@zuma_dionys
@tjade-de-vries
@cairokee
@achraf
@shuffle
@hotoasis

& The Legendary Emad Hamdy & his monologue excerpts from Naguib Mahfouz's "Chitchat on the Nile"


One Love <3

Egyptianites II - الجزء الثاني

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Safi is a veteran Cairo radio DJ, musician & aspiring producer. A&R at Alt Orient Records & Co-founder of Red Sea based Duf Music Studios. He is resident at Egypt's Nacelle (Sandbox) & the legendary Cairo Jazz Club, and is more than comfortable playing many different genres and sound spectrums.

Currently based on Egypt's Red Sea coast, you'll often find him plying his musical trade in quality venues and festivals across Europe, the Arab World & Asia. He is happy to play wherever people are ready to listen and receive.


Safi has been producing for radio since 2003, and currently mixes chilled oriental beats & fusions from around the world on Nile Bazaar for Cairo's Nile FM & Duf Music for Berlin's multicult.fm.

There shall be no adherence to any form or genre. There should never be.

All sets & edits are for listening pleasure & promotional use only

Please support the original artists. If for any reason you would like a set or edit removed, do get in touch.

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