Joy Division - She Lost Control
Modern Art - Search For A Soul
Somnambulist - Things I Was Due To Forget
DAF - Ich Will
Modern Art - Hello / Goodbye
Die Unbekannten - Radio War
Malaria! - Your Turn to Run
Forever Grey - Sourland
Martin Dupont - Doron Doron (Original Mix)
Grauzone - Schlachtet!
Easter - Schlechte Laune
Whispering Sons - Time
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House 
Salma & Ziad Rahbani - Gingele
Peter Cusack - Blackbird, Hinterhof dawn 4.00am

Love is on my side #17 | 23.08.2023

Fenton Robinson – Somebody Loan Me A Dime 
Scientist – Blood On His Lips
Sierra Ferrell – Fox Hunt 
Velvet Underground – Rock N Roll 
Vince Taylor – 20 Flight Rock 
Beat Happening – Indian Summer
Big Boys – What's the Word? 
Tuxedomoon – Lowlands Tone Poem 
The Birthday Party – Release The Bats
IDLES – Dancer ft LCD Soundsystem 
Martin Dupont – Doron Doron
Primal Scream – Don't Fight It Feel It

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As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

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