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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]

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Track 06 from our compilation "did you mean: irish Vol.2" by @assyouti

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Assyouti - Null

Susu Laroche - Munojat

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
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MELTING

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▶▶ We're produly presenting the track "Impolite" by Cairo-based experimental producer @ashrardj ▅

@moshtrq VA01: "Stepping away from the realms of live performance, MOSHTRQ, a Cairo-based audio-visual label announces their first musical work as a collective, drawn from an extensive unreleased catalog, and bringing together crew, friends, and collaborators."

Learn more about the collective and @ashrardj in the article >> https://swinedaily.com/premiere-moshtrq/

Ashrar about the track: "I feel the most comfortable when I know there is no outside interference around me. Headphones give me the feeling of solitude, which allows me to work in peace."

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[Swine Premiere] Ashrar - Impolite (MOSHTRQ)

a light in sombre

Cairo artists ZULI and Rama launch their new platform, irsh, with a thrilling collection of experimental club cuts. Hear ltfll’s thunderously percussive ‘Estemara Umru Mesa’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/itfll-estemara-umru-mesa

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ltfll ‘Estemara Umru Mesa’

Nadah El Shazly traditional Egyptian song with harsh texture and noisy sound design on a new C.A.N.V.A.S. compilation.

'Apocope' is out February 12th on C.A.N.V.A.S.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2YrzHr6

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Premiere: Nadah El Shazly - Fl3ln [C.A.N.V.A.S.]

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Premiere: Nadah El Shazly - Fl3ln [C.A.N.V.A.S.]

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