‘Exist’ showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. Seeking to build bridges between local sound innovators, the many that have been displaced, and connecting them with the experienced minds to learn from. ‘Exist’ highlights the brightest musical visionaries in the global electronic, dance and experimental music scene.

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https://www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine/
https://www.instagram.com/existfestival.ps/

Exist Palestine

Exclusive sets featuring an unpredictable spectrum of regional music and secret gems by Kujo & Murk b2b rknddn.

Kujo @modular-mind is the solo project of K Choueiri - a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist, label founder & mastering engineer. Weaponizing noise, drone and oriental drums as means of confrontation, Kujo's uncompromising approach is to observe, report and interpret the current state.
Now based in Amsterdam, the artist expresses angst through their conceptualized records on Modular Mind and hardware-based live performances in repurposed cultural spaces such as abandoned military shooting ranges or morgues.
Under the Modular Mind imprint, they propagate a strict ethos with the select contributing artists, prioritizing a slow-burn and relevant recordings.
 
Intro sample: "Abou Dawoud"
Cover photo by Kujo (Beirut)
 
Murk @bigmurk is a Palestinian producer and drummer based in Amman, specializing in UK grime and hip-hop sub-genres. His beat-making style is centered around heavy swinging drums and sloppy yet calculated basslines, always aiming to make his beats as bouncy and neck-snapping as possible. Murk has collaborated with numerous big names in the local rap scene as well as underground legends. He has landed placements with a handful of well-established UK artists and released his first solo project “El Shmurk EP” in October 2020.
 
@rknddn is a contemporary writer specializing in Grime and Hip-Hop. The style revolves around drumless hip-hop as well as fast-paced Grime beats. Throughout the past year, he has released multiple singles to showcase his new endeavors in Arabic Hip-Hop with his fellow producer, rapper and friend Murk, alongside a scene of artists in Palestine as well as Jordan.

https://modularmind.bandcamp.com/
bigmurk.bandcamp.com/releases
https://rknddn.bandcamp.com/

Exist playlist:
soundcloud.com/threadsradio/sets/exist-palestine
facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine
instagram.com/existfestival.ps

For more shows: @threadsradio
Listen live: www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ Kujo & Murk + rknddn (Threads*Palestine) - 03-Nov-21

ODDZ has been organizing events in the underground scene of Ramallah for more than ten years. He runs the 1st Palestinian electronic music festival called Exist. ODDZ sets are unpredictable and fascinate people every time.
Temp-Illusion is an Iranian experimental/electronic duo consisting of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, both natives of Tehran. Zabte Sote, a sister label of Opal Tapes, released a  live recording taken from their concert at SETxCTM.

Both sets for this show were recorded live this weekend in Tehran.

www.instagram.com/existfestival2019

www.instagram.com/3oddz
www.facebook.com/OODDZZZ/ 
www.soundcloud.com/odai-masri

www.instagram.com/temp_illusion
www.facebook.com/tempillusion
www.soundcloud.com/temp-illusion


Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ ODDZ & Temp-Illusion (Threads*PALESTINE) - 26-Feb-20

EXIST showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. This time Erorrist & Shasm recorded a Hybrid live session & a mix.

ERORRIST is an electronic project that is experimenting in drone, noise and heavy sounds that celebrate the beauty of the grotesque:
www.erorrist.bandcamp.com

SHAMS is an audio visual explorer, creating collages of sound and light waves out of a middle eastern ambience:
www.mediteranos.bandcamp.com/album/just-before-sunrise

Both Shams and Erorrist run the label MEDS:
www.soundcloud.com/mediteranos

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

EXIST w/ Erorrist & Shams(Threads*PALESTINE)- 25-Mar-20

EXIST is back, straight outta Ramallah, Palestine.

howl:

Fed up with the conventional sounds, prejudices & hype-fueled sonic fanaticism of today's music, Turkey-based howl seeks harmony in seemingly contrasting musical ideas; takes her listeners on a dark, dynamic and densely layered aural journey with her DJ sets, meticulously crafted with a selection unbound by genre, tempo, gender, or whatsoever. She's the co-founder of the event series Digital Drugs, a resident of Istanbul's Pixie Underground, and holds a monthly residency on Noods Radio, Bristol.

www.soundcloud.com/h_owl
www.instagram.com/merveongen

shk:

Ahmed shk is a digger and record collector. Living in Istanbul, he started focusing on the underground music scene and managed to find his way to become a promoter. He is the founder of the collective, Root.

www.soundcloud.com/rootradiolive
www.instagram.com/rootmusicist
www.facebook.com/ROOTMUSICIST

www.instagram.com/existfestival2019

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ howl & shk (Threads*PALESTINE) - 22-Apr-20

Exist showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond.

Nidal aka Special NID is a founding member of Drowned By Locals (formerly Assembli) based in Amman. Along with the DBL crew he organises intimate small-scale events that aim to go beyond the expected. Nidal’s sound is a unique internal journey.

Lee Adams is an artist, curator, dj and owner of Khemia Records. He runs KAOS London where he djs under the name Choronzon. Over the past 16 years Choronzon has performed at hundreds of clubs, events and festivals across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East where he has shared stages with the likes of Orphx, Rrose, Silent Servant, Ancient Methods, Samuel Kerridge, Esplendor Geometrico, Broken English Club, Drew Mcdowall, Phase Fatale, JK Flesh and British Murder Boys. 

He has made guest appearances for the CTM Festival at Tresor (Berlin), Fasma Festival (Athens), Forte Festival (Portugal) (with Mia Zabelka and Kira O'Reilly), Exist Festival (Palestine), Antiworld at Brixton Academy, Temple, Astron Bar & Dark Sun (Athens) and Gegen at KitKat Club (Berlin). He recently curated The Boiler Room: Kaos London Edition and has created podcasts for New Brvtalism, Phormix, Mindless (Casablanca) and Odai Masri’s Virgo Series. 

He also curates the Kaos London residency on Rinse FM and the Kaos London Podcast series. Most recently he opened the Balenciaga after-show party at The Rex Club for Paris Fashion week.

ARTWORK: Lee Adams 

Exist Festival:

www.instagram.com/existfestival.ps
www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine

Nidal:

www.instagram.com/nidtaha
www.soundcloud.com/nidal-taha
www.facebook.com/DrownedByLocals
www.instagram.com/drownedbylocals

Choronzon:

www.soundcloud.com/choronzonkaos
www.facebook.com/choronzonkaos
www.instagram.com/kaoslondon

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ Nidal & Choronzon (Threads*PALESTINE) - 20-May-20

Exist showcases the thriving counterculture of Palestine and beyond. The 5th episode features new and unreleased ambient/experimental tracks by Asifeh and the 2nd hour consists of banging Bonime techno.

Asifeh is a Palestinian producer and rapper based between Vienna and Ramallah. He is the co-founder of the former Ramallah Underground collective, NOISE & BEATS and 1/3 of AIWA. 

Bonime is a DJ, producer and live performer interested in many different musical genres. He likes to think at his mind as a distorted tool producing glitches, which at the end create music.

Artwork: @itiest

Exist:

www.soundcloud.com/threadsradio/sets/exist-palestine
www.instagram.com/existfestival2019
www.facebook.com/Existfestivalpalestine

Asifeh:

www.soundcloud.com/stormtrap
www.instagram.com/asifeh/
www.facebook.com/aiwaberlin

Bonime:

www.soundcloud.com/bonime
www.facebook.com/bonimeofficial
www.instagram.com/bonime_official

Listen to Threads* at www.threadsradio.com

Exist w/ Asifeh & Bonime (Threads*PALESTINE) - 17-Jun-20

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