Arabcrooning

Killer edit of Libyan singer Ahmed Fakroun's 1983 hit  "Soleil Soleil" by Prince Language. Released on 12" by Editions Disco in 2007.

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http://www.discogs.com/Ahmed-Fakroun-Belle-Epoque-Yo-Son-Bamalama/release/939010

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ahmed+Fakroun

Ahmed Fakroun - Yo son (Prince Language 2007 edit of Soleil Soleil)

Some time ago I worked for a Berlin based NGO called MICT while running Jakarta Records. During this time I helped organize a recording session in Tunisia with 9 female singers and musicians from Tunisia, Libya & Egypt together with Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of The Knife. "Nouh Al Hamam" by egyptian singer Maryam Saleh is the first leak of the project. You can pre-order the vinyl here. Below you can find the infos for this project....

http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/sawtuha

A little less then three years ago the political situation in many countries of the Arab world changed dramatically. Uprisings started in rural areas of Tunisia and from there spread to various countries in the region. Millions gathered in the streets united by their demand for more democracy, rights and participation in the political process. In most cases the reaction of the governing dictators were relentless and severe towards every form of protests. Violence in the streets of Cairo, Tunis and Bengasi escalated and resulted in the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia.
A year later a group of female singers and musicians from Tunisia (Nawel Ben Kraiem, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Medusa, Houwaida), Libya (Nada) and Egypt (Donia Massoud, Maryam Saleh, Youssra El Hawary) met in Mohsen Matri Studio in Tunis to sing- against corruption, despotism, patronization and narrow-mindedness. The song with Syrian artist Rasha Rizk was recorded some months later in her political asylum in Cairo. Sudanese/American producer Oddisee and Olof Dreijer of the Swedish pop duo The Knife joined the session, participating in the creation of the musical backdrop as well as the often multi-instrumentalist female singers. For the vinyl edition producers such as Brenk, Blackjoy and Blundetto contributed remix versions of the project.

At the time and still today especially musicians and especially women were and are trapped in a spiral of repression, discrimination and violence. "Sawtuha" (Arabic for "her voice"), the album that is the product of the 2-week session, is a vital encouraging testament of rebellion against the repression of democratic rights, gender inequality, and lack of inclusion. The music is an organic mixture of traditional Arabic music, regional influences and various forms of contemporary Western musical genres. A mixture that may sound contradicting at first but makes total sense once you listen to the music.

The studio session was organized by the Berlin based NGO MICT (Media In Cooperation And Transition) and was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

www.facebook.com/MaryamSaleh.Official
www.jakartarecords.de
www.mict-international.org

Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam (Produced by Oddisee)

Taken from 'Gasba Grime' (DN003)
Out June 9, 2014
12" & digital on Danse Noire
Including a Killing Sound (Young Echo, Blackest Ever Black) rework. 


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El Mahdy Jr. - Lost Bridge

Killer track by Libyan artist Ahmed Fakroun, produced by Tommy Vance in London in 1974. Check out my other tracks by this great artist and more info and links over at 

www.jonosaudio.blogspot.com

Support the artist and buy this track digitally (simple and secure) from CDBaby for $0.99

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AhmedFakroun1

Ahmed Fakroun  - Njoom al lyel

Badawiya Lovin' (Single)

From the EP Spaces/Fada'
Sun Glitters (Ft. Makimakkuk)
Music by: Sun Glitters
Lyrics by: Makimakkuk
Cover Photo by Karmel Nijem
2014

بتحكيلي بدنا نعيش ونسافر كل العالم
نستكشف كل شي جديد وما يهمنا أي كلام
بس همّه نسيوا إنهم كانوا يوم بعمري
والدنيا زي ما بتيجي مش بس هيك بتمشي
أنا انت أنا انت

لمّا كنا صغار كتير كان عنا حديقة
كنا نطلع عالشجر وهمّه يسهروا وموسيقى
بس همّه نسيوا إنهم كانوا يوم بعمري
وإنه طلعوا عالأسوار وسمعوا الجارة بتشكي
أنا انت أنا انت

( مقطع مضاف)
بيخبي هلكان سنين وبالسر يحاكي حاله
قديه هو لهاد السجن مدين كإنه في حد جاي عباله
ايدينا عم بتميل مع رقصة حلوة سمرا وعيونها خضرا هي ماسة

أنا انت

You tell me we want live and travel the world..
discover new things, not worry about gossip..
but they forgot that once they were my age..
and however life comes doesn't only go that way..

I am You, I am..

When we were very little, we used to have a garden..
We used to climb trees and they would spend the night with music.. 
but they forgot they were once my age..
and that they climbed the walls and heard the neighbor complain..

I am you, I am you...

hiding years of weariness and discusses himself in secret..
how much he owes this prison, because he's thinking of someone..
our hands sway with the dance of a sweet brunette
her eyes were green she was "Diamond"!

Nisyu - Forgot (Sunglitters prod.)

i'm actually very open to djing this stuff. lemme know if you have an event that might fit..

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check out part one of the mix here:
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/jakarta-radio-001-jannis-of

i got to travel a lot in north africa in the last years thru touring with blitz the ambassador and the studio session with oddisee for sawtuha in tunisia. while being there i did some digging and found some incredible music from the 60s and 70s. some of the music in this mix has zero info on the net, was never sold on ebay and has not been "rediscovered" yet. others are somewhat classics in the field of „arabic groove“. the music in this mix comes from morocco, libya, eggpt, algeria, lebanon and syria. 

photo by robert winter.

"Habibi Funk 002 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 60s & 70s vinyl)

taken from Omar Souleyman's upcoming album "Bahdeni Nami" (MTR056)

Release date: July 24, 2015

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Omar Souleyman "Enssa El Aatab prod. by Modeselektor"

Shu Bit-Hib (prod. Julmud + Muqata'a) | (شو بتحب؟  (إنتاج جلمود و مقاطعة

Beirut

Album available on Bandcamp : https://bachar-mar-khalife.bandcamp.com/album/ya-balad
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Album « Ya Balad » 
Release date : October 19th, 2015 

Lemon, poem by Samir Saadi : 

لَمُون 
طَاب اللَّمُون عَالشَّجر
يَا مِين يهِزّ الشَّجر
لما رواه المطر
عَبِّي بِحِجرو
مَحلاك يَا لِيل القَمَر
لَمَّا حَبيبي ظهر
يَا مين يهزّ القَمر
وعنِيه ضِيَا بَدْرُو
زَهْر اللَّمون عَالشَّجر
هَزّ القلوب الحَجر
نُوَّارُو لما بدر
شَمِّيت هَوَا عِطْرُو

The lemons are ripe on the tree
And whoever shakes the tree
after it has been watered by rain
will fill his lap with lemons
How beautiful you are , night of the moon
when my love appeared
And whoever shakes the moon 
his eyes are the moonlight
The lemon tree blossoms
shock the rocky hearts
When its flowers appeared
i smelled its perfume s love

LEMON - لَمُون  (Feat. Yolla Khalife) يولا و بشار مار خليفة

Gaza // Soumoud Remix 2015 
 غزّة //  صمود رمكس 

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Gaza - Soumoud Remix 2015  by  Checkpoint 303

In the last couple of month I had the privilege to be able to travel a lot for DJ gigs and in order to find Fadoul's family (the fruits of this labour can be found here: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/azmanah-salb). I spent some time in Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan. This mix is some of the music I found, a few trades are in there too. It's quite a colorful range. Disco from Algeria and Morocco, a James Brown cover from Egypt, a modern soul meets reggae hybrid from Tunisia, a new Fadoul track that the internet doesn't seem to know of yet and some other great bits and pieces. Come along to another journey to the funky side of the arab world.....

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Photo by Fabian Brennecke (www.fabianbrennecke.com), Casablanca, 2015

"Habibi Funk 004 Mix" by Jannis of Jakarta Records (Mix of Arabic 70s & 80s vinyl)

Ziad Rahbani - Mais El Rim (1978)

Tracklist: boilerroom.tv/upfront/upfront-040-disco-halal/

"A celebration of a world without frontiers, and a dreamscape ruled by love, Disco Halal is the cosmic vibration of forever unity. This 60-minute mix features tracks from current Disco Halal releases as well as exclusive previews of upcoming ones, blended all the while with Moscoman’s influences and like-minded contemporaries. An essential journey, deep into the label’s universe. Listen well, for the night is but young." - @DiscoHalal

Tracklist

Upfront 040: Disco Halal

Pre-order: https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/al-zman-saib

We're very happy to announce our second Habibi Funk re-release by Fadoul, Morocco's answer to James Brown.

8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. Up until recently Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcribtion of his name to latin letters differs) had not been rediscovered, as a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the release from them. 

"Is that Arabic?  Very FUXXXING COOL!!“
DJ Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5)

From the press release:
“There was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by a band called „Fadaul et les Privileges“ and mentioned James Brown in the writing credits of the song „Sid Redad“ on the a-side. Needless to say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was blown away. A cover of James Brown’s „Papa got a brand new bag“ sung in arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It’s hard to describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists, even google didn’t help. A true gem forgotten about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw sound aesthetic of „Sid Redad“. Energetic performances, a mighty voice and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings.”

Fadoul - Al Zman Saib // الزمان صعيب (pre-order link in the description)

A fantastic song by Asmahan !
well i just felt that this song suits marvelously well dub and reggae , so i proposed this remixed  , i performed it live with singers Daniel Baladi  and  Geena Ghandour , it works so well !! 
enjoy...

Askiniha ( Asmahan remixed )

Lime Juice

   "Al 3arabi Mo5" is DJ Sotusura's first 100% Arabic Hip-Hop Mixtape released on CD

   A 1h mix including some of the most talented and influential MC's in the region.such as Boikutt,Deeb,Edd,Al Rass, El Far3i,Khotta Ba,MC Amin,Stormtrap,L'Hamorabi,Satti. Production on the cd is also mostly from artisit in the middle east region,Boikutt,Edd,El-Iqaa,Munma,DJ Lethal Skillz,L'Hamorabi,DJ Solo,Damar,Al Jihaz and more....

    Thanks to all these mc's and producers for there great work,without them this mix would've never came to light. 

    Peace!
  

Arabcrooning

Kenz