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The Spy From Cairo returns after his well received "Arabadub" album with a new EP entitled "This Is Not Sparta" showcasing more of his signature middle eastern and arabic infected bass and dub music.

This Is Not Sparta EP

Ramadan Dub

while I'm working on the new album, here is some older stuff that some of you might not know .....

Toe To Toe

Sons Of Hannibal

Well…. I said I would stop uploading form ARABADUB  but then again…..I should promote this record a  bit more before the next one…..After all, I'm only "secretly famous"  ;-)

Zeb-da

03 Sexual

ROOTS ROCK REGGAE

Go Back Home (Steven T)
lyrics ©Steven T
image & music by Suno AI

Go Back Home (Steven T)

Let’s go back to Jamaica
Let’s go back home
Let’s go back to Jamaica
Let’s go back home
Let’s go back home
I wanna be known so,
Let’s go back to Jamaica

What I want, don’t try to fake ya
Get off the phone
What I want, don’t try to fake ya
Get off the phone
Get off the phone
I’m so alone so
Let’s go back to Jamaica
Let’s go back home
Let’s go back home






Go Back Home (Steven T)

Following the first year of Mateo Kingman’s international touring, AYA Records - new imprint from ZZK Records - is releasing a collection of remixes from his debut album "Respira" (breathe).  Few times have we had such an overwhelming response to a new album by an up and coming artist and it's heart-warming to find his work so inspiring for musicians and producers from around the globe. With versions from Japan (Ground), Chile (Matanza) passing through the United States (Jeffrey Paradise from Poolside) amongst others. We can see how songs mutate and adopt new personalities in different hands, exploring new atmospheres and rhythms, down tempos in dynamic songs, inflections and accents, textures and new attributes that appear as the essence of artistic expression and collaboration. This creative transmission attests to an endless quality of the original material and it's our pleasure to share this sampling of remixes to accompany Mateo's upcoming European tour this fall, with debut shows in Amsterdam at ADE and Paris at Hasard Ludique.

Mateo Kingman - Lluvia (Kurup Remix)

 A remix of the other flamenco al arabia tune tune....

flamenco al arabia in dub

AkizzBeatzz - Children Of A Lesser God (Original Mix)

Siku

Voz de las Montañas (con Minük)

One of the amazing things about the deeply Jamaican music called Dub is its ability to act as a conduit. From its early days as stripped down versioning of popular Reggae tunes to its indoctrination into late 80 / early 90s UK Soundsystem & Dance Music culture, to its current massive mutation (with the “Step” planted firmly in its behind); Dub has shown itself to be not only a musical art form that stands strongly on its own, but also a vehicle of sorts that can transport and connect disparate musical universes. And it’s at the unique nexus of Dub and Arabic music that the Spy From Cairo sits the most comfortably. 

The Spy From Cairo aka Zeb is the kind of musician that fits perfectly in with the downtown NYC music scene – Italian by birth, Gypsy by heritage, and Brooklynite by residence, he has been closely associated with the Turntables on the Hudson scene for close to 12 years – producing dozens of albums as Zeb, the Spy From Cairo and the Organic Grooves project, as well as remixing for everyone from Baba Maal to Tosca to Billie Holliday to Novalima, steadily garnering a worldwide collective of fans and followers 

The Spy’s new album, “Arabadub” is perhaps his most realized vision of deep Middle Eastern and Jamaican sounds coalescing into something that sounds right and natural – because it was conceived and produced in just that natural way. There are no samples used on the album, and Zeb has programmed everything, as well as playing traditional Middle Eastern stringed instruments called the Oud, Chifteli and the Saz himself. Check the opener “Alladin Dub”, with its echoed out skanks, pulsing bassline, and majestic strings – and the deepness that is “Taksim Square”, complete with swirling, psychedelic accordion. Other highlights include the tense four-to-the-floor stomper “Desert Tears”, the rolling dub of “Sons of Hannibal” with it’s beautiful Middle Eastern vocal chants, the nostalgic “Egyptian Pulse” with its Steppers sound and melancholy vibes, and the dancehall vibes of “Prince Ahmed” – sounding like 3AM Kingston wrapped in a Bedouin Tent!
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Sons Of Hannibal

Zebda-The spy from Cairo