Al Massrieen - Modern MusicAl Massrieen: Disco, Funk and modernized Arabic Pop from Egypt In the beginning of Habibi Funk, our search was focussed on vinyl records. Around a year ago though, we got to the point where we realized that it became substantially harder to discover music, that we enjoyed and hadn't heard before. It became apparent that it was time to start looking for other formats. Cassette tapes were the obvious alternative. These were introduced in the arabic

Our Musical Director was Delbert Taylor and he also played with Gil Scott Heron’s Midnight Band and with Slave afterwards in the early ‘80s

Sunstroke were Ben Bollaert and Etienne Delaruye

There's lookalikes about which are inferior quality

this one made it to the wax Kozmonotosman - our man on the moon

and because they were an acoustic duo

Swordman Kitala’s highly anticipated debut EP straight from Uganda with an absolutely killer line up of guest producers

first deep release from Janeret with a remix from Varhat

it has now grown to include three additional tracks: Playing Games

Collector's

Chondropoulos explores themes of maternal love present across the album by working with local singer Sofia Sarri to record six piercing

each track gradually builds up its own lush

a nod to everything from the West Coast hip hop highway