Glory, legacy, backlash—Hamid El Shaeri lived it all. Il Capo rose just as Egypt was shifting in the 1980s, delivering the sound they didn’t know they needed.
The playlist features new music from Nagham Saleh, Zeina, and DJ Totti.
The lineup features Chloé Caillet, DJ Tennis b2b Toman, Prospa, Anotr and Gawdat.
Blending hyperpop, Arabic lyrics, and raw emotion, Alexis Reel dives into heartbreak, rage, and personal rebirth on this new EP.
The lineup features French house mavericks Crowd Control and Baka G, along with Cairo’s Awadly, Jess, Moenes and Tata.
Moroccan artist El Mehdi returns with ‘ENCORE’, a raw and reflective single blending Amazigh heritage with genre-blurring emotion.
BLTNM heavyweights Shabjdeed and Al Nather reunite for ‘MLKRAP,’ a brutal drill track with a glitched-out visual twist.
Lebanon’s vinyl maverick NeighborsByMusic delivers jazzy house, Brazilian bossa nova with funk and classic Arabic tunes.
The Paris-based festival celebrates 5 years of alternative Arab sounds with artists from Tunisia, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, and beyond.
After a three-year public feud, ZIAD ZAZA and FLEX (formerly of Maadi Town Mafia) have finally buried the hatchet with a collab.
The LA-based French DJ/producer delivers a groovy mix of afro tech-house.
On the two-track EP, the Egyptian rapper is on a mission to find his own sound.
Cairo’s rap heavyweight Abyusif teams up with Lil Baba for a gritty new track that brings the heat back to Egyptian rap.
Known for sharp rap cuts, Lege-Cy shifts gears on ‘Law Nasyany’, a mellow, emotive track produced with Ismail Nosrat.
The holy trinity presents a compelling satire on the media’s censorship and ignorance of the war in Syria.
A look back at Tumblr-era nostalgia reimagined through Arab music, lyrics, and aesthetics we grew up with but never saw online.