One of the few music platforms that consistently aims to give back to it’s users, Bandcamp started an initiative around the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis that waives their transaction fee for the first Friday of every month, till the end of the year. This practically means that any money you spend on the platform goes directly and only to the artists you support.
In anticipation of the last Bandcamp Friday of the year this upcoming December 4th, Scene Noise has compiled an extra-large list of our picks of some of the most exciting Middle Eastern/North African albums to drop over the past few months or so, from artists both at home and in diaspora.
House/Techno:
Mehdi M - Break The Juno
Red Sea Records - Various Artists 001
COUP - Yin Yang Part II V/A
Hayek - Subtractor EP
Bergsonist - 3e004b
Adam Rahman - What’s On For Breakfast??
Oun Jweinat - I’m Not Wearing Black
Percussive Dance Music:
DJ Plead - Going For It EP
NURI - IRUN
Scuba Girl - Cargo Bay
Guedra Guedra - When I Run (The Casablanca Dubplate)
Breakbeats/Jungle/DnB:
Are You Alien - Energy Drink Vol. 1 V/A
Dawan - Outbuilding
TEDTEDTED - Cama
Kamyar Khanzaei - Knockout EP
Henkeman - Cyber Dream EP
Hassan Abou Alam - Hope Amidst Despair
Hip-Hop/Rap:
Kutmah - Isolation Tapes (Compilation)
Tardast - Marwa
El Rass - Bab Al Doukhoul
Experimental:
Irsh - did you mean: irish? V/A
E-Saggila - Corporate Cross
Mediteranos - The Flood V/A
Rojin Sharafi - Zangaar
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - Kill Me Or Negotiate
Dakn - Too Low, Too Far
System Revival - Beirut Will Rise Again
Mazen El Sayed & Jawad Nawfal - Sessions 1
Unexplained Sounds Group - Anthology of Persian Experimental Music Vol. II V/A
Instrumental/Indie/Funk/Synth-pop:
Salar Ansari - Salar Trax Vol. 3
Ilvy - China Girl
Teen Idle - Seasons/Where Is The Sun?
The Incompetents - Pretium Doloris
Fadi Tabbal - Subject To Potential Errors And Distortions [Remixes]
De.Ville - Atlantique
Ruptured Records - Ruptured Sessions Volume 6: For Beirut V/A
Classical/Folk:
Praed Orchestra! - Live In Sharjah
Natik Awayez - Manbarani
