Welcome to the Dandin blog

Welcome to the Dandin blog, the English accompaniment to the Arabic language audio platform Dandin. The aim of this blog is to highlight some of the stellar talent of the Middle East hosted on the website to a wider audience. Covering a variety of musical genres in addition to non-musical audio, there’s a lot of…

Bosaina

Part of Egypt’s burgeoning electronic music scene, Bosaina first came to our attention via her work with producers Ismail Hosny and Hussein Sherbini of the Wetrobots. Those three also form a bigger collective alongside other producers such as ZuLi and $$$TAG$$$ called Kairo Is Koming (KIK). Collaborations notwithstanding, Bosaina’s solo work ensured that she became the first…

Badawiya Lovin’

The new single from Hello, Psychaleppo has been released ahead of his upcoming third album. Entitled Badawiya Lovin’, it contains everything that makes this Syrian producer so great, the superbly implemented layering of electronic sounds with the Arabic musical tradition of the Mawal and Tarab, atop the grooviest of beats. We await the rest with…