The latest episode of the Dandin Show focusses on artists from Palestine. Without getting mawkish but it’s been difficult to avoid the latest onslaught on Gaza and the devastating loss of life that has resulted. And that informed this episode which kicks off with cofounder of the Ramallah Underground Collective, Stormtrap Asifeh. Next up is…
UPDATE: The album is now out and can be heard here. Only a day to go before the release of HA! the new album by Hello, Psychaleppo. The Syrian artist has created a new project that expands on his style, a style which fuses old school Arabic heritage music with electronic sounds. The mix is heady. Having already…
Stalwarts of the Egyptian electronic music scene, Bikya are one of the most respected bands around, a band’s band if you will, a musician’s band. That doesn’t render them inaccessible in the slightest, far from it; they’re an audio treat if there ever was one, in addition to their pushing-boundaries dial being set to overdrive. The good…
In recent years Egypt has seen a proliferation of top quality electronic producers, which has greatly enriched the music scene. But straight out hip hop producers sans the rapping on top? Not so much. Enter Smash Beats, one of the hottest up and coming hip hop producers around. What distinguishes Smash Beats is his languid groove-heavy approach,…
Grounded in the world of synth, there’s a lot to respect about the music of Rami Abadir and Mostafa El-Sayed in terms of approach and what they’re trying to do. More importantly though, the work sounds good. There’s few things more satisfying than the double whammy of great sounding music coming from artists who stand…
The Discover page on Dandin. This is where you can find all the artists on the website and can further split into categories (music/stories) and genres (rock, electronic, alternative etc). You can also view it by artist or track and on the top left you can see the most listened and most liked. It’s a…
In the spirit of similitude comes the Dandin Show, an audio show where we introduce a selection of tracks found on the website to an English-speaking audience. In this first episode we kick it off with the new single by Beirut-based Syrian electro-gem Hello, Psychaleppo entitled Badawiya Lovin’. We move on to another electronic trio,…
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…
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…
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…
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