One of the things we found most striking about Dina El Wedidi is her age. We’ve heard of her for quite some time naturally, whether as a solo artist or with the Nile Project or sharing the stage with the legendary Gilberto Gil. And yet she’s only 27. In such a short time she’s managed to win…
Hear the New Releases playlist here. Loads of new stuff on Dandin in this latest iteration of the New Releases playlist. First up is Dandin’s first Tunisian artist, Fusam, and his track The Dance of the Flickering Flame. Next up is the track Chaos in Japan off of BluFrank’s latest album. That’s followed by Karset Nevin…
It’s been a year since the launch of Dandin as an audio platform for the Middle East. And it has been a joy to discover such varied talent along the way from a still nascent, but burgeoning, movement. Whether in music, poetry or other audio formats, the snapshot of this past year has been heady and wildly eclectic.…
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…
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…
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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