We’re pleased to be rolling out a new iteration of our website. Chief amongst the changes is that Dandin can now also be perused in English, and you can navigate the site in the language of your choice. This is to ensure that the music and other audio formats we host can be accessible to as wide…
Following on from the artists of the year list, it’s time for the top ten albums of the year, as decided by our users. One important caveat before proceeding though; the albums need not have been released in 2015. This is a list of – through a combination of actions on the Dandin website – the most popular…
It’s been a fruitful year for independent and quasi-independent music in the Middle East. It has seen a spurt in budding genres making headway across the region, such as Hip Hop and Electronic music. But when it comes to what listeners on Dandin are checking out, Tarab, Pop and Arabic Rock still rule the roost. Here are the ten…
Today we launch the very first Dandin Weekly Chart, which will be coming out every Friday from here on in. Every week on our Facebook page we will list the top 5 most listened to tracks, albums and artists on Dandin as picked by our listeners. We will also be including two separate playlists, one that lists the…
Lucciole is the new album by producer and multi-instrumentalist Mohamed Ashraf, known as Pie Are Squared, an artist whose past forays in the world of ambient sound are some of the best examples of this genre by musicians from the Middle East. Lucciole though is a different beast all together, a departure from his previous work, and that…
We’ve been going a little crazy running through the new site and a byproduct of this has been a set of new and updated playlists by genre (though of course we use the term quite loosely). So whatever your poison may be, may you find it on this list. Tarab Playlist: Sonorous voices, searing violins. Hip…
It is with the greatest of pleasure that we introduce to you the new look Dandin, which we have been developing for some time with the aim of making the website even more engaging and accessible. The changes run throughout the website but begin on the homepage, which has seen a complete overhaul. It now features a three-part slider…
This should be fun. Pleased to announce that Dandin will be the music partner of Mada Masr during their Marketplace Event at the Greek Campus on Saturday, April 25th. Between the hours of 11am and 4pm the music on offer will be comprised solely of local and regional artists from the platform. The four-hour playlist will…
A lot of music we listen to because it induces a certain relatable mood, one of a myriad of reasons why people like the music they do. Seeing as at Dandin we do what we want when we want (until our mother says otherwise), we’ve come up with a playlist of what we find to be mood…
Last week Dandin was invited by the good folk at Mada Masr to regale attendees of Vent with four hours of music spanning the globe and decades of output. Nestled within this long list were some representatives of the Middle East’s contemporary music scene, and it seemed fitting that a Dandin playlist be created specifically for them. Admittedly the…
Make way for yet another end of year list, but it’s yours, the listeners, not ours. Here’s the top ten artists you listened to on Dandin in 2014: 1- Zig Zag: Dreadlocked crooner Zig Zag was the most popular artist on Dandin this year. He also scored a double whammy with the most popular track. 2- 100Copies Music: …
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