Zenobia - EP
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Combining Arabic pop melodies, Palestinian/Syrian dabke rhythms, synths & powerful beats with occasional dubby flavours, Zenobia are at the forefront of the new, vibrant Palestinian electronic music movement. Their hypnotic live performances have made a big impression over a short period of time: the band started performing in 2018, and has already appeared in the Middle East, Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, South Korea and Brazil.
Zenobia’s self-titled debut EP was produced in the band’s studio in Shefa Amr (a small town situated between Haifa and Nazareth), mixed in Paris by Acid Arab, and is released on Acid Arab Records, the French crew’s imprint hosted by Crammed Discs. Their first album is currently in the making.
Like some crazy Kraftwerk of the Levant
The Guardian
I’d heard electronic takes on dabke before, [but] this was trippier and more seductive
Resident Advisor
Ekiti Sound - Abeg No Vex
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Ekiti Sound spearheads a new musical dialogue between London and Lagos. His debut album wires novel musical circuitry into shape, soldering UK soundsystem culture, hip-hop and Afrobeat into new, haywire connections, a diverse chorus of global voices routed through its new configurations. It’s a starkly original record, built up of layered musical histories, papered over one another into a messy, exhilarating collage of sounds.
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Stubbleman - Mountains and Plains
Stubbleman is the alter-ego of maverick composer and producer Pascal Gabriel. His panoramic debut album, 'Mountains and Plains', is inspired by a road trip across the USA, and the eleven tracks evoke the poignant delights of endless train tracks, sleepless cities, nostalgic ruins, big skies, high deserts and lost junctions, keeping at all times an affectionate eye for the humanity which populates these diverse landscapes.
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A low-key charmer destined, one suspects, for a long life
The Guardian
Stubbleman was inspired by a road trip from NYC to LA, although that vast distance seems like a short stroll compared to how far this ambient album takes him musically
Electronic Sound