In the latest of our playlist series, John Doran takes a look at Syrian Sufi chant, Egyptian electro disco, Sumerian death metal and psychedelic Moroccan gnawa
The melancholic, retro-manic disco of Blufrank couldnt be more different from the urgent sounds of electro chaabi, even though both hail from modern, post-revolution Cairo. While the Auto-Tuned chaabi MCs and vocalists such as Sadat and Alaa Fifty demand change mainly cultural but sometimes political as well Blufrank, a nameless and masked dance producer, seeks to avoid confrontation by offering an escape into an imaginary zone of fantasy dancefloor hedonism. His Soundcloud profile speaks of this desire to remove oneself totally from the here and now: Created in the future, sent back in time by the last living human beings before being programmed to follow a certain pattern, oh they created me in the first place to be a reminder of the humanity and the feelings that we lost.
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by John Doran via Electronic music | The Guardian
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