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Can anyone recommend some tradition sounding music based electronica? I mean traditional middle-eastern music with some nice electronic stylings that still is recognizeably traditional... does that make sense?
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Wed, February 21, 2007 - 3:55 PMavant retro arabesque? LOL
que linda, yes me too, I want some -
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Wed, February 21, 2007 - 8:43 PMI love a Moroccan group called Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects.
Some hip hop kids got hold of a very cheap sampler and sampled street musicians
in Marakech then put the CD together..............it's really unique sounding and very, very
creative...............from several years ago. They put out two CDs, both of which I have.
Also, have you heard some of Rachid Taha's latest stuff? He's a pop artist but he is really cutting edge
in terms of his production values and includes a lot of elecvtronica.
then there is nO thiN -g...................that wonderful Industrial/Electronica Tradtional Middle Eastern project.....................
......................LOL.........................no, just kidding................that's my new project and we don't have anything recorded
yet (but we will).
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 5:37 AMHey!
Take another look at the Filistine mix, as well as pieces of the Rupture mix, I posted in a just-prior thread here:
bellydance-electronica.tribe.net/t...fb
Rupture also does beats in a Mid-East band (of sorts) called Nettle:
www.theagriculture.com/djrupture.html
I second Rick's Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects recommendation. Very powerful stuff, and mostly unknown to the dance community, for some reason.
I know I have more, but I've got to get to work!
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 11:19 AMhmmm, if it's hip hop influenced that would likely be vocal oriented...
and Morrocan, even in tribal is such a specific style, any Egyptian
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Fri, February 23, 2007 - 1:02 PMActually you will find pan-Arabic influence in Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects, not just Moroccan sounds, and the vocals are not that hip hop influenced, I don't think. Check it out before dismissing it outright... -
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Fri, February 23, 2007 - 2:45 PMwould never diss miss anything outright did listen
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 12:54 PMyay :-)
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Thu, February 22, 2007 - 3:31 PMMaduro has some Saidi-inspired pieces on his album "Shimmer Sustain." His album is available on iTunes... -
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Fri, February 23, 2007 - 12:35 PMgood title...alt take on the title for Saidi could be shimmy sustain -
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Fri, February 23, 2007 - 12:42 PMI'd say to go for Cheb I Sabbah - he's done some great stuff both with Middle-eastern and East Indian influences. -
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Fri, February 23, 2007 - 8:38 PMYeah, I second that notion. Cheb I Sabbah is a wonderful synthesizer of styles.
He's much more than just a DJ................he hires musicians to make his recordings and he truly has a vision.
He even gigs in the SF Bay Area fairly frequently. The last time I saw him he had a wonderful young
Dhol player augmenting his show (the Dhol is the Indian equivalent of the Tupan, Davul or Tabla Beledi).
He does, however, mostly synthesize Indian and Pakistani stuff as opposed to middleeastern music. -
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Mon, March 12, 2007 - 10:17 AMActually, Cheb I Sabbah is Algerian, and although he does use a lot of East Indian stuff, his La Kahena album is quite North African with Arabic and a lot of African influence. Tasty stuff! -
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Sat, March 24, 2007 - 1:29 AMThanks, Nahid,
I didn't realize that Cheb I Sabbah was Algerian................he looks so European to me so I assumed he was French, but I realize that's a silly
way of classifying people
I also had not heard La Kahena. I"m going out tomorrow to find it to purchase it.
Thanks for the knowledge. yours, respectfully, Rick
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Sat, February 24, 2007 - 5:59 AMI'm not quite sure if it is what you are looking for, but what about the music of Niyaz and Azam Ali? -
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Sun, February 25, 2007 - 12:47 PMyes thye both are good, the new Azam Ali remixes are compelliing
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Thu, March 1, 2007 - 8:09 AMArabesque
Arabesque Talata
Arabesque Zouge
Electric Oasis
Turkish Delight
Bellylicious
Turbo Tabla
Those should get you started, if you look at them on Amazon you can also see the "customers who bought this also bought.." to get more ideas!
Have fun!
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Fri, March 23, 2007 - 9:36 AMCheck out a website: www.ethnotechno.com
There are many reviews of just the kind of music you're after. They also have an online radio show on live365. You should get some ideas from there.
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Re: recommend any traditional sounding electronica?
Sat, March 24, 2007 - 1:34 AMa small shameless little plug:
My group nO thiN -g with John Connell (a wonderful Persian classically trained musician who also plays fuzz bass and synthesizer)
will be having our third public performance at the BOX in Santa Cruz on April 2nd.
We are self conciously mixing hard industrial timbres with traditional Belly Dancing music but we are also
bringing West African, North and South Indian and some Indonesian scalar influences into the mix as well.
It will be a little while but we will have a record out sometime this year I'm fairly sure. We really want a dance vibe but we also
wanted an alternative to the kind of Dead Can Dance-ish vibe that always creeps into Gothic and Tribal Belly Dance music.
All kudos to the kinds of bands that play that kind of thing but we wanted something a little darker and more aggressive..........a little bit more urban and club oriented.
We'll see how successful we are.
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