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Born and raised in Tangier, Yassir is one of the most exciting and versatile selectors in Morocco’s underground electronic scene. His sets mesh together sonic textures from jazz with pulsating house grooves, always featuring a fine selection of eclectic tunes from the likes of Cobblestone Jazz and Rhadoo. He has been dominating dancefloors at major clubs and festivals in Romania, UK and Morocco, and sharing the decks with global techno icons the likes of Traumer, Ricardo Villalobos, and Sonja Moonear, just to name a few.

Yassir takes over our Select today with a trance-inducing mix of breakbeat, progressive house and techno, featuring tunes from some of his favourite record labels and producers like Kosh, Jeku, Olsvangèr, Rudolf C, and Sansibar.

This Saturday on SceneNoise’s Select, HALAWA - arguably one of the most promising selectors in Dubai - takes us on a colourful house journey that gradually builds in velocity from ambient to heavy rhythmic basslines. The set is packed with an eclectic track selection such as Calabasas’ ‘Bubble Trouble’, Delicious Inc’s ‘The Poem’, and Trik’s ‘Feel Good’.

Taking over our latest edition of Select is Bahrain-based DJ Sudz. Having initially begun his journey in the electronic music scene seven years ago spinning Jungle and Drum & Bass, Sudz has recently started dabbling more into the techno spectrum. He has quickly built a reputation in the region for his vigilant crate digging and multi-layered sets that traversed dancefloors in Dubai and Amman.

His select set, which marks his comeback to the night life after a brief hiatus, encompasses sounds from his earliest influences, toeing with the peripheries between chill hypnotic melodies and dark ominous grooves –all wrapped in a relentless 4/4 drum pattern. The set features eclectic tunes by international artists such as ‘RB208’ by Oscar Mulero, ‘Forgotten Dunes’ by Funk Assault, and ‘Linear System’ by Kosher.

This week on Select, Cairo-based DJ Omar Ezzo returns to our Select series with an Afronic-flavoured mix of deep house and tribal rhythms. Omar Ezzo has built a reputation for himself in Cairo’s clubbing scene with his fresh take on afro-house. He’s also shared the decks with a latitude of international acts with the likes of Boris Brejcha, Magdalena, Giorgia Anguili, Sebastian Leger, Adana Twins, Andhim, Edu imbernon, Hannes Bieger, Massano and many more.

This week on SceneNoise’s Select, Egyptian DJ, producer Awadly takes us on a flavourful journey of groovy house and minimal tech, serving up some spicy high-energy with a generous amount of feel-good vibes and kicks.

A prominent feature in the nightlife scene, Awadly previously shared the decks with a roster of the world’s biggest DJs the likes of Pawsa, Dennis Cruz, Whomadewho, Ricardo Villalobos and Sonja Moonear.

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Up next on Select we host Sherif, an up-and-coming DJ from Cairo with a bouncy house mix that dabbles into the upbeat side of the spectrum. Think erratic synths, quick stabs and driving basslines with fleeting moments of melodic rhythms here and there. The set features tunes from the likes of Dennis Cruz, Paul Woolford and Le Femme.

This week on Select, we welcome YoungWoman, an Amsterdam-based Egyptian DJ, producer, and co-founder of Los Angles Collective. Known for her genre-smashing sets and innovative mixing style, YoungWoman has been turning heads on the global stage, performing at some of the world’s top festivals, including Rewire.

Playful, energetic and surprising, her Select set is a percussive bass-driven rollercoaster ride into the left-field electronic spectrum, featuring explosive rhythms, scratchy noise textures, and a selection of eclectic tunes by some of the region’s top artists such as Zuli and Shabjdeed.

On this episode of Select, we have an eclectic b2b set from Tunisia’s budding selectors formiq and Belgaida, who are the co-founders of the mix series Unspoken Sessions –a platform that serves as an outlet for rising regional DJs to showcase their unspoken tastes beyond the packed dancefloor and club environment.

Recorded at the 13th edition of the Tunisian electronic festival Fabrika, the set is an improvised ambient mix with sustained mellow synth notes that journey through different corners of the electronic spectrum, where genres blur into one cohesive sound that feels evermore cinematic and dreamy.

This week on Select, we have Brenda all the way from Colombia. Throughout the past three years, he has galloped through various sonic territories within the global electronic music scene, establishing himself as a figure that is hard to define and one of the most innovative DJs in the globe. In his selection and mixing style, Brenda embraces the idea of ‘plunder-techno’, a collage of traditional Latin rhythms, encompassing dembow, cumbia, djembe and guaracha, interspersed with variations of bass music, while incorporating noise textures close to IDM and club music.

For his select set, the Colombia native DJ and producer brings a mix that encapsulates his passion for the multiplicity of latitudes within the global south and its diaspora. He meshes together threads of Mexican tribal, Colombian bailoteo and Andean techno with the emancipated UK bass scene across the globe, playing on the similarities between Latin dembow and the new waves of electronic music from the Middle East region. “It’s an x-ray of my interests, specifically, my fascination with traditional percussion and how they can be employed in electronic music.” Brenda tells SceneNoise.

In this episode of Select, we have the Dutch-Kurdish DJ/producer duo CHAMOS, who have built a cult following across Europe with their club edits, fusing traditional West Asian sounds with bass and house music.

For our Select 316, CHAMOS is bringing a mix dedicated to their latest EP ‘From Erbil to Amsterdam’, a project that turns traditional Kurdish instrumentals into hard-hitting club anthems. The mix features their own edits of SWANA classics along with tunes by famous producers who inspired them and have been played in their club sets.