Cairo is brimming with musical talent. Like in most industries, male musicians and DJs are more visible, better paid, and much more frequently booked than their female and non-binary counterparts. But here is a warning: if you search SoundCloud for Egyptian women DJs, you will be dragged down a multivocal rabbit hole encompassing all genres and beyond, and you might never reemerge. Women and non-binary DJs in Egypt and the diaspora are remixing and shaping contemporary music worlds. Beyond that, they are also building communities for mutual support, creating safer spaces in Cairo’s nightlife, and even bringing you sustainable foods alongside their fire music. Here is an insufficient list of amazing sets that Egyptian DJs have recently blessed us with. Zeina https://soundcloud.com/hunalqahiraradio/sets/hunalqahira-07-unfamiliar Cairo based DJ and Producer Zeina has played house and techno sets in Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, and Cairo. She describes her music mixes to be “as expressive and creative as she is”. Zeina is also the founder of Unfamiliar, a DJ collective committed to building communities around music and pushing female talent in the industry. Through Unfamiliar, she is creating spaces for female electronic musicians, “cross-pollinating…
Unfamiliar Bloom: 5 Egyptian DJs Shaping the Contemporary Music Scene
September 28, 2021
