Acid Arab

Franco-Algerian collective Acid Arab are releasing their third album: ٣ (Trois). The ten tracks on this eagerly-awaited record are serious dancefloor bangers, and will also be providing delightful private listening experiences, thanks to their sophisticated production and to the intriguing, diverse performances by eight guest vocalists from North Africa, Syria & Turkey: Wael Alkak, Cem Yldiz, Ghizlane Melih, Khnafer Lazhar, Sofiane Saidi, Fella Soltana, Cheb Halim & Rachid Taha.

After two successful vinyl EPs, the DJ and producer duo Acid Arab (Guido Minisky & Herve Carvalho) presents a 70-minute oriental journey with almost exclusively tracks by Pilooski, Omar Souleyman, I: Cube and other artists.

An album of reconstructions and remixes, revealing some of the lovely, secret perspectives hidden in Yasmine’s Hamdan impressive, successful second album Al Jamilat, courtesy of 9 distinguished artists & producers, including mighty Parisian electronic music crew Acid Arab, Chilean maverick Matias Aguayo, elegant German ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, Berlin techno artist Shed, Crammed's own Greg Bauchau, Cubenx from Mexico, Olga Kouklaki from Greece, and mysterious, recluse middle-eastern produced George Bshoum. Yasmine Hamdan herself has contributed a great remix of “La Chay”.

Following “La Contra Ola” (BJR015), Bongo Joe is pleased to present LA OLA INTERIOR, a compilation exploring the ambient side of the Spanish electronic music produced in the 80’s. It gathers musicians from various horizons and of many generations, who shared the desire to create an immersive soundscape and to combine electronic music with non-Western musical traditions. As a general rule, the Anglo-Saxon tropism did relate the spanish peninsula’s ambient music to the Balearic Sound, that is to say to the relaxing music played in Ibiza’s nightclubs. But this music takes place in the productive territory of experimental musics, and particularly in its two main breeding grounds: the tape recording underground and the independent musicians-producers scene.