I was asked by Khalif Chilwan, the man behind Techno Bahrain, to submit a mix for his radio show. I could not resist sending in a live set to gauge how his listeners would receive it.
It is a one-hour live mix, totally improvisational, recorded in D Minor at 130bpm using Roland Aria Series drum machines and synths (TR-8, System-1, TB-3), alongside some other noisemakers, routed through a Pioneer DJM-2000NXS Mixer.
Ahmed has produced a new Deep House percussive track entitled “Manabad Daman.” Deep swirly pads bejewel this deep and groovy track that is bound by addictive African rhythm percussions. As a Bahraini, Ahmed loves percussion Read more…
I was extremely lucky to have been included in the line up at Bahrain Jazz Fest 2020 as 1/3 of an experimental Electronic Improv group we called 3X Machina, alongside guitarist Jason Swami and trumpet Read more…
ICYMI: Watch the Instagram Live discussion Hamad Ebrahim (@7amandi) and I had on Monday, 04 May 2020, on the topic of collaboration. We discussed our thoughts on the importance of collaboration within an individual musician’s Read more…