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Oriental-Trap

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Manipulating Oriental melodies and rhythms with digital software seems in vogue - once again. This is what this collection of grime, dub-, breakcore-, hip-hop-, noise-, new-wave-dabké- and mahragan-tracks seems to suggest. Is this yet another Orientalist Trap? Or do many of these tracks go beyond Electro-Arab-Tracks of the late 1990s and early 2000s? Send us your comments via Twitter or Facebook - and suggest more contemporary Oriental-Trap for our playlist!

 

 
Some of the Tracks

 

 
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Check out many articles, podcasts and video-clips in our Dossier: Arab World on Norient.com. And read about Orientalism here. Check also the following two books about Beirut and the Arab World: «The Arab Avant-Garde – Music, Politics, Modernity» and «Local Music Scenes and Globalization – Transnational Platforms in Beirut». Norient further released the audio collage and radio feature «Sonic Traces: From the Arab World»:


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