We Are Superconductors with Deena Abdelwahed
Deena Abdelwahed talks to 3Phaz, A茂sha Devi, and d茅bruit.
eena Abdelwahed is a producer and DJ from Tunisia. She arrived in France at the age of 26 after earning her stripes in the Tunis scene as part of the Arabstazy collective. She has played for Boiler Room, and at iconic Berlin club Berghain.
Joining her is a Cairo-based DJ obsessed with bass, distortion, and the deconstruction of the Shaabi aesthetic. If you don鈥檛 know it, Shaabi is an Egyptian musical genre coming from working-class roots and is the core of Egyptian people music in the streets and every day Egyptian life. His self-titled debut album came out in 2020, and he describes his music as 鈥減ost-Shaabi鈥�. It鈥檚 3Phaz.
Next up, is a Swiss-Nepalese producer who co-founded the experimental club label Danse Noire. She applies meditation techniques in her approach to production and describes herself as a 鈥渞adical alchemist鈥�. Her latest release was her EP "S.L.F." (Spirit Liberation Front) in 2019, and she was a winner of the Swiss Music Prize in 2020. It鈥檚 A茂sha Devi.
And finally, a French artist and musical explorer who imagines alternate worlds and the way they'd sound from his adopted home of Brussels. He explores complementary culture clashes, combining elements that have never existed together before. He鈥檚 also part of KOKOKO!, a collective born in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It鈥檚 Xavier Thomas, aka, d茅bruit.
They鈥檒l be talking about the affect of using computers when writing music, dealing with the press and their labelling, and converting studio music into a live set.
