With a focus on music from the Middle East and North Africa, Habibi Funk co-founder and curator Jannis Stürtz and his team have been reissuing some of the most unexpected and exciting releases of the ...

Over the last couple of years, the Habibi Funk label has been shining a light on a broad selection of older, and lesser known, music to have emerged from across the Arab World, taking in funk and soul ...

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Habibi Funk, the acclaimed Berlin-based label dedicated to music from the Arabic-speaking world, has unveiled its next release, a compilation of recordings by renowned Lebanese musician Rogér Fakhr.

Credit - Poster: Raphaelle Macaron/Courtesy Habibi Funk; Saif Abu Bakr: Jannis Stürtz; Ahmed Malek, Sharhabil Ahmed, Fadoul: Courtesy Habibi Funk; Charif Megarbane: Mohamad Al-Rifai; Umm Kulthum: ...

Based in Berlin, the label Habibi Funk took its name from an online comment about one of its mixes. "Habibi" is actually the Arabic word for "darling," which seems fitting for a company intent on ...

The Habibi Funk label focuses on reissuing Arab disco, funk, soul and electronic records from across the decades. Habibi Funk DJ sets jump between rare 45 inch records from the Arab disapora, with ...

Habibi Funk is devoted to the percolation of western pop music through the Arab world between the 1960s and 1980s. Compiled by Berlin-based reissue specialist Jannis Stürtz, it is the fruit of record ...

Jannis Stürtz, founder of record label Habibi Funk and DJ is coming back to Electric Pawn Shop this weekend. With Stürtz and bar co-owner Lobito on the decks, the Habibi Funk event is taking place on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of ...