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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A new compilation from Habibi Funk highlights the old and interweaving sounds of Algerian coladera, Lebanese AOR, Egyptian disco, Moroccan funk and more. Save this story Save this story In an ...

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: ...

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 ...

Here's a short note from Jannis himself: "Earlier this month I was in North Africa for another digging trip and ended up finding quite some records I didn’t know before or I had no copy of so I felt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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