Heart-on-sleeve Algerian Raï bangers from a golden age when tradition met machines in the ‘80s & ‘90s and percolated into popular consciousness via outposts in the likes of Paris and the sampledelia of UK ‘ardcore.
’Sweet Rebels’ add to a welcome and growing mountain of retrospective compilations that scan the period when Arabic North Africa jacked into the electro mainframe. Belting, passionate vocals collide zinging keyboard vamps and rapid-fire drum machine pointillism in eight searing examples of the sound at its rawest, upfront, in ‘80s/‘90s Algeria, all plucked from the domestic and Parisian underground market by Cheb Gero and remastered for impact on ‘floors a generation later. No matter if you’re family with the region or not, the sounds surely call up a vintage heyday of US electro and its UK street soul and funk parallels for anyone able to squint ears a bit, and whose limbs still twitch for good old fashioned sequencer fire.
Cheika Djenia El K’bira pipes up on a dusky scene-setter ‘Chabe Rassi’ sure to snag acolytes of Omar Souleyman, and the fire comes on every count from the melismatic plumes of vox and keyboard fanfare in ‘Zinek Bekani’ by Cheb Zahouani, thru the earthier grounding of ‘Matczaafiche Omizi’ from Djilali Tiarti & Chaba Zohra. Debonaire need scope the calypso-style lilt of ‘Ki Bghitouni Nabra’, and electro fiends will be feeling he squirt synth colours and stabs of Cheb Abdelhak and Chaba Amina’s cuts. Most flavoursome of ll are the sugar reggae sway of ‘Ala Bladi Nebai’ from Abderrahmane Djalti, and the seductive mystic appeal of the pads and flutes to Cheb Tahar & Chaba Noria’s ‘La Hbibi Ouaalah Ela’.
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Heart-on-sleeve Algerian Raï bangers from a golden age when tradition met machines in the ‘80s & ‘90s and percolated into popular consciousness via outposts in the likes of Paris and the sampledelia of UK ‘ardcore.
’Sweet Rebels’ add to a welcome and growing mountain of retrospective compilations that scan the period when Arabic North Africa jacked into the electro mainframe. Belting, passionate vocals collide zinging keyboard vamps and rapid-fire drum machine pointillism in eight searing examples of the sound at its rawest, upfront, in ‘80s/‘90s Algeria, all plucked from the domestic and Parisian underground market by Cheb Gero and remastered for impact on ‘floors a generation later. No matter if you’re family with the region or not, the sounds surely call up a vintage heyday of US electro and its UK street soul and funk parallels for anyone able to squint ears a bit, and whose limbs still twitch for good old fashioned sequencer fire.
Cheika Djenia El K’bira pipes up on a dusky scene-setter ‘Chabe Rassi’ sure to snag acolytes of Omar Souleyman, and the fire comes on every count from the melismatic plumes of vox and keyboard fanfare in ‘Zinek Bekani’ by Cheb Zahouani, thru the earthier grounding of ‘Matczaafiche Omizi’ from Djilali Tiarti & Chaba Zohra. Debonaire need scope the calypso-style lilt of ‘Ki Bghitouni Nabra’, and electro fiends will be feeling he squirt synth colours and stabs of Cheb Abdelhak and Chaba Amina’s cuts. Most flavoursome of ll are the sugar reggae sway of ‘Ala Bladi Nebai’ from Abderrahmane Djalti, and the seductive mystic appeal of the pads and flutes to Cheb Tahar & Chaba Noria’s ‘La Hbibi Ouaalah Ela’.