Detroit-Beirut based artist and musician Joe Namy aka
El Iqaa explores his Lebanese identity through sound, archive and the word. For this Saturday's
Free Lab Radio Show we journey with him on a two album mix, involving some very short snippets of sound that are an audible connection between his magpie-style practice of picking up sounds around him, and his digital work as a music producer. Catch it on air from 11pm-midnight, details below. Namy's audio work is interesting to us because in his hands, the music plundered becomes a tool for a sonic exploration, ResonanceFM being the representative home of sonic exploration in the UK. WE met Namy at Art Dubai, and interviewed him for our radio project
Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh, but tonight the words are only embedded within the sounds.
So how does Namy present these explorations? As
El Iqaa, Joe Namy works with
sampled sounds, documentary / music videos and photography to
investigate aspects of identity, memory, power and currents encoded in
music. He says his ideas '
often revolve around the space between two technics
turntables' - between fading and amplifying. Namy has
produced two albums under the moniker
El Iqaa, '
Detroit Beirut' (2007) and
'
Circulate'
نشر(2011. Namy explores these issues through quotes and cuts from specific definitive
samples
(ranging from Abdel Halim Hafez to Pierre Boulez, Amiri Baraka to Trisha
Donnelly
+ much more). The splices in these albums are mixed with original recorded sounds to
create a dialogue between the past and the future, in hopes of trying to
make sense of the present, and grapple with issues around language and
translation, memory, movement, electricity ( as an energy resource) and appropriation.
Namy also hosts a sporadically frequent radio
program
Electric Kahraba on
artonair.org. You can check more of his sounds and other exploratory projects, often exploring the musical history of his
roots, at
www.olivetones.com
To listen tune into 104.4FM on your transistor dial if you're one of London's millions of inhabitants, or listen online
www.resonancefm.com
Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari
Noise from the Middle East FESTIVAL
This week we explore minimal
house, tech and synth-pop tracks tracks with reliably repetitive forms, and how these give people
clubbers the confidence (and therefore the freedom) to dance? 
This Saturday night, an exclusive mix by Cedric 'Nuff Ced' of Dubai
DJ crew 'Deep Crates Cartel' - crate-diggers from all around the world
who dedicate themselves to an alternative music scene in Dubai. 11- midnight GMT across London on 104.4FM or via the RadioPlayer.
Cedric
"Nuff Ced" a Parisian record collector and selector with Dubai
DJ crew Deep Crates Cartel. Deep Crates gather crate-diggers
from the world over as far afield as Lebanon, Spain, UK, Poland, Egypt and so on, who share
the same mindset and quest for rare groove. DCC dedicated themselves
to provide what they felt was missing in Dubai, an alternative to the
mainstream & commercial music scene. 
DJ K Sets compiles tape cassettes from 80s Middle East and North
Africa, arranged here in 3 genres: 
"taxi tapes, electro tunes and hippie
age". He calls his mixes "selected working class cultures". We've had a
long interest in DJ K Sets as his other incarnation DJ Cinnamoon,
possibly since 5 years ago. He's superbly underground, you have to chase
him!
Sat 18th
Wadu said that Jah Wobble was responsible for introducing him to the culture of North
Africa and Middle East with his basslines and that his "I'm an Algerian"
is one of Radu's favourite tracks of all time. Radu also wrote us that as The Tabernacle plays such an important part in British musical history and is a site of cultural heritage, he'd like to be there to see it live. 
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