Radio · Turntables
NourisRadyoun.
A radio voice that lost its station in 2008 and stayed anyway — and the record crates every DJ set has come out of since.
Three routes, one voice
Where the records come from.
Show, broadcasting, recordings — the same work in three formats, grown over four decades. The same records stand behind programmes such as Night In Tunisia and Café Global.
Nouris Radyoun
The show of his own: Arabic and Latin American sounds, selected and placed in context. It carries on what ended in 2008 when Radio Multikulti was shut down.
RBB Radio Multikulti
Presenter until the station closed in 2008, among others with the shows «Backstage» and «à la Carte». For many people in Berlin this was the voice that brought new music into the house.
Wergo label
CD productions and music editing at the Wergo label. An artist profile on Discogs documents what has remained tangible of it.
What a set is built from
Eight tracks, one night.
No set is a playlist. It is a curve: where it starts, when it tips, what is left at the end. These are the worlds I build from — and the order in which they usually appear.
- 01ChaabiStreet music with lyrics — the pulse almost every one of my sets starts with.
- 02MaloufThe Andalusian-Arabic art music of my origin. Slow, strictly built, and then it breaks open.
- 03RaïThe moment the Maghreb discovered the amplifier. Still works at two in the morning.
- 04GnawaThree strings, metal castanets, a trance that takes its time. The point where a set tips.
- 05Maqam & oudThe tonal systems everything comes from. Not a dance piece, but the reason the dance pieces sound the way they do.
- 06Son & salsaThe other half of my record crates. Less lies between clave and Maghrebi rhythm than you would think.
- 07CumbiaSlow enough for everyone to follow, open enough to lay anything over it.
- 08ShashmaqamCentral Asia. The furthest point of the bridge — and the one fewest people in Europe know.
Listening
Better heard once than read three times.
Recordings and sets exist — just not as a stream on this page, as long as the rights for it are not settled. Write to me about the occasion you are planning and I will send you matching listening samples directly.
Book the decks
A night that has a direction.
Museum night, festival night, reception or company party: tell me the occasion, the hour and the audience — I build the rest.