What does diversity mean? This is a question I often ask myself. In music, diversity has come to be seen as an umbrella term for sounds and identities beyond the mainstream, beyond traditional white ...

The first compilation from the Habibi Funk label sees unreleased and rare music from Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia covering everything from Arabic zouk, Algerian coladera and ...

Habibi first hit the scene nearly a decade ago with a scrappy, lo-fi sound born out of bedroom jam sessions between Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch that mixed garage rock, Middle Eastern, and ...

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 ...

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 ...