Arabica & Robusta

Enjoy a pot of coffee (Robusta or Arabica) while you relax to this set of North African flavored Downtempo, starting off with NSS fave Algeria born Rachid Taha, that Rock & Rai guy. 

 

Various - Arabica: A North African Voyage into Sound, Bar de Lune LUNECD07, 2002.
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Rachid Taha –    Ya Rayah
Transglobal Underground – Pomegranate
Al-Pha-X – First Transmission
Pressure Drop – The Calling
Radar – Caravane
Nickodemus –    Desert Dancer (Zeb's Slow Camel Ride mix)
Digital Bled –    Cairo Bar
Zöhar – Ehad
Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Shashkin
Cheikha Rimitti – Nouar
dZihan & Kamien – Just You & I
Djamal Allam – Tiziri (Mandalay remix)
Khaled – Didi (Didi Funk Club remix)
Christophe Goze – Keep On

 

 

 

Volume II starts off with another NSS fave Jah Wobble... 

 

Various - Arabica II: Voyages into North African Sound, Bar de Lune LUNECD10, 2002.

Jah Wobble – Hayati    
Al-Pha-X – Mad Keys    
US Conductors – Under Palms (Bar De Lune original mix)    
Radar  – Arabiant
Malik – Deep Throat    
Hamid Baroudi – Trance Dance (DJ Krush mix)
Natacha Atlas – Amulet (Aywah remix)
Momo - Digital Garab: Ministry of Bullshit (The Steve Hillage remix)
Oojam– Fantasy
Rachid Taha – Barra Barra
Digital Bled – Fonkarabic (Digital Bled remix)
Enrico Macias – La Folle Esperance (Concorde Music Club remix)
Zohar – Sketches of Egypt    
Youcef – Salam 

 

 

 

This is the final volume of the trilogy... 

 

Various - Arabica III: Voyages into North African Sound, Bar de Lune LUNECD19, 2002.

Radar – Your Song
Al-Pha-X – Hojar
Christophe Goze – Ja Vidi
Malik - Trance Orient Express
Sound Simulator – Kanun
Natacha Atlas – Bastet (Bullitnuts remix)
Nickodemus – Free Souls
Exodus Quartet – The Far East Coast
US Conductors – The Unveiling
Al-Pha-X – Mi Corazon (Smokers mix)
Radar – Distance
U-Roy – Half the Hard Way
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects – A Muey A
Hamid Baroudi – Macumba (DJ Krush mix)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ