Jannis Stürtz has trawled Casablanca and rooted around a factory in Sousse for music. The Habibi Funk founder talks about his passion for Tunisian disco, Sudanese jazz and Lebanese soft rock Not long ...

The 16 tracks that make up the latest Habibi Funk compilation are a heady fusion of sound and fervour. There is some psychedelic disco from Egypt. Other songs are electrified by the carnival energy of ...

With a focus on music from the Middle East and North Africa, Habibi Funk co-founder and curator Jannis Stürtz and his team have been reissuing some of the most unexpected and exciting releases of the ...

Over the last couple of years, the Habibi Funk label has been shining a light on a broad selection of older, and lesser known, music to have emerged from across the Arab World, taking in funk and soul ...

A new compilation from Habibi Funk highlights the old and interweaving sounds of Algerian coladera, Lebanese AOR, Egyptian disco, Moroccan funk and more. Save this story Save this story In an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of ...

It’s the Fourth of July as I write this – dusk – and my neighborhood is reverberating with percussive explosions, strobing in time with colourful light. I’ve never really seen the appeal of fireworks, ...

Those drawn to world music often seek the exotic and the alien, but Jannis Stürz, the German crate-digger behind the Habibi Funk label, seems to explore the vinyl troves of the Arab world in search of ...

The Habibi Funk label focuses on reissuing Arab disco, funk, soul and electronic records from across the decades. Habibi Funk DJ sets jump between rare 45 inch records from the Arab disapora, with ...

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 ...

Credit - Poster: Raphaelle Macaron/Courtesy Habibi Funk; Saif Abu Bakr: Jannis Stürtz; Ahmed Malek, Sharhabil Ahmed, Fadoul: Courtesy Habibi Funk; Charif Megarbane: Mohamad Al-Rifai; Umm Kulthum: ...