Ruptured Live // RADIOKVM Launch Concert // Beirut Art Center

Ruptured presents
Launch concert for RADIOKVM‘s first vinyl release ISSRAR
Featuring live music by Radiokvm & live video by Rami el Sabbagh

Hailing from Beirut, Lebanon, SARY MOUSSA aka RADIOKVM is a self-taught electronic musician. Constantly busy absorbing, analyzing and trying to reproduce in his own manner the ambient sounds surrounding him, he started taking music lessons as a kid, but soon found out that experimentation, e-learning, reading and trial and error processes were a lot more efficient and interesting. He was into making electronic music, and no one around him knew what a synth, a filter or a drum machine were!

Moussa grew up listening to rock and jazz, before delving headlong into electronica. He started crafting his own melodies under the moniker radiokvm in 2008. He collaborated closely with Lebanese producer Okydoky, organizing live gigs and releasing a batch of demos; the two men became notorious on the live circuit of Beirut’s electronic scene. In later years, Moussa collaborated with Lebanese electronic producers Munma, Jad Atoui, and Liliane Chlela, releasing both remixes and original compositions for label compilations; he has also composed music for theatre and dance performances (Ali Chahrour’s ‘Fatmeh’), as well as soundtracks for short films.

Born in Beirut in 1979, Rami el Sabbagh is a Lebanese video maker. He graduated from the Institute of Scenic and Audio-Visual Studies (IESAV), Saint Joseph University in Beirut in 2004. His videos include ‘C’est de ta faute, quelque part’ (It’s Somewhat Your Fault, 2003), ‘2mg of Rotten Blood on Pure White Snow’, and ‘The Last Hero’ (2012). He is also a VJ since 2005 and a DJ since 2006.


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Poster by Maya Chami, based on an original artwork by Sandra Ghosn

 

 

Ruptures Radio Show // WICKERPARK ’14 // 07 September 2014

A special edition of Ruptures showcasing the 4th edition of Wickerpark Festival in Batroun, Lebanon, and featuring tracks by Charlie Rayne, Flum Project, How Sad, Mashrou’ Leila, Scrambled Eggs, Youmna Saba, and Z The People & Al Jihaz.

Listen:
ruptures wicker park 29 august (part 1)
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ruptures wicker park 29 august (part 2)


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CEASAR K // Interview Part 2 // 11 August 2014

Lebanese DJ, producer, turntablist and label owner Ceasar K was the guest of Ruptures for the second time, for an interview covering the production output of his label VL Records.

Listen:
ruptures ceasar k 11 august (part 1) + ruptures ceasar k 11 august (part 2)


Track listing:
Moe Turk
vChille
Audible Astronaut
Escape To Venus
Trash Inc.
Funk Sinatra
Moe Turk
Cheh & Fady Aswad
Trash Inc.
Escape To Venus


 

HELLO PSYCHALEPPO & RAED EL-KHAZEN // Interview // 28 July 2014

Syrian electronic musician  and producer Samer Saem Eldahr, aka Hello Psychaleppo, was the guest of Ruptures, for an interview covering various aspects of his production work, as well as the release of his third album Ha!. He was accompanied by album producer Raed el-Khazen.

Listen:
ruptures psychaleppo 28 july (part 1)
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ruptures psychaleppo 28 july (part 2)


Track listing:
Hello Psychaleppo *2
Mohammed Ghazi
Abdelhalim Hafez
Thom Yorke
Luke Vibert
Hello Psychaleppo


Photo by Natacha Elmir

CEASAR K // Interview Part 1 // 14 July 2014

Lebanese DJ, producer, turntablist and label owner Ceasar K was the guest of Ruptures, for an interview covering various aspects of his work from 1998 to the present.

Listen:
ruptures ceasar k (1)
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ruptures ceasar k (2)


Track listing:
Ceasar K
Gme & Ceasar K
Ceasar K *2
Pintura Fresca (Ceasar K remix)
Ceasar K
The Greenhornes feat. Holly Golightly (Ceasar K remix)
Ceasar K


LOOPSTACHE // Interview // 07 July 2014

Lebanese electro-pop duo LOOPSTACHE (Carl Ferneiné & Salim Naffah) were the guests of Ruptures, a few days prior to the launch of their first album – the interview covered different aspects of their career and musical influences.

Listen:
ruptures loopstache (part 1)
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ruptures loopstache (part 2)


Track listing:
Loopstache *2
Scissor Sisters
Chromeo
The Beatles
Sister Sledge
James Brown
Ray Charles
Loopstache *2


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RAMLY // Ruptured Session // 09 June 2014

Lebanese folk singer/songwriter ELIE RAMLY aka RAMLY was the guest of Ruptures for an exclusive interview and live performances of tracks taken from his forthcoming EP Beneath The Morning Sun.

Listen:
ruptures ramly (part 1)
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ruptures ramly (part 2)


Track listing:
Ramly
Led Zeppelin
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Ramly
Ramly LIVE
Antony & The Johnsons
Cinematic Orchestra feat. Patrick Watson
Ramly LIVE
Sebastien Tellier
Ramly


YASMINE HAMDAN // Interview #2 // 26 May 2014

Ruptures had the pleasure of hosting Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan in the studios of Radio Lebanon, for an in-depth interview revolving around the renowned vocalist’s past and current projects.

Listen:
ruptures yasmine hamdan 26/05 (part 1)
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ruptures yasmine hamdan 26/05 (part 2)


Track listing:
Yasmine Hamdan *2
Nick Drake
Yasmine Hamdan
Nina Simone
Abida Parveen
James Blake
Yasmine Hamdan
Souad Abdullah


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Ruptures Radio Show // El RASS & MUNMA Edition // 19 May 2014

Two years after their first recorded collaboration, the successful “Kachf el Mahjoub / Unveiling the Hidden” (for the Ruptured label), Lebanese artists and musicians Mazen el-Sayed aka El Rass and Jawad Nawfal aka Munma released its long-awaited follow-up, “Adam, Darwin and the Penguin”, in May 2014. A few days before the launch concert of the album in popular live venue Metro Al-Madina in Hamra, Beirut, we ran a radio show detailing the genesis and production of the record and its different contributors.

Listen:
ruptures el rass & munma 19/05 (part 1)
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ruptures el rass & munma 19/05 (part 2)


Track listing:
El Rass & Munma (2014)
El Rass & Munma (Munma remix)
El Rass & Munma (2012)
El-Far3i (Munma prod.)
El-Far3i (2014)
Boikutt 
El Rass & Munma (Feat. Boikutt, 2014)
El Rass & Munma (2013)
Nasreddine Touffar (Munma prod.)
El Rass & Munma (2012)
El Rass & Munma (2014)
Munma (Feat. El Rass, 2013)


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Ruptures Radio Show // 14 Apr 2014

Monday 14 April 2014, Radio Lebanon 96.2FM (8-9pm)

1. Loopstache
2. Loopstache [Franz Ferdinand cover]
3. Who Killed Bruce Lee
4. Spoils & Servants
5. Wake Island
6. Wanton Bishops
7. Scrambled Eggs
8. Jammit The Band
9. El Far3i
10. Latlateh
11. Deeb (feat. Edd Abbas)


12. Tripnol
13. Khotta B
14. Chyno
15. Trash Inc. [Mohammed Abdel-Wahab Rework]
16. Aziza
17. Fady Aswad