A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
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Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest YARA ASMAR // 07 May 2024
A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal – this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician and puppeteer YARA ASMAR. Originally commissioned by Stegi Radio and produced by Onassis Stegi.
Yara is a musician and puppeteer who lives in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion and metallophone in her work.
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純純 (SÛN-SÛN) 望春風 (Hoping for the Spring Breeze)
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NANCY MOUNIR Matkhafsh Alayya
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M. SAGE WITH THE SPINNAKER ENSEMBLE Harbor Dive
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زكي ناصيف (ZAKI NASSIF) اعود اليك يا قريتى (A’oudou Ilayki Ya Karyati)
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فيروز (FAIRUZ) يا ربوع بلادي (Ya Roubouaa Biladi)
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-みかんむくっ(MIKAN MUKKU) Kan
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ABUL3EES Ba7ibesh Astana بحبش أستنى
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MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD Sandpaper kisses
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SLEEPSPENTT Full Thrust
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HADY MOAMER Khaboot (Interlude)
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HADI Kawa’ed
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APHEX TWIN Kladfvgbung Micshk
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FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Promises [Movement 2]
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ALAN SPLET & DAVID LYNCH In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
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FADI TABBAL And Then…
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VIRGINIA ASTLEY Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed
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MUNMA Lights Out
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DELIA DERBYSHIRE Bach’s Air
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EYEDRESS Romantic Lover
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SOOT GILGAMESH Ma La2et Makan
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LILIANE CHLELA Latent Heat (Rework)
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COLLEEN Be Without Being Seen (Movement I)
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JULIAN CHANG Crossed Paths
Ruptured Album Release // Munma + Jad Atoui, Jawad Nawfal, Sharif Sehnaoui
MODERN INDIVIDUAL is the first recorded collaboration between Jawad Nawfal and Lebanese experimental musicians Jad Atoui (NP, Kinematik Ensemble) and Sharif Sehnaoui (‘A’ Trio, Calamita). The music on this album was composed and performed by Atoui, Nawfal and Sehnaoui in Beirut, between January and August 2023. Mastered by Cedrik Fermont in Berlin, designed by Maya Chami in Beirut. Modern Individual is available as a digital album and limited release cassette of 40 copies, printed and duplicated in Montreal, Canada. Listen/Order: rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/modern-individual
Ziad Nawfal with Wafa Khochen on Micro-Ondes // 29 June 2021
Quite the honor to be interviewed by Wafa Khochen for her weekly show Micro-Ondes.
We spoke about the early days of Ruptured Records, the creation of the label with Fadi Tabbal, our series of radio compilations, and recent spate of physical and digital releases.
1. Scrambled Eggs – Bleeding Nun (2006)
2. The Incompetents – Cannibal Blues (Ruptured Session, 2011)
3. Safar – Wa Namshi (2017)
4. Postcards – Revolvers (2018)
5. Interbellum – Ready to Dissolve (2018)
6. The Bunny Tylers – One of These Days (2017)
7. Munma – Muse (2016)
Ruptured Label Mix for Radio Alhara’s Sonic Liberation Front #freepalestine // 04 June 2021
Ruptured Records Label Mix [2011-2021] – For RADIO ALHARA’s Sonic Liberation Front series:
1. Alko B – Some Things [Ruptured Session]
2. Postcards – Flying Saucers [Ruptured Session]
3. Charlie Rayne – Disposable Valentine [Ruptured Session]
4. Safar – Wa Namshi
5. The Bunny Tylers – It Seems It All Disappears
6. Kinematik – Al-Qulub Al-Mughallafa Bet-Turab La Tankaser
7. Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato
8. Jad Atoui – Impulse [Ruptured Session]
9. Radiokvm – Alpha Apparatus
10. TEDTEDTED – Cama
11. Munma – Muse
12. Stellar Banger [Pablo Giw, Ali Hout, Abed Kobeissy and Joss Turnbull] – Sextant
13. Two or The Dragon – Dance Grooves for The Weary [excerpt]
14. Aya Metwalli – Istana [Senyawa Rework]
15. Fadi Tabbal – Crystal Palace
16. El Rass & Munma – Sanadet
17. Kid Fourteen – The Dancer
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio 01 // 08 November 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s 1st monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens – with a focus on alternative music from Lebanon. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.
1. Kinematik – Murur al-kiram
2. Sharif Sehnaoui – N [live at radio liban]
3. Jad Atoui – Signals
4. Munma – Three voices
5. Charbel Haber – We dream in the sun we tan when we can
6. Youmna Saba – Nafas [live at radio liban]
7. Osman Arabi – The xi masks of the faceless one [live at radio liban]
8. Fadi Tabbal – The new and improved guide to birdwatching vol.3
9. Sary Moussa – In praise of shadows
10. Ziad Moukarzel – Questions of worry [excerpt]
11. El Rass & Munma – Freestyle [live at radio liban]
Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Ballroom Blitz x Radio Alhara // 29 August 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s guest mix for The Ballroom Blitz‘s 30-hour takeover/fundraiser at Radio Alhara, with all profits going to Haven for Artists.
Music from and for Beirut:
1. Marc Codsi – Invocation I [LB]
2. Jad Atoui – Alpha 60 [LB]
3. Charles Cohen – Beirut [US]
4. Kid Fourteen – Can You Be More Concerned [LB]
5. The Bug – Destroy Me (Version) [UK]
6. Suuns + Jerusalem In My Heart – Gazelles in Flight [LB/CA]
7. Zalfa – Law Ma [LB]
8. Lumi – From A Dream [LB]
9. Rabih Beaini – Ghadab [LB]
10. Thoom – Large Fly [LB]
11. Aya Metwalli – Manyaka [EG]
12. Muqata’a – Taqamus Muqawim [PS]
13. El Rass & Munma – Freestyle (Ruptured Session) [LB]
14. Kinematik – Lalochezia (Ruptured Session) [LB]
Ruptured Sessions Mix for Radio Alhara // 21 August 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s guest mix for Radio Alhara, featuring selections from all 6 volumes of “The Ruptured Sessions” [2008-2019]:
1. El Rass & Munma – Freestyle [2012]
2. Fareeq El Atrash – Njoom `Am Te’rab [2009]
3. The Incompetents – Cannibal Blues [2011]
4. Intensive Care – Another You [2010]
5. White Trees – The Game of Love [2010]
6. Charbel Haber – Building A Nest [2008]
7. Sandmoon – Dead of Jericho [2010]
8. Charlie Rayne – Madeleines [2013]
9. Postcards – Flying Saucers [2018]
10. Youmna Saba feat. Fadi Tabbal – Tehfi [2008]
11. Safar – Overlove [2015]
12. Alko B – Some Things [2019]
13. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – Early Embankment [2011]
14. The Wanton Bishops – Whoopy [2013]
15. Who Killed Bruce Lee – Pool Party [2013]
16. Mashrou’ Leila – Im Bimbillila7 [2009]
17. Kinematik – Lalochezia [2017]
Ziad Nawfal DJ Mix for Radio Raheem // 24 July 2020
Ziad Nawfal’s live 60-minute mix recorded at/for The Ballroom Blitz‘s weekly takeover at Milano’s Radio Raheem. With artists from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia and Sudan:
- Muqata’a
- Jad Atoui
- Stephanie Merchak
- Bachar Mar-Khalife [Sama’ Remix]
- Deena Abdelwahed [Dawan Remix]
- Sufyvn
- Zeid Hamdan
- Hadi Zeidan
- Ceasar K + Gme
- Rise 1969
- Diamond Setter
- Stephanie Merchak
- The Bunny Tylers [Jad Taleb Remix]
- Soapkills
- Index/Left [Ziad Moukarzel & Jawad Nawfal]
- Mutamassik
- Katibe Khamseh
- Rise 1969
- Munma
- Ceasar K + Gme
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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Ballroom Blitz x Radio Alhara // 21 May 2020
90-minute mix recorded for The Ballroom Blitz‘s monthly takeover at Radio Alhara, with artists from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt Tunisia, Palestine and Canada:
- Stefan Christoff – Illimitée [2020]
- Stress Distress – Liljeholmen [2019]
- Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Six Times Two [2020]
- Mme Chandelier – Minimal Potato [2016]
- Ziad Moukarzel & Tony Elieh [Tres Millones Dolares] – Jon Black [2018]
- Radiokvm – Aristophanes *213 [2013]
- Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal – Coast I [2020]
- Liliane Chlela – 2022 [2020]
- Jad Atoui – Alpha 60 [2020]
- Bakisa – Notturno (Edit #6) [2020]
- Lumi – To the Shore [2017]
- Rise 1969 – 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool [2019]
- Deena Abdelwahed – Lila Fi Tounes [2020]
- Zuli – Robotic Handshakes in 4D [2016]
- Mutamassik – Rhythms Rattle on Death Pawns [2015]
- Muqata’a – Al Missfah (Muqata’a Remix) [2016]
- DJ Sotusura – Belbalad [2019]
- Hadi Zeidan – Mabrouk Mabrouk [2018]
- Al Rajul Al Hadidi + Chyno – Zam Zam [2016]
- El Far3i & Munma – Shu Beddak [2013]
- El Rass [2016] – نفَس



