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Ruptured News // Scrambled Eggs + The Incompetents archival reissues

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After years out of print, two essential chapters of Beirut’s independent music scene return to circulation.

With these two releases, Ruptured continues its archival reissue series dedicated to preserving landmark recordings from Lebanon’s independent music community. The latest entries are Scrambled Eggs – Happy Together, Filthy Forever / Peace Is Overrated & War Misunderstood and The Incompetents – A Temporary Convergence Of Interests [The Disgruntled Best Of].

Though each release tells a different story, both emerged from the same creative ecosystem that flourished in Beirut throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Both projects grew from a close-knit network of musicians, recording studios, independent venues and long-running collaborations, each helping shape the sound and spirit of Lebanon’s underground.

Scrambled Eggs brings together Happy Together, Filthy Forever (2006) and Peace Is Overrated & War Misunderstood (2009) for the first time as a newly remastered LP. Recorded during and in the aftermath of the July 2006 war, the collection captures Charbel Haber, Marc Codsi, Tony Elieh and Malek Rizkallah at a pivotal moment, balancing punk, post-punk, noise and experimental rock with a restless approach that continually pushed beyond genre. It also includes “1984,” recorded live in Beirut on 22 July 2006 while the war was still unfolding.

A Temporary Convergence Of Interests [The Disgruntled Best Of] revisits the complete history of The Incompetents, the long-running collaboration between Serge Yared and Fadi Tabbal. Drawing from the band’s five releases between 2008 and 2020, the anthology follows its evolution through changing lineups and an ever-expanding circle of collaborators, tracing a body of work that moved between post-punk, art rock, folk, improvisation and spoken word while remaining inseparable from the creative community that surrounded it.

Both releases have been carefully prepared for their return to print. The audio has been newly remastered for vinyl, with Scrambled Eggs mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market in Montreal. Each edition features restored artwork, a full-colour double-sided lyrics insert, and is pressed on 140g black vinyl in a strictly limited edition of 200 copies.

Pre-orders open Saturday, July 25. Both albums are released on August 21, 2026.

Also arriving on Bandcamp and streaming platforms on Saturday, July 25 are two newly remastered digital double singles: Scrambled Eggs – “Johnny Anti-Christ” / “See You in Beirut” (2026 Remaster) and The Incompetents – “Grey Midas” / “Cannibal Blues” (2026 Remaster).

Listen/Order: Scrambled Eggs

Listen/Order: The Incompetents

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 04 October 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon and the UK. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Julia Sabra & Fadi Tabbal – Roots [LB]
2. Yara Asmar – Numbers Don’t Make Good Friends [LB]
3. Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – Reading 1 [LB]
4. Marc Codsi – Finding Home [LB]
5. Postcards – Keep the Elephant in The Room (with Serge Yared) [LB]
6. Elyse Tabet – We Slept Through the Day [LB]
7. Xlmxkhfi – Movement Song [LB]
8. Fadi Tabbal – Are Aquariums Moral [LB]
9. Marc Codsi – Hangar #12 [LB]
10. Xlmxkhfi – Black Beach [LB]
11. Postcards – Kozo [LB]
12. Mayssa Jallad & Khaled Allaf – Madina Min Baeed [LB]
13. Stress Distress – Different Currencies [LB]
14. Muslimgauze & The Rootsman – Fuck Yitzhak Rabin / Fuck Ehud Olmert [UK]

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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 07 June 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, and Belgium. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

  1. Safar – Articulations [LB]
  2. Sharif Sehnaoui & Jawad Nawfal – Cut [LB]
  3. NP [Anthony Sahyoun & Jad Atoui] – Iridescence [LB]
  4. Elyse Tabet – We Slept Through the Day [LB]
  5. Anthony Sahyoun & Jawad Nawfal – January 19 [LB]
  6. Pie Are Squared – Let’s Stay in And Listen to Shoegaze [EG]
  7. Daou – Odd Light [LB]
  8. Cedrik Fermont – Aquanaute [BE]
  9. Liliane Chlela – 2025 [LB]
  10. Wanderland – December [LB]
  11. PanSTARRS – Gesm Gedeed [EG]
  12. The Submarine Chronicles – Shabalah [LB]
  13. Heroes & Villains – The Rest Is History [LB]
  14. The Incompetents – 2 HJ [LB]
  15. Beirut Scum Society – Werewolf [LB]
  16. Kid Fourteen – One Day I’m Gone [LB]

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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 23 May 2022

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

  1. Préfaces – El Jaguar [LB]
  2. Kinematik – Al Kafila [LB]
  3. Fadi Tabbal – And Then… [LB]
  4. Postcards – Angel [LB]
  5. Serge Yared – Deliberate Depression [LB]
  6. Maurice Louca – El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue) [EG]
  7. Raed Yassin – A Fistful Of Stardust [LB]
  8. Muqata’a – Ikmal إِكمَال [PS]
  9. Jawad Nawfal – Nawa Athar 0 [LB/EG]
  10. Stéphanie Merchak – my eyes are bleeding green rivers [LB]
  11. Jad Atoui – The Last Bloom [LB]
  12. Thoom – Re-Trace [LB]
  13. Tarkamt – Outer Gateways [EG]
  14. Daou – Sauldre [LB]
  15. FRKTL – Sidereal II [EG]
  16. Saint Abdullah – Sound, Sound, And Only Sound [IR]
  17. Mayssa Jallad & Khaled Allaf – Madina Min Baeed [LB]

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Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Movement Radio // 02 November 2021

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Movement Radio in Athens, featuring music from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Indonesia. This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO.

1. Melmo – After [LB]
2. Khaled Omran – Arak [SY]
3. The Butcher’s Bride (Liliane Chlela & Hamed Sinno) – Lipsync [LB]
4. Serge Yared – Deliberate Depression [LB]
5. Wanderland – December [LB]
6. Anthony Sahyoun – Irhamna (Premiere) [LB]
7. Senyawa – Kabau (1800s Internet Remix) [ID/JO]
8. Jaafar Touffar – Nitrate [LB]
9. Gurumiran – Man Who Sold Eldunya [LB]
10. Sandmoon – Angels [LB]
11. Postcards – Mother Tongue [LB]
12. Filter Happier – Radiobed [LB]
13. Sharif Sehnaoui – Thawra [LB]
14. Calamita – The Industry [LB/IT]
15. The Bunny Tylers – Mothers Make Murderers (Summer 91) [LB}

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Ziad Nawfal with Wafa Khochen on Micro-Ondes // 29 June 2021

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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)

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 16 September 2020

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Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem – featuring music from Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, the USA and Canada:

1. Sandmoon – Angels [LB]
2. Kinematik – Sahu + Bein Mreytein [LB]
3. Postcards – Dead End [LB]
4. Scrambled Eggs – Building A Nest [LB]
5. PanSTARRS – Dor Elfo2 [EG]
6. Maii Waleed + Zeid Hamdan – Ehdefni [EG/LB]
7. Maurice Louca – The Palm Of A Ghost (feat. Nadah el Shazly) [EG]
8. Karkhana – Rock Farock [LB/EG/CA/TR/US]
9. Kozo – Sky House [LB]
10. Serge Yared – The State Of The Union [LB]
11. Zalfa – Law Ma [LB]
12. Bedouin Burger – Ya Man Hawa [LB/SY]
13. Basel Naouri – Epic Wars [JO]
14. Yusuy – Yours Truly (Mahwoos) [EG]

Ruptured Sessions Mix for Radio Alhara // 21 August 2020

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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]

Ruptures Radio Show // 18 May 2020

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Live broadcast from “Ruptures” [Radio Lebanon 96.2FM] with song-by-song audio commentary, featuring musicians from Lebanon:

1. Lumi – Two Swords [2015]
2. The Bunny Tylers – Let There Be Light [2020]
3. The Butcher’s Bride- Lipsync [2020]
4. Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal – Coast I [2020]
5. General Order 1 – Exponential [2020]
6. Hadi Zeidan – In the Goldroom [2019]
7. Bakisa – Notturno (Edit #6) [2020] PREMIERE
8. Kid Fourteen – Nobody Came, Nobody Wants To [2020]
9. Liliane Chlela – 2022 [2020] PREMIERE
10. Kinematik – Sahu [2020]
11. Postcards – Freediving [2020]
12. Sandmoon – Fiery Observation [2019]
13. Serge Yared – The State of The Union [2020]
14. The Incompetents – Bloody Rainbow (Daniel Johnston cover) [2011]
15. Sary Moussa – In Praise of Shadows [2020]

Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 23 April 2020

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A one-hour mix for Radio Alhara in Palestine, with alternative, electronica and experimental tracks by artists from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine:

1. Love & Revenge – Allo? [2017]
2. DJ Sotusura – Al Hara [2019]
3. Muqata’a – Faltakon [2018]
4. Karkhana – Nafas [2016]
5. Jerusalem In My Heart – Bein Ithnein [2018]
6. Marc Codsi – Invocation I [2019]
7. Jawad Nawfal – STO On A VHS [2019]
8. Kinematik – Al-Qulub al-Mughallafa Bet-Turab la Tankaser [2020]
9. Praed – El Khawaga [2018]
10. Serge Yared – The State of The Union [2020] PREMIERE
11. Sary Moussa – In Praise of Shadows [2020]
12. Aya Metwalli – Fein Enta [2017]
13. The Bunny Tylers – Let There Be Light [2020]
14. PanSTARRS – Dor Elfo2 [2020]
15. Kid Fourteen – Everybody Wants A Strong Man [2019]
16. El Rass – El Akh Men Weyn? [2016]
17. Al Rajul Al Hadidi – Qossat Al Tapline [2018]