Sun, 04 Dec
|Edinburgh
The Beirut Groove Collective X Majazz Project in Edinburgh
Now entering its 13th year, the Beirut Groove Collective is a collective of vinyl DJs, crate diggers, music obsessives and artists. For over a decade, the BGC has thrown one of the SWANA region’s most popular underground clubnights in Beirut.
Time & Location
04 Dec 2022, 20:00 – 05 Dec 2022, 01:00
Edinburgh, 6 Manderston St, Edinburgh EH6 8LY, UK
About the event
Now entering its 13th year, the Beirut Groove Collective is a collective of vinyl DJs, crate diggers, music obsessives and artists. For over a decade, the BGC has thrown one of the SWANA region’s most popular underground clubnights in Beirut, the BGC All-Nighter, which has built an international reputation for its distinctive sound and attracted some of the world's leading DJs, turntabalists, crate diggers and record collectors. In 2021, the collective brought their clubnights to London with sell-out monthly residencies in alternative venues across the city, as well as guest appearances at festivals, clubs and community spaces around the world.
At their parties, the BGC plays obscure and underground clubbing records from the ‘60s-‘80s from the Middle East, Africa and around the world, an eclectic mix of Lebanese ‘60s Garage and Beat, Bellydance Psych, Arabic Disco, Latin Tarab, Armenian estradayin, Ethiopian and Sudanese Jazz, Rare Soul and Funk, Psychedelia and much more.
The BGC was named in New York Magazine, as one of the ‘Top 15’ parties around the world and has been featured everywhere from The Guardian and Monocle Magazine to ARTE, the BBC, Time Out London and Vice.
This month, the BGC hosts Zag Erlat, the DJ and record collector behind My Analog Journal, the YouTube channel that curates vinyl-only mixes on a weekly basis and has quickly built a cult following.
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Majazz Project.
Majazz project / Palestine sound archive has amassed an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk. Many of these were acquired from a former record label in Palestine in the north of the West Bank. The Majazz Project is a research project borne out of the archive, focused around sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arabic cassettes. It is a collaboration between Arab and non-Arab DJs, producers and artists interested in shedding new light on the richness and diversity of Arabic musical heritage. Majazz also have a sold out monthly live show at SJQ in dalston with BGC.
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Pat Godbert “Natural Selectas”
Dub Reggae sound system and record label from the north west of England.
Line up
Ernesto Chahoud “BGC”
Mo'min Swaitat “Majazz Project”
Pat Godbert “Natural Selectas”
Sunday 4th of December
Leith Arches
20:00 till 1:00
Advance Tickets 8 GBP
On the door Tickets 10 GBP cash only.