Local Heritage with Glitter

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Moroccan DJ ڭليثرGlitter٥٥ celebrates her heritage through her DJ sets; a unique blend of the Shaabi music from her homeland merged with futuristic techno.

Growing up in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, she moved over to Paris to study art almost a decade ago. That move also helped her to find her space in the musical sphere, and over the years has seen her land regular slots at local clubs like La Machine du Moulin Rouge and Concrete as well as making her Boiler Room debut at Festival Le Bon Air and playing major festivals like Nuits Sonores and We Love Green.Now.

More recently she's started her own residency called FISSA in Paris which will see her invite artists from across the globe to join her, while also dabbling in production, with her vocal contribution to Global Warming Records' boss Malcolm's Baptem released on Biologic recently.

For her Local Heritage playlist she revisits her roots, picking out some of the tracks she grew up with…

"These are the first five tracks that came to mind in reference to Moroccan (and one Egyptian) music. In the 00s, Egyptian music was actually really installed on TV in Morocco through the presence of a lot of Egyptian channels. I grew up with most of these tracks and some I was lucky to discover recently through friends."

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Lhamdaouia - L’Hajja

Lhamdaouia is considered as one of the pioneers of Moroccan popular music.
Women’s freedom, gender struggles and social issues constitute the major themes of her brilliant lyrics.
She is a source of inspiration in the fight for gender equality and rights in Morocco.
This song is a beautiful Moroccan feminist anthem.

Lhamdaouia - L’Hajja

Lhamdaouia is considered as one of the pioneers of Moroccan popular music.
Women’s freedom, gender struggles and social issues constitute the major themes of her brilliant lyrics.
She is a source of inspiration in the fight for gender equality and rights in Morocco.
This song is a beautiful Moroccan feminist anthem.
Hassane Rap

A weird Moroccan electronic song by an unknown artist. The song deals with severe addiction and hard drugs dependency (such as cocaine) of Moroccan youth.
Best anti-drug song to play as a closing track of a set!
Zina Daoudia - La Tzidounich

Zina Daoudia is a famous Moroccan pop singer and violinist.
She represents the new wave of modern Moroccan songs. La Tzidounich is an unconventional Moroccan Chaabi song with trance music influences given by the use of the keyboard.
It is easily my favorite one from her discography and probably the track I played the most in 2019.
Ruby - Kedah Leeh Beidary

I discovered this Egyptian song on Mazzika TV. It was the most popular music channel in the Arab world. Ruby was denigrated by the public opinion as her videos were considered as too erotic. However, she was an icon of body emancipation for young girls. I remember that we’ve spent hours watching her videos to learn belly dancing.
One of my current favorite producers, DJ Plead, made a brilliant edit of this song.
Shams Dinn - Ane Dassi M'We

Mohamed Ben Bouchta is one of the first Moroccan rapper.
Long forgotten, he’s now started to be recognized again, and rightly so, thanks to a reissue by American label Smiling C and more recently in 2018 by French label Born Bad on one of their compilations.