Notes

‘Release +ϕ.’ A dynamic composition from one of the bright lights of Egypt’s current generation of DJs and producers, ZULI. He’s based in Cairo, but you’d be pressed to tell that from this painterly track, “Release +ϕ.” It builds and retreats, builds and retreats. This is a more ambitious composition than you’d hear in the Electro Sha’abi style that ZULI is sometimes associated with—and that drives so many party scenes in Cairo.​

What’s Electro Sha’abi?

—Brendan Hasenstab