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Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet.

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Favoriting May 21, 2025: MENA May 3: Shaabi Shack!
Egyptian shaabi, proto-shaabi, electro shaabi, and mahraganat, 1963-2025. Three hours of CERTIFIED Bangers®!

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Artist Track Album Year Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 
Introduction   Favoriting
Bodega Pop 
2025 
0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
3Phaz  Oscuro   Favoriting Electro Shaabi (2018 New Mix) - EP  2018  0:04:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Manar Saad  Tired   Favoriting Shaabiat 2010  2010  0:11:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Studio Sardena  El-Malaab   Favoriting S/T  2013  0:18:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Abdel Basset Hamouda  Bosy Cat   Favoriting Kolak Agebny  2018  0:25:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
Najla بوسه   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
0:31:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Abu Draa أبو دراع  Mawal Jamal موال جمال   Favoriting Mawal Jamal b/w Mawal Rida Alwalidayn موال جمال \ موال رضا الوالدين  1963  0:37:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Anwar Al-Askari أنور العسكري  Mawal Allah موال الآه   Favoriting Safar Habibi b/w Mawal Allah سافر حبيبي / موال الآه  1968  0:41:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Badaara بدارة  Halwin Earays Baladi حلوين عرايس بلدي   Favoriting Halwin Earays Baladi حلوين عرايس بلدي  1968  0:45:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
al-Rayyis Bira الريس بيرة  Duniya Gharura دنيا غرورة   Favoriting Duniya Gharura دنيا غرورة  1973  0:53:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya احمد عدويه  Nass Lama Bakhti ناس لاما بختي   Favoriting An Evening with Ahmed Adaweya سهرة مع احمد عدويه  1975  1:01:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
Lovers عشاق   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
1:05:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hoba  Hajarin Ala Al Shisha   Favoriting Shaabiat 2010  2010  1:11:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
B3rour  Wal3 Wal3   Favoriting Best Egyptian Pop    1:17:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shekou  Abu Shaka   Favoriting Top 20 Egyptian Hits Vol. 1    1:21:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Emad Baaroor  Wala Wala   Favoriting Shaabiat 2010  2010  1:32:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Omda  El Neswan   Favoriting Best Egyptian Pop    1:32:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ragab Albrens  Sheel Edak   Favoriting Top 20 Egyptian Hits Vol. 1    1:32:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
The Wedding Procession   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
1:35:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Acid Arab feat. Sadat & Fifty  Hez Hez   Favoriting SADAT - Electro Chaabi Kings V1  2020  1:41:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Yunis  Mulid El-Magnoun   Favoriting Mulid El-Magnoun  2021  1:45:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
6600band - سته ستميه باند  You're a Loser يا خايب   Favoriting panda - باندا  2024  1:54:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dijit  Bell 1   Favoriting Tracksh  2021  1:56:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hussein Sherbini  Shams   Favoriting ELECTRO CHAABI  2015  1:59:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
1127  Gharbala 2020   Favoriting This Is Cairo Not the Screamers  2020  2:03:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
A Kiss بوسه   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
2:08:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sami Ali  Elli Shatr Enhaa Tgannen   Favoriting Yalla - Hitlist Egypt  1990  2:13:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hassan El Asmar  Kitab Hayarti   Favoriting Yalla - Hitlist Egypt  1990  2:18:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Magdy Shabeeni  Ya Dunnya Ley   Favoriting Yalla - Hitlist Egypt    2:24:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Magdy Talaat  Yalle Khadak Habibi   Favoriting Yalla - Hitlist Egypt  1990  2:28:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hassan El Asmar  Mish Haseebak   Favoriting Yalla - Hitlist Egypt  1990  2:32:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
The Gentlemen الجدعان   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
2:37:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mahmoud Shakoukou محمود شكوكو  El Sah El Dah Embo السح امبح امبو   Favoriting El Sah El Dah Embo السح امبح امبو  1973  2:39:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية  El Sah El Dah Embo السح الدح إمبو   Favoriting El Sah El Dah Embo b/w Mawwal السح الدح إمبو / موال  1973  2:42:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mohamed Asfour محمد عصفور 
The Gentlemen الجدعان   Favoriting
An Evening of Dance Music سهرة مع الموسيقى الراقصة 
1969 
2:45:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shaaban Abdel Rahim  Ana Bakrah Israel   Favoriting Mabahebesh Al Mashakel  2000  2:47:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sadat, Figo  Yalla Kolo Yesma3   Favoriting Yalla Kolo Yesma3  2025  2:53:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catrina Paslaru 
Hei La Bodega   Favoriting
Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 
2000 
2:56:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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tim abdellah:

Hey Gary - One ticket to Shaabiville, please!
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Gary:

Tim!!!
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chresti:

Ask the magic twinkie for advice!
  7:02pm
peter:

hey Gary & co.!
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Webhamster Henry:

Certify those Bangers!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Gary and all!
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Gary:

Chresti, Henry, and Peter!!!
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Gary:

James!!!
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Webhamster Henry:

It's already Bangin'!
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chresti:

That sport blazer worn by the shaabbi shack singer is rather shaabbi looking
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Gary:

↳ chresti @7:06
I "created" that in AI :)
  7:08pm
mic_:

Hello Gary and Bopos! That blazer is blazing!
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Gary:

mic_!!!
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chresti:

↳ chresti @7:06
with the spots
  7:09pm
mic_a:

Whoops, my 'a' fell on the floor a moment there. It's the beat!
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chresti:

↳ Gary @7:08
Wow
Avatar 7:28pm
tim abdellah:

↳ Song: "Bosy Cat" by "Abdel Basset Hamouda"
Bosy Cat 😂😂 There's no "P" in Arabic, so this is what stands for "pussy cat"
  7:29pm
Andrew:

↳ tim abdellah @7:28
I once read a review of an Arab grocery store in Boston that said it was full of "crab." I visited the store. There was no crab there. The Arabic speaking author of the review meant "crap." No "p," just "b."
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chresti:

↳ tim abdellah @7:28
That's funny!
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tim abdellah:

↳ Andrew @7:29
😂😂😂😂
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Gary:

Andrew!!!
Avatar 7:31pm
tim abdellah:

There's a Mediterranean pizza place on Haight Street in SF called "Bizza"
  7:38pm
Andrew:

Sha'bi music, as a genre, takes off with Adawiya, among others, in the 1970s, courtesy of cassette tapes. State-controlled Egyptian radio refused to play it.
  7:40pm
Andrew:

Sha'bi also translates to "popular" and the Arabic root for "sha'b" means "the people." One of the main slogans of the 2011 Egyptian Reovlution was "al-sha'b yurid iseqat al-nizam," or "the people want the fall of the regime." So, as a genre, sha'bi music enjoys a very close relationship with "the people."
  7:41pm
Andrew:

isqat*
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Gary:

Thanks, Andrew!
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tim abdellah:

↳ Andrew @7:38
Hey Andrew - do you know if there are genres called sha'bi/chaâbi in other Middle Eastern Arab locations? In the Maghreb there is Algerian chaâbi, which is a specific urban genre from the city of Algiers, and Moroccan chaâbi which is a wide label applied to popular music based on a variety of folk sources.
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chresti:

↳ tim abdellah @7:31
Is it good?
  7:56pm
Andrew:

Great question, Tim! Sha'bi, I don't believe, is limited to Egypt. And, in other places, might also go by other names that similarly embody the spirit of sha'bi music in Egypt. One example you no doubt know is Rai in Algeria. The use of colloquial Arabic, the focus on everyday life, the controversy inspired in the process, strongly resonates with what Adawiya was doing in Egypt and responses to it.

Listeners might enjoy this book on Rai:
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292777408/
  8:01pm
Thon Bloke:

Bangin’ sounds! Great way to start the day (via Tokyo). Keep em coming and greetings from the land of the rising sun! :)
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Gary:

Thon Bloke!!!
  8:08pm
Andrew:

This discovery is a mic drop moment!
Avatar 8:08pm
tim abdellah:

↳ chresti @7:56
Sadly, I haven't tried it yet. But i always chuckle when I see it!
  8:21pm
Andrew:

"Wal3 Wal3" is what you shout or call out in Egypt when you want the server at the restaurant to add coals to your sheesha.
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Gary:

↳ Andrew @8:21
Ha, excellent, thank you, Andrew! I think there may be another Wala-situation coming up in a bit
  8:29pm
Carmichael:

Heya Gary, hi kids.
  8:29pm
Andrew:

I'm all for wal3.
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Gary:

Carmichael!!!
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tim abdellah:

↳ Andrew @7:56
Great observations re: rai-sha'bi similarities!

I'm thinking about the term "sha'bi" itself and figuring it usually emerges in distinction to something considered to be not sha'bi. The same could be said for the term "popular" in English.

Is Egyptian sha'bi music understood to be "of the people" in distinction to other musical styles considered to be more elite? In Morocco, I believe "chaâbi" as applied to music emerged in the 1940s with the rise of recordings, referring to urbanized versions blending regional folk and urban styles. I would guess this was in distinction to both elite Moroccan traditions (andalusian, melhoun), and the modern styles coming out of the Middle East (like Oum Kulthum, Abdelwahab, etc.), none of which were sung in colloquial Moroccan Arabic.
  8:44pm
Andrew:

For a documentary featuring Sadat (the rapper) and others on the current track, check out: https://www.bam.org/film/2025/counterculture-pioneers-electro-chaabi
  8:46pm
Andrew:

↳ tim abdellah @8:33
Yes, sha'bi signals a sharp departure from "tarab." Sha'bi is grounded in daily life, tarab literally means "enchantment." Sha'bi reflects people's realities, tarab romanticizes them. For more on both, yall might enjoy this piece I wrote on Adawiya, who features prominently in my book on egypt's cassette culture, following his passing last december: https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-making-and-mourning-of-ahmad-adawiya-a-musical-legend/
  8:47pm
Charles:

This is great
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Gary:

Charles!!!
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tom tom the pipers son:

this is what one calls a slow burn… it hasn’t even started…
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Gary:

TomTwice!
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tim abdellah:

↳ Andrew @8:46
Thanks Andrew - will def check out the article!
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tom tom the pipers son:

yunis, i believe has a recent release, just as good...
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TDK60:

Hi Gary.
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Gary:

TDK60!!!
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tim abdellah:

I got a thing at 6 I gotta jump to. May be able to stay in the chat, but may be too distracted. Fab sha'b stuff, Gary! Great hanging w/y'all
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Gary:

Happy trails, Tim!
  8:58pm
Andrew:

↳ tim abdellah @8:52
Hope you enjoy it!
  8:58pm
mic_a:

Uh oh -- here comes the hook to yank me offstage. Thanks Gary! Good wishes to everyone!
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Gary:

Night, mic_a!
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WR:

↳ Andrew @8:46
thank you for the link.
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Gary:

WR!!!
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WR:

↳ Gary @9:01
Hi Gary. This cool grey misty day has me in lurk mode, I guess.
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coelacanth∅:

Greetings Gary, bodegatrons
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Gary:

Coelacanth!!!
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TDK60:

Academy Records & CDs is still there on 18th St.
  9:14pm
Andrew:

↳ WR @9:01
For sure!
  9:26pm
Mike W.:

Aiwa Gary!
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Gary:

Mike W!!!
  9:32pm
Mike W.:

Shukran
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "El Sah El Dah Embo السح امبح امبو" by "Mahmoud Sh...
oh i know this one!
  9:44pm
Andrew:

The stories behind this one are brilliant.
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tim abdellah:

Oh hey, I'm back. Was in a listening party, and it was a rock album of a civilized 38 minute duration
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Gary:

↳ tim abdellah @9:45
What album?!?
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Gary:

Kids! Parents! Guardians! Stick around after this mess for Sam Segal's always-already "in sync" If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "And a Third Found Herself on a Horse That Could Not Climb" wfmu.org...
  9:52pm
Andrew:

For an article on "ana bakrah israel," https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/singing-the-pulse-of-the-egyptianarab-street-shaaban-abd-alrahim-and-the-geopoppolitics-of-fast-food/28A794105B7C50BED14C77437A4FD799
  9:53pm
Andrew:

Was fun listening with yall! Awesome playlist, Gary!
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tim abdellah:

↳ Gary @9:48
New album by the Minus 5 "Oar On, Penelope". There was a great piece on bandleader Scott McCaughey on Bandcamp yesterday. daily.bandcamp.com...
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Gary:

Thanks for all the 411, Andrew!
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Gary:

I'll check it out, Tim, thanks!
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Steve Harsh:

↳ Andrew @9:52
Thanks for sharing, not loving what I found -
Veteran Egyptian shaabi singer Shaaban Abd al-Rahim recently attained superstar status as the ‘interpreter of the pulse of the Egyptian-Arab street’ due to a pop hit proclaiming his hatred for Israel.
Avatar 9:58pm
tim abdellah:

This 3 hours of sha'abi was so varied. Super enjoyable!! Thx Gary
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slugluv1313:

greetings, Gary! Bodega Cats!
been listening, but unfortunately away from the comments -- what a fantastic show!!! thanks so much!!! and looking forward to next week's MENA May show :)
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Gary:

Steve and Slugluv, hello! And thanks everyone!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Gary!
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WR:

Thank you! Gary!
  10:13pm
Thon Bloke:

Thank you Gary!
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