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Hip Hop Uknification: Rap Trio Arabian Knightz Debut Album Fights Censorship While Empowering Listeners

Repression has a way of stalling epiphanies, but to extinguish them is a nearly impossible feat. Such has been the case for Arabian Knightz, one of Egypt’s foremost and most talked about hip hop groups, and one of Aslan Media’s “Five Arab Music Artists to Watch in 2012.” After years of fighting censorship under both the Mubarak regime and Egypt’s current government, the group finally released its debut CD Uknighted State of Arabia on August 21, albeit underground, after the album was rejected for official distribution by Ministry authorities because of the tracks’ political material and social commentary.

Monday Mixtape: Tunes That Make You Go Act (A Special Ramadan Edition), Part III

Music hardly exists in a vacuum. Like an interconnected web, each tune, each track released to the world both came from somewhere and leads to something else. At Aslan Media, we recognize that very few albums come to us without influence, and it’s those artists that walked the road before who helped shape the styles and expressions of the music artists we profile in this website today.

Monday Mixtape: Tunes that Make You Go Act (A Special Ramadan Edition), Part II

Music hardly exists in a vacuum. Like an interconnected web, each tune, each track released to the world both came from somewhere and leads to something else. At Aslan Media, we recognize that very few albums come to us without influence, and it’s those artists that walked the road before who helped shape the styles and expressions of the music artists we profile in this website today.

Monday Mixtape: Tunes that Make You Go Act (A Special Ramadan Edition)

Music hardly exists in a vacuum. Like an interconnected web, each tune, each track released to the world came from somewhere and leads to something else. At Aslan Media, we recognize that very few albums come to us without influence, and it’s those artists who walked the road before that helped shape the styles and expressions of the music artists we profile today.

Orphan Factory: Dark, Lyrical and a Little Broken

What happens when you get folk rock legend Cat Stevens in a bar fight with post-punk band Joy Division? Besides a complete hypothetical — Cat-turned-Yusuf-Islam no longer drinks — somewhere out of the brawl is bound to spring a hybrid style of music that is both familiar and indefinable, in a space where “home” is bittersweet, haunted by memories that offer both comfort and the unknown.

Monday Mixtape: On the Aslan Media iPod

Music hardly exists in a vacuum. Like an interconnected web, each tune, each track released to the world both came from somewhere and leads to something else. At Aslan Media, we recognize that very few albums come to us without influence, and it’s those artists that walked the road before who helped shape the styles and expressions of the music artists we profile in this website today.

To show that music, in its purest form, is an expression that knows no physical, cultural, societal or economic boundaries, Aslan Media is beginning a new monthly series called Monday Mixtape, in which profiled artists on this site share with us the tracks that inspire and influence who and where they are as music artists. The genres covered by these playlists are limitless, as are the artists they include, which can include those from countries outside the Middle East that carry universal messages found in every region of the world.