Ruptured

Hailing from Beirut, Lebanon, Sary Moussa aka RadioKVM is a self-taught electronic musician. Moussa grew up listening to rock and jazz, before diving into electronica. He started crafting his own melodies under the moniker RadioKVM in 2008. He collaborated closely with Lebanese producer Okydoky, organizing live gigs and releasing a batch of demos; the two men became notorious on the live circuit of Beirut's electronic scene.

In later years, Moussa collaborated with Lebanese electronic producers Munma, Jad Atoui, and Liliane Chlela, releasing both remixes and original compositions for label compilations; he has also composed music for theatre and dance performances, as well as soundtracks for short films.

One of the pioneers of Beirut's rock scene, Scrambled Eggs stand tall with Happy Together Filthy Forever, recorded in the midst of Israel's war on Lebanon, in the summer of 2006.

This 5-track album (plus one electronica remix) finds them at their fiercest and most uncompromising, delivering a scorching selection of punk nuggets.

Tracklisting:
1. Russian Roulette
2. Bleeding Nun
3. Johnny Anti-Christ
4. Bad Moon Rise
5. 1984 (Live)
6. Bleeding Nun (Munma Remix)

Limited edition, rare pressing CD, with a fold-out sleeve that becomes a lyrics sheet.

Scrambled Eggs' 11th release contains tracks recorded between 2006 and 2009.

These songs revisit the band's punk aesthetic, from the ferocious Nirvana-inspired That Fancy Behavior to the more temperate Let It Go, from the soundtrack to Lebanese feature film Je Veux Voir.
 
Tracklisting:
1. The Party
2. See You In Beirut
3. Let It Go (Extended Take)
4. Ms. June
5. Don't Come Knocking
6. Murder '06
7. That Fancy Behaviour
8. We're Out Setting Buildings To Flame
9. Murder '09

The Bunny Tylers is a duo from Lebanon whose core consists of two prominent musicians from the Beirut scene: singer-songwriter and guitarist Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta's Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and multi-instrumentalist and producer Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under the Carpet, Safar).

The group is a natural amalgamation of the prolific career of the two long-time collaborators, fusing Haber's songwriting sensibility with Tabbal's technical and instrumental know-how and tying musical loose ends from both musicians'past work.

Initially formed to score Nadim Tabet and Karine Wehbe's video essay 'Summer '91', they continued working in film scoring, art installations and their own releases.

Their 2^nd album 'Chance Meetings', recorded with the help of Benoit de Villeneuve in Paris, sets Haber's bleak songs and sorrowful voice against a backdrop of beats and textures spawned from the pair's post-punk, ambient and drone roots.

The result is a drug-hazy polaroid of murder mysteries and misspent youth, the last remnants of a Film Noir set in abandoned Lebanese coastal resorts.

The album is due for release in January 2018 by Lebanese label Ruptured and Cargo Records.

THE IMAGINARY SOUNDSCAPES is the electronic version of a meeting between STÉPHANE RIVES, who following his early 2010 solo project, Islets of Memories, uses re-worked samples from his discography, mixed with recordings from his daily life and sound environment and FRÉDÉRIC NOGRAY, who returns to his early research on feedback, here caused and moderated in real time by three effects pedals, oscillating between minimalism and psychedelia.

A WAY OUT BY KNOWING SMILE is the first recorded collaboration between Rives and Nogray.
 
Tracklisting:
1. A Way Out by Knowing Smile (Low)
2. A Way Out by Knowing Smile (High)

Under The Carpet is a musical trio based in Beirut, formed in 2011 by Swiss musician Paed Conca, French musician Stéphane Rives, and Lebanese musician Fadi Tabbal.

Paed Conca is an experienced and seasoned musician in the fields of experimental music, improvised music and electronica. He has also written music for theatre, dance, film productions and small ensembles, and has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, Japan and Lebanon, with a vast array of international musicians, for the past 20 years.

Stéphane Rives comes from the world of free jazz and improvised music, and has contributed on a regular basis to Lebanon's Festival of improvised music, Irtijal, since its inception in the year 2001. He has written music for theatre, dance and film, and has toured extensively in Europe.
Fadi Tabbal is one of the most active musicians in Beirut's alternative pop & rock scene, as a member of several groups and projects, and as the owner and sound engineer of the renowned Tunefork Recording Studios.

At the essence of UTC is the idea of melody, of a defined melodic line, upon which the three musicians are free to improvise at will, yet always returning to this initial melodic idea, building upon it, enriching it with successive layers of sound, transforming it into one or a series of compositions. The initial starting point is a 'pop' idea, slowly but surely deconstructed, abstracted, in order to be rebuilt along lines of playing and communication that befit the three musicians' specific idioms. Tabbal utilizes the electric guitar as his main instrument, and uses it along a decidedly 'western' approach, favoring blues and rock-derived inflections. He also relies on an iPad to create layers of rhythm and electronic percussion. Rives is an astonishingly skilled saxophone player, and relies on various sounds coaxed from his instrument and transformed electronically through his laptop.

Conca uses both an electric bass and a clarinet to enrich UTC's tapestry. His bottom-heavy lines and considerable experience provide impetus and direction to the music, driving it forward with ease and momentum, reminiscent at times of his fine work with PRAED, his duo with Lebanese acoustic bass player Raed Yassin. While the music created by UTC hints at different musical traditions, owing as much to western rock forms (Tabbal's guitar), European improvisation (Rives's treated saxophone and electronics) and experimentation (Conca's bass and clarinet-playing), the end result feels cohesive, dynamic, rich in layers and meanings, and overall respectful of its varying origins.

UTC is an important project, as it bridges the gap between different musical traditions; it puts forward music strategies designed for a modern age of improvisation, informed entirely by pre-existing musical idioms and an overreaching instinct for melody
 
Tracklisting:
1 A New Hope For Medical Treatment
2 There's No Picture Of The Band
3 Weird Sounds From The Kitchen
4 Water People
5 Motherboard
6 Procedures Concerning The Foreigners
7 Bourgeois Corporation
8 There's No One In The Accounting Dept.
9 Sizes Performance And Capacity
10 Twinkle Twinkle (Part 1)
11 Twinkle Twinkle (Part 2)
12 You're Invited But Your Friend Isn't
13 Get Me A Pack
14 How Much Can You Fit On A Floppy
15 Footnote In Your History (Part 1)
16 Footnote In Your History (Part 2)
17 Footnote In Your History (Part 3)
18 Radio Kongo
19 Late Night Tales
20 Rock Bottom
21 The Days Of The Minitel Are Over

Ziad Nawfal's eclectic music tastes and his deep knowledge of a wide array of musical genres have made him one of the best DJ's in town for over 2 decades now, and his name has been tied to the most mythical underground places of post-war Beirut. His radio programs on Beirut's governmental radio station, Radio Liban, are also a reference for a whole generation of young alternative music lovers.

These shows, as well as numerous other professional activities related to music '? from working in Beirut's sole alternative record store, La CD-Theque, to writing reviews for all new releases of Beirut Incognito's collection, as well as for local and foreign magazines, have led to his extensive involvement with the local music scene.

He often acts as a manager, producer, or event organizer for alternative rock, experimental and electronic music artists and bands from the Lebanese scene. Following in the footsteps of one of his mentors, the BBC's famed radio host John Peel, Ziad Nawfal presents 'The Ruptured Sessions, volume 1': the first CD to be recorded live in the studios of Radio Lebanon, during his 'Ruptures' show.

The sessions were recorded in the studios of Radio Lebanon over a period of eight months, between June 2008 and February 2009. There was initially no actual intent for the sessions to be released onto CD format, which explains the lo-fi quality of some of the final tracks.

Artists came to the studio to present some of their favorite musical selections, with an emphasis on their own artistic output, and were eventually invited to grab their guitar and perform a number of songs, live on the spot. The best tracks from these impromptu sessions were then carefully selected, mixed and mastered by Tunefork Studio's (one of Beirut's most prestigious recording studios, for alternative-minded musicians) master-of-ceremony Fadi Tabbal, in collaboration with Ziad Nawfal.

The resulting CD features exclusive music by Nadine Khouri, Charbel Haber (the lead singer from punk-rock band Scrambled Eggs, caught in rare acoustic flight), Youmna Saba, Cristobal (aka Christophe Katrib), and The Incompetents. By Karma Tohmé. 
 
Tracklisting:
1. All This Violence by Nadine Khoury
2. Building A Nest by Charbel Haber
3. Bullets Gently Flying Over My Head by The Incompetents
4. As I Walk by Cristobal
5. Tehfi by Youmna Saba
6. It Seems You Had It All Figured Out by Charbel Haber
7. Stripped by The Incompetents
8. Miss June by Charbel Haber
9. Urinal Blues 2 (The Drunken Take) by The Incompetents
10. Untitled by The Incompetents

The Ruptured Sessions is a series of live recordings produced by Lebanese radio host Ziad Nawfal in the studios of Radio Lebanon.

The sessions take place during Nawfal's weekly program Ruptures, with musicians from Beirut's alternative scene and elsewhere.

The 4th volume of the Ruptured Sessions focuses on electronic music, and includes contributions from both local and international musicians, including Discipline, the Tashweesh Trio from Palestine, and an impressive medley from US breakcore producer Enduser, among others.

Tracklisting:
1. Untitled Sketch (For ' Beyrouth' / Western Mantra) by Discipline
2. Untitled by Tashweesh
3. I Am A Robot by OkyDoky
4. Ya Dam'at Al 'Ain by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
5. De Vous Je Me Détache by C-Drik
6. Explorer + Soft Integration by Munma
7. Untitled With Dan Meyer + 1/3 + 2/3 + Wisdom + Switch by Enduser