Habibi Funk | Preserving & Exposing Lesser-Known Music From the Arab World
In this conversation, we talked to Jannis Stürtz about his record label “Habibi Funk”. Based in Berlin, Habibi Funk is dedicated to music from the Arabic-speaking world and aims to re-release a style of music that historically never existed as a musical genre.
Jannis Stürtz, the founder of "Habibi Funk", has developed a name around his work of acquiring rare singles and artists that shaped the sound of the '50s, '60s and '70s in the MENA region. His trips take him to dusty stores from Morocco to Egypt, Lebanon to Sudan, on a mission to reinvigorate rare old vinyl records and tapes, and present these pieces to the world on his label, Habibi Funk.
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