Habibi Funk

"It's music from the late-'70s to the mid-'80s where musicians from the Arab world tried to bring together musical influences from their regions with influences from the outside and created this hybrid sound. So you've got this distinctive Arabic experience through the language and certain sounds but you'll also get a funk guitar lick that you recognize from elsewhere."

- Jannis Stürtz, dj, vinylsamler og pladeskabsdirektør, til Noisey, om opsamlingen ’Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World’, der udkom i begyndelsen af december.

Og ja, de energiske og til tider fuldstændig vanvittige takes på funk, soul etc. fra lande som Marokko, Algeriet, Tunesien, Egypten, Sudan og Libanon, har bjertaget mig så meget her i julemåneden, at jeg til tider næsten ikke har vidst, hvor jeg skulle gøre af mig selv.