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CairoScene
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Your Eid Guide to Parties Across Egypt
Whether you're north, south, or in the city, we've brewed up a list of all the hottest happenings during Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha is less than a week away, and everyone is gearing up to celebrate. Whether you're craving nightlife thrills or the electric energy of a live concert, this year's lineup of events has something for everyone looking to make the most of the long holiday. From beachside grooves by the Red Sea to live concerts and DJ nights across Cairo, we've rounded up the hottest Eid parties happening around the country… Jingo: Fulltone, Ziad Mousa & Karim Hafez 📍 The Warehouse, El Gouna A night of tribal Afro-house awaits at Jingo's upcoming Eid gig, with Ziad Moussa, Karim Hafez, and Fulltone bringing the beats to keep you dancing deep into the night. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 2,000 via TicketEgypt Venflare. '50 Years of AC/DC – Anniversary Concert' ft. Dave Evans 📍 Mazeej Platform, Somabay Rock legend Dave Evans, AC/DC's original frontman, is hitting Somabay for a historic concert—his first in the Middle East! Expect early hits like 'HighWay to Hell' and 'T.N.T.'. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 1,500 via Tazkarti. Orijins: The Element, Kasia, Toto Chiavetta, Vomee, Shah & Nour Oden 📍 Tolip Hotel, New Administrative Capital 🕒 Fri June 6th | 7PM–6AM International acts join local names in a high-energy night of electronic music hosted by Orijins Fam. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 1,500–EGP 4,000 via TechnoAndChill. 'Soul Sounds – Eid al-Adha Edition' ft. Hisham Abbas, Jadal & More A three-day event with performances by Jadal, Hisham Abbas, Mobbz, AK, Djunkie, Bebo and others. 🎟️ Tickets via La Hacienda's Instagram (link in bio). Wust El Balad & Black Theama 📍 Cairo Jazz Club 610, Sheikh Zayed Soulful sounds in the city with two legendary Egyptian bands. 🎟️ Tickets via Cairo Jazz Club's website. 'Lumen' by CJC Cairo Jazz Club debuts its new concept featuring Oscar & The Wolf, Klangphonics, Dirty Backseat, RootZadelics and more. 🎟️ Tickets from EGP 1,200 via TicketsMarche. Funkside: Johannes Albert, Misty, Tata & F-Spins Funkside returns with Berlin-based Johannes Albert and local DJs. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 1,500 via CollardTickets. Makadi Heights Music Festival: Second Edition 📍 The Haus, Makadi Heights Headliners include Cairokee, Al Massrieen, Marwan Moussa, and Afroto. Festival includes art, food, and family activities. 🎟️ Tickets via TicketsMarche. Whispers: Guaved, Marz, Bou-D & Arshad Swiss DJ Guaved headlines this Afrohouse night by the Red Sea. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 1,000 via CollardTickets. Subculture: Awen, A. Salah B2B Junior, Dou, Hey-D, Cox & Joe Aiaad 📍 Ohana Beach House, New Alamein 🕒 Sun June 8th | 7PM–7AM A 12-hour marathon of techno and Afrohouse music featuring Awen and local talent. 🎟️ Tickets: EGP 1,500–EGP 3,000 via CollardTickets. CJC: 'Arkade' ft. AK the DJ 📍 Sobar Rooftop, Somabay Cairo Jazz Club presents a rooftop groove session featuring AK the DJ. 🎟️ Tickets via Cairo Jazz Club's website.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
7 Things We Learned From Talking to EDC Las Vegas 2025 Performers
Every year, over half a million music fans flock to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for three nights to dance under neon lights to tunes spanning almost every imaginable dance music subgenre. While Electric Daisy Carnival just wrapped its 29th year, it somehow still finds ways to reinvent itself and grow — not just grow in crowd size, but in cultural and physical reach. Just before opening the gates to the festival on May 16, the event's producer Insomniac invited select guests to Hotel EDC at the Virgin Hotel to celebrate their latest international expansion. Partygoers celebrated with Gorgon City to highlight Insomniac's next international destination, Medellín, where EDC Colombia will launch in October 2026. More from Billboard Roger Nichols, Grammy-Nominated Co-Writer of 'We've Only Just Begun,' Dies at 84 Julión Álvarez Postpones Stadium Show in Texas After Not Being Able to Enter the U.S. Jamie Foxx Shuts Down Conspiracy Theory That Diddy Tried to Kill Him Inside the festival, we saw more representation on the lineup via the Ubutu stage, which created a dedicated space for Afro-house for the first time in the festival's 29-year run. This year the fest also added a dinner theater activation where guests were treated to a cocktail hour with an acrobatic showcase, followed by dinner featuring a dance troupe and ending with dessert and live singing. With the festival approaching its 30th year, Billboard spoke to a handful of DJs, from legendary headliners to this year's first-timers, to hear from their perspective on how EDC continues to grow and how they personally make each year better than the last. Here are seven takeaways from their words of wisdom. Tiësto is without a doubt one of the biggest names in dance music. He's played EDC every year since the festival moved from California to Las Vegas in 2011. You would think he's turned every possible stone the fest has to offer, but this year, the legend was excited to play Circuit Grounds, a fan-favorite stage, for the first time. Circuit Grounds offers more screens to visually bring the audience into new and unexpected tracks like Tiësto's upcoming collaboration with Sexyy Red on the F1 soundtrack, 'OMG!' Backstage the artist rhetorically asked us 'Who would have thought Tiësto would have collabed with Sexyy Red?… No one. Absolutely no one. And it's an amazing track.' Also bringing the unexpected this year was EDM titan Kaskade. He brought his b2b act with Alison Wonderland to the Cosmic Meadow stage after the artists debuted as a duo at EDC Orlando last year. This time around, they expanded their sound to include some of Wonderland's signature trap tunes. 'For me, it's just about playing stuff we love and trying to figure out that bridge in between,' Kaskade told us. 'We've only played a handful of shows so we're still discovering that as we play out more together.' When you've played EDC for as long as Tiësto and Kaskade, who's performed at the festival for two decades, you have to continue making changes to your solo sets. Tiësto reserved a special set for the mainstage, closing out the three-day festival with a set that saw a return to his trance roots. Rising German producer Marlon Hoffstadt introduced 'The Godfather of Trance' before his In Search of Sunrise Set, named after his legendary 1999 compilation album. Tiësto told us the time was finally right for such a moment, saying 'I reconnected with the sound I started with back in the day, and I feel like it's a full circle moment. When [Insomniac Events founder] Pasquale [Rotella] asked me 'Will you do a sunrise set?' and I thought 'Yeah, the time is right now.'' For Kaskade, his solo set was sprinkled with pieces of his decades-old hits. Many DJs' styles evolve over time, and Kaskade says he still struggles trying to resurface his former fan-favorites but admits, 'People online will like this. There's sometimes when there's somebody hitting me up like 'You haven't played this song in 10 years!' and I'm like 'Oh yeah. That is a good song. I should remember to bring that out.'' So, if you're waiting for more tracks from his 2008 album Strobelite Seduction to make it into his next set, like us, keep posting. The electric sky still shines just as bright, if not brighter, almost 30 years later. Alison Wonderland is still amazed at the impact that EDC has had on her and her friends after playing the festival 10 years later. She reflected on her first time playing at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and crying, telling the audience 'I started in my bedroom and now I'm here.' A decade later, she's still humbled by her EDC experience saying that she can't believe she is sharing the stage with Kaskade. But there's nothing that could prevent her from taking the stage at the Electric Daisy Carnival. 'In fact, I actually love EDC so much that at 9 months pregnant I played main stage,' she said of this set that happened in 2023. With over 500,000 people attending the festival every year, it's the perfect opportunity for an artist to not only reach their fans but also expose themselves to a group of people who have potentially never heard their sound. Just ask Ben Nicky. We caught up with the British producer 10 minutes after his first set at Kinetic Field on Saturday night before he made his way to Neon Garden for a b2b set with Maddix. Walking into his trailer, he was already on his computer working on a track because he's aware of how every set offers its own opportunities. 'I'm like a DJ's DJ,' he said. 'I'm always changing something. Mainstage you've got your big fanbase there, but you've got another fifty to sixty thousand people who might not know you or be more into commercial stuff. So, you have to tailor and play more well-known vocals. Whereas in the trance tent, I can get away with more dark and underground stuff.' Ben meticulously tweaks every element to fit the crowd he's trying to appeal to, and the crowd at EDC is some of the most knowledgeable when it comes to dance music. Brazilian star Alok told Billboard that means you can't phone it in. 'I feel like people here each year are more and more educated,' he said, 'so, it's not easy to please them. So you really have to bring stuff that makes sense and not obvious.' He knows a thing or two about keeping an audience on their toes. He just had a buzzed-about Coachella performance, for which he hired dancers with two-tone arms to create eye-catching live visuals. While some DJs meticulously plan their sets, others prefer to 'just rip it' in the words of Tape B. He started playing EDC in Orlando while doing his undergrad in Florida. Now that he's worked his way up to EDC Las Vegas, he attended a programming meeting for the first time ahead of his solo set on Friday. When it came to his joint set with dubstep super DJ, Crankdat, they planned to start their set with their unreleased collab but keep it loose otherwise. He told Billboard about the planning that went into the set saying, 'Met up with Crankdat. Worked on our back-to-back for a little bit. Got songs kinda together. We're mainly freestyling it tonight. So, it's going to be very interesting, but very fun.' One of the most exciting aspects of attending EDC Las Vegas is the massive amount of unreleased music you'll hear. REZZ said she was most excited to give fans a taste of what direction she's taking her project next. 'I'm super excited for this year. I'm playing like, seven new songs, more than half of which I've never played before.' Check TikTok to see fans' live reactions to some of this new music. It's become customary for DJs to head to Las Vegas with a ton of unreleased music. Riot Ten used it as a chance to treat his most dedicated fans to an early listen of his new album, Requiem For a Riot, before it drops in a week. Other artists may opt to test out some tracks they're workshopping to see how the crowd reacts, like DJ Snake who played his upcoming song 'Paradise' for the audience at AYU dayclub, not once, but twice, to make sure it went off every time. With this year's addition of the Ubutu stage, Afro-house had a major presence at the festival for the first time. Francis Mercier noted that EDC is 'the home to different types of music from hip-hop to dubstep to house to now Afro house. It's a place where you can hear all different types of music.' This new stage opened the door for artists like Karaba, who hails from Montreal, Canada, to play a stage at EDC Las Vegas for the first time. Making the most of these opportunities is key, according to Morten. His first time playing the fest was in 2016 when he thought no one would see him spinning at one of the art cars. When he took the stage he was surprised by the energy. 'It doesn't matter what stage you're at, the party and the crowd is incredible.' Since then, he's played solo sets, b2b with David Guetta and this year played Kinetic Field with Artbat. If you really want to see how quickly you can ascend to greatness, you just have to look at Cloonee's trajectory. He admitted that EDC wasn't really a festival you thought about as someone who grew up in England. After living in the States for a few months, he found himself nervously playing the Stereo Bloom festival back in 2022. This year he played Circuit Grounds right after Tiësto,z who said he wasn't going to play Cloonee's hit song 'Stephanie' with InntRaw and Young M.A because it would be this year's most played song and you don't play the most played song before its creator takes the stage. Meanwhile, the advice Cloonee would give himself before playing Stereo Bloom in 2022 is, 'Calm down because you've got bigger ones to do.' Catch more of Billboard's EDC Las Vegas coverage on Billboard's Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Channels. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
IOL News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Amapiano love: how a solo female traveller was inspired by music to explore South Africa
In an era where travel and music intertwine more than ever, the allure of music tourism is captivating a growing number of globetrotters. Among them is American solo female traveller and content creator Mimi Pinkjested, whose journey to South Africa was fuelled by the euphoric rhythms of Amapiano and Afro-house music. This genre, synonymous with South Africa's vibrant musical culture, has not only influenced her travel decisions but also transformed her experience while exploring the rainbow nation. Pinkjested took to TikTok to share her compelling story of why she ventured to Mzansi, revealing how Amapiano became the heartbeat of her adventure. 'I will say that Amapiano is what really pushed me to visit the country. There is just something about Amapiano, Afro-house, and South African music altogether that just makes me feel something,' she states, reflecting on the emotional pull of the music and its ability to inspire travel. Her journey began after attending the Afro Nation Music Festival, where the infectious beats of Amapiano captivated her so intensely that she decided to extend her stay in South Africa beyond the originally planned two weeks. Ultimately, she spent more than a month traversing the diverse landscapes of the country, journeying through political metropolises like Johannesburg and the scenic vistas of Cape Town.
TimesLIVE
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- TimesLIVE
Shimza earns an international club residency
International acclaimed Shimza earns himself a residency slot. Shimza (real name Ashley Raphala) has made the transition from an aspirant industry youngblood to a leading light of the global Afro-house scene at almost breakneck speed. The Thembisa-born has secured prestigious residency at iconic Club Chinois in Ibiza. For years Shimza has echoed across the shores of Ibiza as a globally recognised Afro-house maestro. He'll begin playing on the island in August. From the vibrant streets of Thembisa, South Africa — where his musical journey began by playing at local parties and hosting his own shows — to headlining international festivals and clubs, Shimza's story is a testament to resilience, vision and raw talent. Now, his impressive rise continues as he joins a select group of global tastemakers invited to command the decks at Club Chinois. Known as a sanctuary for the bold, the bohemian, the dreamers, and the seekers, Chinois is more than just a venue — it is a living, breathing homage to the timeless allure of the dance floor. Fusing music, art, culture and creativity in immersive, unforgettable nights, the club has hosted the most celebrated names in electronic music. 'This residency is not just for me — it's for everyone who comes from where I come from. Thembisa shaped my sound, my hustle and my identity. From backyard sets to the global stage, I carry that spirit with me. Club Chinois represents the pinnacle of global club culture, and to be part of it is a dream realised. This is proof that no place is too far when music is your compass,' he said. 'The residency marks a defining moment in my career, solidifying my position as one of the foremost ambassadors of Afro-house music on the world stage. My sets — deep, soulful and steeped in cultural storytelling — having earned me a loyal global following and acclaim from some of the industry's most respected figures,' said Shimza.
What's On
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- What's On
Agents Of Time, AMÉMÉ & more are performing in Dubai this weekend
Big weekend loading… If you're in the mood to dance this weekend, this is the one. Zamna's landing in Ushuaïa Dubai Harbour Experience this Friday, May 9, with a massive lineup that speaks for itself – Agents Of Time , AMÉMÉ , Ben Böhmer , and Joezi. Zamna Zamna, the core crew behind Tulum's famous jungle parties. Expect raw, organic, tribal beats that bring the spirit of the Mexican jungle to Dubai Harbour – think deep rhythms, earthy beats, and that underground energy that keeps things moving till late. The Italian duo known for their deep, melodic techno and live sets that always keep things unpredictable. They've played everything from Afterlife shows to fabric London. They're also the founders of their own label, Obscura , and are known for pushing their sound into darker, moodier territory. AMÉMÉ Bringing Afro-house grooves with tribal percussion and a lot of soul. Born in Benin and now based in Brooklyn, he's a regular at Ibiza's hottest parties. He runs the One Tribe label and movement, focused on global sounds and unity through music. Ben Böhmer If you've ever needed a soundtrack for a sunrise set, this is your guy. German, melodic, and cinematic – his tracks flow like a journey. He's played iconic spots like Cercle (over Cappadocia!) and his debut album Breathing topped charts worldwide. Joezi French-Moroccan deep house with North African influences. His track Amanye was a global underground hit. He's known for weaving in tribal vocals and smooth, rolling basslines that feel both fresh and timeless. Also read Damian Lazarus is playing a set at Be Beach Dubai next weekend KYGO is bringing his world tour to Dubai this May Ushuaïa Dubai Harbour Experience, Dubai Marina, 6pm, Friday, May 9, tickets starting at Dhs295 @ushuaiadubai Images: Instagram > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in
