1. Cee El Assaad – Sacred Chant (Original Mix) – Ready Mix Records
Cee just keeps blowing my mind with his cutting edge productions ! Sacred is an absolute beauty, amazing ethnic arabic vocal with a haunting afro house rhythm & beautiful oriental oud melody ! Keep playing this in my sets and works like a charm.
2. Floyd Lavine–Masala (Pablo Fierro Remix) – Rise Music
Loved Pablo Fierro’s take on Floyd’s Masala, the African ethnic vocals and melodic whistle that keeps coming back gives so much good energy when playing the track, definitely will keep playing this beauty over and over.
3. Boddhi Satva feat. Maalem Hammam – Zid Lmel (Fnx Remix) – Offering Recordings
Brilliant Gnawa twist from Morocco, fantastic remix by Moroccan producer FNX.
4. Shakedown – At Night (Peggy Gou’s Acid Journey Remix) – Defected Records
Crushing seven-minute bomb, with a rolling acid rhythm, saturated synths, crazy breakdowns and irresistible after-hours charm. Peggy never dissapoints.
5. Jovan Vucetic – Bloom (Cee El Assaad & Sound of Mint Remix) – Griffintown Records
It was an absolute pleasure to work on the remix with Cee El Assaad one of the most brilliant Afro House producers in world and master percussionist / film music composer Joel Pellegrini 1/2 of Sound of Mint, who plays the addictive African Balafon melodies recorded on the track! Would definitely collaborate again my eyes closed’.
6. Mr. ID, Faycal Azizi – Layalina (West & Hill Tribal Remix) – Offering Recordings
Pure stunner remix from West & Hill on the superb Layalina from Moroccan Afro House producer Mr. ID, those synths on the track gives it so much drive!
7. Chelsea Como, Jacko, Shino Blackk – TTYD (Things that you do) (Blackkdraft Remix) – TR Records
Addictive percussive rhyhtm remix by Blackkdraft and such a graceful vocal from Chelsea Como!
8. Christos Fourkis – Beats & Djembe (Mark Francis Organ Remix) – Retrolounge Records
Splendid djembe percussions with such masterful organ melodies played by Mark Francis, this is one of the best Afro-housy tracks I’ve heard in years.
9. Santiago Garcia – Changalia – Sudam Recordings
The melody in this tracks gives me chills down my spine, we played during a live performance on a rooftop in Marrakech in an intimate setting where a Gnawa musician improvised on the track and it created an unforgettable memory for us & the crowd that attended the show.
10. Baaba Maal – Fulani Rock (Henrik Schwarz Remix) – Palm Recordings
‘Berlin Meets Senegal’s Baaba Maal’s ”Fulani Rock” with a dazzling Henrik Schwarz’ Remix. This has become an absolute classic for us & we loved improvising on this one during our last live performance on a beautiful rooftop in Casablanca, Morocco – https://youtu.be/8LpdvFeekeY @ 24min 28.
Jovan Vucetic ‘Feelz EP’ (incl. Cee ElAssaad & Sound Of Mint remix and Killed Kassette) will be released on July 23rd 2018 on Griffintown Records.
