Parisian pair Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho, better known to most of us as Acid Arab, started working together in 2012. Having met with, and been inspired by, countless artists from the Middle East ...

European DJs, samplers, and beat-based experimentalists looking to the Middle East for inspiration is nothing new. Perhaps it’s the region’s deep understanding of relentless, trance-inducing throb.

Paris collective Acid Arab have made a name for themselves by blending techno and house influences with the music of North Africa, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, and other Eastern cultures. They’ve recently ...

“We are fascinated by eastern music and its codes, such as complex rhythmic structures (binary and ternary superimposing upon each other), which drive dancers to trance just like acid house does. We’d ...