Jamal Sul has been making Irish Arabic electronic music as Moving Still since 2016. His productions link his Arabic heritage, with his love of synthesizers, dance music and buzzy bangers.
Moving Still’s music is unique in how it brings together styles of music from the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa) with European and American club genres like Italo, electro, acid, breakbeats, house and more.
Jamal’s project has been in the ascendancy with releases on Cooking with Palms Trax, Orange Tree Edits, Dar Disku and his latest Close To The Shams EP on the Bordello A Parigi label.
His 2022 Boiler Room set from London is an all-timer for me, and his Ouddy Bangers series has seen him put a club edit spin on pop, disco and dance classics from Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Kuwait.
I talk to Jamal about all of it: his big gigs, productions, influences, heritage and how Ireland has been slow to catch up on Moving Still until recently. And he picks a selection of songs that has inspired his music (listed below).
Listen to the episode here:
Up next on the DJ front for Moving Still is the latest edition of Klub Sukar at Yamamori Tengu on Saturday April 19th.
Tracks played:
- Moving Still – Al Disco Haram
- Cheick Madani – Laya Habibi
- Ragheb Alama – El hob al Kabir
- Marvellous Melodicos – sing oh (zagalo mix)
- Moving Still -La Titasil Feeya
- Haruomi Hosono – Laugh Gas
- Omar Souleyman – Warni Warni
- Moving Still – Bang of Luban
- Ahmed Fakroun – Soleil Soleil
- Ihsan Al Munzer – Jamilah
- Ettab – Ghorba Wa Moghtaribin (Exile and Exiled)
- Chaba Yamina – Sidi Mansour (Moving Still Edit)
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