47Soul’s Shamstep EP ignited their Electro-Arabic Dabke revolution in 2015. Now it returns with remixes from some of the Arab world’s most forward-thinking producers-Molotof, Toumba, and Hello Psychaleppo-bridging past and future.
47Soul single-handedly sowed the seeds of the Shamstep genre. The Palestinian musical collective formed in Jordan in 2013 with Tareq Abu Kwaik, Ramzy Suleiman, Walaa Sbait and Hamza Arnaout taking influence from hip-hop, electronica, and R&B and melding it with the sounds of Dabke, a traditional folk dance, and other Shaa’bi roots music from the Levantine region.
Shamstep, their groundbreaking debut EP released in 2015, not only helped coin the genre’s name but also brought a new audience…