Having first cut her teeth playing for friends at London house parties before graduating to the equally intimate confines of speakeasies and small clubs, the journey of Jordanian DJ, Maya, has led her to be a proponent of underground genres and subgenres.
While she maintains her base in the English capital, Maya’s musical soul is still very much back home, as she channels her global influences into Jordan’s own burgeoning electronic music scene. This dedication extends to her role as co-founder of naqd, a popular Amman-based party series born from the collective vision of three friends. With a shared commitment to building community, naqd has become celebrated for fostering an atmosphere of intimacy and radical inclusivity within the city's nightlife.
For her exclusive set for the latest episode of SceneNoise’s long-running Select series, Maya starts off with a focused energy that showcases breakbeat-heavy electro, characterised by nostalgic 90s and early-2000s breaks and layered with cosmic synthesisers. It then shifts subtly, moving into a section defined by deeper, percussion-driven sounds, before finally dissolving into the stripped-back, hypnotic rhythm of minimal house. Standout tracks in this narrative-driven sonic journey include Fantastic Man's 'I Love You Bab', Boom Generation's 'Somefunkydrum', Conan’s 'Liga (Nesta Remix)', and Neighbour’s 'Ordinary Unusual’, offering a snapshot of Maya's curatorial vision.
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Having first cut her teeth playing for friends at London house parties before graduating to the equally intimate confines of speakeasies and small clubs, the journey of Jordanian DJ, Maya, has led her to be a proponent of underground genres and subgenres.
While she maintains her base in the English capital, Maya’s musical soul is still very much back home, as she channels her global influences into Jordan’s own burgeoning electronic music scene. This dedication extends to her role as co-founder of naqd, a popular Amman-based party series born from the collective vision of three friends. With a shared commitment to building community, naqd has become celebrated for fostering an atmosphere of intimacy and radical inclusivity within the city's nightlife.
For her exclusive set for the latest episode of SceneNoise’s long-running Select series, Maya starts off with a focused energy that showcases breakbeat-heavy electro, characterised by nostalgic 90s and early-2000s breaks and layered with cosmic synthesisers. It then shifts subtly, moving into a section defined by deeper, percussion-driven sounds, before finally dissolving into the stripped-back, hypnotic rhythm of minimal house. Standout tracks in this narrative-driven sonic journey include Fantastic Man's 'I Love You Bab', Boom Generation's 'Somefunkydrum', Conan’s 'Liga (Nesta Remix)', and Neighbour’s 'Ordinary Unusual’, offering a snapshot of Maya's curatorial vision.
Musician, craftswomen, engineer - the latest DJ to step into the Select spotlight wears many hats. Salma Baset by day, DJ Khorda by night, the Cairo-based spinner takes us on a sonic ride that travels through everything from industrial club music to glitchy electroacoustic compositions, stopping off at the kind of genre-defying sounds that Khorda credits with indirectly inspiring her to make her own music.
The set features music by the likes of Aylu, Sega Bodega, Sharar and Mika Oki, tracks that come together to give us a window into a unique musical mind whose selections offer her catharsis amidst chaos. Check out the full set.
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Having first cut her teeth playing for friends at London house parties before graduating to the equally intimate confines of speakeasies and small clubs, the journey of Jordanian DJ, Maya, has led her to be a proponent of underground genres and subgenres.
While she maintains her base in the English capital, Maya’s musical soul is still very much back home, as she channels her global influences into Jordan’s own burgeoning electronic music scene. This dedication extends to her role as co-founder of naqd, a popular Amman-based party series born from the collective vision of three friends. With a shared commitment to building community, naqd has become celebrated for fostering an atmosphere of intimacy and radical inclusivity within the city's nightlife.
For her exclusive set for the latest episode of SceneNoise’s long-running Select series, Maya starts off with a focused energy that showcases breakbeat-heavy electro, characterised by nostalgic 90s and early-2000s breaks and layered with cosmic synthesisers. It then shifts subtly, moving into a section defined by deeper, percussion-driven sounds, before finally dissolving into the stripped-back, hypnotic rhythm of minimal house. Standout tracks in this narrative-driven sonic journey include Fantastic Man's 'I Love You Bab', Boom Generation's 'Somefunkydrum', Conan’s 'Liga (Nesta Remix)', and Neighbour’s 'Ordinary Unusual’, offering a snapshot of Maya's curatorial vision.
