Soufwax Record collector/DJ

01/02/2023

We’ve been waiting for this one a long while… finally a club night to spin some body & soul cuts
For the first edition of our , the crew will takeover .casablanca tomorrow for another all night long session🪩

02/09/2021

Just for the record... a few weeks ago I recorded a mix for my mates at .rec

A tad bit different than the mixes I usually put together... full breaks on this one 💣💣

Pump up the volume and make some room for dancing

Link in bio 📍

01/07/2021

Back on mix duty for the Atmosphère crew, full on breaksss for this one 💣

For this new episode of our Atmosphere mix series, we invited Marrakech based record collector Souf. Active member of the People's Choice Records crew, Souf has built an extensive vinyl collection thr

22/03/2021

Upcoming People's Choice - Record shop

10/11/2020

Tune in tomorrow on Radio Flouka at 7 PM CET time for the second edition of our monthly People's show curated by People's Choice - Record shop.

I'll be your host on this one for an hour of Brazilian grooves from the depths of my collection 🇧🇷

25/09/2020

If you want to listen to me talking about some of my most cherished Brazilian records, the 15th of Sambaià is now on Soundcloud.
Recorded live from People's Choice - Record shop, I'm on from 1h40 for 30 minutes of MPB, samba, boogies and much more..

Cheers to my mate DJ Hp76 for inviting me 9n this one and for putting together such a quality weekly show on Year Zero!!

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18/09/2020

Catch me tomorrow for a 4 hours set at your beloved People's Choice - Record shop.

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We're back again for another weekend of music at People's Choice - Record shop!!!
This time, we’ll be hosting Souf Record collector/DJ on Saturday. Active member of the People’s Choice crew, he will takeover a booth he knows too well to deliver a 4 hours set. Expect some Brazilian flavours, boogie gems and punchy house tracks.
On Saturday, Guedra Guedra - كدرة كدرة Casablanca based Dj and producer will get behind our decks for the first time. With his first EP "Son of Sun" released by On The Corner Records, he's made a widely acclaimed first take on tribal polyrythmic sounds focused on the dancefloor. For his 3 hours set, he has prepared a selection filled with cosmic sounds and tropical afro stompers.
DM to book your table on Instagram or Facebook.

24/03/2020

A little something to treat your ears during these dark times. This is the soundtrack to my confinement, you can tell I'm all over the place😅
Stay safe!

En cette période de confinement, la musique reste pour beaucoup d'entre nous le meilleur remède face à l'ennui... Alors que nous mettions la main sur une merveilleuse collection de disques quelques jo

08/01/2020

Back to L'Âne Vert yet again representing People's Choice - Record shop for a week-end of smooth beats and silky grooves. Add to that the unique set up of Tafedna bay and summer temperatures, what else could you possibly ask for?

🔸️This weekend at L’Ane Vert 🔸️
Disco Afro-beat DJ by the very talented “People’s choice Sound System” 🐪
The newly founded record shop in Casablanca are making their way to Tafedna bay to give us a weekend of smooth beats and groovy tunes to spread their love of music and share exclusive records.
10th – 13th January 2019

We still have some rooms available, so contact us quick to secure your place for the hottest concert in town!

People's Choice - Record shop
Photography by Steve :)

29/10/2019

Acid always fascinates me because it's such a delicate soundscape to master, too often misused in my opinion ...

For this new mix published by my mates at UBL, I've tried to bring together records from my collection that represent best what I like about the acid sound. Hope you enjoy it !!!

Recorded strictly on vinyl at People's Choice - Record shop (as always) using a Mastersounds Radius 4.

25/09/2019

I was blessed to spend more than 3 months in Brazil, blessed because it allowed me to go on a hunt for records in a country where music is literally everywhere. It's in the streets, in houses, in festivals, in bars, in squares, in parks, in hotels AND eventually in record shops. In exchange for a good part of the money I had saved up, I managed to bring some unique records home. Here is a bunch of them compiled in a mix. Welcome to a country where music is the ultimate way of escaping when everything seems to go wrong.
Recorded strictly on vinyl at People's Choice - Record shop using a Mastersounds Radius 4.

Dedico este mix pra o casal mais incrivel do mundo Vinicius e Fernanda, graças a voceis dos minha viagem em su pais ficara uma lembrança inesquecível

https://soundcloud.com/souflaz/brazilidades-on-wax

I was so lucky to spend more than 3 months in Brazil, lucky because it allowed me to go on a hunt for records in a country where music is everywhere. It's in the streets, in houses, in festivals, in b

15/08/2019

[ #16] Now that I’m back from a long and intense trip in Brazil, it’s with a certain nostalgia that I share with you another one of my favourite record from one of the country’s main singers: Caetano Veloso.

In 1942, Veloso was born in the state of Bahia as the fifth child in a family of seven. Initially interested in art and more precisely painting, he will soon start focusing on music after being deeply moved by songs like “Chega de saudade” or “Maria Bethânia” (song from which he’ll choose his sister’s artist name). At the start of his musical career, his main inspiration was the late Joao Gilberto as one of the initiators and founding fathers of Bossa nova. But by progressively including a touch of political activism and social contestation in his music, he will get to participate in creating the first compositions classified as “Musica Popular Brasileira” (MPB).

In 1967, in a duet with Gal Costa, he will release his first record “Domingo” with music mainly influenced by Bossa Nova structures. That same year, he will perform one of his own compositions called “Alegria, Alegria” at the Festival Record de Música Popular Brasileira, introducing him to a wider audience with a unique style characterised by the presence of electric guitars. Along with Gilberto Gil’s interpretation of “Domingo No Parque” during the event, this marks the start of the Tropicalismo movement (already mentioned in an earlier post about Gilberto Gil’s “Aquele Abraço”). With a desire to include more intellectual material in their country’s popular music, artist like Caetano, Gil, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Tom Zé will team up and release the album “Tropicalia ou Panis et Circencis” in July 1968. A movement that symbolises these artists’ desire to see their country’s youths take stock of changes happening in Brazil at that time and rebel against the newly established military dictatorship. This militant activism will result in a series of censorship on Caetano’s music, considered dangerous and provocative by the ruling power. And then the forced exile in London from 1969, 2 years during which a deep melancholia and nostalgia will take over Caetano’s art, feelings omnipresent in the music he recorded during this period.

In 1971, towards the end of his exile, he starts working on my favourite record of his, “Transa”. At this stage, Caetano already had plenty of time to soak in and get inspired by western culture available in this part of the world. With artists like the Beatles, Bob Marley and The Wailers that symbolise this era’s musical effervescence, Caetano manages to draw on these inspirations to create music that reflects on the state of mind he must’ve been in away from his country. For example, in “You Don’t Know Me”, the singer grants us with a pure expression of loneliness oscillating between English and his mother tongue, switching to Portuguese for more soaring lyricism. Usually not a big fan of Beatles like music, I must say this moves me because I can feel the artist’s state of mind like it was my own through the lyrics and his unique emotive voice.

Even though I highly recommend you put on the full album and grant yourself with 40 minutes of an intense introspective journey, the song I want to bring forward is “It’s A Long Way”. This masterpiece offers so many different layers of sounds and emotions moving from voice/guitar parts to highly percussive peaks with Caetano’s voice always acting as the conductor. Again sang using both English and Portuguese, we travel though the successive arrangements and harmonies forming a 8 minutes long immersion into a reality that words portray but that only a singing voice like Caetano’s can really interpret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH046GJFnS4

Caetano Veloso It's a Long Way LP Transa 1973 Aecio 2012

18/07/2019

[ #15] Music nowadays appears like a constant flow of creative energy where artists never cease to explore new possibilities. New sounds are constantly being imagined by drawing on phenomenons like cultural mix, technological innovation or commercial trends. But sometimes artists decide to lean against the wind by going back in time to find inspiration. Driven by deep nostalgia or a desire to shed light on a forgotten and underrated genre of music, they look back and dedicate their creativity to sounds of the past. We could undoubtedly put artists like Cotonete or Dimitri From Paris in this category.

Originated in 2005, Cotonete is a Jazz Funk project often described as “one of the best 70’s French band born in the 21st century”. The 8 accomplished musicians forming the group, among which you’ll find the two founding members Florian Pelissier (keyboard) and Frank Chatona (saxes), have accumulated a 15 years long experience of grooving crowds in bars and festivals. Initially focusing on reinterpreting 70’s funk classics from the likes of Banda Black Rio, Deodato or Herbie Hancock, the band has been actively touring major events since 2014. Reintegrating more of their own compositions to their repertoire, they’ve been able to start releasing their own stuff through a collaboration with French label “Heavenly Sweetness”. In 2019, under the wing of label head Melik Bencheikh they will finally release their first album titled “Super Vilains”. With influences from Africa to South America, this album allowed the group to showcase the skills and experience they’ve acquired since their debut.

In 1986, Dimitri From Paris a.k.a. Dimitri Yerasimos starts his DJ career on French radio Skyrock, earning recognition through his ability to sample major French pop artists in his electronic music mixes. As he grows to be one of the radio’s main figures, he’ll actively participate to house music expansion in his country. 10 years later, he releases “Sacrebleu” his first album with 90% sales made in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan. In 1999, Hugh Hefner contracts him to come up with a House, Disco and Hip-Hop compilation of 70’s and 80’s Pl***oy inspired tracks. His popularity abroad will soon erect him as one of the leaders of the “French Touch” generation (which recently lost one of its greatest member in the person of Phillipe Zdar).

In 2017, the producer and the band meet through Melik Bencheikh (him again!) and decide to work together on a 2 tracks EP. Led by Dimitri’s expertise of Disco music, Cotonete gets in studio to record 2 pure bangers. With a real desire to revive the sound of the past, they decide to stay away from the standard remix and edit path so common among disco music producers nowadays. Instead, they bring to life 2 original compositions by recording each and every song element in studio. In “The Hustle Parisian”, we are projected back to the 70’s and sweaty Disco clubs with songs that would’ve probably hit the charts’ top if it had been produced some 40 years ago! From the first bars, you can start to get a feeling for the care taken towards sound and the participation of each band member to this musical journey. To me, this kind of magic can only happen in studio. In fact, in the absence of a voice leading melody, each instrument gets room to come forward and express itself during a few measures. Needless to say Cotonete members make outstanding use of it. Dedicated to the dancefloor, this project achieves great level of harmony and groove which should make even the shyest crowd go nuts during a DJ set!

Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1317209019 Taken from Cotonete|Dimitri From Paris « Parribean Disco » Extrait de Cotonete|Dimitri From Paris ...

05/07/2019

[ #14] We continue our journey through records with a pioneer of Arab modern music. This record shows once more the power of club culture and DJs to bring back to life a forgotten artist’s discography. Ahmed Fakroun, once a famous singer in the 70’s and 80’s, was in quasi oblivion until a bit more than 10 years ago. In fact, in 2007 DJ Prince Language, a New York based Dj, releases a 12” comprising an edit of Ahmed’s most famous songs, making them even more dancefloor compatible. Soon a favourite of club dancers, this record will revive the interest around an artist that freed himself of cultural boundaries and definitely deserved more attention.

Born in 1953 in the Libyan city of Benghazi, he will start his first band there playing at local events and school dances. Pushed by an early fascination for rhythmic harmony, Ahmed will first take on the Electric Bass to express himself musically but will soon start touching to a lot more instruments like the oud, the piano, the guitar, etc. The man is also very curious and gets his inspiration through a wide array of music from the Indian temples to the streets of big metropolis like London or Paris.

In order to pursue his university studies, Ahmed will choose the UK and it’s there that he will get to collaborate with Tommy Vance, a radio producer, and start extensively touring the country. His first EP released in 1977 comprises of 2 songs that already show the artist’s capacity to visit different music styles within the same composition. Take “Noujoum Al Layl” for example, which start with James Brown’s inspired vocals and then takes on a more reggae vibe with Ahmad beautiful voice singing arabic. Later in the song, percussions take over to create a more vibrant funk energy making the groove evolve once more. For a first EP, it shows Ahmed’s strong desire to express himself using the inspiration he gets from all the different style he digs: Rock, Funk, Disco, Synth and of course Arabic music.

Fast forward to 1986. After enjoying a few years of commercial success, politics will do what it does best and f**k it up for Ahmed. In retaliation for the bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin attributed to Libya by US government, president Ronald Reagan will launch a vast bombing campaign on Libya. From his home country, Ahmed looses connection with the Western World and his complex grooves will rapidly become incompatible with the industry efforts to simplify music. In 1987, he releases “Mots D’Amour = Love Words”, his most famous album to date. Singing in 4 different languages, this album includes songs previously recorded like “Soleil Soleil”. Initially released in 1983, this worldwide success to me is a masterpiece subtly blending Funk and Arabic music harmonies. We start off with a rather broken funky beat and enchanting bassline. Soon violins come in to set the Arab mood and once more the complexity that characterises the artist's music takes place. Sung in Lybian dialect, this track talks about the loss of a loved one leading to insomnia and despair. To set the music to images, Ahmed will work with music video director Jean-Baptiste Mondino who will later collaborate with stars like Prince or David Bowie. A good proof that music has no boundaries !

Music Clip of Ahmed Fakroun, directed by famous French Jean Baptiste Mondino. French famous humorist Coluche is also playing. Enjoy ! See more from Jean Bapt...

02/07/2019

Rabat Secret Parties, a Moroccan based crew has published a set I've recorded some time ago. Recorded on vinyl only, I created this mix in a desire to show that soulful music is about different styles that can coexist in the same journey. Perfect to get the vibe going 🕺🕺

born and raised in morocco, souf started collecting records some 6 years ago while studying in switzerland. always on the look out for rare and unconventional grooves, his passion for music translates