#beyond digital

For all of you music makers that use Ableton or Pro Tools have a look at Rupture's Sufi plug-ins and change your tools to an eastern Berber Tamazigh scale. It's awesome, it's in a North African script called neo-Tifinaght so unreadable for us Westerners and thus making it worth the experiment and whats more it's for free!

Last year d/j Rupture and a team started the Beyond Digital project as a way of documenting, and collaborating with, Moroccan musicians mixing traditional Berber music with autotune. The latest edition of the FADER includes a piece on their trip. Excerpt below. 

These village boys in the big city, would they go back home? Hassan says he would love to, but to make music he has to be in the city. His father, who sings the call to prayer from the neighborhood mosque and is impish with us gawky strangers, won’t hear of profane music. Hassan and his friends are not the first who have gone to the city looking for work but also for more creative license than the cave down by the river—their rehearsal space—provides them.