V/A Habibi Funk - A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes 2x LP NEW VINYL Habibi
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V/A Habibi Funk - A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes / 2x LP NEW VINYL / Habibi Funk 2025
Habibi Funk is more than happy to announce our 31st release which happens to be our 3rd Various Artist compilation. The album is dedicated to the cassette tape scene in Libya from the late 80s to early 2000s, from disco to reggae to pop. All songs previously unreleased outside of Libya and not available on any DSP platforms.
This compilation isn’t a sweeping history of Libyan music — it’s a personal journey into the sounds we fell in love with while digging through tapes, conversations, and stories across Libya and beyond. Rather than spotlighting the country’s most famous musical exports, the compilation brings forward a mix of overlooked gems and local classics of the cassette era: artists whose work thrived despite political limitations, and scarce international exposure. The music featured here blends reggae rhythms, synthy disco grooves, gritty pop, house, and funk, a vibrant collision of genres that reflects Libya’s unique sonic landscape from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
Many of these recordings were recovered from the TK7 cassette factory in Sousse, Tunisia, a now-demolished site that once played a quiet but vital role in distributing and manufacturing Libyan music. Other tracks were digitised in a Cairo hotel room in 2021, where we transferred nearly 100 tapes over the course of three days, on-site using a high-grade cassette deck brought into Egypt with us. From that trove emerged artists like Ahmed Ben Ali, Cheb Bakr, and Najib Alhoush & The Free Music, who have already featured on our earlier releases. Their sounds sit alongside contributions from this release from the likes of Khaled Al Melody, Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa Band, City Lights Band, Libya Music Band, and Group Hewaya.
During this era, Independent artists relied on makeshift home studios or travelled abroad to record in Tunisia and Egypt, gradually building their own infrastructures for creativity. By the 90s and early 2000s, as access to digital equipment increased, a few of the artists began setting up their own studios — a shift that gave rise to a more self-sufficient recording culture across the country. The resulting sounds are anything but homogeneous. They reflect Libya’s geographic and cultural crossroads: North African rhythms meet Arab melodies and deep African roots. Reggae, in particular, took on a local Libyan flavour — not just musically, through the slowed-down cadence of traditional shaabi beats, but socially, as a vehicle for expressing identity and pride. What ties all the artists on this comp together is a boundary- pushing approach to genre and style: recorded in small studios, exchanged by hand, and shaped by a cross-pollination of influences, from Benghazi to Tripoli and beyond.
All tracks are licensed from their creators and in the case of the artists being deceased from their estates. All profits are being split 50:50 between us in the licensors and ownership remains with the creators, we only licensed the music.
A1 Cheb Bakr - Allom
A2 Group Hewaya - Irja
A3 Shahd - Erhal Keef Alshams Tgheeb
A4 Ahmed Ben Ali - Jara
B1 The White Bird Band - Ya Ummi
B2 Khaled Al Melody - Jani Bigool
B3 Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa Band - Palestine Is My Homeland
B4 Libya Music Band - Kol Al Mawaeed
C1 Stars of Africa - Baed Al Farha
C2 Khaled Al Reigh - Zannik
C3 Khaled Al Zlitni - Jiti Yam Eloyoun Buhoor
C4 Murad Najah - Hubbi Leeki
D1 City Lights Band - Kul Ghrub
D2 Adil Al Ramli - Mawoud
D3 The Hope Duo - La Tgheeb Anni Wala Youm
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