Ghorba Radio is a monthly show highlighting artists of marginalized genders in Los Angeles and beyond. Expect electro, house, techno and ambient, mixed with dance music from around the world.

On this month’s episode, Ghorba hosts guest mixes from Bint and Slic.

BINT:
Bint is an experimental musician and interdisciplinary artist based in NY. Her work explores the intersections of metaphysical, cultural and modern technologies – primarily through sound, performance and folk art installation.

As a musician and sound artist, Bint resides in the lower ranges of the frequency spectrum, finding solace in layers of heavy distortion, warm noise & static to express emotions drawn from the dark depths of the Imaginal. The mystical, haunted, in-between spaces. Neither here nor there.

Inspired by untold stories of the desecrated feminine, her work often channels their stories using eroded cassette tapes, treated harmonium, pedals, vocals and field recordings. In 2019, Bint released Katabasis: Act I, an EP applying experimental dark ambient power electronics and Arabic mother tongue, to her classical Indian vocal training. Bint has shown work internationally and occasionally teaches, presents and podcast hosts on Islamic occultism.

BINT’S MIX:
This experimental mix was compiled in the wake of mourning the most recent 2021 (and ongoing) atrocities in Gaza, Sheikh Jarrah, Beirut, Afghanistan and Artsakh. The pacing and mood accurately conveys my year’s wide range of emotions – through the harsh lens of diasporic dissonance living here in the States.

Blessings and protection for freedom fighters everywhere. May justice, freedom and peace prevail. آمين يا رب العالمين

SLIC:
Slic, the moniker of Brooklyn-by-way-of-Miami’s Cami Dominguez, is a friendly presence in the electronic underground. Dominguez’s longstanding affair with the club began as a teenager in Miami, amidst the EDM explosion of the early 2010s while Carl Cox was still DJing underground warehouse parties. Anyone can relate to the breathy elation of scamming your way into the party, finding camaraderie with strangers as everybody moves to the same pulse. In 2018, Dominguez moved to Brooklyn to work in art only to drop out of the gallery world and begin making DIY music with an ever-expanding cast of collaborators.