About moktar
Egyptian-Australian DJ and producer moktar has quickly established himself as one of electronic music's most compelling voices, crafting a deeply personal sound that fuses techno, IDM, jungle and breakbeats with rich Arabic instrumentation. Since his acclaimed 2022 self-titled debut EP on Steel City Dance Discs and the evocative Immigrant EP, moktar has earned widespread praise for music that explores identity, migration and belonging with emotional depth and genre-defying production. His hypnotic, high-impact DJ sets—balancing dubbed-out rhythms, percussive club mutations, jungle and Arabic-inflected sounds—have taken him to leading festivals including Glastonbury, Dekmantel, RISING, Sugar Mountain and Sónar, while appearances on NTS Radio, Rinse FM and Seoul Community Radio, along with support from Resident Advisor and performances alongside artists such as The Prodigy, have cemented his reputation as a fearless, boundary-pushing selector. Rooted in tradition yet relentlessly forward-looking, moktar's music is driven by feeling, seamlessly weaving Middle Eastern influences into powerful, contemporary club music.
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