15 Years Gretchen:Acid Arab - LA HAFLA WEEKENDER Day 1
Gretchen, Berlin
This night happened — Thu 15 Oct · 7:30pm → 12:30am Fri
20 € – 30 € · 18+ · Good Day Berlin Kultur und Veranstaltungen GmbH ·
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Who was billed4 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
5 of the 6 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- Acid Arab and DJ-Set (Crammed Discs/FR) — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 24 Jan 2026.
Acid Arab haben sich mit ihrem betörenden Mix aus Electronica und arabischen Sounds und Vocals fest in der europäischen Clubszene etabliert. Seit 2017 sind sie regelmäßig bei uns im Gretchen zu Gast, sei es mit ihrer selbst kuratierten Clubnacht La Hafla, explosiven Live-Shows oder All Night Long DJ Sets. Geboren im transkulturellen Kessel von Paris, entstand das Musikkollektiv aus der Idee, eine Brücke zwischen nordafrikanischer und arabischer Musik sowie den Sounds westlicher Clubkultur zu schlagen. Zum Gretchen Geburtstag präsentieren sie einen La Hafla Weekender mit exklusiven Live-Shows sowie DJ Sets von Acid Arab und weiteren Gästen.
Cem Yıldız gilt als einer der Wegbereiter der Verbindung von anatolischer Musiktradition und elektronischen Klängen und öffnet das Universum der Elektro-Anadolu-Musik. Der als „Elektro Şaman“ und „Acid Dede“ bekannte Musiker bringt mit seiner Bağlama traditionelle anatolische Klangwelten, psychedelische Atmosphäre und hypnotische Acid-Folk- und Techno-Elemente zusammen. Seine improvisationsbasierten Live-Performances bewegen sich zwischen Konzert, Ritual und Tanzfläche.
Sofiane Saidi steht für den Raï 2.0 – die zeitgenössische Weiterentwicklung einer algerischen Musiktradition, die seit Jahrzehnten zwischen Straße, Nachtleben und Tanzfläche lebt. Saidi verbindet die expressive Kraft des Raï mit modernen Grooves und globalen Club-Sounds. Der gemeinsame Track „El Hafla“ mit Acid Arab auf deren Album „Musiques de France“ steht exemplarisch für diese Verbindung und verkörpert eine Musikkultur, die zwischen Tradition und Gegenwart, unterschiedlichen Herkunftsgeschichten und Clubkultur entsteht.
Benboo ist das gemeinsame Projekt der tunesischen Sängerin Bouthaina Nabouli und des DJs und Produzenten Benjemy. Naboulis markante Stimme, tief verwurzelt in der arabischen Gesangstradition, trifft auf die elektronischen Klangwelten Benjemys. Gemeinsam verbinden sie klassische arabische Gesänge und Lieder aus dem Repertoire des 20. Jahrhunderts mit treibenden Beats, Percussion, Laute und elektronischen Maschinen.
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präsentiert von Cosmo & Byte FM
artwork: @Inès Lécurier
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presented by Cosmo & Byte FM
artwork: @ Inès Lécurier
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho (+ Sex Schön in the studio), both djs for many years and residents of infamous Parisian club Chez Moune, have fallen in love with this music after a trip to Tunisia with Dj Gilb’R.”
their own biography
the whole biography
Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho (+ Sex Schön in the studio), both djs for many years and residents of infamous Parisian club Chez Moune, have fallen in love with this music after a trip to Tunisia with Dj Gilb’R. They’ve managed to convince a lot of producers to come along with them on this fantastic voyage and create a track for their ‘Acid Arab Collections‘, which are naturally released by Gilb’R’s label, Versatile Records. On this first EP you will hear the French dance master I:Cube giving his own definition of an Arabic acid track. Inspired by some old guys talking in an Algerian café, he called it “Le bon vieux temps” (‘Good old days’). The Syrian star Omar Souleyman has accepted to let Crackboy (from Tigersushi and I’m A Cliché) remix one of his famous hits ‘Shift Al Mani‘. It’s acid at its best, empowered by Souleyman’s vocals. Acid Arab organized a live session at Versatile studio with keyboardist / guitarist Turzi (Record Makers), keyboardist / bassist Judah Warsky (Pan European Recordings) and a very special guest : Adnan Mohamed, aged 60, who’s played traditional oud guitar all his life in Kurdistan and France. Dj Gilb’R, the brain behind the muscles, has mixed these sounds to create an epic cosmic symphony that the team called ‘Cosmique Arabe‘ by Boyz In The Oud. Lastly, Acid Arab themselves deliver their ‘Theme‘, a journey through beats and a Persian melody that has already got support from Gilles Peterson, Lovefingers, TLR, Skudge, Tim Sweeney and Radio Nova (Paris). “We are fascinated by eastern music and its codes, such as complex rhythmic structures (binary and ternary superimposing upon each other), which drive dancers to trance just like acid house does. We’d like to take these codes and use analog techno devices (beatboxes, bassline machines) to create something new : an oriental acid music which combines the coldness of techno and the emotional and dramatic power of the East. Our knowledge of the dancefloor is now digested and we have spent night after night digging records and files to know more about arabic music. We don’t want to be standardbearers of mixing whatever, we just want to be of our days. talking about mixing means there’s a split, a binary vision of an occidental vs oriental world – this is has-been. We don’t paste oriental sounds on occidental beats, we want to embody both cultures without pretending to reinvent oriental music or fooling ourselves by believing we’re inventing eastern dance music. We just want to be part of it, and contribute to this brilliant and enormous masterpiece that this music is, and has been for thousands of years.” Acid Arab aka Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho.Their RA profile lists Versatile Records and Disco Halal.Recently at Gretchen · often with Kenzi Bourras *live, La Louuve, Sarāb (Colore, V2/FR) *live, none of them here that night
Recently at Gretchen · often with Box1, Box2, Turbulenta, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Box11 with Acid Arab and 1 with DJ-Set (Crammed Discs/FR)
- Box21 with Acid Arab and 1 with DJ-Set (Crammed Discs/FR)
- MUNSEF1 with Acid Arab and 1 with DJ-Set (Crammed Discs/FR)
- Turbulenta1 with Acid Arab and 1 with DJ-Set (Crammed Discs/FR)
- Box 11 with Acid Arab
- Cosmo Vitelli1 with Acid Arab
- Kenzi Bourras *live1 with Acid Arab
- La Louuve1 with Acid Arab
how this compares
- Median final count, Thursdays at Gretchen18
- Middle half finished between9 and 37
- Past Thursdays at this venue counted28
- Counted44 on Tue 11 Aug, 218 on Mon 19 Oct
The room
Gretchen — 236 events and 654 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who put it on
Good Day Berlin Kultur und Veranstaltungen GmbH — 215 events and 550 artists since Aug 2025.
Also that night
- BLACKOUTNeue Zukunft — also tagged electronica, with experimental too.
- All My Fears (Album Release Event) presented by Aexhy & Sonny SmilesCrack Bellmer — that room books a lot of the same DJs as this one.
how these 2 are connected
- BLACKOUT — RA tags both listings electronica — and that one also experimental.
- All My Fears (Album Release Event) presented by Aexhy & Sonny Smiles — shares 13 artists with this room, Allynx among them.