So my friends and I are planning a huge dance party that will feature ONLY foreign music; as in, only music created and produced in countries other than America. And we literally have dozens dozens of songs- I think we have somewhere around 8 hours of music gathered up to play. We've been spamming each other's walls on Facebook every day with more songs that we found. Honestly, I can barely even keep up with everything we're finding!
Lately, though, I've been questing to find good music that's from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, because I realized that nearly all of my music is European or Latin American in origin. My friends aren't helping, either, because most of the music they've shown me is European. Or Latin American. And don't get me wrong - I love it! I love that music! But this would hardly be an "International Music Blog" if it only delved into music from certain parts of the world and not others!
So as I was looking for cool dance music for our dance, a memory popped into my brain. Last year, while I lived in the Foreign Language Housing, the Arabic house was right next to ours. One month, during their cleaning checks, they threw open their windows and blasted Egyptian pop music while they cleaned. And it was SO FANTASTIC. I had meant to ask them about it, but I never did. And now I'm very upset with myself for that. That was stupid, Kelsey.
In any case, because of that memory I looked up Egyptian dance music, and I found a great mix of 2010 summer hits here. There's a lot of really good songs there, but I'd have to say that the band WAMA is definitely my favorite.
Here's the full version of Rahya Gaya, which is so far my favorite of theirs. They're definitely worth looking into, though.
Honestly, with such great music out there like this, how can our dance party NOT be rockin'?
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