Palestinian Sound Archive
Archival DJ set from Palestinian recordings
Based in London, UK · From Palestine
This set draws from restored cassettes, poetry, spoken word and other archive material, not a straight dancefloor dig. Expect old recordings with room noise, spoken passages, folk lines, jazz and funk cuts, and the sense of a historian sequencing a record box rather than a nightclub DJ.
More about Palestinian Sound Archive
Palestinian Sound Archive is an archival record label and research platform built around reissuing and documenting Palestinian music history. Mo’min Swaitat fronts the project, with NTS and SoundCloud mixes showing a focus on cassettes, field recordings, dabke, post-punk, synth and rock from Palestine and the wider region.
A story
Swaitat found a tape cache in Jenin in 2020 at Tariq Cassettes, a shop he had known since childhood.
Playing
- 2026-11-06 2026-11-06T23:00:00 · Palestinian Sound Archive · TivoliVredenburg
Labels
Start here
- A letter by Palestinian Sound Archive (Mo'min Swaitat/Majazz Project) (2022) · Belly Full of Blind Highways
Shows the label’s excavation process - Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (2024) · Majazz Project / Palestinian Sound Archive
Best single-release entry into the catalog
Sets to hear
For fans of
Laraaji, The Heliocentrics, DisciplesOfficial links
Plan Le Guess Who? 2026 with Songpot · Ask about Palestinian Sound Archive in ChatGPT or Claude