![]() ![]() It provided us with the momentum which has basically carried on to this day.”īedouin’s first airing in Ibiza came at a Flying Circus label showcase at Sankeys in 2014, where they played alongside Audiofly. ![]() But even so, that set was definitely our first big exposure. ![]() At the same time our first EP, ‘Mirage’, was being supported by Pete Tong – but it still takes a little time for everyone to become exposed to what you’re doing. We knew we were very lucky to get the chance to play there. “By the time we got to play, it was one of the most celebrated stages at the festival. “Robot Heart all started with Lee Burridge and a bus loaded with speakers,” Rami explains. ![]() Characterised by low BPMs, tribal drums and exotic lead-lines, their avant-garde take on deep techno music was the perfect fit for a festival renowned for its mystical disposition, and the sunrise set they dropped in Nevada that morning proved to be their breakout performance. In 2013, Bedouin performed for Robot Heart at Burning Man. After all, there was no instruction manual in those days and because I hadn’t been exposed to the scene in Jordan, life became a quest for understanding.” Then it was all about trying to figure out what I needed to do to become a DJ. I was really fascinated by the whole culture the fact that you could bring people together just by playing the music you love really inspired me. Then when the headliner appeared they would turn At AKA they always had a DJ playing on a smaller soundsystem. “That was when everything changed for me. “I used to go to The End and its sister bar, AKA,” Tamer recalls. Growing up in Jordan, where top-tier clubbing opportunities were less plentiful, Tamer had to travel to London to get his four-to-the-floor fix. From Danny Tenaglia’s epic Friday night sets at Vinyl, when he would play for fifteen or twenty hours, to Sasha and Digweed at Twilo – I was there every single week.” We’ve spent millions of hours dancing in clubs. “A large part of understanding your role as a DJ is about going out to parties and getting on the dancefloor. “I definitely think we’re learning how to play these different rooms a lot better now,” Rami adds. As a DJ you always have to cater to the environment, but no matter what we play it has to have the musical integrity that we can stand behind.” “Now, when we play in cities like Boston the crowd are there from the beginning, and it’s a totally different experience. “In the long run, our heavy use of instrumentation and composition in general has definitely helped us stand out from the crowd, but at first people were a little surprised,” Tamer laughs. There are so many things that make it work.”ĭescribing Bedouin’s first gig in Boston, Tamer equates the experience to climax of the first Back To The Future movie, where Michael J Fox jumps on stage to play rock ’n’ roll, much to the shock of an audience who have never seen or heard anything like it. We connected on so many levels – our upbringing, the music we listened to growing up and the music we discovered on our own before we met. I think we were at BPM in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, when we first really started hanging out. “Tamer was living in Boston at the time I was living in New York. “We were both DJing individually,” Rami explains. When Tamer Malki, 34, appears a few minutes later, we make our way up a winding staircase to a psychedelic roof terrace lined with AstroTurf and ask Rami how the duo first met. “We didn’t know how well we would take to Ibiza, but we really love it here.” “I definitely feel like the island pulled us here to do this,” Rami Abousabe, 40, says with a smile when we meet him outside the venue. Welcome to Ibiza Town’s glitterati strip, home to Heart, a recently opened multi-purpose nightclub where Brooklyn-based DJ/production partnership Bedouin host a weekly party residency called Saga every Sunday night during the summer. Every second car that rips past is a Porsche or a Maserati. The sound of yacht halyards clanging in the Mediterranean breeze. ![]()
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