Tusk Festival 2015 Maurice Louca

Hailing from Cairo, Maurice Louca is an electronic musician whose expansive work has necessarily led to him forming a trio with a drummer and bass player to fully realise it in the studio and on stage. On first listening, his hypnotic North African electronica conjures the notion of how Adrian Sherwoods classic OnU Sound productions might have sounded had he grown up in Egypt. Louca also provides this years Sun City Girls connection as Alan Bishop pops up blasting a sax midway through latest album Benhayyi AlBaghbaghan (Salute The Parrot). Released on Khyam Allamis Nawa label last year, the record is also infused with the dreamstate vocals of Electro Chaabi MC Alaa 5, Louca deftly applying fatbottomed dub aesthetics to his psychedelic take on shaabi in a way that you may find immediately irresistible. Theres both a timelessness and an immediacy to Loucas music that, paired with its sublime cultural splicing, can cause total psychic displacement not to be listened to whilst operating heavy machine