مدي 1 تي في : مع RASH B - 10/02/2025
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00:00Hello and welcome to a new episode of Patchwork, a daily and artistic show.
00:19I'm happy to be with you as always to share with you some of the latest news from the art scene.
00:26So, let's get started.
00:30Hello again, I'm happy to be here with you and show you the guests of today's episode.
01:00I'm happy to be here with you and show you the guests of today's episode.
01:30Hello.
02:00Hello.
02:31Our guest today is a talented DJ and producer, Rash B. Hello.
02:38What's the difference between a DJ and a producer?
02:42A DJ is someone who creates music for events.
02:48A producer is someone who creates content.
02:52Something new.
02:53Something new.
02:54Something new.
02:55Something new.
02:56Something new.
02:57Something new.
02:59We can say the producer is almost a composer.
03:01Exactly. He's a composer.
03:04OK, what was your first contact with music?
03:09My first contact was when I was about ten years old.
03:14My older brother used to play the guitar, odes, guitars, banjo.
03:21We were always playing together.
03:24We started to play music.
03:26I was listening to the music that was playing in my family's house
03:30My older sisters were listening to Tarab Om Kiltoum
03:34My older brother was listening to Dolly Parton and Beatles
03:37So the whole atmosphere was charged
03:40So the members of your family were musicians?
03:44No, they were just listening and having fun
03:47So the rhythm started to take over your mind from that location?
03:51Yes, in the early 80s
03:54I started listening to Western music
03:58I discovered gang music, Madonna at the time
04:03Billie Jean, Michael Jackson and so on
04:06I went back to the early 90s
04:09The first disco I went to was in 1985 with some friends
04:141985?
04:16Yes
04:17Not as a DJ
04:19It was the first time I went to a place that made good music
04:24I was with my older brother
04:27So I discovered the world of DJing
04:32So I started mixing music
04:35I started collecting funk music
04:39So I started buying material in the early 80s
04:45So I was already in the early 80s
04:49So you were the first DJ?
04:52Exactly
04:54I went to Portugal in the early 90s
04:58I had my first gig
05:01It was at a disco called Via Latina
05:06I don't know if it's still there
05:08I went to Morocco in 1991
05:11I started working as a DJ in Rabat
05:14I didn't stop there
05:17I went abroad in 1998 in Belgium
05:21I went to the world of DJing
05:24So you have more than 36 years of experience?
05:27No, more than 40 years
05:30You are the first Moroccan DJ
05:33He is one of the first Moroccan DJs
05:37Did you go to Belgium or Morocco?
05:39Morocco
05:41How did you go to Belgium and Portugal?
05:44Portugal was just an experience
05:47You didn't stay there?
05:49No, I stayed there for 6 months
05:52Then I came back in 1990
05:55I got married in 1997
05:58With a Belgian from Morocco
06:00We went to Belgium in 1998
06:03I started to find another style of music
06:06It was a bit different from Morocco and Europe
06:10I stopped in 2011 to invest in the restaurant business
06:19You mean in Belgium?
06:21Yes
06:24From 2011 until the pandemic
06:28I was already busy with the fridge
06:32I forgot about music
06:35I disconnected a bit
06:37I took a few parties to not get lost
06:41I didn't want to get lost
06:43Once every 3 or 4 months
06:46During the pandemic, everything stopped
06:51I started to listen to music again
06:55I tried to listen to the music of my friends
06:58I didn't want to start again
07:01I stopped
07:03I stopped producing
07:05I started remixing in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004
07:10I started again
07:12In 2023, I came to Morocco
07:15With a USB key
07:17I started to listen to music
07:20I tried to find out what was going on in Morocco
07:25It was very good
07:27But I had to adapt it to Morocco's Afro house
07:32I came back in 2024
07:34I stopped producing
07:36You came back in 2024
07:38Yes
07:39I met Moufid
07:41We listened to Dakshi
07:43We started to work together
07:46You started a new project
07:48The current one
07:50The remixes of Nassir Iwan and Abdel Wahab Doukali
07:53We will talk about them in a bit
07:55But since you are not in the electronic scene
07:58What do you think about the experience
08:00That music can progress?
08:02The problem is that DJs have to come back
08:06They have to adapt to what's new
08:11Updates
08:13I think that among the rare DJs of the old generation
08:18They are still active
08:20Now there are not many DJs
08:22There are only a few
08:24There are not many musicians
08:2620, 25, 30 years old
08:28You always have to try to renew yourself
08:30Or you stay in the same place
08:33But the disco that was in the 2000s
08:36At the end of the 90s
08:38It doesn't work anymore
08:40It doesn't exist in the 2000s
08:42You have to renew yourself
08:44To know what's going on
08:46Exactly
08:48The advantage of the old generation
08:50We mixed with the rhythms
08:54The vinyls
08:56We have a baggage in music
08:58We understand what it does
09:00We know the disco, the funk
09:02The new wave, the dance
09:04We have a baggage that we can use
09:06In everything that is new in the electronic scene
09:09And that's what's happening
09:11So I looked for my unique sounds
09:14I went to study for two years
09:16I had a good education
09:18Mixing and mastering
09:20I did everything by myself
09:22I didn't need anyone
09:24But I didn't stay in the same place
09:26I had ideas
09:28But I didn't go
09:30You didn't go
09:32There was a divergence
09:34I didn't stay in the same place
09:36Yes
09:38Sorry
09:40What kind of DJ needs solfege?
09:42I don't play solfege
09:44I played the instruments when I was young
09:46I played the instruments
09:48The oud, the guitar, the banjo
09:50But I never played solfege
09:52It's a shame
09:54I didn't know
09:56But there is a musical language
09:58I know
10:00I play a little bit of music
10:02I caught up with the solfege
10:04I know how to put my ideas
10:06You don't have to hide your notes
10:08and your wrong notes
10:10You don't have to hide them
10:12You have to put them
10:14Technically, music is a whole
10:16At the same time, it's electronic
10:18There is a system
10:20The amps
10:22The plugins
10:24The keys of the disks
10:26What happens to them?
10:28What makes you think that electronic music
10:30Starts getting out of clubs
10:32And out of fan festivals?
10:34Yes, there is. There is a big evolution, especially in Morocco in the last 10 years.
10:41I know a big problem of this, which is the festivals.
10:4515 years ago, there were no festivals.
10:48We had to go outside to listen to the festivals.
10:51Now, there are people who work in Morocco.
10:54There are people who work for this movement.
10:58And we want to contribute to this movement because
11:01there is electronics in Morocco, but the producers are few.
11:05Those who can get the music outside,
11:07and play it in the big festivals and clubs.
11:11What did you ask for in the end? Describe your style to me.
11:15What is it?
11:16Difficult. I looked for my own style.
11:19There was no one like you in the service.
11:21I saw the big DJs who are in Morocco.
11:25I have my own style.
11:28There is no one like you.
11:30Because the sound I work with,
11:32it is a research that I turn to a bass.
11:35I don't want a bass like the one I have in Morsoukhori.
11:39So, it is a research.
11:41And a lot of services.
11:43So, it is an artistic direction that you gain with time.
11:46It is an experience and it is a research.
11:48You turn to something new.
11:51There is no one like you.
11:52A bass, I don't want a bass that I work with.
11:55Like in Hallam, we have never heard it.
11:58Because it is composed in a way that I compose it by myself.
12:01Do you compose it or sample it?
12:03No, there is a sample.
12:05You take the sample and you can layer it.
12:08There are a lot of steps.
12:10You can find two basses.
12:12And another sound that is not in one view.
12:14I sometimes combine three or four.
12:17And I return to the compressors.
12:20But the style.
12:21Afro, deep, house.
12:23Exactly.
12:25Afro, if we talk about tempo, 120 BPM, it is Afro.
12:29But we play more with the electro.
12:32Because people don't see me when I am 25, 30 years old.
12:36I am trying to say a poem with the old generation.
12:39The nostalgic or the young.
12:41Exactly.
12:42These melodies that are in the 90s or 2000s.
12:45We try to keep them.
12:47To give them a new sound.
12:49A new electronic.
12:51So we have a low tempo.
12:53120 or 122 BPM.
12:55So people don't get tired of it.
12:57It is not like the 140 BPM techno.
12:59They will get tired of it.
13:01Of course.
13:02But Afro, deep, house.
13:04You can listen to it and not move.
13:06You want to hear it and enjoy it.
13:08There is a new sound in Afro.
13:10Rashbi, did you notice any difference between the audience of the cities?
13:16And the audience of Morocco?
13:18Is it like the audience of Gaza?
13:20Like the audience of Tanja?
13:22Morocco is a big city.
13:24There are a lot of foreigners.
13:26People come from abroad.
13:28And there are a lot of festivals.
13:30Where are they from?
13:32They are used to the big festivals.
13:36And even the clubs.
13:38Morocco is a big city.
13:40It is old.
13:42It has a history.
13:44It is normal for people to get tired of it.
13:48Gaza is still there.
13:50Rabat is a bit less.
13:52But Rabat is developing a bit.
13:54With the restaurants.
13:56There is a movement that creates a lot of commerce.
14:02That makes people listen to the new music.
14:06When we talk about electronic music.
14:08We can call it movement.
14:10We can call it sport.
14:12There is an artist that I mentioned.
14:14I wrote about him.
14:16His idea is called Relax.
14:18His idea is to run 24 hours non-stop.
14:28Without stopping.
14:30To fight depression.
14:32The black thoughts that come.
14:36This artist has overcome a lot of obstacles.
14:42He tried to commit suicide.
14:46He released his album in January.
14:50Let's see how he managed to run 24 hours.
15:067, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
15:36Let's go.
16:12This talented artist, Faitly, managed to run 24 hours.
16:20He started on Saturday and finished on Sunday.
16:24A lot of people are off-streaming.
16:26On TikTok and YouTube.
16:28He wants to prove that it is impossible.
16:32Can you say anything impossible?
16:34It is always possible.
16:36How can you run 24 hours?
16:38I don't know.
16:40I don't know.
16:42Let's talk about your new song.
16:46It is a remix.
16:48A lot of people are listening to it.
16:50They are listening to it with Abdel Wahab Doukary.
16:54Tell us how the idea started.
16:56Tell us about this song.
16:58The idea started in 2023.
17:00I started the song alone.
17:02I made a few contacts.
17:04I got the song in Morocco.
17:08It had a bit of an effect.
17:10I had to adapt it in Bouglafou.
17:12I came back in 2024.
17:14I started working.
17:16After I started working,
17:18I listened to the song.
17:20I went with him.
17:22He told me that he was going to record it.
17:24We made contact.
17:26We listened to the song.
17:28It was a beautiful song.
17:30He asked if he could add anything to it.
17:34He told me that he didn't have anything to add.
17:36We didn't have the right person to do it.
17:38He didn't have anyone to do it.
17:40He told me that he didn't have anyone to do it.
17:42We made contact.
17:44We see a lot of DJs,
17:46producers,
17:48and composers
17:50who take Moroccan songs
17:52and remix them.
17:54They don't have any contact
17:56with the song.
17:58This time, you contacted the great teacher and artist, Abdel Wahab Doukary, and everything was fine.
18:08Absolutely. I can't do a project without talking to him.
18:13It was the same thing with Rashid Batma, may he rest in peace.
18:18Before, without any problem, he would listen to the song and say, I like it.
18:22Then he would give me another song and say, act as you like.
18:26I played with him and he gave me a big success.
18:30Now, I have 40,000 subscribers on YouTube for a month.
18:36I worked in Spotify for a while and everything was fine.
18:40So, I was trying to do a project, and at the same time, I met Hajib.
18:45He said, I have a project.
18:47So, in the future, we will listen to Hajib's songs.
18:49There are a lot of problems.
18:51Afro House.
18:52Always.
18:53Yes, always. I have a lot of surprises.
18:56I have a project with Rashid Talal, even he is in Al-Hassani.
19:00I have a project with Marwan Haji, from Andalusia, even he is in Afro House.
19:07The album is already on the label.
19:10And I have another project.
19:13Tusi?
19:14Tusi.
19:15God willing, it is already confirmed.
19:18I have a lot of projects.
19:20So, now you can say that this is your specialty,
19:23this is your vision,
19:25this is what you are proposing in the weeks and months to come.
19:27Exactly.
19:28Everything is classic.
19:29I took 50, 60 years of what they did.
19:33They beat the generation we had when we were young.
19:36They marked us.
19:37So, we have to go back in the same direction to draw a small bridge between the old and the new.
19:42Because the new ones who are 25, 30, 35 years old,
19:46they listen to the old melodies that we grew up with.
19:50And we renew the old songs,
19:53we give them a little bit of this and that,
19:55so that they always stay with us.
19:57But don't you worry that the contemporary remixes will be liked by young people?
20:03No, exactly.
20:05I always keep the instruments to play the old pieces.
20:09I don't lose the old pieces.
20:12I keep them.
20:13They are always recognizable.
20:15I keep the old pieces.
20:16I add a fret on it,
20:18I get it back.
20:20But I always play with the instruments.
20:22Now in Andalusia,
20:24the rebab is present.
20:26You can hear the rebab all the time.
20:29You can't get rid of the rebab, which is the main thing in the piece.
20:33I want to ask you a question in a different way.
20:35Go ahead.
20:36This is not a thing that only young people like.
20:38What do you think about electronic music
20:41that has a little bit of a large audience?
20:44I always have a large audience.
20:46My generation, and those who are older than me,
20:48follow me and like what I do.
20:51Because they live with the old songs,
20:56and they stay with us.
20:59They go out, travel, discover, go to festivals.
21:03So it's even better to listen to them with this new sound.
21:07This is my objective.
21:09And what about the album project?
21:12I spent a lot of time on the album.
21:14It's not a dream to release an album.
21:16Because I already have about twenty songs.
21:20Everything is a remix.
21:22But if I release it all at once,
21:24people won't like it.
21:26It's heavy.
21:28So people who know me,
21:30and love my work,
21:32we release one album at a time,
21:34to give them the opportunity to listen to the album,
21:36and appreciate it, and come back.
21:38They are always there, listening to the story.
21:40I don't try to release one album at a time.
21:42I have two songs per month.
21:44I can release them all at once.
21:46But I try to...
21:48I started on the 30th of January.
21:50To promote the album,
21:54and people listen to it.
21:56I have a lot of songs.
21:58I have a song with Marwan Hajji,
22:01the talented Marwan Hajji.
22:03And I have a song with Bourgoun,
22:05Mustafa Bourgoun,
22:07Jhahad Snizk Majiti.
22:09And I have a lot of surprises.
22:11I have a lot of surprises.
22:13We listened to Rashid Bel's version of these songs.
22:15Thank you Rashid.
22:19I would like to thank the audience
22:21in Belgium and Morocco,
22:23for following me,
22:25and trying to see my new work.
22:27I would like to thank the viewers
22:29of Patchwork.
22:31And I would like to thank you for having me.
22:33This is my duty.
22:37This is the end of today's episode.
22:41See you next time.
22:43Take care.
22:45Patchwork.