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Amidst the coastal energy of El Gouna’s Red Sea shore, the 2025 edition of Sandbox Festival saw SceneNoise return with its latest iteration of #SelectBox - an intimate space carved out to amplify the raw talent of the region’s freshest upcoming selectors every year at Egypt’s premiere electronic music festival. Curated by SceneNoise, the lineups celebrate the depth and diversity of the region's electronic scene, providing a dedicated stage for DJs to showcase their unique sound identities. A sanctuary for discovery, #SelectBox has gained a cult following as a place where artists have the freedom to experiment and connect.

Amidst the coastal energy of El Gouna’s Red Sea shore, the 2025 edition of Sandbox Festival saw SceneNoise return with its latest iteration of #SelectBox - an intimate space carved out to amplify the raw talent of the region’s freshest upcoming selectors every year at Egypt’s premiere electronic music festival. Curated by SceneNoise, the lineups celebrate the depth and diversity of the region's electronic scene, providing a dedicated stage for DJs to showcase their unique sound identities. A sanctuary for discovery, #SelectBox has gained a cult following as a place where artists have the freedom to experiment and connect.

Amidst the coastal energy of El Gouna’s Red Sea shore, the 2025 edition of Sandbox Festival saw SceneNoise return with its latest iteration of #SelectBox - an intimate space carved out to amplify the raw talent of the region’s freshest upcoming selectors every year at Egypt’s premiere electronic music festival. Curated by SceneNoise, the lineups celebrate the depth and diversity of the region's electronic scene, providing a dedicated stage for DJs to showcase their unique sound identities. A sanctuary for discovery, #SelectBox has gained a cult following as a place where artists have the freedom to experiment and connect.

Amidst the coastal energy of El Gouna’s Red Sea shore, the 2025 edition of Sandbox Festival saw SceneNoise return with its latest iteration of #SelectBox - an intimate space carved out to amplify the raw talent of the region’s freshest upcoming selectors every year at Egypt’s premiere electronic music festival. Curated by SceneNoise, the lineups celebrate the depth and diversity of the region's electronic scene, providing a dedicated stage for DJs to showcase their unique sound identities. A sanctuary for discovery, #SelectBox has gained a cult following as a place where artists have the freedom to experiment and connect.

Amidst the coastal energy of El Gouna’s Red Sea shore, the 2025 edition of Sandbox Festival saw SceneNoise return with its latest iteration of #SelectBox - an intimate space carved out to amplify the raw talent of the region’s freshest upcoming selectors every year at Egypt’s premiere electronic music festival. Curated by SceneNoise, the lineups celebrate the depth and diversity of the region's electronic scene, providing a dedicated stage for DJs to showcase their unique sound identities. A sanctuary for discovery, #SelectBox has gained a cult following as a place where artists have the freedom to experiment and connect.

This week on SceneNoise’s Select series, we feature a set from the British-born Egyptian duo, Horrible. Known for a high-energy presence and a style that sits comfortably between house and techno, the pair have brought a consistent groove and a sharp ear for selection to every performance. Their Select set is a loose warm drift through some of their favorite recent house and ambient grooves, featuring eclectic tracks like Den Haas' 'Whatever It Is', Fred Everything - 'Here (Now)', and Coeo's 'I Can Never Be Yours'. To put simply, it's a morning set you put on when the calendar is empty, the light is coming in, and you’ve poured a drink and the crew is on the way.

This week on SceneNoise’s Select mix series, we have New York-based Egyptian selector Ayten. With a background spanning art, graphic, and motion design, Ayten treats DJing as an extension of her creative expression, blending sound, texture, and mood into a cohesive, sensory-driven experience shaped by a wide spectrum of cultural influences. For Select 384, Ayten delivers a hypnotic run through melodic house, anchored in deep, rolling grooves and slow-burning buildups that evoke as much introspection as a whole spectrum of movement on the dancefloor. The set features a refreshing selection of tracks like Stacie Fields’ ‘Mi Scusi’, Tino’s ‘Di Amore’, Nyra’s ‘Both of Us Knowing’, and Furz’s ‘Intergalactic Conexio’, moving between warmth and momentum, pairing soulful vocals with a steady rhythm that makes you wanna move.

This week on Select, rising Egyptian duo Paar Muzik steps in with a special mix. Made up of Karim Attallah and vocalist May Adam, the pair have been steadily carving out space within the local underground, known for immersive sets that sit at the crossroads of afro-house and tech-house. For Select 382, they lean into a warm, groove-led strain of tech-house, driven by rolling basslines, layered percussion, and tightly wound, hypnotic buildups, crafted for big rooms without losing their distinct touch.

A fast-rising name on Cairo's electronic scene, Youssef Roshdy steps into our Select spotlight with a cosy, warm house mix. Rooted in classic ’90s and early 2000s house, the set is an hour-long listen that oscillates between ambient grooves, trippy textures and experimental sounds, powered by deep rolling basslines.

Egyptian DJ and producer, MARTINA, stands as part of a new generation of talents who have been actively involved in pushing for an alternative underground electronic scene in Cairo. A member of artist collective, Dhamma, her sets are a patchwork of various sounds and musical styles, going as easily from balie funk to deconstructed club and left-field bass, often, if not always, imbued with punchy edits of Egyptian shaabi or rap bangers. It’s like everything, everywhere, all at once, constantly shifting, and chaotic in the best of ways. She has done her rounds at parties across the globe, including the UK, Spain, UAE, and played at Uganda’s iconic Nyege Nyege festival, and XP Music Futures in Saudi Arabia. Her sets have been aired on international radio stations, such as Stegi Radio and Echobox. Additionally, MARTINA has previously contributed an original track to ZULI’s Places: Egypt compilation on Air Texture, and co-produced records with electroneya for Barcelona-based Le Shapeshifters, along with composing music for the Egyptian comedy ‘The Gentlemen’. For our Select 378, she steps in with an open-format radio set that drifts away from her usual club selections to explore heavy, distorted, bass-driven music and abrasive noise, interspersed with flourishes of soothing ambient pads. The set opens with a gritty edit of Grimes’ Genesis, ending with one of her original productions, Forever, and featuring a premiere of an unreleased joint track with Moroccon producer 3xoj, titled ‘TANG’. Speaking of the set, MARTINA says, “This is a set for anyone who feels angry at the world but still holds a little bit of hope.”

This week on Select, we spotlight British-Kurdish DJ and rising producer, Lana Baybie, whose high-voltage sets have been lighting up major clubs and festivals across MENA, including Sandbox in Egypt's El Gouna. Shaped by her cross-cultural upbringing and time spent in Cairo, her sound pulls from UK garage, funk, and Jersey club, swerving into ghetto tech, dancehall, and bass-heavy club mutations. Off the decks, she co-runs the IASC collective, curating pop-up shows across Cairo, Dubai, and London. For Select 376, Lana shares the closing set from IASC’s one-year anniversary in Cairo, a tightly wound, bouncy run through jungle, breakbeat, rap, gqom, and percussive bass, laced with razor-sharp, ever-so slightly silly club edits. The set features an eclectic selection of tracks like 'Get Down Low' by En:vy remix, and Muhammad Ali by Lady Iykes, Scratcha DVA (remix).