Merhba Remix EP by Beatkozina feat. El Mago & Axel Camil

"Merhba" (meaning "Welcome" in Arabic), the 2024 Afro-House meets Chicago loft EP from London / Marrakech duo Beatkozina gets the 2025 remix treatment from Laroye, Moodorama, Chocolate Garage Production, and Inkswel on Compost Records.

Laroye, who also recently remixed a Galliano track for Brownswood, delivered an ethereal tune with much musical respect to the original club hit. Moodorama (recently remixed Jazzanova, youANDme) present a version with an extra delicious pump. Chocolate Garage Production from Cologne stripped the airy house serenade down to the bone, while Inkswel cut it to a new broken beat hemisphere.

Beatkozina is an electronic and world music duo based between London and Marrakech made up of Mehdi Naami (DJ, musician, and producer) and Gregory Jouandon (jazz drummer, pianist, composer, and producer). Both multi-instrumentalists, they share a strong passion for electronic music as well as world music.

Beatkozina is the fruit of this interesting artistic encounter. Their collaboration draws its energy from the Afro matrix as well as a wide range of influences from North African, the Middle East, Indian traditional music, jazz, and Afro-Latin music. Their sound is tied to researching African rhythmic and pentatonic mutations within new ecosystems including Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

They perform a connexion between Electro and Afro trances through the identification of Moroccan rhythmic patterns, minimalism, transposition, and confrontation producing a tribal, complex, contemporary sound that carries a subliminal message of universality and identity at the same time.

Beatkozina feat. El Mago & Axel Camil - Merhba Remix EP
Release Date April 2025
Label Compost Records

Tracklist
1. Merhba (Laroye Remix)
2. Merhba (Moodorama Remix)
3. Merhba (Inkswel Remix feat. Colonel Red)
4. Merhba (Chocolate Garage Productions Remix)
5. Merhba (Sax Conversation Mix)
6. Merhba (Inkswel Remix Instrumental)