Founded in 2009, the Beirut Groove Collective (BGC) is a collective of vinyl DJs, crate diggers, music obsessives and artists. For over a decade, the BGC has thrown one of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA)'s most popular underground clubnights in Beirut, the BGC All-Nighter. This has built an international reputation for its distinctive sound and attracted some of the world's leading DJs, turntablists and record collectors.
At their parties, the BGC plays obscure and underground clubbing records from the 60s through to the 80s, drawing on music from the Middle East, Africa and around the world. Think of an eclectic mix of Lebanese 60s garage and beat, Bellydance psych, Arabic disco, Latin tarab, Armenian estradayin, Ethiopian and Sudanese jazz, rare soul and funk, psychedelia and much more.
The BGC will combine the DJ efforts of its co-founder Ernesto Chahoud, DJ, compiler, record collector and radio host (NTS, Do!! You!!!, Now-Again Records, BBE) together with music researcher, writer, DJ and radio host Natalie Shooter, (Radio Alhara, Do!! You!!!).
