Fadi Tabbal is a hidden giant of Beirut's alternative music scene. He joins us in our studio in Beirut to talk about the music he's produced over the years, the independent musicians on the rise, and the work that his studio – Tunefork Studios – is doing. He compares the music scenes in Beirut, Cairo and Dubai, and explains how there are no records or archives of the alternative music that came before the last decade. He takes us on a journey through the 70s to the 2000s and 2010s, talks about music in the internet age, and tells us how Red Bull shaped the music scene in Lebanon for a period of time.

0:00 Introduction
1:22 Fadi's Music Career So Far
9:33 Interlude 1: Scrambled Eggs
14:50 Early 2000s Beirut Music Scene
20:11 The Arab World's Music Scene
33:54 Music in the 2010s and Into the Internet Age
45:11 The Pop Music Problem & Western Music Standards
52:15 70s and 80s Music From Lebanon
55:55 Heavy Metal in Lebanon
58:50 Tunefork Studios
1:00:00 Desert Island Discs: Arab World

Fadi Tabbal is a Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer often referred to as "the hardest-working man in Lebanon's alternative music scene." He established Tunefork Studios in 2006 and has produced and recorded some of the most renowned Lebanese and international acts in the contemporary music scene in Lebanon today.

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