About us

Founded in late 2016, Alt Orient was established to create a home for West Asian & African alternative electronic music. Covering a wide range of electronic sub-genres such as indie Electronica, House, Organic House, Downtempo, Techno, Avant Garde, Experimental & everything in between.

Over the years the imprint has released electronic music from artists stemming from Egypt, Tunis, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iran, Georgia, Morocco, Greece,& Albania.

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The imprint has since switched its focus to releasing music with artists who perform live electronic music, such as the pioneer Arab indie electronic based band El Morabba3, breakthrough Georgian artist, singer-songwriter and producer; Tamada, sensational duo Santi & Tugce, German-Syrian household duo Shkoon, Persian Legendary producer Namito and Live Psy-Funk band Yalnayak & rising Turkish Producers Wapi & Netam.

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Notable Releases/remixes from Oceanvs Orientalis, Acid Pauli, El Buho, Adnan Joubran (Le Trio Joubran), Mercan Dede, Martin Roth, Trikk, Niklas Paschburg & Hello Psychallepo

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Previously operating as Souq Records [2016-2021]