The Mix

For this issue, we took a deep- dive into the art of the mix: not just the music that fills your headphones or the tracks that spill out of club speakers at dawn, but the deeper,more primal human impulse to combine, clash, collide, and create. The mix is where the magic happens — whether you’re a DJ sliding across BPMs, a designer stitching the past to the future, or a person simply trying to make sense of the chaos and curation that defines modern identity.

You’ll find this spirit of remixing, rethinking, and reshaping threaded through every page of this issue. From the invention of the DJ booth to the rise of rave psychology, the mix has always been more than sound waves. It’s a blueprint for defiance. It’s where the underground refuses to stay buried, where subcultures take root and cross-pollinate, where art and rebellion become indistinguishable.

And you’ll meet the artists who are remixing the soundscape of this region — a new generation who are shaping the global conversation as much as they’re defining a local one. From Simi and Haze — two of the most culturally fluent, boundary-breaking names in electronic music — to Bayou, Zeyne, Mashaal and Tiara, each one is pushing Middle Eastern creativity onto the global stage, breaking out of categories and bending the edges of what sound, origin, and identity are supposed to mean. Together, they represent a scene that isn’t just ‘emerging’ anymore, but arriving — loud, self-assured, and impossible to ignore.

Welcome to The MIX Issue. Hit shuffle, turn the volume up, and read like everyone’s watching.