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MANAMA: In these days of house, trip-hop, trance, and more house, you might not expect two young Gulf-based DJ-producers to be embracing Arabic disco from the 1970s. But the aptly named duo Dar Disku (which translates as ‘home of the disco’) Bahraini Maz Almaskati and long-time Bahrain expat Vish Mhatre are doing just that, with great aplomb. The two men, who are now in their late 20s, were school friends in Bahrain and shared a passion for music of many different genres. Mhatre recalls “raiding my parents’ record collection and CD and tape racks. Sitting on the living room floor with headphones going through the CDs and records one by one and discovering new music, whether it was my dad’s taste Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull or Zeppelin or my mom’s more dancefloor-oriented taste such as ABBA, Gwen McCrae, or old-school Bollywood.”

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