Episode 206 – Zaid Abdulrahim

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This week marks the Natural Essence House Show debut for Soulful Horizons head honcho Zaid Abdulrahim.

A Bit More About This Weeks Guest

I am Zaid Abdulrahim from Long Island, NY. And I am the DJ/founder of Soulful Horizons Music which started in 2014 throwing its first parties in Harlem USA. My style of music is soulful and Afro House music that touches the spirit. As Louie Vega once told me his first advice to any DJ is to “Play from the heart”. From the humble beginnings of throwing my own events in order to get exposure we are excited to establish Soulful Horizons Music.

The story starts at about age 5 being blessed with a natural gift of dance. Being able to feel the music unlike others around me and interpret that into a dance motion that was considered very smooth and fluid. I continued to use that feeling to determine what is good music to my soul and what is not but what makes me move. I started off as a rapper at age 12 surrounded by Djs such as Biz Markie, Diamond Jay and Diamond Shell thus the introduction to beat production and studio exposure was given to me at a very impressionable point in my life and has stuck with me ever since.

My family has been in music production for many generations. Starting with Thom Bell who produced for the Stylistics, Delfonics, Elton John, Dionne Warwick and James Ingram to name a few. Followed by Ron Bell who is one of the founding members of Kool and the Gang. Also, Jerry Bell from the Daz Band, Archie Bell of Archie Bell and the Drells and Leroy Burgess the lead singer and producer from the group Black Ivory.

As time passed I gravitated more towards the positive energy of House Music and the Love I saw in the culture. I have been blessed to meet many beautiful people. In 2015 I teamed up with the Are You Afro? Movement in the WMC Miami 2015 Conference. This was a major breakthrough for me because I was given an opportunity to open for Anane and Louie Vega at the Nulu Party along with playing three dates with Are you Afro? I am very thankful for those chances to shine and I am using the momentum to take advantage of a bright future. My goal has always been music production and we have finally reached that stage.

We currently have dates across the nation coming up. Music releases and collaborations will be distributed world wide with our chain of partners. To keep up with our events please register your email address. By doing so not only will you be kept unto date but also will have access to exclusive mixes and merchandise. Also, access to the guestlist at specified events. Thanks and God Bless!

Playlist

1.Conquer the World (N’ Dinga Gaba Diplomacy Soul fix)

2.Dance after 12 (Pablo Martinez) Martini Musiq

3.I think I Luv U (Zaid Abdulrahim Dub) Jimmy Clanifield

4.Diamond Girls – Adam Cruz

5.No Turning Back – NJ Househead & Anthony Poteat

6.My God Loves Me – Aron Prince

7.Never Give You Up – Joey Negro

8.Get Down (Nick Holder Edit)

9.Hammondnized – Moon Rocket

10.Whole Damn year – Mary J Blige (Timmy Regisford Remix)

11.The Gathering – DJ Spax & Brown Sugah

12.Rhyme & Reason (BTD Remix) – Jihad Muhammad

13.Self – Dee Tejada

14.Walk In My Way _ Abicah Soul Dub

15.Real Blues (Atjazz Galaxy Art Dub)

16.Something New – Nkokhi (Josh Milan Honeycomb Remix)

17.Clap Your Hands – Zakes Bantwini

18.Falling – Nathan Adams (Quentin Harris)

19.EL Commandante – Zaid Abdulrahim

20.Fly – Spellband

21.African Sunrise – Groove Assassin feat tantra Zawadi

22.Meet My Man (Abicah’ Main Vocal Mix)

23.Journey to My Heart ( Zandy Shejay feat Thandi Draai)

24.Maxwell Remix

25.Amazing Superman (Original Mix)

26.Special – Sara Devine (Louie vega)

Podcast

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You can catch the show as its broadcast around the world via our Global Broadcast Partners. You can download the show a week later via iTunes.

Week 1 – Broadcast on the radio throughout the week on various stations every day. New stations being added every week.

Week 2 – Available on iTunes for download as a podcast.

Dedicated Stream Page

We are developing a new home on our site for live and archive streams of the show. You will soon be able to listen to the 1st play on our site Every Monday at 6pm.

Users of our new app and Tune In will be able to straight away. We have also added a stream player to our homepage, so you don’t miss any action while we are developing our dedicated stream page. We will keep you updated as we finish and test our new radio stream page.

Natural Essence House Show Merchandise

We would love to see you sporting out colours in your city…..We are pleased to announce a new range of official Natural Essence House Show merchandise that can be personalised to your requirements at prices that we can all afford and a great way to support the show. All items can be collected from our events, or posted for an additional cost via our merchandise store. Children’s prices are available on request. All items can be ordered in a colour of your choice.

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