ahmed grew up in casablanca, morocco, playing piano, guitar and drums before finding dance music in his teens, then moved to boston to study finance at northeastern university, where he started experimenting with production software.
the more you travel, the more cultures you're exposed to, your palette becomes wider.
ahmed spins to daily bruin, 19 may 2025
in 2022 he signed his first major ep, Anchor Point, to moblack records, made with kologo musician stevo atambire and south african vocalist lizwi, whose feature on the ep's Waves & Wavs matched the sound he had been chasing since casablanca.
two years earlier, in 2020, he had released Sawa with idd aziz on the elbaraka family label, a deep house record that still anchors his sets.
his most recent release, Phunky, made with Mike Dunn, reworks one of dunn's own chicago house tracks and came out on defected's DFTD imprint on 24 july 2026.
he performs regularly for deep house bible, a house music platform and event series founded by lucas zivkovic and guillaume blanchet, who he met at northeastern university. he plays edc colombia in medellín on 10 and 11 october 2026, and closes out iii points in miami on 16 and 17 october 2026 b2b with OMRI.
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