Oojami

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world fusion, international, fusion, arabic, world lounge… see all

Necmi, born in Turkey, emmigrated to U.K. and became fascinated with some world fusion DJ’s in Glastonbury that used exotic music. He played around and improved a series of mixed music tracks that impressed others. Soon he was DJing more and eventually joined up with some other musicians and singers to form Oojami.

Oojami fuses Turkish elements with a myriad of cultural traditions, providing a whirling dervish cyclone of sound with an uncompromising attitude towards musical freedom of expression.

Bellydance Breakbeats is the very first product of this exotic combination. One of the tracks on the CD , “Fantasy,” was featured in the film “Dirty Pretty Things,” showing the ever sexy Audrey Tautou dancing to the song. Despite the album’s name, the music is not like any other bellydancing CD and should not be confused with the various nouveau bellydance acts out there. Oojami’s music is grounded in Turkish rythyms and melodies with healthy doses of European techno and electronica. Bellydancing Breakbeats is at times very fast and furious but still retains solid melodic structure. Their second album, Urban Dervish, as less fenzied but still along the same themes.

1	Chicky full track	49
2	Fantasy full track	20
3	Tin Tin full track	19
4	Sitare full track	17
5	Urban Dervish full track	15
6	Neyzen full track	8
6	Istanboogie full track	8
8	Boda full track	7
9	Ali full track	6
9	Desert Fish full track	6
9	Vuslat full track	6
9	Zenne full track	6
9	Dunya full track	6
9	Another World full track	6
9	Azize full track	6

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Bellydancing Breakbeats
Oojami
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Urban Dervish
Oojami
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Boom Shinga Ling
Oojami
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Bellydance Superstars
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Izgrejala wrote:
June 2008

Absolutely great! ^^

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toughloveband wrote:
May 2008

Oojami - the band plus dancers etc - are playing White Mischief at Scala in London on Saturday June 7 along with seven other bands including Ebony Bones, seven DJs and seven vaudeville acts as part of one night festival White Mischief... see http://www.last.fm/event/597075 or http://www.whitemischief.info for details

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JeanneG103 wrote:
March 2008

Oojami I Great.

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pifflola wrote:
March 2008

♥!

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suprasensual wrote:
September 2007

Top listener! Whoo!

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suprasensual wrote:
April 2007

We are no one if we're not free.

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doenerphreek wrote:
March 2007

sexy avatar :)

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Recent Activity

katyatyukova, extremejoy9, milimoj and 2 other people added Oojami to their libraries. Wednesday afternoon
tecessus created the Turkish wiki page for Oojami. 25 days ago
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