Hiya blends Arabic tradition with deep house to craft humanized electronic music. Discover her new single “Ya Msafer” and her rise as a cultural force in techno.
Hiya Is Reprogramming Electronic Music With Ancestral Memory
A New Voice in Global Techno Culture
In a scene often dominated by algorithms and uniformity, Hiya—the sonic alias of Lebanese artist Reem El Sharif—is rewriting what it means to be human in electronic music. With roots in Classical Arabic Tarab and a brain tuned for experimentation, Hiya electronic music fuses cultural depth with digital precision. Her work is more than sound design—it’s soul engineering.
This week, Hiya unveils her latest single, “Ya Msafer,” via Café De Anatolia, offering a new portal into her expanding universe. The release drops today, June 13, 2025, and it’s already pulsing with resonance.
With Hiya electronic music, ancestral memory is not a reference—it’s the root system. And through it, she’s crafting a genre-defying, borderless expression of sound that refuses to be flattened by global trends.
“Ya Msafer”: Longing in Motion
Her newest track, “Ya Msafer,” is a meditation on movement. Built around the Arabic concept of the traveler, it translates emotional nostalgia into meticulously sculpted frequencies. Each vocal phrase feels like a farewell; each drop, a silent departure.
The song opens with reverb-soaked vocals, before evolving into a slow-burning rhythm that’s equal parts melancholy and momentum. Designed for both introspective listening and deep club play, “Ya Msafer” captures what Hiya does best—fusing tradition with techno as if the two were never separate to begin with.
Memory As Protocol
“Electronic music gave me a new language,” Hiya says, “but I still speak in dialects of memory.” This is not just a poetic sentiment—it’s a framework. In a time when global sounds are often sampled without context, Hiya electronic music operates as both resistance and renaissance. Her sound architecture is emotional, rooted, and designed to honor history—not commodify it.
She isn’t remixing genres; she’s reprogramming the protocol.
More Than Music—A Movement
Hiya represents a growing wave of artists who are using technology not to erase culture, but to amplify it. From Beirut to Berlin, her name is rising among those watching the convergence of club music, ritual, and regional identity. The energy she brings isn’t just sonic—it’s systemic.
For fans of Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm, or Acid Arab, Hiya offers something similarly cerebral, but with a warmer emotional core—one shaped by migration, memory, and mother tongue.
So listen with intention. Hiya is not just a name to watch—she’s one to remember.
“Electronic music gave me a new language,” she says, “but I still speak in dialects of memory.”
“Ya Msafer” – by HIYA released via Cafe De Anatolia (13.06.2025)
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