Alif has been played on NTS in shows including Don't Trip w/ Margarita, featured first on 29 August 2015. Songs played include Holako (Hulagu), Al-Khutba Al-Akhira (The Last Declamation) and Watti Es-Sawt (Keep It Down).

Alif, known also as alif.bae, is a Pakistani electronic musician from Karachi.

Alif is the collective sound of five musicians at the forefront of independent music in the Arab world. Bursting with rhythmic drive and fervour, the band’s wide ranging influences along with their unified and intriguing energy, give birth to a soundscape that is at once familiar and unknown.

Innovative instrumentation, poignant words from avant-garde poets such as Sargon Boulos and Mahmoud Darwish, and the abstract worlds penned by the band’s vocalist Tamer Abu Ghazaleh coalesce to create an intense labyrinth of sounds and emotions.