"Why am I releasing my first book? 24 years ago my mom heard Big Pimpin’ by Jay-Z and said “you should make beats and mixes like this”, she loved the middle eastern sample in it. I’m half Iranian and growing up around mom playing Persian, Arabic and Lebanese music kind of made me take Middle Eastern music for granted. This project has been on my mind for 24 years but I took the last three years crafting and fine tuning it." - DJ Nu-Mark
"My parents, brother, and I left Iran in 1980, shortly after the revolution. After a brief stay in Italy, we packed all our belongings once again and headed west to the exotic and the unknown: Vancouver. We had recently been accepted as landed immigrants, meaning Canada graciously opened its doors and we gratefully accepted; we arrived at Vancouver International Airport on my 10th birthday, three suitcases and one sewing machine in tow. After respectful but intense questioning at immigration, we were dropped off at a hotel on Robson Street, which was then still a couple years shy of becoming the fashionable tourist hub it is today. We were jetlagged, culture shocked, and hungry, so that first night, my father and brother courageously ventured out into the wild in search of provisions. I fell asleep before they returned. The next morning, I woke up at 5 a.m. and ravenously feasted on a cold Quarter Pounder with cheese and limp French fries that had been left by my beds...

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