“Synthetic Traditions”, with this expression, Pan African Music magazine described Yunis' music in their interview with him. An imagined spiritual ritual takes place in a tumultuous modern world, “Synth-led nightmare fuel” as BoomKat said about one of his tracks, or as the mastering engineer, Heba Kadry, said about his work: “There is something that is very nostalgic to me about his sound and yet extremely tight and a cut above what is expected from Shaa’bi music.” Yunis (b. 1994) is an experimental musician interested in traditional/trance music and rituals. He is based in the Egyptian western Delta province of Kafr El-Dauwar where he co-founded Kafr El-Dauwar Records (KDR), an independent digital record label working to nurture, support, and release his hometown’s contemporary and experimental music. In his working method, Yunis values an approach of cross-pollination, syncretism, and experimentation. While genre-bending is at the root of his artistic method, he believes in the sacredness of the traditional musical forms he draws from. Moreover, a prominent issue throughout his work is the characterization of “cultural revival.” In speaking about his work, musicians, artists, critics, and writers often characterize the practice as “cultural revival.” However, Yunis sees that his work subverts this characterization, as he treats these traditional genres as living, evolving, artistic forms, as opposed to stagnant, historical, artifacts that need to be “revived.”