Afro house did not cool off after its big year. Splice and MIDiA named it Sound of the Year after a huge jump in producer downloads, Beatport search interest climbed hard, and festival bills kept making room for rolling percussion and long grooves. That is the lane VIZANO steps into with Jeno, a Tribal / Afro House and Deep House cut featuring Hadi Azrak, already backed by Aaron Sevilla and played at Zamna Festival and around the world.
The pitch is simple and strong. Jeno samples the world-famous Jeno Neto by Hadid Azrak, a global anthem across the Arab world that had already reached DJs and tastemakers in the Middle East. VIZANO does not treat that sample like a novelty drop. The release is built as a late-night dancefloor record: deep grooves, hypnotic rhythms, expressive vocal elements, and production that keeps evolving instead of resetting every sixteen bars. At 124 BPM in E minor, and running just over three minutes on the streaming version, it sits in the pocket where Afro house and deep house still share a floor. Percussion leads. The vocal sample carries the memory. The groove does the rest.
That blend fits the wider scene right now. Tribal house, in the current club sense, is four-on-the-floor with hand drums, chant-like vocals, and earthy percussion over a rolling bassline. Deep house still supplies the warmer, more atmospheric side. Afro house has become the meeting point, from Ibiza terraces to desert festivals. Zamna’s 2026 return to Sharm El Sheikh is a useful marker: a Sinai setting, a bigger daily capacity, and a bill that already mixes techno heavyweights with Afro house names. A record that has been played in that world, and picked up by Aaron Sevilla, whose own sets lean on intense percussion and Afro-Latin rhythm, is not guessing at the room. It is written for it.
VIZANO is not a first-week alias. The project comes from a London DJ and producer with more than 15 years on the road and gigs across 30-plus countries, with roots in India and Africa. The sound is anchored in house, then pulled toward Afro, organic, and Indo house, plus ethnic and Mediterranean rhythm. Earlier numbers attached to the project include a previous base of 40,000 Spotify listeners, 5 million Mixcloud streams, and 400,000 YouTube views, with releases on Cafe De Anatolia and Native Music Recordings. Remixes and edits have drawn support from Aaron Sevilla, Kahani, and Vanilla Ace, plus plays on BBC Radio and iHeart Radio.
The Indo Warehouse chapter matters. VIZANO’s inaugural single was signed there, he was the first guest headliner to perform for the label, and the first UK artist to sign with it. Indo Warehouse has been one of the faster-rising South Asian electronic imprints, and that affiliation explains why Jeno does not sound like a generic Afro house template. The rhythmic character is the point: a Middle Eastern anthem reframed through a producer who already works at the edge of Indo, Afro, and Mediterranean club music.
Jeno is out now on Sunset Gathering, with the single live on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. If the vocal hook already lives in your memory from the original, the new cut is the version built for a darker room and a longer set.
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What do you think of this take on Jeno Neto? Drop a comment if you have already heard it in a set.
