Today, Egypt's party scene is explosive, a diverse club-scape of high-end shindigs to underground raves and beyond. What's it all about and how has it developed?

For a new series, a collaboration between Egypt's biggest dance music label Electrum Records and Scene Noise, we aim to explore Egypt's clubbing scene, interviewing the characters that have been submerged in it over the years, from organisers and DJs, to party animals and promoters.

Every week we'll be delving into the minds of the prominent personalities significant to the burgeoning scenes, as well as the people that make up the parties. For the first episode we sat down with the one and only Ahmed Ganzoury of ByGanz, a brand in and of himself and a name synonymous with the glitz and glamour of high-society extravaganzas for the past ten years...

The next Discotecture night will be taking place in the sun, sea and sand of El Gouna with Robosonic from Berlin headlining. For reservations click here.