Najib Alhoush founded The Free Music in Libya in the mid-seventies, and the band recorded ten albums, all of them locked into the same blend of soul, funk, disco and reggae. Almost none of it travelled, because the political situation kept Libyan music largely sealed off. Habibi Funk first licensed Alhoush's reworking of "Stayin' Alive", a version that strips the original of its pop gloss, then found the depth behind it. This first volume took years to assemble, largely because getting tapes and payments in and out of Libya is still slow work.