Disco Maghreb”, which is considered a symbolic place full of nostalgia and a cultural actor in the eighties and a distinguished cultural monument of the city of Oran and a witness to the golden age of the Algerian music industry, despite its closure for a long time, still imposes itself as one of the most important tourist attractions for visitors to the city of Oran.
Days before the opening of the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games, which will be hosted by the city of Oran until next July 6, social networks and the media are full of memorial photos in front of the famous audio tape and studio banner, transforming the shop that witnessed the emergence of rai music into a space for attracting tourists.
Artists, athletes, journalists, public figures, or visitors who came to Oran to attend the many sports competitions and the rich cultural program, frequent the “Disco Maghreb” shop located at the bottom of an old building on Gaudi Abdel Rahman Street, which was followed by the biggest stars of Rai from Khaled Hajj Ibrahim to Cheb Mami and the late Hosni Chakroun, who was assassinated by the hands of treachery in 1994.
Memories of this studio, founded by Boualem Benhaoua, are caught up in the imagination of a generation of young Algerian artists who used the label and audiotape to create another symbol of Algerian pop culture, just like industrial brands, movie scenes or Algerian movie stars, sports and song. Thanks to the renewed interest in this emblematic place in particular, the famous “DJ Snack” and the famous clip, which was a great success called “Disco Maghreb”, which represents the return of Boualem Ben Houwa to his famous shop, which has remained as it is, where the tapes are still intact.
After the great success of this clip and the international echo that its owner knows, the media circulated the possibility of returning discotheques from Morocco to the music industry. Through the Internet, many visitors to the city of Oran, who proudly published their photos, expressed their hope to rehabilitate the site while preserving its originality, and their curiosity to know the details of the adventure of Disco Maghreb and other actors from that era such as producer and musician Rachid Baba Ahmed, who was also a victim. terrorism in 1995.
Musicians and singers also see in this shop a temple of rai music in the form of a museum that tells about the amazing development of this character and collects the artistic careers of the great stars who passed through “Disco Maghreb”.
