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  "name": "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan",
  "description": "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan appears 2 times in our Qawwali list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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    "last": 1990
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      "trackKey": "nusrat-fateh-ali-khan--mustt-mustt",
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      "title": "Mustt Mustt",
      "year": 1990,
      "label": "Real World",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Michael Brook puts a loop and a bassline under the greatest voice of the century and it loses nothing. The record that carried qawwali to people who had no idea what they were hearing.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Nusrat%20Fateh%20Ali%20Khan%20Mustt%20Mustt",
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    },
    {
      "trackKey": "nusrat-fateh-ali-khan--allah-hoo-allah-hoo",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/nusrat-fateh-ali-khan--allah-hoo-allah-hoo/",
      "title": "Allah Hoo Allah Hoo",
      "year": 1989,
      "label": "Real World",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Two words, repeated for a quarter of an hour, accelerating. The most efficient demonstration anywhere of what repetition is actually for, and it predates every dance record on this site by six centuries.",
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        },
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