Canada’s Delhi 2 Dublin have made a name for themselves mashing up Celtic and Punjabi styles with electronica… This EP is a collection of collaborations and remixes on a dubwise tip. Tasty stuff by Dubmatix, Eccodek, Spy From Cairo, etc… Czech it here:
<a href=”http://delhi2dublin.bandcamp.com/album/delhi-2-dubland-ep” _mce_href=”http://delhi2dublin.bandcamp.com/album/delhi-2-dubland-ep”>Delhi 2 Dubland EP by Delhi 2 Dublin</a>
Musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung and that time was not on his side. Like many Americans, “Chebiji” – as he is affectionately known – does not have health insurance. Due to his weak health condition, Chebiji found himself having to cancel live shows, meaning his income stream has come to a complete halt, with mounting medical bills and future medical costs ahead.
Upon learning of his condition, a few close friends and artists have come together to rally around Chebiji and assist him with his fight. Devastated by the news and outraged that an artist of Chebiji’s caliber cannot afford to care for himself and receive the proper urgent medical treatment needed, we have set up a fund to help.
THE IMPACT
Sabbah’s influence on the global electronic music and DJ scene cannot be over estimated. He has shown two entire generations that classical world traditions can blend beautifully and respectfully with DJ Culture. Thousands have experienced his music and artistic vision through his many albums and on his dance floors – whether in Goa, Essaouira, Moscow or at Nickie’s, where he ran an eighteen year San Francisco weekly residence, we know what a beautiful gift Chebiji has been to the world at large. This is our opportunity to give something back to Cheb i Sabbah in his time of need
WHAT WE NEED
We have identified a cancer clinic in Germany that is ideally suited for Chebiji’s condition and age. We estimate a treatment and recovery period of one year during which time Chebiji will be unable to work. Our projected costs for his treatment and household expenses during the treatment and recovery period is $45,000. We hope to raise $20,000 through private donations, benefit shows and benefit albums/remix albums. We turn to you, the friends and fans to help us raise another $25,000. The breakdown of monies needed is as follows:
1. Cancer Treatment inclusive of airfare and lodging: $27,000
2. One Year of Fixed Expenses (Rent/Storage/Electric ): $18,000
PLEASE NOTE: Even if the initial goal of $25,000 is met before the deadline of August 15, 2011, you may continue to donate in order to help Chebiji reach the overall goal of $45,000.
HOW ELSE YOU CAN HELP We ask all of Chebij’s friends and fans to help spread the word about his condition via all social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook).
Peep this dope soundtrack from Everywhere and Nowhere out today in Cinema’s. It features some BIG names who chaiwalla has been pushing for sometime now :) enjoy!
I just got my first proper listen of the new Delhi 2 Dublin Remix album, and its sounding stellar! It features 11 chambers of mind-blowing remixes from Sub Swara, SonicAnimation, Shiva Soundsystem, Jay Dhabi, Radiohiro, Poirier, Adham Shaikh, Gaudi and a few others. From Soca to bass rattling Dub, there is something for everyone and a dance party for all.
My personal favourite tun-age which is like asking me to pick my favourite child has got to be ‘Tommy’, only because the memory of being in a sea of humans all chanting ‘WHAT WE HAVE IS NOT WHO WE ARE’ brings chills to my spine. So below are Shiva Soundsystems and Sonicsanimations take on ‘TOMMY’. Full Album soon to be released.
….And we hit the road to tour Chaiwalla’s latest release 22º of Beatitude by Tarun Nayar. Expect Tarun’s show to be a multimedia-heavy exploration of the album’s material. Through live visuals and performances, the show will bring to life the people and places that inspired Tarun in his travels. Also touring with Tarun will be visual artist, Electrabelle, master percussionist and drummer Dave ‘Sharmaji’ Sharma (Sub Swara, NY) and glitch-hop duo BPM (Rup Sidhu and Nadia Chaney). The show promises to range from bhangra to drum’n’bass to chill-out. In order to give back to the people and places that have inspired him, Tarun has committed 50% of all the proceeds of 22º of Beatitude to charity. As he spends much of his time in Asia, a large portion of the funds will be directed towards building homes for the destitute, as well as supporting education, and social programs. So, be there of be sari!
And this is Kirk Spencer a brand new and alluring arrival to the wild bollywood dubstep movement. Such a sexy job on the sampling! grab ‘HOTA HAI’ while its free!
Watch out for the full EP by Kirk Spencer due out in April 2011
It’s making us all weepy! Our very own Tarun Nayar (aka Tspoon) has released his new album, 22º of Beatitude, on our very own record label today, March 1. It’s a 10 year journey through his travels and recording sessions all over the globe – Pathaan called it “a beautiful personal dialect of sublime & atmospheric songs”. It’s not all warm and fuzzy tho, check our exclusive free download of Turkish Spice in the player below. Grab it quick, cause it’s not gonna stay free forever.
So as of recently we are completely hard for anything Moombahton and when they add an asian lick to it, well lets just say we jizz in our pants. Heartbreak and Munchi teamed up to release this EP in fall’10 titled ‘FUCK H&M’ and a specific track jumped out at us, its called ‘Chavvi’ and heres what David Heartbreak had to say about chavvi and MOOMBHANGRA!
Heartbreak – Chavvi This song is me having fun. I was chatting with a chick that loved the Munbreakton EP. She happened to like bhangra. I’ve always loved bhangra. So what I did was take bhangra, dirty house and put a bit of Heartbreak into it. The original was 130, but as Moombahton it sounded 10 times better!!
How about some disposable pop music for your next workout. From the UK 18 year old Ahsan Bajwa is carving his name out by cramping Imran Khan’s electro-punjabi-pop style. Its a good and fun tune but nothing original. Enjoy but remember to recycle once your done with your mp3′s
Moombahton (pronounced /ˌmoombaˈtoʊn/) is a genre of electronic dance music that was created by American dj/producerDave Nada[1] at a high school homecoming “skipping party” for his younger cousin in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009.[2] The specific event that stimulated NADA’s development of the Moombahton genre was his slowing the Afrojack remix of the Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie song “Moombah” to 108 beats per minute. Because that tempo nears that of the reggaeton, Nada created the neologism “Moombahton” by combining the title of the track “Moombah” and the “ton” ending of the word “reggaeton” and applied it to his new genre.
36 months after the inception of this genre its being billed as the next BIG break through for dance music because of its unique flow that makes combining cumbia, house, hiphop, and reggae natural. But this is just the beginning and were already seeing spin-off genres. Check this great tune from Neki Stranac from Serbia making Moombhangra
Cornershop??? You will, of course, remember them from ‘that cornershop track – what’s it called again?’. Every few months we hear rumours that these boys (and now a girl too!) are up to something fresh. We check their myspace, and there’s little bits and bobs – signs of life and creativity. And now a whole new album pops into our mailbox! With the aptly named singer Bubbley Kaur. Download the free single below, or have a look at their new music video here. It’s gorgeous. It’s so nostalgic, it reminds me of the the kite-flying days in my youth that i never actually had.
If you met me in real life you’d be quick to discover that I am a born and raised Canadian prairie boy from Pakistani parents. The two worlds couldn’t be further apart but for me growing up with banjos and panchods I secretly knew the two worlds could meet musically. There’s a certain emotion that only folk music can evoke, it brings out the little leprechaun inside you that dances, sings and rejoices to the stories of your land. I’ve always thought of South Asian and Western folk music as one.
This fascination of two cultures turns into creative sparks when I see punjabi truck drivers hauling long loads across the prairie skies and I think “hey, this could sound like southern qawwali blues rock”, picture the black keys meet Nusrat. The denim jeans and diesel are the electric guitar and the serenity of the flat landscape are the heavenly vocals of qawwal.
So when I heard the Dharohar Project, Laura Marling & Mumford & Sons EP, I gotta say I never heard music this close to home, a home that’s simply my little Asia in the prairies.
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On their debut, Sigh No More, English quartet Mumford and Sons cooked up rousing, romantic folk rock perfect for sloshed barroom singalongs, earning two Grammy nominations in the process. For this EP, they took a page from the George Harrison playbook, recording in Delhi, India, with fellow touring partner Laura Marling and a nine-member collective of Rajasthani musicians called the Dharohar Project. The result sounds like a pub band crashing an Indian wedding: “Devil’s Spoke,” which Marling originally cut as a quiet, unassuming acoustic tune, is turned into a lively foot-stomper, thanks to Winston Marshall’s banjo and Dharohar Project’s wailing vocals and clacking, polyrhythmic percussion. Mumford and Sons’ “To Darkness,” a sleepy B side, is reborn as a celebratory yawp, with new lyrics and a slow-burning backbeat that eventually explodes into joyful cacophony. The next logical step in Mumford and Sons’ career? Sitar lessons.
Were re-posting this blog entry but with one dope update! the official video of ‘Got me Saying’.
If there’s one Canadian artist whose destined to ‘blow up’ on the international stage its Deesha from Toronto. Coming off her 2006 single “Falling in Love“, Deesha has evolved into a Pop Goddess that sings effortlessly between two cultures while maintaing a cool factor that others in the arena fail so badly at. Her new tune “Got Me Sayin” is out now on itunes ! her new video is below and watch this space for more details on Deesha’s soon to be released ’200 grams’ album.
Ah! Shane Solanki of Last Mango in Paris has just joined Soundcloud and we suggest you start following him here. A lyrical genius that makes sense of the chaotic world we live in with wit, humour and a slap across your face. So peep this track with Bandish Project and Last Mango in Paris !!!
This project is absolutely breathe taking. Imagine a future where machines, computers and humans join forces to create outer-national electronic music. The Machine Orchestra is a journey into the future and you must simply press play on the vimeo video below to understand.
Now that you’ve gotten a glimpse of the sheer genius and labour gone into the project, its time to unwind and enjoy the masterpiece.
You know those moments on the crowded subway when the presence of a beautiful stranger makes the trip just bearable ?? now only if we had a soundtrack for that moment. Well now you can have that tune! from Los Angeles, United States check the flow of Hoodimusic and the code-switching between panjabi and english is flawless.
One week from now! Chaiwalla’s Boombox will be hosting a remix contest for Adham Shaikh’s ‘Carpet Breaker’ from his latest album ‘Universal Frequencies’. Heres your chance to dive into the world of Adham before you set out to make your own interpretation of 21st century gypsy music! Grab your free download below
On the album
After three years of sonic exploration Adham has crafted a new world fusion album that embraces the past, plays with contemporary and suggestively sketches our future. ‘Universal Frequencies’ represents the high water mark of a lifetime of experimentation and sounds beguilingly ancient and extra-terrestrial at the same time. In short, it is a dizzying reflection of our contemporary global culture that will send your mind tripping out into the stratosphere while your body cascades through shimmering vistas of kundalini inspired bliss.
Its a dynamic tribal journey inspired by the musical legacies of India, Africa, the Middle East, The Balkans and beyond, ‘Universal Frequencies’ is gypsy music for the twenty first century nomad. A powerful fusion of world, hip-hop, dub, progressive electronica and Balkan beats.
It truly feels like Christmas morning right now! not only did I open my window to find my city blanketed by snow but I stumbled upon this amazing ETHNO-FUNK tune! and I just know this gonna be an instant classic. Its called ‘Funky Bijou’ and its got all the markings of a breakbeat hit! From France and produced by Dj MARRRTIN, DEHEB & FRESHHH. You can grab your Vinyl here
If you lover of electro-bhangra then check this! Breakbeat’s Son gets on the decks for 30 minutes and its all flashing lights, disco balls and whiskey infused energy. Made specifically for Sonny Ji’s ‘Bhangra Mixtape’ show on the BBC and now available for all you chaiwalla fans! to stream over and over again! Also be sure to pick up breakbeat’s sons new EP HERE and stay tuned for his full-length album titled ‘ I am here now’
The man know simply as ‘Psychedelic Singh‘ has just posted this free download of Kuldeep Manak’s ‘Sahiban Da Kat’ with his signature Psychedelic Bhangra twist. Grab it while you can below and for more posts on Psychedelic Singh go here.
So I was thinking to myself today, where would I play Shivang Patels’ “Swayambhu”(tr1bu3 m1x) ? and then it came to me! I would open my set with it in Bangkok at the Moon Bar! everything about this tune conveys the perfect emotions when your just starting your night out and on the 62th floor overlooking a city.
Alright so PINJU is considered gold in my world of the boombox and the chaiwalla. Our last post on PINJU was a massive hit, resulting in a storm of retweets and reposts on the social web . Well PINJU is back baby! and this time with one of the phattest drops i’ve heard in awhile. Just love how he uses a simple raag and turns it into all out madness!
Its such a beautiful thing when you hear voices ascending from heaven mixed with wobbly dubstep. And this is exactly what G-Produktions out of Muscat, Oman has achieved! a rare occurrence to experience heaven and hell in 4 minutes with his track ‘Devotional Cries’
Yah your probably gonna have to dunk your head in the tub once your done with this POST cause we got an exclusive first coverage of a free download by Kage called GAJUR. Kage is a 17 year old dubstep producer from West midlands, Britain who caught our attention with this SITAR DUBSTEP of tune! trust this is hot
Saturdays are all about getting dolled up and painting the town red to the music we love. And with perfect timing nonchalant a producer from UK whom chaiwalla loves just posted this TUNE! . And so our night begins with some solid energy and vibes!
Kill Religion by East Stepper is an electronic war-zone with tabla’s being carpet bombed over electronic distortions and dark synths that will infiltrate your mind. This is simply ‘Indo-Neuro Drum N Bass’
Lately its been Dub Sharma that gives me a smack like trip. Such a rush with his music and love how ‘Onda Janda’ builds, and builds, and then just evaporates into a glory of a PUNJABI DRUMSTEP tune. Its supreme contentment for me when it drops! for more posts on Dub Sharma go here
Sukhmani Malik, a trained – Hindustani classical vocalist and Hari Singh, a producer and audio engineer have come together to create a sound that is fresh and eclectic. It’s folk music from the land of Punjab fused with ambient electronica..a combination of Sukhmani’s rustic voice & Hari’s production has put them on chaiwalla’s radar!
You know I really don’t know how the heck to explain this track by Pinju hailing from Germany except for when I first heard it, it was like levitating in some far off twilight zone. And after almost 1 year of covering anything todo with progressive asian music ‘Spice’ by Pinju has become a personal favourite. Its so fresh and inspiring to hear someone unafraid to experiment and break the mold. BRAVO!
