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Review: Dhaka Electronica Scene Compilation
You’ve probably never tried to party in Dhaka. I have. It isn’t easy. In a country where alcohol is mostly illegal, and in capital city which would envy the power supply of Gorakhpur,...
Sneak Peek: Inside The True School Of Music
I. What: Bold, polished and well-equipped are a few choice adjectives to begin with, if I were to paint a picture of the True School of Music. Bold for its loud (but royal) purple entrance and other...
Moderat ii – Live: The World Premiere
2 August 2013. This was it. I’d been wanting to see this band live since I first caught them closing Field Day Festival back in 2010. The only difference this time, was that I wasn’t alone in...
How The Indie Label Works: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth: Part 2
Perspectives are important in rounding off an opinion. It’s to furnish this fuller perspective that although all the label owners interviewed were artists themselves, not all of them have been...
How The Indie Label Works: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth: Part 1
In terms of music sales, there’s no denying that India is a strange market. Film soundtracks (both those in Hindi and in regional languages) and devotional music dominate the mainstream, accounting,...
The Darkside
Pakistan has always been home to a musical tradition that’s rich and artists that are proficient enough to rival any on the sub-continent; but underground hip-hop isn’t exactly the genre you’d...
BASSFoundation Meets David Boomah
David Boomah is a veteran of the UK’s Jungle scene, but his influences and styles reach across the board, from a reggae backbone to hip-hop, soul and dancehall vibes. Back in the early mid-90s...
Get To Know: Skream
Long before the dubstep sound became ubiquitous across the spectrum of popular music and long before America transformed the genre into a hard-hitting cacophony of chainsaws, a teenage Skream was...
Deconstructing The True School Of Music
http://youtu.be/mAQlgXm-fx8India's musical education system - without reference to the more traditional training modules available for Indian classical enthusiasts - has been skeletal to say the...
Kashmir, Blood & The Cypher: MC Kash & The Immediacy Of Authenticity
Authenticity in music is rare. I absorb music as the arrogant among us absorb themselves, though subject to an inbuilt figurative moisture barrier. That which is insincere remains away from me to...