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Get To Know: Praxis (BASSFoundation)
“What one wants is so fucking simple. Just a room with a big sound system and someone selling beers that won’t cost you an arm and a leg.” - PraxisAs a nerdy white DJ who moved to India to do a...
Weekending: NH7 Bangalore Review
The smartest thing the minds behind the Bacardi NH7 Weekender do is to cut the festival up into bite-sized pieces: instead of a single, vast, dust-ridden field, you get six manageable, more or less...
Eating For A Living: An Interview With Delh406826's Top 3 Food Critics
Food, music and nightlife have a strange relationship in India.Night-owls expect nothing less than to be able to bask in a 3-course meal or buffet at 2am in any nightclub or bar, and disco dancers...
Interview: Michal Menert (Pretty Lights Music)
Michal Menert takes the stage at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, Pune. He resembles the Shining’s Jack Torrance as if he were handed a second shot at life, wrapped in a grey shirt and striped maroon tie....
Chasing The Mirage: Ragasthan Festival Review
Part One: Logistics This post should be about something else. It should be a post about the many musical acts – some brilliant and others less so – that graced the stages of Ragasthan. And...
"Tiger & Woods: "5 Tracks That Inspire Us"
Later this week, Heineken Green Room, a series of intimate, invite-only events is due to feature the enigmatic and elusive disco duo Tiger & Woods. The events taking place in New Delhi, Mumbai and...
How To Start A Record Label In India
Madhav (a.k.a Kohra) and I set up Qilla Records in 2010. The idea back then was to have a publishing platform for sounds that we enjoyed as selectors as well as appreciated as producers. What better...
Emerging Pakistan: Forever South
If there’s something distinctly lacking in Pakistani indie/electronic music, it’s the presence of labels, promoters or clubs. It’s a vacuum that no one’s particularly tried to step up and fill...
The SuperMoop: Unzip My Body
Give the crazy old girl her due. Roisin Murphy has walked the thin line between weird and saleable with astonishing skill for nigh on twenty years now, and if she's decided that squeaky-clean...
Interview: Dub Phizix
Manchester based Dub Phizix is currently in the process of securing himself a spot in the history of drum and bass as a legend. With releases on labels such as Exit, Soul:r, Critical, Ingredients,...