Who can recomend some good Bhangra

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In my post about Simon Reynolds unfaves list I was trying to guess what new music he would suggest as his current fave 'supposedly stupid music that is in fact much better and more avant garde than supposedly inteligent music' (recent examples include hardcore, jungle, r+b, garage, street rap and ragga) and i semi-jokingly suggested soca or bhangra.

I've heard lots of good things about Bhangra, but it seems to me to be even more underground in London than ragga / dancehall, being sold in super specialist shops, etc. Anyway...after posting this I noticed a post from Asian Babez suggesting that everything I had guessed to be true! So...please suggest away. Soca suggestions (or anything else)will also be appreciated....

― Robin, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

try the remix album of nusrat fateh ali khan's stuff - purists may not like the fact that massive attack's on it, but hey - fuck em. Also try a music club release - the best of bhangra, as well as Talvin Sing's more commercial yet still enjoyable "Ha"

― Geoff, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

On monday night newcastle uni put on Appeal, a charity fundraising event for the Gujarat Earthquake Appeal incorporating r+b,hiphop,bhangra + uk garage. RDB( rhythm dhol bass ) played - recent UK ASIAN DJ award winners - album out soon ? - and will be touring Austria, Belgium and Canada.

TOP TIP - used to get tapes at the local mela - mostly good, though trad.

― Asian Babez, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I recently bought the Rough Guide to Bhangra on the basis of it being recommended in Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide column. As someone who has never come close to enjoying Indian music before I didn't have high expectations, but ended up being hugely impressed. Blending traditional Punjabi folk with modern dance music might seem like a recipe for embarrassment, but Bhangra is highly rhythmic to begin with in a way that European folk usually isn't and it sits very comfortably with dance. Oh, and it's nothing like Apache Indian, which was my only previous point of reference for this genre.

― scott bassett, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Just discovered Yaara.com, which should really be linked from nylpm, and anyway Yaara has a decent set of information w/r/t the genre in question. May I also rec. "Pure Garage" and "Pure Garage II" -- not the standard issue ones but the Bhangra versions which put new vocals, et cet on top of 2-step hits. Works quite well.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Where cn I find these versions of the Pure Garage comps with Bhangra bits on top?!?! They sound ace!

― Robin, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The Safri Boys.

― tarden, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three years pass...

What's happening in bhangra 2005?

― steve-k, Monday, 23 May 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't found the album yet but Panjabi Hit Squad's "Hai Hai" is top stuff.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

DJ Harry's Bhangra Blast is pretty readily avail. in Chicago.

― deej., Monday, 23 May 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

try the remix album of nusrat fateh ali khan's stuff - purists may not like the fact that massive attack's on it, but hey - fuck em.

Not that I have anything against Massive Attack, but what's wrong with "Nightsong" itself? Perhaps the best World Music album ever.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I have this one, and it's really good:

Bhangra: Original Punjabi Pop
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000093FHJ/

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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