The other day I was at an upmarket lounge in the city where as usual the inhouse DJ was playing garbage music. I walked up to him and asked him to play some stuff that is known, and he instantly started off with Dhoom 2 .He played this track 5 times in 2 hours.
I walked up to him and asked him to play Guru. He said no one requests Guru because the tracks are not for common people. Apparently people find it too ?contextual?! Wonder what that means.
As a freak co-incidence, I had got a mail from a certain DJ Kenny asking if I can attempt a new feel to some tracks therein.
I came back home with a vengeance. To mix select tracks with a club feel. Part of my vengeance was due to my prejudice towards folks rejecting ARR?s music!!!
Although I was a bit hesitant to try a mix on the Rahman?s recent gem as I had promised myself and other fellow
Tere Bina – Asian Underground Mix
Tere Bina – Asian Underground Mix
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Rahman fans of not attempting a mix until the movie releases – the trigger factor is the plethora of assembly line mixes of today?s average sound tracks out in the market.
Who says one cannot dance to the tracks of Guru?
This New Year, I want people to dance to Guru in the same blend as that of the party sound. I want all to recall these tracks and eventually listen to the great original. I want you to dance.
Consider this
Tere Bina ? The Asian Underground Mix
The track Tere Bina is a genre from Rahman?s core competence ? Ballads. Only he can infuse so much romance in a track without any specific lyrical brilliance. My version is what I call as the ?Asian Underground Mix?. A drum heavy version tuned to the sound of the likes of Talvin Singh, only a little faster. It might be all noise to a listener alien to ?Trip n scratch? sound of the Asian Underground. Nonetheless, you may even find it interesting.
As always, this is just my experiment of mixing ballad with a diametrically opposite sound genre. My true tribute to AR Rahman!
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