OST - BOMBAY THE HARD WAY (1998)

ESSENTIAL!!! BOLLYWOOD-GO-GO-SURF-DISCOTHEQUE-
CHEEZY-SLIMY-EXOTICA WITH NU-GROOVES.
ARTIST`````SOUNDTRACK
ALBUM`````BOMBAY THE HARD WAY
GENRE`````FUNK, BOLLYWOOD, FUSION
YEAR```````1998

ALBUM REVIEW:
This collection of tracks comes from the bungalow of legendary Indian masala film director Anandji V. Shah after sitting and rotting for nearly 25 years. The director, along with his brother Kalyanji, not only wrote and directed dozens, perhaps several hundreds of films (no none knows for sure, not even them), and scored them as well throughout the '60s, '70s, and '80s. These were not just any Bollywood movies -- these were masala "mixed spice" films, the Bollywood version of cheap action and blaxploitation movies, B-movies, or James Bond-type thrillers. What is so remarkable about these tracks is how well Kalyanji and Anandji were able to take the old traditional and folk melodies of Rajastan and combine them with the deep grooves prevalent in their American and European, and even Caribbean, counterparts. To that end, these tracks are remarkable, works of groove genius, non-incidental even though they are incidental music that reflects the '60s and '70s movies they came from.

Producer Dan the Automator had DJ Josh Davis and Nana Simopoulos add some nu-groove beats and a few extra sitars to the already drenched in groove and rhythm tracks. It wasn't so much to update them as to celebrate what was already happening in the music. Here is surf music, blues, go-go, discothèque, psychedelia, cheesy R&B, and exotica all wound together with spoken bits from the films that accent the wildness of these pieces.



Tough, freaky, and completely enjoyable, Bombay the Hard way is a celebration of a particular kind of mad genius, the kind it takes to throw everything into a mix and make it work no matter what the circumstances or outcome! This is truly groovy, funky, tripped-out music from the movie capitol of the world, and showcases how the Americans and the Italians may have invented the noir and cheap thrill movie soundtrack, but the Indians took it to a whole different level.

The package is killer, too. I'm telling you, you need this!

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V.A. - Sitar Beat Vol. 2, 3 & 4 (2006)

MEGAPACK! INDIAN HEAVY FUNK! BOLLYWOOD HARD-STYLE MASTERPIECES!
ARTIST`````````````Various
ALBUM`````````````Sitar Beat Vol. 2, 3 & 4
GENRE`````````````BOLLYWOOD HARD FUNK
YEAR```````````````2006


Unfortunately, I couldnt find volume 1 of this insane compilation but here are numbres 2,3 and 4. If anyone has volume 1, please let me know.

INFO:
The Sitar Beat series was built with the DJ in mind - collecting some of the wildest, heaviest and most psychedelic Indian Funk recorded and presenting it loud on wax, ready for the turntable.

The first four volumes were lessons in just how ahead of their time India's Bollywood composers were in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. They dug into Indian deep funk and psycho-psychedelic masterpieces recorded for the Bollywood film industry. Alongside full length killers like the funkiest track from the rare "Qurbani" soundtrack, there were Bollywood funk fiestas by acclaimed composers such as Kalanji Ananji and R.D. Burman, with extended breakbeats and re-edits that upped the funk to the boiling point. Together with Ravi's nephew Ananda Shankhar's instrumental Sitar freak outs were diva Asha Boshle's soulful wailings.

Culling its music from rare vinyl and utilizing tasteful restoration and remastering, Sitar Beat was the first time that many of these songs are heard by the record-buying public - at least in this form. Edits remove any bobbing and weaving, leaving funk that only flies straight ahead!

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