The first Colonial Cousins album is great and it should be easily available worldwide. I'd start there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuMYU4bqZ_A
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 2 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
I love this ballad, which unfortunately isn't in youtube in it's full version (the final seconds are pretty great), so here's the one with the visuals as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnzZyGQi2ps
In general, I think I prefer Bollywood ballads.
― Frederik B, Monday, 2 March 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVl3om0-GFE
SONG: SOORAJ DOOBA HAINSINGER: ARIJIT SINGH, ADITI SINGH SHARMAMUSIC: AMAAL MALLIKLYRICS: KUMAAR
Been listening to this track from the movie Roy a lot lately. was just on holiday down in florida and it worked great in the sun, but still good up here in the snow.
that Atif Aslam & Chinmayi Sripaada song is really great, I like the insistent backing vocals that pop up @ 1:00 or so.
I like this one from Roy as well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpsVpnvFfZQ
Song - Chittiyaan KalaiyaanMusic - Meet Bros AnjjanLyrics - KumaarSingers - Meet Bros Anjjan feat. Kanika KapoorProgrammers - Abhijeet Gadwe,Tigerstyle, Sourav Roy, Kuwar Virk,Sumit sethiGuitars By - Siddharth Singh
apparently I should just get the Roy soundtrack.
― kruezer2, Monday, 23 March 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
forgot to mention the sudden shaggy channeling @ 1:40 of Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan is awesome
― kruezer2, Monday, 23 March 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
also wow @ that colonial cousins song! where has that been all my life, will be ordering immediately. Love the 'hit me' sign at the end of the video, will admit that is the only part of the video I saw.
― kruezer2, Monday, 23 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
I like the slow build of this one from 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHNNMj5bNQw
Song: KABIRASinger: TOCHI RAINA, REKHA BHARDWAJLyrics: AMITABH BHATTACHARYAMusic: PRITAMMovie: YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI
― kruezer2, Friday, 27 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWv7mZ3HcnQ
― StillAdvance, Friday, 27 March 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Oh, man! MTV2 used to have a promo that used that song, always wondered where it came from. Thanks for solving the mystery!
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 March 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
The build of Kabira is indeed awesome, and checking up on it, it seems both that and Main Rang Sharbaton Ka was written by Pritam. I like his ballad-writing style.
― Frederik B, Monday, 30 March 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9nvq3402M
Song: RAABTA (NIGHT IN MOTEL VERSION)Singer: ADITI SINGH SHARMALyrics: AMITABH BHATTACHARYAMusic: PRITAMFilm: AGENT VINOD
This is pretty beautiful as well, and the filmmaking is quite awesome as well. Woo-like one-shot action scene, love the shadowplay.
― Frederik B, Monday, 30 March 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqY-WZHsFhQ
definitely not like the rest here but damn I am feeling this one right now
please keep 'em coming guys, these are great!
― frogbs, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjXKdyp_wM
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 12 April 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
great thread but the title is wrong, it should be South Asia
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Sunday, 12 April 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
right, unless we're doing songs from kazakhstan...
is this thread only for more recent songs? (would save it from being a complete mess if so...)
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 12 April 2015 07:53 (nine years ago) link
Ha, the thread title kept confusing me.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 12 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VaF0ZX65w
This song makes me feel some type of way
― 龜, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link
I feel you
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
changing the name sounds good to me! though i am cool with seeing jams from kazakhstan too, do we need a moderator for that shit around here? or can i do it somehow as thread creator?
Judaai is spectacular, I don't exactly have much an understanding of a narrative around all of this music, but it seems that Arijit Singh is on both Judaai and Sooraj Dooba Hain, so I will definitely be checking out his back catalog. (it also seems Arijit worked with Pritam on his 2012 work, including Raabta). not sure if anyone has some knowledge on the ebb and flow of these composers/performers? or where to find that sort of thing?
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
Should I abstain from posting older stuff?
― winnebago taco, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
― winnebago taco, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 9:25 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Older stuff is fair game in my books
― kruezer2, Thursday, 9 July 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
really been liking this one too, though its taking a beating in the youtube comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH-ltboy5-w
SONG: BULBULMOVIE: HEY BROSINGER: SHREYA GHOSHAL, FEAT. HIMESH RESHAMMIYAMUSIC DIRECTOR: NITZ ‘N’ SONYLYRICS: PRANAV VATSA
― kruezer2, Thursday, 9 July 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OulN7vTDq1I
Badshah - DJ Waley Babu feat Aastha Gill
Cannot get this song out of my head, minimalistic as fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s74PBDvbcA
SONG: AFGHAN JALEBI (YA BABA)SINGER NAME: ASRAR (SYED ASRAR SHAH)MUSIC: PRITAMLYRICS: AMITABH BHATTACHARYA
also would be remiss not to mention an Indian/Pakistani/Afghani collab, great song.
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/Pakistani-singer-Syed-Asrar-Shah-I-want-to-touch-Latajis-feet/articleshow/48556616.cms
interesting
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Hey kruezer2, just wanna say thanks both for the tracks you're posting, and for posting the info as well as YouTubes - in China, so no YT etc but Youku's pretty good at getting subcontinental content up if I know the title. "Afghan Jalebi"'s great, not sure why a lot of people seem to be sniffy about it online - something to do with some of the lyrics?
― etc, Thursday, 17 September 2015 03:44 (eight years ago) link
Going to be voting on a few things in the EOY; cheers again kruezer.
Jonathan Bogart on some Uzbek tracks:http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/135454932240/tourist-report-3-uzbekistan
― etc, Sunday, 20 December 2015 07:44 (eight years ago) link
no problem! where in china are you? I may be Harbin in the next couple months, youku is the way to go for listening to things eh?
I will definitely be voting couple of these high as well, Sooraj Dooba Hain might be my favourite song this year.
― kruezer2, Monday, 21 December 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
Down south in Guangzhou (really strong central/south Asian (+ African) presence here in districts like Xiaobei, which is cool). Yep, Youku's the way to go, really good for watching latest Bollywood films + songs in variable quality but p.quickly uploaded!
Been trawling through some EOY lists like http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/raja-sens-best-hindi-songs-of-2015/20151223.htm (though that keeps it pretty classy)
Not sure if these Youku links will work for people outside the PRC, but ...
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XOTQxMDQ5ODA4.html
SONG: BannoSINGER NAME: Brijesh Shandllya, Swati SharmaMUSIC: Tanishk Bagchi and VayuLYRICS: Vayu
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI3MTQ1Mzk1Mg==.html
SONG: Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon MainSINGER NAME: Atif AslamMUSIC: Amaal MallikLYRICS: Manoj Muntashir
Possibly the cheesiest thing I've ever seen/heard, amazing doubling-down on Avicii-style country-EDM visually matched by Tiger Shroff's Poochie-esque dance/football/etc moves.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODY4NjgwMDIw.html
SONG: Tu ChaleSINGER NAME: Arijit Singh, Shreya GhoshalMUSIC: A.R. RahmanLYRICS: Irshad Kamil
Late 2014, but I like the way the song's impulses to both soar and skitter ignore each other, like some photo-negative of classic Timbaland tactics.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM3MzYwNTM5Ng.html
SONG: ShakiraSINGER NAME: Shalmali KholgadeMUSIC: Jeet GannguliLYRICS: Kausar Munir
Lauren Gottlieb item song from a Dumb & Dumber-style movie ... good party times, vaguely curious if Shakira herself has heard it, eh.
― etc, Friday, 25 December 2015 04:38 (eight years ago) link
Oh, and some crossover/fusion from k-pop (thanks Gayathri!), MFBTY[윤미래,타이거JK,Bizzy] - 방뛰기방방(Bang Diggy Bang Bang)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1hMKTEV40
― etc, Friday, 25 December 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm going to a bollywood-themed party this friday, we're I've promised to play bollywood tracks. So far I've copied everything I could find from here onto a spotify-playlist along with a couple of other things. I know it's a cheesy question, but any classics that I NEED to have? Got Jai Ho, Jimmy, Mundian to Bach Ke (I know, I know...) and Chaiyya Chaiyya.
― Frederik B, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
a few hits, from my limited knowledge of this stuff (more modern 90s and onward, I don't listen to a tonne of the older stuff). Mostly ballads it seems, but a couple are dancier, not sure what kind of vibe you might want, but I love all of these songs.
Song Name - Kal Ho Naa HoMovie - Kal Ho Naa HoSinger - Sonu NigamMusic - Shankar Ehsaan LoyLyrics - Javed Akhtar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0eO74UmRBs
Song: Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jana SanamMovie: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge AKA DDLJ (1995)Singers: Lata Mangeshkar and Kumar Sanu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBbSqZb6nc
Movie: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Song: Saajanji Ghar AayeActor/Actress: Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kajol Devgan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jij3NyVnVTU
Song - Mauja Hi MaujaFilm - Jab We MetSinger - Mika SinghLyricist - Irshad KamilMusic - PritamArtist - Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaDaoNnOQaM
Song: Pehla Nasha Pehla KhumarMovie: Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992)Singers: Udit Narayan Jha and Sadhana SargamLyricist: Majrooh SultanpuriActors: Aamir Khan and Ayesha Jhulka
hadn't actually ever seen a video for this one, I love everything about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXAkqLBgxGA
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
plz share the spotify list when done :)
― niels, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
here's my spotify playlist of great Daler Mehndi tunes, you should find a lot of floor-fillers here
https://open.spotify.com/user/1225676371/playlist/6m8pBO1plyOGB8exBIApCX
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Thanks! I think what I need to finish it is something like the biggest A R Rahman hits, something like that. But really, the list is 3 hours long at this point, I've put way too much alike stuff on it, need to trim it down.
Discovered this cool slice of Bollywood crunk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIBgqZBGJHk
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 09:01 (eight years ago) link
Listening to the Dilwale soundtrack, composed by Pritam, and apparently a big hit, as far as my limited google skills can tell. Pritam writes my favorite Bollywood ballads, but they're too bombastic on this one, I think. This is kinda cool, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclXuc_J50Y
I sorta like Bollywood hiphop. They know they have no chance in hell of accurately hitting one sound, so they throw everything and the kitchen sink in it. Catchy brass sample as well.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
Also, I love how Europe looks in Bollywood films. Nobody never ever ever goes around swinging EU-flags around.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 24 January 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
Manma Emotion Jaage is cool. I agree about the kitchen sink approach, I like the manic-ness of it all, I like to imagine being in the studio with them and them all just being jacked up and saying 'add this....and this....AND THIS' just outta pure joy.
been listening to these few from the end of 2015/early 2016...
this ones kinda corny sounding, but I like it, sounds like a subdued version of 'stuck like glue' to me, about as country a Bollywood tunes I have found (would be into any country sounding Bollywood tunes people have as an aside)
Song - ATRANGI YAARISinger - AMITABH BACHCHAN,FARHAN AKHTARMusic Director - ROCHAK KOHLILyrics - DEEPAK RAMOLA,GURPREET SAINIMixed and Mastered by: RAVI SINGHAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffd7QlyOlOM
I anyone likes Susanne Sundfor (which I have learned is most folks on this board) this is about as Sundfor as you can find in Bollywood. Features Arijit Singh from Sooraj Dooba Hain.
SONG : SANAM REARTIST : MITHOON FEATURING ARIJIT SINGHADDITIONAL VOCALS : ANIRUDH BHOLAMUSIC COMPOSED, ARRANGED AND PRODUCED BY MITHOONLYRICS : MITHOONMIXED AND MASTERED BY ERIC PILLAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiG5jPmyDFI
Feel like I should like this one more than I actually do, should be right up my alley, but never quite gets fully going.
SONG- AAJ MOOD ISHQHOLIC HAIMUSIC - MEET BROSSINGERS - MEET BROS FEAT. SONAKSHI SINHALYRICS -KUMAARPROGRAMMED BY- BUNTY RAJPUT, ABHIJIT VAGHANI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQzZQsI97II
― kruezer2, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
also - etc, thanks for posting the link to Jonathan Bogart's blog upthread, ended up voting for that Lula track from his Thai countdown in the ILM EOY poll, beautiful song.
― kruezer2, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
'I like to imagine being in the studio with them and them all just being jacked up and saying 'add this....and this....AND THIS' just outta pure joy.'
qft. Also, wow at country-bollywood...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Btw, it's really really weird, but Superman, which I posted upthread, is in the No Home Movie, the final film by Chantal Akerman. Did NOT see that coming...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 February 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
was catching up on a bit of bollywood music over the weekend, liked these...
Thodi Beer Pila - Aditya Salankar ft. DJ Suketu | Muskaan Seth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVfh5nrwqE&ebc=ANyPxKqpgR8b0Q79VjBA_XdkPpCiYwvmXVzUOCyHK5sBQTp35h-7kB7nz1QW-_yzL-m8V4LikvVeninN6HHwRZTUvfHga60GCA
I think it's pretty much a given that I will like it when it comes to the trancier stuff from india, seems to me that as much as I love the ballads, this is probably the music that could actually crossover internationally.
Toote Tare | Direct Ishq | Rajniesh Duggal, Arjun Bijlani & Nidhi Subbaiah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cy9LOMKQdk
speaking of ballads this one RULES
any other cool new shit out that I've missed?
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 05:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_KpjLhJa1k
SONG - HIGH HEELS TE NACHCHHEMUSIC -MEET BROSSINGERS - MEET BROS FEAT. JAZ DHAMI AND ADITI SINGH SHARMAMUSIC PRODUCER - BHUSHAN KUMARRAP WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY- YO YO HONEY SINGHLYRICS -KUMAAR
been loving this party jam, its pretty much a one trick pony but really irresistible. Way better than the other Meet Bros & Kumaar track from earlier this year.
― kruezer2, Thursday, 5 May 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
good stuff!
in case you're into rap and not checking the non-US rap thread, this track was posted recently and it's great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wsi7YTI2nY
― niels, Thursday, 12 May 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
why is this thread still titled 'central asia'?
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 12 May 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
listened to the new 5 songs from the bollywood film Bambukat this week and they are FANTASTIC. I love all of the songs but mostly this pretty love song, basically everything i want in a bollywood love song, can't think of a song i like more this year.
Rakhi Soneya Ve | Bambukat | Ammy Virk | Rashi Sood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4JANFSiZY
― kruezer2, Friday, 5 August 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
cool song. great video.
― frogbs, Friday, 5 August 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
CANT BELIEVE THIS THREAD TITLE STILL EXISTS UNCHANGED
― StillAdvance, Friday, 5 August 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
I guess someone needs to ask a mod to drop "Central" from the title
So I saw Asha Bhosle on what was billed as her farewell tour of North America a little while back. She still sounds pretty good.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Just dropped the 'Central' bit, let me know if you want other changes.
― mod, Friday, 5 August 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
That's good, I think. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 7 August 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
thanks for the change!
anyway, curmudgeon, where did you see Asha? would love to have been able to catch her, i was trying to listen to Dil Padosi Hai the other day, but it just click for me like her film songs.
― kruezer2, Monday, 8 August 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
I saw her at Wolf Trap Farm Park, in a Virginia suburb of Washington DC. There's a large Indian population here, and the crowd was nearly all Indian/South Asian. A 10,000 seat location (4,000 seats in roof covered but open-air on the side pavilion and 6,000 lawn seats). She had cool backdrop visuals alternating between Bollywood looking clips and psychedelic imagery). She had her granddaughter dance and sing for a song or 2 as well. Granddaughter was good but not great.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 August 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Haven't kept up with this as much as I wanted at all, but this is a pretty cool synth-pop song, really shows how easy the hindi elements combine with western pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2B8OAotU8
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
great song! i do think a song like that would cross over well in the west with a bit of english in the chorus.
i am sucker for bollywood love songs this year, been listening to Love You Zindagi from Dear Zindagi a lot lately. Ironically i also like Pritam's The Breakup Song too which has to be the most joyous song ever written with Breakup in the title.
Also does anyone know if there is a specific release schedule for their movie?, I assume there must be certain times they aim to release movies, maybe they aim for the holidays? I feel like Bollywood this fall has been way better than the rest of the year.
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Arijit Singh North American tour this month
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
!!
All i can google shows him around the US until the end of April, any chance you know if he's coming to Canada at all?
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 3 April 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
I just knew of an April 21 gig in the Washington DC/state of Virginia area and some other US gigs and typed that, sorry. Looks like he hasn't been to Canada in years
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 April 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah no worries, just gotta get myself to newark is the moral of the story!
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 3 April 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
can someone in the know rec me a few good albums along this vein. been getting into my old Daler and Colonial Cousins albums + some by Malkit Singh and wondering what else is out there that people like, not just stuff I've stumbled upon by chance. thank you in advance my friends
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRd3TBrVJNM
Ali Sethi - "Pasoori"
a Punjabi and Urdu-language single by Pakistani singers Ali Sethi and debutant Shae Gill. It was released on 6 February 2022 as the sixth song of season 14 (episode two) of Coke Studio Pakistan and was subsequently released on YouTube on 7 February 2022. There's a New Yorker article about how the song has fans in India and Pakistan
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link