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Micropixie releases The Good, The Beige and the Ugly

http://soundcloud.com/micropixie/the-good-the-beige-the-ugly

Its been about 7 years since the now-San Francisco based artist Micropixie released a full-length album.  Her debut, Alice in Stevie Wonder Land was a really fun playfull album and we're excited to be reviewing the second release later this week - in the meantime you can preview it with the player in this post.

Shrilektric at Bluefrog in Mumbai

We just came across this great little sampling of Shri's new live jam project being performed in Mumbai India at the Blue Frog (the same place we held our Festival in 2007.)

B Regiment - Moments

This is the first music video from Dhaka, Bangladesh-based solo electronic-music artist Faisel Khan, aka B Regiment.

Globetronica - A Digital Music Magazine championing the world's sounds!

It is with great pleasure that we today announce the launch of our sister music site called Globetronica -  a joint production between myself (Indian Electronica's Director Qasim Virjee) and former Anokha and BBC Asian Network DJ Pathaan.

Our digital music magazine went live at http://globetronica.org last week and has already garnered a ton of positive feedback from friends, colleagues and music-lovers around the planet interested in checking out new electronic music expressive of the world's various identities and cultures.

In addition to writing articles, posting interviews and so on, we've as well begun publishing a special weekly broadcast which you can download for free via iTunes and subscribe to as a podcast on your computer/iPhone/etc...  Every week listeners will be treated to a mix of different style; we'll be publishing four unique types of episode monthly - our 2hr signature mix from Pathaan, a guest DJ'd 'World Odyssey Mix,' a yoga-focused selection and finally music for the jetset - a 1hr mixed set perfect for taking on the plane and tuning in and chilling out to.

Announcing Getfilmi.com - Watch Bollywood Online!

Getfilmi.com

We're really excited to announce the launch of our new partner website called Getfilmi - its a video-on-demand service where you can watch Indian Cinema online! 

Like a Netflix for Bollywood, Getfilmi.com members can log in and watch an unlimited number of films on the site and right now membership is absolutely free!  Also, members can keep track of the films they want to watch with a cool shelving feature that saves films for later with the click of a button and you can rate films you watch and see what the whole site has thought of each film by rating.

Getfilmi.com is both the easiest and coolest way to watch Bollywood films online and the site is adding titles to its catalog weekly - so there's always new flicks to watch!  Kicking off with about 150 films, you'll already find tons of great movies to check out and the site has a couple of features to help you sort your way through the catalog - with recommended films displayed on each title page and linked cast members; so you can see all the films on Getfilmi.com which have say, Amitabh Bachchan in them :)

Again, signing up for membership is free - so please go check out Getfilmi.com and tell anyone you know who likes Indian films about it!

We also recommend 'Liking' the facebook page and following Getfilmi on Twitter :)

Announcing Getfilmi.com - Watch Bollywood Online!

Google Chrome short video set to music by Shri

Check out this groovy little ad spot we just came across featuring a musical score composed + produced by Shri!

From Google - [this ad is] inspired by the real story of G. Rajendran, an artist from Tamil Nadu (Southern India) who used the web to bring the dying art of "Tanjore" paintings back to life and became a successful businessman in the process. The art is supposed to have originated in 1600 A.D and is an important part of the local social and cultural heritage.

Shri on MTV Roots

UK-based artist Shri speaks briefly with MTV India for their weekly Roots television show...

Why This Kolaveri Di - Dub Sharma remix

http://soundcloud.com/dubsharma/kolaveri-dub-sharma-remix

Written and sung by Tamil playback singer Dhanush, this song's video (released via Sony India), was the most searched for video on Youtube from India last month.  The song went viral internationally within days after it was first uploaded as a promo for a Tamil film due to release in early 2012 and its been remixed by a number of artists - all but one of whom created pretty terrible versions (its hard to do better than the original)...

I just came across the Dub Sharma remix which was uploaded a few hours ago and is highly recommended! You can listen to it using the attached player and watch the original video in this post.

Free Download - Ustad Sultan Khan remixed by Nickodemus + Osiris

http://soundcloud.com/nickodemusnyc/jaadu-magic-by-ustad-sultan

It was with great sadness that I learned of Ustad Sultan Khan's passing just over a week ago.  He was an internationally revered Sarangi player from Rajasthan who embraced using his instrument with a wealth of non-traditionalist musicians including Bill Laswell, Karsh Kale, the Midival Punditz and Zakir Hussein as part of their Tabla Beat Science project.

* Attached to this post is a classic track by Ustad Sultan Khan called Jaadu (Magic) remixed by NYC based Nickodemus & Osiris back in 2004.  (Click on 'info' + then through to Soundcloud to download it for free.)

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