I'm almost done editing some video I shot in Mumbai at this year's Indian Electronica Festival - watch this space next week for info.

Also, look out for a new podcast from Yamboy this Friday plus some recordings from the Mumbai Festival as well as exclusive sets recorded at last year's Festival in Toronto (to be broadcast over the next few weeks).

q./ 

If you receive our email newsletters then you already know that I announced our New Delhi festival as being cancelled this morning (india time :) ) .  Well, in the midst of uncertainty when our back-up venue fell through last minute yesterday I had a chat over the phone with the CBC's Wojtek Gwiazda about how in the past couple of weeks two venues have let us down by pulling out of agreements to have us host the festival installment there...

 For anyone in India that is keen to hear some of the amazing music we promote around the world, you can still catch our back-to-back 2 nights in Mumbai next weekend on the 28th and 29th (Fri/Sat) -  check out  http://www.indianelectronica.com/festival/mumbai

The interview made it into this week's Indo Canadian Report on the CBC - heard around the world and at 7:10am and 9:10am Delhi time.  You can listen to it online here:

http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/dossiers/44920.shtml

If you're on Facebook, you'll be interested to know that we've got groups and events set up for IE and the upcoming Festival installments in Delhi and Mumbai... please click the links below and RSVP/join our groups so you can stay in the loop!

IE07 New Delhi, Friday December 21: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2546092183

IE07 Mumbai, Friday Dec 28 & Saturday Dec 29: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2443775881

Hey people, I just sent out another edition of the IE email newsletter.  Its got some preliminary info on the sessions of the Indian Electronica music festival being held this December in New Delhi and Mumbai... The information's also online in our festival section.

Peep the newsletter here:

http://indianelectronica.com/mailers/111907/ 

Sign up to the newsletter here:

http://www.indianelectronica.com/subscribe 

Later,

qasim./ 

A quick heads-up for everyone planning on meeting us in India this December: we're no longer doing New Year's Eve in Mumbai; instead - 2 nights the weekend before!  Its going to be amazing; with a really exciting line-up of artists.

More details will follow through this week and be posted in our Festival section.

So just to confirm; we're in New Delhi on Friday December 21st and Mumbai on the 28th and 29th!

On September 20th we held the first ever Indian Electronica Festival in New York and I'm so happy to say that it was a smashing success!

This was our third installment of the 2007 Festival series and I worked with our Advisory Committee to program the event uniquely compared to the previous summer sessions in Toronto and London – NYC was all about the Djs... well, we also had a couple of live acts but the plan entailed creating a comfortable social atmosphere where people could chill out, shake their rumps, chat or whatever else they felt like...

First off - thanks to everyone who performed at the London England installment of our Festival this year.... also, a warm thanks to everyone reading this who made it to the venue on August25th to check out all the great acts we had on stage - including the wonderful bespoke visuals mixed and projected by LadyPat and his compradres @microchunk. The gig proved quite different than when we did it @ the same space last year; this time round there were fewer performers and it was interesting to see what the crowd's reaction was to the more downtempo, innovative sets of Aesh and Eisha Karol - which featured live singing, visuals, tabla, sarod and more. Saturday night in London's East End is no doubt cause for booty shaking; and though they didn't number in the thousands, people were definately enjoying the eclectic uptempo cuts Sonny Ji (pictured here) and I were busting on the mainfloor... All round, an excellent time - thanks for hosting us again Bobby Friction!

Hot off the heels of our London gig its now off to the Big Apple - the Indian Electronica Festival touches base in New York City's Lower East Side next Thursday (September 20th) for a long night of musical mayhem that is going to totally rock your bindi. Details are over in our festival section but note that the event is free and will be followed by a CD release/listening party @ the Rubin Museum the next night - on Friday from 6PM - 10PM; which will be an excellent opportunity to personally meet the performers and also pick up a copy of our debut compilation release.

So, there are two great gigs lined up for next week - if you're on the East Coast of North America I highly recommend coming down to Manhattan and joining in the fun! Whether you can or can't make it, please help us spread the word: forward this email to your friends and colleagues ;)

Oh, and they're not too numerous but I've uploaded some photos I took @the Festival in London - check em out in the gallery.

Info:
indianelectronica.com/festival/uk

I've just published all the info on this year's London installment of our festival - you can grab it in our festival section directly at:

indianelectronica.com/festival/uk

This year's line-up is a refreshing blend of artists whose styles of music are varied and have never before been showcased in a single event... We've got lush downtempo grooves, dub, new and old school breaks,a touch of drum'n'bass and  I'll even be laying down a progressive set of house melded with world-electronica before Sonny Ji takes the decks over and performs a signature multi-deck set of killer bhangra-house.

The full line-up includes musicians and DJs from the UK, France, Canada, the USA.

It all goes down next Saturday - the 25th of August 2007 - at 333 on Old Street, which is where we did it last year; again courtesy of Friction - Bobby Friction's monthly shindig.

If you're on Facebook, do a search for the event or our various groups - we'd love to see you online more often, and please help us get the word out by logging into Facebook and forwarding invites to the event to your friends!  Of course, you can also just email people the URL above or simply a flyer image (save this link).

Till then,

Qasim (Festival Director), aka. Abdul Smooth

Photos are online in the gallery section from our Toronto installment of the Indian Electronica Festival '07!!!

Also, I've put together a video clip from footage shot that night by Lori Smith - our new media liaison :)  You can view the video on the Toronto Festival page.  Its hosted by youtube so be sure to spread the word :)

The video clip's soundtrack is actually a killer new tune by Dj Spooky and Talvin Singh, which will be available September 17th on our 'Indian Electronica volume 001' compilation!  Check out the records section for more information on that. 

Here's the direct youtube link incase you want to blog it etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvG1XVCG6-Q