Monday, March 21, 2005

Asha Bhonsle vs the rest ...

Only a mere couple of years ago FG here and JvS appearing under the label DCL were enlisted by a certain record-industry guy to provide a certain record label with numerous remixes of various peeps on said-record-labels-books. Pony-tailed-record-guy (who will rename nameless - but for the purpose of this post will be refferred to as HE .... all meeting with HE always took place in various 5-star hotels around Hong Kong - always over fine-food/fine-wine and rather dull boring conversation that always ended up discussing his activities at the races and hotels with various lasses and lads around town - all rather dull and tiring - BIG TIME ..... ho hum ....

anyways - we were chucked various splits of various dudes n dudettes and left to our own devices in remix-bedroom-land - cutting and splicing this and that as you are want to do these days thanks to the glories that are digital-audio-thingies and assorted plugin-thangies..... some got released (a number on cassette-only-releases for India - these I would love to see but alas as is often the case, the label forgot to get us copies - durgh.) Some remained in the can (a certain canto-opera rendition of David Bowies - China Girl, remains a favorite forgotten classic) - and some despite non-release are discussed to this day on-da-web - and will one day be leaked - Barry white vs Asha Bhosle your time is nigh ....

One that did however make it out - and to this day I still enjoy playing at times (in fact I spun this out with Ansuman Biswas on tabla last year at the Exeter Pheonix (to much confusion from Ansuman it must be stated!) .... is our remix of young Nelly Furtado - teamed up against Asha Bhosle in a doped-up sound-clash - this was remixed in the home of JVS in sunny south-side of Hong Kong island - and despite the skills of JvS on bass - contains a crushing one-fingered (one-note bass line) from FG on a Korg Prophecy - rockin stuff if I must compliment myself (you are advised to differ !! )...

Well - not wanting to risk imprisonment due to copyright infringment of our own track (these things can happen) - I have not stuck this babe up for circulationj before - but alas seems some kind gent has done it - following on from some discussion on some board or tother regarding bangra - so thanks Kenneth - here is his link - enjoy .......

Nelly_Furtado_vs_Asha_Bhonsle (digital cutup lounge remix).html

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