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Bollywood swingin’

Raga Mod Fuzz Organ Sitar Tabla!  “Film Hits on Hawaiin Guitar” by Batuk Nandy   Polydor Records (India) (1980)  Sample

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“Who ordered the spinach?”

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Jai Jai Shri Hanuman  “Hari Om Sharan”  Murli Manohar Swarup

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Doc Bollywood

One of the rarest of Bollywood soundtracks “Doctor X”  (1971)  Music by Sonk Omi on World Records (India)

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Funny fez

“Kanhaiyaa”  EMI Records Original Bollywood Soundtrack  (1981)

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Thigh master

The soundtrack to “Nehle Peh Dehlaa”  with music by the master, R.D. Burman  EMI Records  (1976)

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Bolly wooly

“Agathiyar”   EMI/Odeon Records India   Original Soundtrack

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Praise the lord and pass the amunition

“Bullet”   Original Bollywood Soundtrack with music by RD Burman   Starring Dev Anand   EMI India (1976)

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Original synth

“Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” (check it out) by Charanjit Singh (India, 1982) newly discovered and rereleased by our friend Edo at Bombay-Connections Records who writes:

*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.

So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive.”

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Bollywood swinging

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Apna Desh is a 1972 Hindi movie directed by Jambu.   The film’s music is by R.D. Burman.

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Fists of curry

Original Bollywood Soundtrack. “Morchha”   Music by Bappi Lahiri   Polydor Records

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