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Discovering musicians like Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya is an unutterable bliss. I remember the excitement of hearing Kadri Gopalnath for the first time, saxophones in Indian classical music! Lap slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya is even more satisfying (if that’s even possible), because slide guitar tops the greatest instruments list for me as well.

Some amazing digs here and a melting pot of brassy/psych/funky beats but I’ve chosen the big band fury of Bada Que Bash and the amazing Indian beat of “I am very sorry” by Noor Jehan.

With great sadness we announce you the passing of one of the greatest musicians ever, the Bengali Indian sarod master, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, aged 87. He was one of the last remnants of an age of true musicianship, virtue and wisdom.

Back in form this weekend was Error101, with her trademark cuckoo sounds, including hard to find stuff from far out genres like Anatolian Rock, Arabic dancehall, Indian disco, Sumatra Rock, Afrobeat & Something like Calypso! Check it out if you’re brave enough not to conform to the norms of Western Society!

Here we are at our #50th radio show at Dinamo FM. A big accomplishment for lazy people like us. I’ve made an exquisite mix for #50 with 27 songs clocking in a little bit under an hour. Lots of ambient soundscapes, crazy futuristic stuff, spoken word, deep jazzy hiphop, surf & noise and even indian carnatic music. Am I going cuckoo?!? You decide!

I’ve downloaded 2 hard to rare albums of the 57 year old Indian saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath from Meshes of the Afternoon. Born in the Karnataka region in southern India, it took Gopalnath 20 years to master the Saxophone. I’ve personally never heard saxophone in Indian music, no wonder he’s the first musician to incorporate the saxophone in Indian music literature.

Here’s a mix by error101, it’s a playful mix of music from all around the world & time (but not the washed up “World Music” with capital letters.) . India, Japan, Balkans, Disco, Aerobic whatever it’s all here.

Whooo, it’s time to review one of my favourite CDs from 2007 just before it gets a regular western world release on Galapagos4, a leftfield hiphop label that slipped through my filters this year, with artists like Mike Gao and Mestizo.