Delhi 2 Dublin - Planet Electrified

Six Degrees

If there’s one thing vocalist, DJ and producer Tarun Nayar wants to get across with his cross-cultural Chittagong-chill phenomenon, Delhi 2 Dublin, it’s that it shouldn’t be pigeonholed as folk. Despite having been invented by Vancouver’s Folk Music Festival organizer Dugg Simpson, these Koyaanisqatsi-esque beat-makers feel more at home spinning in front of crowds at Shambala or Evolve.

Returning to the river for another dip, the act that sparkles like a disco ball suspended over the Ganges introduces an even more Bhangra-soaked reboot of its previous release, Planet Electric. A grand masala of a remix, the new and dub-proven Planet Electrified delves deeper into the Coca-Cola ubiquitousness of dance music. Celtic fiddler Kytami LeBlanc’s Irish Spring-fresh finger-picking moves across the landscape, recalling a babbling brook underpinned by a faithful boran heartbeat. Elsewhere, “Give It Away” blends galloping tabla patterns and sitar spirals with handclaps — it’s an irrepressible sense of joy running through the rest of the album like a thread from a golden sari. “Sonicanimation” continues the frenetic pace, while discophonic electroclash number “Tommy” and the Gaudi edition of “Raise It Up” bring a lively, alarm-clock driven, reggae bounce to the proceedings.

It doesn’t stop there. Steel drums inform Tarun’s pop-and-lock sensibilities as he guides us through dreamy Bollywood back alleys just in time to catch a bullet-train to Bangladesh. Laser blast sound effects and didgeridoo reverberations interweave by firelight, as Delhi 2 Dublin conjures the spectre of “Master Crowlet,” which morphs into a sub-aquatic warble on Radiohiro’s “Happy Track” mash-up. Standing above the plain, the group’s super-hit “Harmonizin’” finds guest producer Jay Dhabi surveying the scene like some digital Arjuna, while Tarun puts on his best approximation of Sean Paul manning-up to brave the Temple of Boom.



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