to the dismay of many and the delight of a few, the BBC has finally decided to axe the entire freaking Asian Network!

The Times article continuously cites striving for quality over quantity, thus cutting ALL the acts from a “list”… i’ve not made it secret that i feel that BBC-AN tends to err on the “desi” side, but aren’t they throwing the cute brown baby out with the bathwater?

FIGHT BACK:

complain to the bbc

join the facebook page

Voice your opposition by Twittering this:
!Save: The Foundry, Plastic People, Electro East, Pathaans Musical Rickshaw, 6Music and our souls #saveasiannetwork @bobbyfriction

also out:

and:

for the overly-zealous that think one is copying the other, you’re sorely mistaken…

So the BBC Asian Network has gone full-frontal D.E.S.I. (Don’t Even Say It) by canning Electro East with Nerm and Pathaan’s Musical Rickshaw… Good job BBC – because i need much more poorly-produced bedroom ghetto rhythm & bhangra in my life.

nerm’s much more polite about it:
“To give Electro East on the BBC Asian Network the send off it deserves, we’ve got some very special stuff planned that started this weekend…”

We wish Pathaan & Nerm the best of luck with their respective projects Globetonica and Shiva Soundsystem

UPDATE:

as a fitting full circle, nerm just posted a 12 year old dj vinyl mix recorded to cassette tape: enjoy

in just 10 days, every track from dimmSummer presents: Nu asian soundZ slams into Beatport’s Top 100 for Dubstep, with my own “Rubstep” at #24 and BREED’s remix of Jalebee Cartel’s Mirrors leading the way @ number 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please show some love for this latest High Chai release and help us make Beatport history by getting High Chai in the TOP 10!

UPDATE!

Jan. 11 2010
IT’S OFFICIAL: HIGH CHAI RECORDINGS a BEATPORT TOP TEN LABEL!

history has been made as NaS rules the TOP 50 of Beatport’s Top 100 in dubstep with BREED’S remix of the Cartel breaking into the TOP TEN! (& dimm in the top 20!)

please help keep us in the top ten and buy the release!

Available now on High Chai Recordings!

This bass-heavy joint from HCR compiled by ethnotechno.com founder dimmSummer brings you slammers from David Starfire, Jalebee Cartel, Liquid Stranger, GOONDA, Nuphlo, Radiohiro, KRTS, Omnesia, BREED, Deaf Bass Twins, and more…

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Listen back to dimmSummer’s World Odyssey Mix on Pathaan’s Musical Rickshaw

When EarthRise SoundSystem’s Derek Beres and David “Duke Mushroom” Schommer first joined together to remix a song by popular mantra singer Deva Premal, they set out to create a new paradigm as to what ‘yoga music’ meant. The result was a percussively rich, organically spacious and dubby soundscape. This approach laid the foundation for their full length album, The Yoga Sessions (Yoga Organix: January 1, 2010), a collection of 21st century electronically inspired yet organically grown original music that will redefine one’s notions of “yoga music.”

read the rest of the press release: flipswitchpr.com
official site: yogaorganix.com

quickly following up their innernets-busting collab with Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. my boy Pavan & the Foreign Beggars team up with Noisia to deliver some big tings… don’t miss the heavy breakdown @ 2:27…

a triple impromptu performance

ethnotechno.com vol.1 presented by dimmSummer (digital version)

ANNOUNCING the DIGITAL RELEASE of REVOLUTION RISING! featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, State of Bengal, Swami, Cheb i Sabbah, Karsh Kale, MIDIval Punditz, Niraj Chag, The Nasha Experience, Makyo, Genetic DruGs, Transglobal Underground, GOONDA, Jahcoozi, Jalebee Cartel, Nuphlo, Rohan, Shiva Soundsystem, Sub Swara, The Arch Cupcake, Vishal Vaid + many more!