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NYC producer dimmSummer reinvents India’s sonic wheel

When the background score to a Bollywood hit film is composed by underground dance music icons Midival Punditz and Karsh Kale, you know something’s brewing in the realm of Indian left-field electronica. While electronic music split open international consciousness with the Goa trance scene, it evolved with the Punditz and Kale on the Karthik Calling Karthik soundtrack. Today we have arrived at what is perhaps the finest collection of electronic dance music to hit the Indian nation, Revolution Rising: ethnotechno.com vol. 1 (Universal Music India).

This is certainly not trance, however. New York City-based producer dimmSummer has been involved in this scene for over a decade, as both visionary graphic and web designer, as well as with his innovative radio station, EthnoTechno.com, which can be considered a blueprint for this sixteen-track compilation. The movement that he helped front is poised to move above ground in the subcontinent’s musical mindset, and with this album, we are one step closer to the future of music in India.

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dimmSummer appears along side cheb i sabbah, bombay dub orchestra, nickodemus and more… proceeds benefit Nomadic Villagers Clean Water Awareness Fund for the Sahara.

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jamshied sharifi :: tea -dimm’s new brew (dimmSummer remix) [sample] by dimmsummer

dimm’s rain buddha remix for a new day: laya project remixed is finally out along side nickodemus, pathaan, karsh kale, dub gabriel, cheb i sabbah, punditz, earthrise soundsystem, bombay dub orchestra & many, many more on earthsync.

produced and compiled by our good friend joshua jacobs.

found this interesting nug featuring rubstep along with spliffs from bassnectar, moderat, joker and many others…
check out the other mixes from omega3rum radio every saturday night on RUM, a local radio station in braga, portugal.

speaking about iphones, peep this honey singing along with her programmed iphone orchestra:

now you can stream our 24 hour broadcast live to your iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile device…

ET on the GO:
install via a link above, activate, then tune into “ethno techno .com” on Live365.

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?

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