Thanks for the info. I was told it was all DJ Shadow, but the correction is
noted.
Below is a review of the release I dug up off of Amazon for any who are
interested.
-matT
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quoted 1 line Featuring the music of Indian composers Anandji and Kalyanji, who composed>>Featuring the music of Indian composers Anandji and Kalyanji, who composed
and conducted music for the so-called "Brownsploitation" films from India's
1960s and '70s "Bollywood," this is one of the latest projects of Dan "The
Automator" Nakamura, Bay Area producer and music master mind behind Dr.
Octagon, with additional beats credit going to DJ Josh Davis, better know as
the Quannum Collective's DJ Shadow. Every track on this record sounds as
though it were ripped from an American or European spy movie, but with
Eastern Indian twists like sitars or Indian chord influenced moog licks.
There is nothing of the classic, Middle Eastern modal sound, the kind of
convoluted stuff that John Coltrane got into later in his career, but
rather, Indian-ized American compositional music, very groovy and full of
funk and jazz-based musical ideals. Some tracks owe to the hip-hop
influences of the producers, with rough, thuggish beats emphasized and laid
out over things like sitar loops, flute solos and heavy string and moog
accompaniment ("My Guru," "Fists of Curry," "Punjabis, Pimps & Players").
Other tunes on the record hold truer to their original forms, with emphasis
on composition, instrumentation, and most importantly, that tried and true
secret agent theme, sometimes presented in go-go style ("Ganges A Go-Go,"
"Uptown Bollywood Nights"), other times as a surfed-out tribal, disco noise
("Swami Safari"), and other times, just some straight-up, Mission Impossible
type stuff ("Fear of a Brown Planet"). With almost no lyrics-save samples
from the movies themselves-and no cuts or scratches in the records, this
first class joint could almost be considered an illbient album, with an East
Indian lean towards The Automator's Dr. Octagon Instrumentalist and Shadow's
Entroducing. Worth it for any fan of beat-based instrumental music.<<
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