NITIN SAWHNEY (DJ SET), ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION SOUND SYSTEM, UK APACHE AMONGST THE LATEST ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR SHAANTI’S CLUB TENT AT THE BIG CHILL 2008
Shaanti are proud to announce their present at this year’s The Big Chill Festival 2008.
Shaanti will be joining flamboyant Diva Roisin Murphy, award winning electro pop/songwriter’s – Hot Chip and cult British acid house band Alabama 3 as well as Leonard Cohen, The Mighty Boosh, Bill Bailey, Bomb the Bass, John Shuttleworth, Buzzcocks, The Thievery Corporation, The ICA, The BFI and many more over the three day festival in Eastnor, 1st – 3rd August.
The award winning Shaanti will host The Big Chill’s Club Tent on Sunday 3rd August featuring multi instrumentals Nitin Sawhney (DJ Set), British alternative electronica band Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, junglist and rapper UK Apache and desi-futurist pioneers The Kalyan feat. Gubsy (on Dhol and electric Tabla) and Steve (Guitar) and Anila (Samplers & Mix) live. They’ll be also joined by Shaanti’s front man Manga and resident DJ MSC who be representing ‘Champion Sound’ - the underground illegitimate club-child of Shaanti.
Manga, Founder of Shaanti says: “It’s a honour to be invited to host the first ever Global Asian Club tent at The Big Chill Festival. Not only are we the first club brand to represent Asian broken and fusion beats to the masses but we’ll also the first to host a club tent in a daytime setting, as a main music feature, alongside the rest of the programming for this festival,” he says.
"I just want to host events what feels right at the moment without thinking about genres, thankfully The Big Chill motions that same notion." He ends.
Shaanti arguably is one of the best global brands in the world. Still breaking the rules, the music Shaanti represented has shifted over the nine years as genres have progressed and developed. Tearing up genre conventions by showcasing every genre of music under the sun, veering from Asian breaks, Eastern drum n bass licks to searing electro workouts, rowdy breaks to groove focused house and joining all the dots in between. The musical direction is broad enough to deliver a diverse offer, giving the crowds plenty of reason to dance up to 6 hours straight on Sunday 3rd August.
Shaanti at The Big Chill (Club Tent) feat. Nitin Sawhney (DJ Set), Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, UK Apache, The Kalyan feat. Gubsy (on Dhol and Tabla) and Steve (Guitar) and Anila (Samplers), Manga and DJ MSC at Eastnor, Castle Deer Park. Great Malvern. Herfordshire. 1st – 3rd August 2008.
Address: Eastnor, Castle Deer Park. Great Malvern. Hertfordshire.
Shaanti is an award winning UK institution where live performers, producers and turntable terrorists create a blueprint for the future for Electronica, Eastern and Desi Dance Music!
This is the reality of the leftfield - here sound & speaker technology combined with the digital dj pioneers of the Asian Underground, Eastern Fusionionist, Desi Electronica, Electro, Break-Beats, House and Street Sounds.
ABOVE FOOTAGE: UK Apache performes Live at Shaanti's 8th Birthday Party at The Factory Feb, 2007.
Compiled by Manga from Galaxy and Sharnita K Athwal "Mighty Asian Beats" works up genre-defying capabilities into a frenzy on this divine album. Tracks include exclusive unreleased material from Panjabi MC, Swami, UK Apache, The Specialist, Gaudi, Nuphlo, Sharaab, Mo Magic, 2AM All Stars, Juttla as well as tracks from Deep, A.C and Terra feat. Des-C (part of the Mentor Kollectiv) and Genesis Elijah, Sunit and Raxstar, Foreign Beggars and MDK Cartel. Mighty Asian Beats is an enticing, original collection of unreleased and exclusive tracks fluidly combined to inspire a new generation. Piecing together the definitive soundtrack for fans from all corners of Bhangra, Hip Hop, Grime, Electronica, R&B, Eastern Break-Beat, Electro, House; Fusion, downright dancefloor it’s a must have CD that captures the soul of this kind of music. It also serves as a taster and incredibly accurate predictor of the forthcoming summer.
WORLD EXCULSIVE: SHAANTI PRESENTS DISCO WARRIOR BY THE KALYAN
Shaanti Play Records get set to release their first single into the mainstream come September, 17, 2007 The new single "Disco Warrior" by the Kalyan to be taken from the hotly anticipated second album "Mighty Asian Beats" from Shaanti Play Records. Featuring the vocals talents of India’s premier singer Lember Hussainpuri, and with only a few copies in circulation "Disco Warrior" already looks like a big hit. With four exclusive mixes available alongside the main track. Buy a copy today via i-tunes, for more online stores please go to blog or log onto www.shaanti.co.uk.
Track 1: Disco Warrior
Track 2: Desi Warrior
Track 3: House Mix
Track 4: Funk Mix
Disco Warrior by The Kalyan released by Absoulte/ Universal and Shaanti Play Records
Release Date: September 17 2007
email e: music@shaanti.co.uk, www.shaanti.co.uk
To pre-order The Kalyan- Disco Warrior for digital download from Tunetribe:
Text KALYAN and send to 82822
Pre-order costs £1.50 plus standard text message cost. UK Only, unavailable to Virgin network subscribers. Texting triggers a response with a pin code. Enter this pin code at Tunetribe.com on release date to activate download to PC/Mac.
SHAANTI is an award winning UK institution where live performers, producers and turntable terrorists create a blueprint for the future for Electronica, Eastern and Desi Dance Music! This is the reality of the leftfield - Here sound & speaker technology combined with the digital dj pioneers of the Asian Underground, Eastern Fusionionist, Desi Electronica, Electro, Break-Beats, House and Street Sounds.
SATURDAY 19TH JULY
SHAANTI PRESENTS… CHAMPION SOUND
PREDATORY PREY LIVE, OPEN MINDED PPL (DJS), MANGA, BASS-FLO & SKA
Champion Sound is the underground illegitimate child of Birmingham’s Shaanti’s showcase night happening on the Saturday 19th July at Concrete.
Shaanti presents Champion Sound is a heavier and more serious outlook to music with the night’s typically funky approach. The programme is split into three sections: Live Vs DJ Vs Art.
This month Predatory Prey will headlining the night. For 5 years the combination of Dave Rodgers and Jalporte have been turning heads and changing minds real quick. A style that is not ordinary, nor in rhymes or beats, but yet sits quietly among all styles. Quiet until ready to explode upon its prey. When others have laughed a raw work-ethic and unmovable self-belief have carried these two far...and their still going. They’ll be performing live alongside Open Minded People DJs, Manga, Bass Flo and artist SKA will be exhibition exclusive prints from her upcoming show.
“The concept of Champion Sound is to sound-clash many musical forms and genres into one club sound. It’s about promoting new music on a underground level, It’s also a chance to showcase exclusive DJ sets from artists from the breaks, drum and bass, dub, liquid Jazz, Asian fusion… community together with an eclectic, intimate backdrop of raw undiluted live talent,” Manga, Founder of Shaanti says.
Champion Sound is all about the music first; it’s also a place where artists and new talent can network, showcase and jam with like-minded people who love music. In many ways it what Shaanti used to be like when it first launched back in 1999.
“To put it in a nutshell the night is about Championing New Sound.” He adds.
The parties launched every month from May, at the newly launched Concrete Club, where past guests have included Bugz in the Attic’s Co-op, Jazzonova, Eska Mtungwazi, Drop Beats Not Bombs Night My Bass, Miss Moneypenny’s (Twilight), Halo and Southport Weekender’s Choice Uber – underground basement at The Big Peg, formally The Old Boiler Room in Birmingham.
Champion Sounds, Saturday 19th July at Concrete featuring Predatory Prey Live, Open Minded People DJs, Manga, Bass Flo and artist SKA.
Live: Predatory Prey
DJs: Open Minded People DJs, Manga and Bass Flo.
Art: SKA
Time: 8.00 pm til 4.00 am.
Price: £5 B4 12, More After
Address: Concrete, 120 Vyse Street. The Old Boiler Room. Jewellery Quarter. Hockley. Birmingham. B1 3HH.
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I've put up a promo track called CALL ME, which is available to download until this Sunday so make sure you get it!
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