Badmarsh & Shri

"We wanted to make music that moved you on the dancefloor as well as at home. Everything had to be emotive, whether it made you angry or made you swoon. But it also had to funk. We wanted it to be about feeling rather than thinking -- that was our vision," says Badmarsh, of Badmarsh & Shri, about "Signs", the pair's latest release on Nutone Records. With a sound that was already placed between Bombay and the East End, "Signs" continues to explore a fascination with musical migration--a path they've followed since their collaboration on the debut album, "Dancing Drums". When the Badmarsh & Shri remix of Ananda Shankar's "Dancing Drums" was released in the summer of 1997, it was a huge hit with dancefloor crowds everywhere. Shortly afterwards, their brilliant debut appeared, delivering a brooding, funky soundscape of drum and bass, hip-hop, Indian classical music and jazz. The Badmarsh/Shri connection came via Shabs, the head of their first record label, Outcaste Records, who believed ...more

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