If you’re a desi in your thirties, you’ve probably got fond memories of Depeche Mode, New Order and the Cure. 
You might also be nostalgic for the desi songs your parents used to play at home.
Realizing this, an indie band in Dallas got peanut butter in their chocolate and chocolate in their peanut butter (thanks, midwestern eastender). The members first met at UC Berkeley:
… I’ve also recently gotten a CD from the Amrikan Kundalini Shock Attack (I actually found them just by typing in “indotrash” after a conversation with Shiva Soundsystem one night), which has been amusing me all week. Imagine Depeche Mode singing in Hindi and you’d be in the ballpark of their old-school techno-disco style. [Link]
Listen to Kundalini Shock Attack. I still haven’t decided whether this self-proclaimed ‘desi post-dancefloor deconstructionalism… techneurotic… neoretro post-structuralist desiwave’ duo is Spinal Thappad or just sincerely trashy:
The songs evoke an energy that is lysergic, kaleidoscopic and Rangolian. It will blow the saris off all mofos! [Link – PDF]
That pseudo-PoMo humor, however, is pure Berkeley.
Manish u’r on a roll posting one story after in sucession. Damn the reaload
You should have a “Mutineer who publishes the most number of posts in succession” award!
Only after the ‘commenter who leaves the most comments in a row’ award 🙂
THAT word is gonna stick. I just feel it.
Chootiyaapa!
This one word encapsulates this act.
Manish, modulate this Sepia obsession AND if you really really dig that Desi actress (the one who affects a poor desi accent) then start chasing her skirt/saari. Do it the old fashion way. Your Salsero façade is not working (or so it seems).
I love you man.
🙂
Who, Sheetal Sheth?
Yeah that one. I guess. So you know who…so wathchayouwaitingfor yo!
Wow…they seem like a bunch of hippie crap to me
I hope their lungis don’t fall off while tap-dancing with turn-tables and expose their womenhood.
Just deliberate waste of graymatter.
the picture at the very bottom of their home page is pretty hilarious– I can’t tell if this Ash guy is doing the “how sexy I am as I look over my shoulder” OR the “damn, I just got caught pissing in the shrubs” thing.
Trust you to think of that, DD !
Just kidding
It does look quite suspicious to me too.
Spinal Thappad! 🙂
That hyphen magazine I linked to before I left had an essay about how New Order’s Broken Love Triangle is THE Asian American Anthem.
are they selling the cd anywhere?
For more elegant decadence of neoretro (read pretentious) desi post-dancefollor destruction, swing by myspace.com/kundalinishockattack. New tunes added. If nothing, grab sum Chai and Samosay.
yousuf@KSA
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