{"id":4786,"date":"2007-10-12T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4786"},"modified":"2007-10-12T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T19:17:12","slug":"basement_bhangr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/basement_bhangr\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement Bhangra Comes to Your House!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" align=right vspace=20 hspace=20 alt=\"BasementCD.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/BasementCD.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>\nIf you&#8217;re South Asian and live in New York, you&#8217;ve probably heard about <a href=\"{http:\/\/www.sangament.com\/frameset.php?basement\">Basement Bhangra<\/a>, maybe stopped by a few (every month) times, and possibly brought all your friends to boot. It&#8217;s ridiculous to think that the monthly bhangra party at <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/11278562\">S.O.B&#8217;s<\/a> has been going on for over ten years. Clubland years are like dog years &#8211; this thing should be arthritic and\/or dead by now. But instead, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xmo-gqSlWN8\">DJ Rekha<\/a> (disclaimer: I&#8217;m a friend) still brings live-wire energy and mad-scientist enthusiasm to the party as she continues to expand her empire (Basement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollywooddisco.com\/\">Bollywood Disco<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sangament.com\/frameset.php?rekha\">Mutiny<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu-apastudies.org\/gallery.php?type=air&#038;air_id=12\">NYU Artist-in-Residency<\/a>), relentless in her determination to bring joyous bhangra to the  masses.<\/p>\n\n<p>To that end, Rekha&#8217;s releasing a Basement Bhangra CD. According to the  press release:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>This 17 track album is a mix CD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with four exclusive tracks including two original productions&#8230; DJ Rekha has collaborated with an array of incredible artists including Wyclef Jean, Panjabi MC, and Bikram Singh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to name a few. The album skillfully weaves together Punjabi folk traditions and dancehall rhythms from Jamaica and DJ techniques that are 100% New York. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The album comes out on October 23rd. More info, track listing and ordering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Basement-Bhangra-DJ-Rekha\/dp\/B000NI3FHE\">here<\/a>.\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re South Asian and live in New York, you&#8217;ve probably heard about Basement Bhangra, maybe stopped by a few (every month) times, and possibly brought all your friends to boot. It&#8217;s ridiculous to think that the monthly bhangra party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/basement_bhangr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}