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SATURDAY, 6 AUGUST, 2011www.mid-day.com07
NIGHTOUT
There might be no better way to soak up the season than bysipping on cocktails that celebrate the monsoon. MasalaKraft is hosting a month-long cocktail festival called MasalaMedley. The mix includes Southern Mystery, Mantra eSantra, Rhum Saccharun and the enticing Kala Khatta. Timefor a happy high!TILL August 31AT Masala Kraft, Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Colaba.CALL 66653278
THE GUIDELIKESCocktail festivalat Masala Kraft
Tired of shopping for music venuesand ‘good’ sound stages, Indian-bredHeavy Metal found its definitiveKVLT venue in this vacant hall thatdoubles as a performance space thatgoes by the name of B69 by Bajao.
The site for frequent gigs, wherethe sound engineer will never askyou to lower the volume, the venuehas become a haven for bands yearn-ing to play live.
B69 by Bajaao has been organis-ing periodic mini-metal fests, calledMetal Bajao. Bands includingDemonic Resurrection, Devoid,Scribe and Albatross have allperformed here.
This weekend will see four city-bred Metal acts take the stage.Exhumation, fronted by musicianRohit Pereira will play alongsideGrimmortal, Providence andAtmosfear. If there ever was a time tolet your hair down, this would be it.Be warned, it’s going to get loud.
In its third installment, Metal Bajao at Andheri’s nondescript venueB69 by Bajao, four city metal bands brace themselves for a moshpit
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The club is crowded. The energy ishigh. The music is up-tempo.Suddenly, there is a shift in energylevels. Lata Mangeshkar’s voicesinging Mere Mehboob Tujhe fromthe 1963 film Mere Mehboob,emanates from the speakers. Thecrowd starts to slowly move to therhythm and before you know it, themomentum is back.
The remix is a Dubstep version bylocal DJ set, Mumbai Mafia, who give
old Hindi film music a unique twist.The bass-heavy Electronic DanceMusic genre has been steadily takingover Indian Electronic, Pop, and evenBollywood remixes.
Clubs in the city have startedhosting nights, where the bass-heavysoundscape offers the perfect back-drop for DJs to experiment with.
Monthly Wobble nights at Bonobo isone such example. The brain-child ofElectronica artistes Pravvy Prav, DJUri, Randolph Correia and BandishProjekt — Wobble is all about Drum‘n’ Bass, Glitch Hop, Funk andDubstep.
“It’s a bass-oriented night wherewe set the tempo of the evening to
celebrate a certain kind of energyand sound. Dub music is dark, heavyyet very groovy. It also has a very bigsound,” says Prav, otherwise knownas Pravin Mukhi, who is also a drum-mer with Shaa’ir n Func, BandishProjekt, and has occasionally playedwith Pentagram as well.
For the musician, nothing is bet-ter than to mix samples on aturntable and play with the bass.“Ever since we introduced thesenights, an increasing number of peo-ple have been coming in. They comeexpecting a certain kind of soundand we are happy to play to that,”says Pravin, who grew up in UK andDubai and is one of the earlyadopters of Dubstep.
Whereas Wobble is all about wob-bling your bass, DJ Ray G has of latebeen, mashing up new, familiar sam-ples to keep the energy flowingthrough the crowd. His fix is theshort-format groove, which hethrows up at Smash Up nights atBonobo. “I have realised people don’tfollow styles or genres. They followmusic and vibes. As a DJ, I don’t liketo stick to a format,” says Ray G, whomashes up everything from Indie,New Disco, Old Skool to Break Beatand Dubstep.
“The idea is to mix things up sothat monotony doesn’t set in, and forthat I am always playing to themood,” says Ray G, who sticks toshort-format sounds and in his one-hour-and-a-half set list uses Dubstepto make transitions from one genreto another.
“Dubstep is traditionally playedbetween 135 to 150 beats perminute. The beats are in half timeand the bass moves faster, which setsa very different rhythm for theevening for club-happy people,”explains Reji, who says the soundgives a break to the energy.
One of his favourite things to doon the decks is to re-introduce theaudience to a song or a tune theymight already be familiar with. “Iplay this track by this old ’90s bandcalled Bentley Rhythm Ace. The sam-ples are used in several promos andpeople immediately relate to thesound,” says Reji, who manipulatesfamiliarity to entertain his crowd.
ON Tonight, 9 pm onwardsAT Bonobo, off Linking Road,Bandra (W). Call 26055050
Monotonous, long-format beats arebeing replaced by anew quick-changing,bass-heavyelectronica that isslowly taking overMumbai’s nightlife
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ON Tonight, 7 pmonwardsAT B69 by Bajaao,21 Bhaisad BhutaCompound, MograLane, off OldNagardasRoad, Andheri (E).ENTRY Rs 150CALL 9320038513Grimmortal; (left) Rohit Pereira from Exhumation
DJ Ray G DJ Uri
Pravvy Prav
