To clarify for the reader, the tapes from which this compilation was assembled weren\u2019t lost. A buddy of the compiler found them in a box on the sidewalk on garbage day in Lisbon. One stranger\u2019s trash, however, proved to be a treasure chest for Portuguese DJ, documentarian and digger of crates Eduardo Morais, aka Death Disco Disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rescued cassettes were a randomized review of Bollywood in the early \u201990s \u2013 an interesting period for filmi, India\u2019s cinematic pop music. The cheesy disco had been discarded, the anarchic invention and appropriation of the \u201980s firmed up into a more formal code, and production quality was on an upswing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synths were ubiquitous by that point, and they\u2019re all over Abhijeet\u2019s robo-calypso \u201cPum Pum Pum\u201d, Anu Malik\u2019s two fluorescent electro-funk items, and several also from Bappi Lahiri, a Bollywood synth pioneer. These include the sly \u201cO Lal Dupatte Wali\u201d, the hilarious \u201cKisi Ko Daulat Ki Tension Tension\u201d, and in a more \u201cclassic\u201d Bollywood vein, the bouncy \u201cChhan Chhan Baje Ghungroo\u201d. On a similar tip is the fraternal duo Anand-Milind\u2019s spellbinding \u201cMeri Tirchi Nazar Mein\u201d, sung by Alka Yagnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morais has done a solid job of selecting the best tracks from the box, fortifying the mixes, and dicing and splicing just enough to make the material work well in an awesome-mix-tape context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n