North Carolina = Bombay West
soulmarcosa
4,296 Posts
EXHIBIT AI had a delicious Indian buffet in Greensboro NC today while taking a break from the record show.EXHIBIT BLast night in Chapel Hill NC I spun bhangra & bollywood with DJ's Turbanator & Mogambo to a packed house of Indian and other folks til 3am. There were MUCH pretty girls in the house, we had live dhol player Samit Singh keeping rhythm and sexy bollywood videos played on bigscreen above the crowd. EXHIBIT CIn my mailbox today were the new CDs from UK bhangra heavyweights Mentor Kolectiv and Jassi Sidhu.EXHIBIT DYesterday on a tip from Bally Sagoo collaborator Kenz Desai, I called a Gujarati widow in Raleigh NC who was looking to get rid off her late husband's record collection. "Oh no I won't sell them," she told me. "I'll just give them to you." So as of 11:30am, these were safely in the trunk in my car:
Comments
(actually, nc being bombay west and my mix are totally unrelated; i just thought thread was a good opportunity to remind you)
BTW the record on the far right, third from top row (photo of chick in sunglasses) has a hot 1981 disco track on it. It's a Gujarati album called "Zankar" (singer's name?) with music by Purushottam Upadhyay. I may post audio later.
rock!
I tried to do just that later in the day by offering a beer to another local dealer who was buying some stuff from me. It wasn't until about an hour later that he mentioned he was a recovering alcoholic.