Sunday, April 27, 2014

Music

Some techno Bollywood/bhangra style music that's quite fun is a few tracks by M.I.A. (ie. Maya Arulpragasam) from Sri Lanka and Britain. If you like live music and concert enthusiasm, try watching part of a concert of her's here.

The best song is perhaps "Matangi". Read about Matangi, goddess of music in Hinduism here. She is a wild aspect of the mother goddess Devi and a Tantric form of Saraswati [Sanskrit: सरस्वती], goddess of knowledge and wisdom [like an Athena crossed with an Apollo, to make a light, simplistic comparison].

Her song "Bad Girls" is quite fun with a wild video, and I really like her song "Amazon" [and it mentions the Rubicon for all ancient Rome enthusiasts]. Her song "Hombre" has a really lovely blurriness to it, almost a type of Bollywood type mix/rap. If you like regular rap try her song "World Town". Her song "Boyz" has a great pop and Bollywood sense to it.

Iggy Azalea has some kind of similar, fun music in her "F--- Love" and her new song "Problem" with Ariana Grande. Just like Rihanna and Katy Perry, M.I.A. and Azalea have songs that are perfect for remixing and mashups.

Also if you like the way those old casio keyboards sounded, The Capricorns are a neat band to try if you like odd music, kind of a different type of M.I.A.-ish style, just in the sense of how fast the beat goes--try their song "The New Sound".

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