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| Creator: Midival Punditz
Label: Six Degrees
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 132094
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1079
UPC: 657036107922
EAN: 0657036107922
ASIN: B00006J3ZF
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Air | | • | Extasis | | • | Fabric | | • | Insite | | • | Far From Home | | • | Bhangra Fever | | • | Mercury | | • | Night | | • | Forest Dreams | | • | Ajmer | | • | God of Love | | • | Dark Age |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The Midival Punditz are Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, childhood chums from New Delhi who have partnered into a dynamic duo with their feet firmly planted in the worlds of recording, remixing, performing, and scene making. Effortlessly blending classical ragas and instrumentation with the beats, loops, and digital technology of contemporary electronic dance music, they produce a fusion that is listenable and danceable in equal measure. Violin, flute, tabla, various percussion, the hammer-dulcimer-like santur, and a wide variety of voices generally take the lead, while the beats and blips keep everything moving underneath. From the atmospheric "Air" to the hard and heavy "Insite," the Punditz display and impressive and deeply satisfying instinct for synthesis. A clear hit for anyone who appreciates Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, and the rest of the Asian Massive movement, this self-titled debut should also be a real eye and ear opener for anyone with a sense of musical adventure. --Carl Hanni
Album Description
The MIDIval PunditZ are spearheading a musical revolution in their home base of New Delhi, molding the shape of Indian music for the new millennium. Their unique hybrid of classical Indian ragas and electronic music has been heard on the soundtrack to Monsoon Wedding as well as with the super-group, Tabla Beat Science. "A true Indian music outfit for the future"-Skim Magazine "[The MIDIval PunditZ] produce New Delhi's very own sound"-Hindustan Times
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Worth listening too..... April 30, 2007
This music is good to hear
it is hypnotic
relax and let go.
I recommend them.
 Not of this dimension. January 16, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a musician, it is always mind-boggling when i hear electronic-based music done so masterfully, as the punditz have done. It may be that electronic music is sort of the untouched final frontier to most of us "legit" musicians, because learning to do what these two guys have done on this CD is like practically learning a whole new field. "Midi"val Punditz = Experts of Electronic Musics.
Dreamlike, exotic, erotic, sensual, spiritual, are all words that describe this CD. Assembling the sounds and soundscapes on every track took intensive creativity. Instead of going track by track, I will only tell you that the entire CD is somewhat of a mystical journey, even when certain tracks are more groove and beat oriented. Also, there is much use of actual indian instruments and percussion that really take the listener (or at least me) beyond the stars. The Midival Punditz take their beautiful Indian culture and metaphorically shine it through a modern prism, giving us this magnificent output.
 Late night sounds November 27, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Like the Six Degrees compiliation Asian Travels 2, on which Midival Punditz has one song included (not from this album), this album (also on Six Degrees records) is more background music than foreground music, with the exception of "Bhangra Fever." There's a lot of beat going on but not necessarily danceable beat; I don't know the term for it--would it be drum & bass? Vocals are heavily reverbed and ethereal, giving the album a dreamy quality.
By far, my favorite song on the album is "Bhangra Fever." Unlike the other songs on this album, this one JAMS! It's a rowdy, upfront beat tune that is carried by a powerful sitar melody but made rowdy by the repeated (sampled) rhythmic male group vocal, "Hey! Hey!"
A few songs forgo that "drum & bass" (?) beat and become more ambient, such as "Night," "Forest Dreams," and "Dark Age," all on the latter part of the album. Which brings me to another point: I have two similar albums--the aforementioned Asian Travels 2, and Black Bombay, and both of those fizzle out the last few songs. On this album, however, I like the second half of the album better than the first half.
Inventive, ethereal Indian club music...this is an enjoyable album that was among my top 15% favorites of 2003.
Brilliant!!!! May 23, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A genuis masterpiece for the most discerning of audiophiles. This is by far my FAVORITE CD of all ambient music I own. It is original, incredibly creative, sort of puts you into the feeling of being in another dimension. It's a true effort of genuis. I envy the virgin ear who hears this CD for the first time. It leaves me begging for their next CD .... I pray it will be soon!!!
Delhi Swings! February 6, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a great experience! From the FSOL-like opening of Air to the Indian DnB sounds of Bhangra Fever to what I can only term the "Spiritual House" of Ajmer. A great mix of traditional sounds with current electronica arrangement.
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