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Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars [SOUNDTRACK]

Kalyanji Shah, Various Artists - Soundtracks - Film Scores, Anandji Shah
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (March 30, 1999)
  • Original Release Date: March 23, 1999
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Motel Records
  • ASIN: B00000HYAK
  • Also Available in: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,200 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Bombay 405 Miles
2. Good, the Bad and the Chutney
3. My Guru
4. Ganges a Go-Go
5. Great Gambler
6. Professor Pyarelal
7. Fists of Curry
8. Punjabis, Pimps & Players
9. Inspector Jay from Dehli
10. Satchidananda
11. Theme from Don
12. Fear of a Brown Planet
13. Uptown Bollywood Nights
14. Kundans Hideout
15. Swami Safari

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The Indian film-soundtrack cassettes that can be had for a couple of bucks at any Indian spice shop have long been one of the best buys in prerecorded music. Despite the fact that hundreds of fresh titles are cranked out assembly-line style each year, they maintain a remarkable consistency of quality. This CD's ostensible mission is to introduce the uninitiated hipster to the sitar-, string-, and synthesizer-laden grooves that characterize the incidental music for most "Bollywood" productions. But album producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura has heavily tampered with the original tracks, giving the songs inanely ironic new titles and even dubbing in additional drum and sitar in an effort to put his stamp on the music. Easily angered purists should steer clear; for others, it offers entertaining enough background listening. --Charley Gothic

Entertainment Weekly
If the action in these movies is reflective of Hard Way's musical bent, they must be a real howl.

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sitar'ed Spy Music, A Groovy Chase Scene Through "Bollywood", July 22, 1999
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Featuring the music of Indian composers Anandji and Kalyanji, who composed and conducted music for the so-called "Brownsploitation" films from India's 1960s and '70s "Bollywood," this is one of the latest projects of Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Bay Area producer and music master mind behind Dr. Octagon, with additional beats credit going to DJ Josh Davis, better know as the Quannum Collective's DJ Shadow. Every track on this record sounds as though it were ripped from an American or European spy movie, but with Eastern Indian twists like sitars or Indian chord influenced moog licks. There is nothing of the classic, Middle Eastern modal sound, the kind of convoluted stuff that John Coltrane got into later in his career, but rather, Indian-ized American compositional music, very groovy and full of funk and jazz-based musical ideals. Some tracks owe to the hip-hop influences of the producers, with rough, thuggish beats emphasized and laid out over things like sitar loops, flute solos and heavy string and moog accompaniment ("My Guru," "Fists of Curry," "Punjabis, Pimps & Players"). Other tunes on the record hold truer to their original forms, with emphasis on composition, instrumentation, and most importantly, that tried and true secret agent theme, sometimes presented in go-go style ("Ganges A Go-Go," "Uptown Bollywood Nights"), other times as a surfed-out tribal, disco noise ("Swami Safari"), and other times, just some straight-up, Mission Impossible type stuff ("Fear of a Brown Planet"). With almost no lyrics-save samples from the movies themselves-and no cuts or scratches in the records, this first class joint could almost be considered an illbient album, with an East Indian lean towards The Automator's Dr. Octagon Instrumentalist and Shadow's Entroducing. Worth it for any fan of beat-based instrumental music
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars it's the absurdity that keeps me coming back, May 8, 2003
By rex holcomb (JERSEY CITY, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
this album highlights the best of early dj shadow and dan the automator. hip hop electronic beats with solid interesting melodies. don't expect true "world music", but open your mind to the creative expressions of a handsome boy modeling school graduate and one of the hippest djs still kicking it. the little absurd sound bytes make me smile every time. if you've ever caught a preview of a mainstream indian movie with the singing and dancing or the silly low budget 70's "blackspoitation" movies, then you might find this album appealing. if you're a fan of dj shadow or the automator, then this album is a must.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still A Favorite 6+ Years After I Bought It, August 24, 2005
I first heard cuts from the CD on the University of St. Cloud (Minnesota) radio station (corporate radio isn't going to touch it!) and was intrigued, so I got the CD in 1999 and have loved it ever since.

A prevous reviewer didn't like the modern remixing of or overlays on many of the songs, but this doesn't bother me (it doesn't seem heavy-handed) and it might make the CD a little more accessible to people who aren't familiar with the genre.

The tracks are alternately "groovy", mellow, James Bond-ish, chase-scene-ish, sinister, romantic...basically a late 60's/early 70s adventure movie extravaganza with an Indian twist and a bit of 90s DJ mixing. Somehow all of it flows together, though I suspect the songs come from different movies.

This brings me to just a couple of minor gripes: although there is a great little booklet in the package that explains the sometimes odd and dangerous world of Bollywood, there are no notes about the movies these tracks came from, which leaves me curious, especially since there are some odd sound bites of actors speaking dialogue in Hindi and English--I'd like to know the context! Actually, I'd rather have the movie notes and no dialogue, because it just disrupts the flow a little for me.

This is one of the most unusual CDs I have, and it's great to work to. People who see it on my CD rack or hear me playng it are inevitably curious about it. I love it! If you're curious about the genre or like sountracks or mod/funk sounds in general, this is a nice compilation.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Funky 70s Bollywood samplers
Mesmerising collection of sampler tracks from the composer duo Kalyanji-Anandji. Interspersed with corny dialogues from the movies, which inject humor. Read more
Published on July 22, 2006 by D. Sengupta

5.0 out of 5 stars Dont take it too seriously and you will like it
Being Indian, I was curious about how a non-indian would interpret our current music. To a serious listener, the music may sound weird and maybe even bad. Read more
Published on September 1, 2005 by Rajan M.

5.0 out of 5 stars mellow indian wonderland
this album is especially good for it has a variety of sounds yet all similiar to the theme of the album. Read more
Published on March 18, 2004 by the z-dub

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected..
I thought I was going to hear reel tracks from low budget Bollywood flicks. Instead I get tainted reinterpretations of these songs. Read more
Published on December 3, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Very cool
Dan the Automator is awesome and so is this CD. Very, very cool chill out music that's danceable too.
Published on December 23, 2002 by Christiana Suzuki

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money
Having spent some time with Bollywood soundtracks from the idian retailer of trust, I was quite curious about this compilation. Read more
Published on June 16, 2002 by Michael_W-FFM

5.0 out of 5 stars fists of curry....oh god ...see you later..!
one of the best CD i got.
no words for it.
just read the titles of the CD and of the songs...
run and get it!
Published on March 9, 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Unknown Gem
IF your lucky enough to hear about this album, which you obviously are, you should cop it immediatly. It is an instramental marvel.
Published on February 14, 2002 by Mph

5.0 out of 5 stars Just some great music
First things first the Automater is a genius for putting this out, also DJ Shadow had helped out on the songs as well, but honestly I love this music so much, the 70's funk, the... Read more
Published on August 29, 2001 by ridilin007

5.0 out of 5 stars This cd is one of my new favorites...
I can't stop listening to this cd. It is funky, yet modern sounding, and since I've bought it two weeks ago, I've had five of my friends rush out to get it. Read more
Published on April 13, 2000 by MMF

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