Panjabi Hit Squad’s Desi Beats is the Record of the Week by the Telegraph (UK). The Telegraph (UK) has a nice review of the Panjabi Hit Squad’s Desi Beats album comparing the foursome to Massive Attack and the Specials.
bq. “What’s so exciting about fusing traditional Asian music and modern idioms such as hip-hop and dancehall reggae is that the resulting concoction is at once utterly contemporary yet timeless. The Asian form bhangra is a rural sound that has developed over hundreds of years, primarily as a means of celebrating the harvest. Along with the other UK Asian artists featured on Desi Beats Volume 1, Panjabi Hit Squad use it to dazzling effect, both as an embellishment and a backbone for music of striking beauty and excitement.
There’s a song here, Nahin Jeena by Londoner Rishi Rich, that, despite being sung primarily in Panjabi, is such a brilliant, uplifting piece of pop music that in a just world it would be Number One for months. Elsewhere, the Hit Squad’s own Nachle is three minutes of pure drama, a driving rhythmic pulse woven through with impassioned Bollywood declamation.
[via DESIBLOG]
yo how can u diss panjabihitsquad there the best thing that happened to bhangra they understant desi well all u ppl out there dnt even knw the songz frm back in the day like frm artist like alarp desi boys and pardesi and hitsquad knw about the past yeh they are sikh mans bigin’ up thee uk yeh u dnt knw old skool never mind the desvibes funkysingh yr rite bro we knw the desi bts member panjabi-mc , hitsquad,rishi rich are all together workin’ at one level pluz hitsquad are the first asian to work on a famous record label like defjamm uk and ur not so hahaha!!!! shame there u go research the music them come bak wid a return comment ya get me.