Rhythm Section Radio was founded in 2009 and moved to NTS in 2012, and has since pulled out the stops breaking new music, promoting independent labels and paying homage to the greatest music from the past, through a perhaps unhealthy obsession with record digging.
While Bollywood musicians have been known to borrow — and sometimes improve on — songs from around the world, the way that filmi music has traveled the globe is less appreciated. Bollywood numbers have influenced dozens of local musical styles from the Malay Archipelago and East Africa to the Balkans and Afghanistan. This brief survey of Bollywood covers collects a few of our favorite interpretations, which include forays into garage rock, taraab, cumbia, dangdut and more.
While Bollywood musicians have been known to borrow — and sometimes improve on — songs from around the world, the way that filmi music has traveled the globe is less appreciated. Bollywood numbers have influenced dozens of local musical styles from the Malay Archipelago and East Africa to the Balkans and Afghanistan. This brief survey of Bollywood covers collects a few of our favorite interpretations, which include forays into garage rock, taraab, cumbia, dangdut and more.