{"id":8741,"date":"2009-11-09T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/bhangra-crosses-the-brooklyn-bridge\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T17:22:51","slug":"bhangra-crosses-the-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/bhangra-crosses-the-brooklyn-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhangra crosses the Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Panjabi MC set for another killer collaboration<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"275\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/PanjabiMC_180x232.jpg\"\/>PUT your shades on and get ready to bounce to another explosive remix from the hugely popular Panjabi MC.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The man who bought us the monster hit \u201cMundian To Bach Ke\u201d, took Bhangra to another level when hip hop icon Jay-Z featured on the track. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Now, he continues his mission to bring Bhangra into the mainstream with another killer collaboration for his latest offering, the \u201cPanjaban Shades On Remix.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>This time he has hooked up with the talented Brooklyn-based rapper, Avion, a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of one of hip hop\u2019s most revered acts, Eric B, to give his original track, \u201cPanjaban\u201d some urban treatment. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The original, taken from his most recent album \u201cIndian Timing\u201d features the lively Punjabi vocals of Manjeet Jelhi and is re-worked to combine big hip hop beats, a booming bassline and tight verses from rapper Avion. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The track also has two dance mixes and a bassline mix, which have already proven to be crowd-pleasing floor-fillers across Russia and Europe. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Talking about the track, Panjabi MC said: \u201cIt\u2019s a big track on the club scene and I felt it needed a mainstream hook. I felt it had the potential to be bigger.\u00a0 If a track is getting a good reaction it is worth remixing\/collaborating. I heard Avion on a mixtape in US, found out he was working with Eric B\u00a0and hooked up him from there. It\u2019s a good follow up to Mundian To Bach Ke.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The \u201cPanjaban Shades On Remix\u201d will be available on iTunes in February. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panjabi MC set for another killer collaboration PUT your shades on and get ready to bounce to another explosive remix from the hugely popular Panjabi MC. &#13; The man who bought us the monster hit \u201cMundian To Bach Ke\u201d, took Bhangra to another level when hip hop icon Jay-Z featured on the track. &#13; Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}