Bollywood Freak Out | Bodega Pop vol. 7

Just reupped this two-dozen track revelation here.

I gave myself a task: Using only CDs I'd purchased in Jackson Heights, Queens, over the last decade or so, create the Single Most Kick Ass 1970s-80s Bollywood Freak Out Mix of All Time without resorting to any track included on any previous Western Consumer-targeted Bollywood Funk/Disco/Dance or other compilation. (Feel free to let me know where fucked up on that one, as I can't imagine, given how many comps there are out there, that I didn't.)

As you listen to this sweat-stained comp, comparing it to your copies of Bollywood Funk, Bollywood Funk Experience, and Funk from Bollywood Action Films, let me ask you a question: How much does your ass hurt, being kicked as it is by this far superior compilation?

This Superior Tip Top 100% Super Dance Action comp goes out with Xtreme Love to the Bodega's all-time BFFs: Carol, Doug, Holly, and, above all, fellow Bollywood traveler Rodney. You know who you are. 

As an aside: I've heard complaints from yon and hither that "Oh it's a RAR file I can't open a RAR file I don't know what to do with a RAR file my hands are tied."

So, until further notice, and unless someone taps me on the shoulder and whispers the RAR secrets into my ear, I'll be merely zipping files for the foreseeable future.

At WFMU Super DJ Doug Schulkind's request, here's a full track list with film titles and dates:

1. Aa Dekhen Zara, Rocky, 1981
2. Zindagi Meri Dance, Dance Dance, 1987
3. Bachna Ae Haseeno, Hum Kisise Kum Naheen, 1977
4. Naheen Naheen! Abhee Naheen! Abhee Karo Intazaar!, Jawani Deewani, 1972
5. Super Dancer, Dance Dance, 1987
6. Jawani Jan-E-Man, Namak Halaal, 1982
7. Tridev, Tridev, 1989
8. Duniya Mein, Apna Desh, 1972
9. Jeena Bhi Kya Koi Jeena Hai, Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, 1984
10. Bolo Bolo Kuch To Bolo, Zamane Ko Dikhana Hai, 1981
11. Dance Dance, Dance Dance, 1987
12. Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, 1984
13. Laila O Laila, Qurbani, 1980
14. Mil Gaya Ham Ko Saathi, Hum Kisise Kum Naheen, 1977
15. Tum Kya Jano, Hum Kisise Kum Naheen, 1977
16. Yeh Naina Yaad Hai Piya, Manzil Manzil, 1984
17. Ooie Ooie, Star, 1982
18. Mujhe Maar Daalo, Geeta Mera Naam, 1974
19. Aap Jaisa Koi (Instrumental), Qurbani, 1980
20. One Two Cha Cha Cha, Shalimar, 1978
21. Pyar Zindagi Hai, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, 1978
22. He Baba, Manzil Manzil, 1984
23. Disco Deewane, Disco Deewane (album, not a film), 1981
24. Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana, Don, 1978

Rungpetch Laemsing | Fon Duen Hok

Listen to "Chao Na Worn Fon"

At a reader's request I have reupped this totally great collection in 320 kick-ass kbps here.

Are you ready to rock? No, no; seriously, people: Are you RAY DAY to FROW king RAAAWWK?!?

I found this insanely great CD by luk thung artist รุ่งเพชร แหลมสิงห์ (Rungpetch Laemsing) below Canal Street on one of the north-south running streets in Manhattan's Chinatown at a Thai "curio" store several years ago. I visited the store regularly for a couple of years, mostly buying up hundreds of these things for work on this:

... a comics project that has taken me a ridiculously long time to finish, largely due to (a) working a rather stressful full-time job and (b) general sloth. (I'm actually just a couple of pages shy of finishing what will be about 200 pages of collected comics that is [crosses fingers, bites lower lip] supposed to be published late this year.)

But who cares? You're here for the la musica, la musica--the cha-hoo-nays, mang. And oh my fucking god are you going to be happy you stopped into the Bodega today. This album is so awesome I can still remember the weight of my lower jaw dropping moments after hitting "play" when I gave it its maiden, post-un-shrink-wrapped listen.


Laemsing's music appears on only one Thai CD compilation that I know of, Luk Thung! The Roots of Thai Funk. ("Ban Nork Dee Nae," which also appears on the CD above.) Other than that, Peter Doolan posted a luk thung compilation cassette on his massively fabulous Monrakplengthai blog, here, which features another song you'll find on the CD above, "Nam Long Duean Yi.")

I don't know anything about Laemsing other than that dude has been rocking--uh, excuse me--RAWKEN my world ever since I plucked this exceedingly cheeky disc of polycarbonate plastic from that long-vanished store in Chinatown. Perhaps if Peter stops by he can share what he knows about the man?


Until then, you don't really need to know much of anything, other than whatever it is you're gonna need to know in order to nurse your poor tender ass after the monster-kicking this sublimely talented dude's gonna give it.