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I received a promo package from Shahin Badar‘s manager in the UK. He even airmailed me a CD!

Now this CD deserves a weblog entry all its own because it comes with:

• Traditional CD-Audio
• CDDB info
• WAV tracks
• FLAC tracks
• Ogg Vorbis tracks
• MP3 tracks

• All of the above as a single “Full CD” file.

Someone out there is smart.

Now for the downside. I don’t particularly like any of it. The remix of Yeh Rog (track 2) is quite funny, since I can’t possibly take rap seriously. It’s also very repetitive. Track five has a lot of potential, but the playfulness is definitely strange to my ears.

The rest, is interesting. I don’t have much expore to Desi music, nor to the more recent wave of cross-culture remixes, so I lack a strong opinion. Tracks one and seven are such teases.. and I think that I’d like the full songs.

I also learned that my straight DVD player has some issues with it, and can’t play CD-Audio.. probably since it’s not wired to do so. But I didn’t wire my dvd writer to do it either, and it can play things just fine. That and the burner has much better access speed to the disk. Maybe it’s a wacky writable-DVD type.