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DJ Tikka Masala

Bedstuy or die

About Me

Kolkata ---- Jerz ---- SF/Oakland ---- NY/BKMy family builds harmoniums and other musical instruments in Calcutta, old school provisions for classic bollywood. In the states I studied Indian classical vocal music and Western violin (!) for a long time, and then stopped to get into the other hemisphere. Now it's all really one planet for me... one big throbbing ecstatically dancing planet of Dervishes, B-girls, and Bharatnatnyam queens.I've been DJ-ing in NYC since 2004, but really the music-melding tendencies started way before that. Traditional music, and folk sounds are where my heart is.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/30/2006
Band Website: you're lookin' at it
Band Members: Member...hmmm... it's not the size of your laptop, it's how you use it.

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Sounds Like: Asha Bosle and De La Soul's love child, but it's not a child at all... just a virtual analogue synth with some sass.
Record Label: as many as possible... F*&K DRM.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Here Comes V-day

Maybe unawareness of the inevitability of change (aka habituation and comfort... especially in regard to love) is a defense mechanism against the emotional instability that would otherwise result from...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:11:00 PST

Southpaw

Hey, everyone who came out to support Fierce on Friday night - THANK YOU. Really, that was just too much fun. Aren't girl DJ's the best?!
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:22:00 PST

The Gossip Afterparty

Once again, a debaucherously raucus night of celebratin' and enebriatin'! The band rolled in and started dancin' and shakin' it, the crowd went nuts - and at Mo Pitkins of all places. Who woulda t...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:52:00 PST

Skirball 1

Once again, I am amazed at how rad dancing people are. Tonight I DJ'ed for a party of dancers after their show at Skirball. It turned out that my friend Lesley (of Slaywhore fame) did the costumes. Sh...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:05:00 PST

BAM - Thanks Y'all

Wow, we really had a fun time at BAM the other night there, didn't we? Destino and Kiebpoli started the dance party, and you all just kept it going on and on and on into the wee hours! Who would have ...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:39:00 PST

Man it's getting cold out there

in travelling from home to work these days, I've really been feeling the creeping-in process of transitioning weather - and it just makes me want to leave this seaboard. i feel stuck in the waiting p...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:10:00 PST

Marfa Marfa Marfa

Got back from Marfa, Texas about two days ago. My sense of time and space have mutated after a week in the desert, but I think things are starting to come back to me now. It was a beautiful journey. T...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:46:00 PST

Church and State

Last night's Mixtape was pretty dope. Doing events and incorporating people from the journey into my work-life is one of the big perks of this career path I've fallen into. Last night it was Milad and...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Sat, 27 May 2006 05:37:00 PST

Irene Fornes

She's cool. I'm working on a documentary about her right now. I could use some influences and ideas. Irene's story is fascinating. If anyone knows anything about her or performed any of her works, let...
Posted by DJ Tikka Masala on Fri, 05 May 2006 01:01:00 PST