Delhi Sultanate Music Page

Taru Dalmia is a reggae and hip hop artist as well as a performance poet and scholar based in New Delhi India. He has performed at various poetry forums and live shows, representing the lyrical and cultural tradition of reggae dancehall and hip hop in India. In 2005 Taru opened the Kitab literature fest in Delhi. The following year he performed at the British Council alongside Guyanese born London poet Malika Booker. He is known to devastate audiences and unsuspecting media representatives with raw reality lyrics that take a hard look at life in Delhi and India at large.Delhi Sultanate's music ranges from straight forward dancehall and hip hop tunes to dubstep, drum and bass and more experimental electronic and acoustic music. He is associated with the Delhi's Da-Saz crew, an ecclectic collective of electro and classically trained acoustic musicians based in the capital. His Da-Saz collaboraton 'fire bon' was featured on the 2007 compilation S A H I B O L - The Urban Transmission, New Delhi's first music compilation and was on frequent rotation on BBC Asian Network. He is also one of the founders of BASSfoundation together with Maarten Klein aka the Viking Warrior and Ed Anderson aka Praxis.He is currently working on two projects. A dub album with Indian producer Audio Pervert, which he's expecting to complete by spring 2009... expect state of the art dub vibez and hard lyrics aimed to set new precedents on the subcontinent as far as popular music is concerned.. Simultaneously he is compiling an Indian Reggae compilation with Jamaica's legendary production team Sly and Robbie. The aim is to give a voice and global platform to artists singing in regional languages that have radical lyrical content and a strong vibe . . .DAYS OF MENTAL SLAVERY "to a large extent Power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality" According to Delhi Sultanate the essence of Reggae and Hip Hop culture lies in mental emancipation and creative expression. His aim is to contribute to the creation of non commercial popular culture with contents for the people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ONE THING I WANNA SAY THOUGH: I feel like the Hip Hop and Dancehall hype all over the world these days is a double edged sword... on one level its more power, reach, and money for the movement but then there are fewer and fewer real heads out there and people are forgetting what the essence is all about...sick and tired of this fake r'n'b designer thug shit and the imitating clowns that are proliferating all over the atlas...to all real ragga ragga soldiers, hip hop headz, b-boys and girls, graf writers, Nyabingi and Bobo Ashanti dreads and real shottas who defend their communities and families... god bless...lets make this fire burn...hope one day my lyrics get people possessed like the original nyabinghi in colonial days..............more fiya!! we little but we tallawah !!I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)