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Blend it like...

Deejays Arya and Sumit Sethi launched their debut album, an assemblage of remixes titled Envy Mixes-DJ Arya this past week

MIX IT WELL Deejay Sumit Sethi (right) at the album launch with the Envy Bar and Lounge owner

Want to be famous? Just pick up a good song, twist it, turn it and package it, or in simple words, use your creativity and remix it. Remixing has become the `in' thing today. Composer-singer Himesh Reshammiya has taken the process of remixing to new heights as he remixes his own numbers in no time.

Following the footsteps of new age music composers like Bobby Friction, we have two Delhi-based deejays, Arya and Sumit Sethi, who presented the album, Envy Mixes-DJ Arya at Envy Bar and Lounge in East of Kailash this past week. The album is an assemblage of remixes done by five deejays including Arya and Sumit. It is made up of seven hot club remixes including "Ho Jata Hai Kaise Pyaar" which is already getting a lot of attention on the music channels these days.

Many awards

DJ Arya, one of the finalists in the Times Music War of the DJs, has played in Tapas, Mirage, No Escape and Capitol discs and Athena and Tantra nightclubs. He says, "I feel like a rock star. When I first heard that my video is on air I was so shocked that I almost dropped my cell phone."

Sumit Sethi, after performing in Melbourne, Jakarta, Sydney and the Gold Coast, and winning various deejay awards such as the Best Enthusiastic DJ, the first runner-up, North India, on the Times Music War of the DJs and the Best DJ in the Bacardi War of the DJs, has released his first album with DJ Arya. Busy on his mobile phone,he manages to say, "Deejaying is my heart and soul. Whatever I do I will remain a deejay at heart. We all did it on our own. We had no support from our parents or from anybody else."

Taking about their plans, Sumit says, "We are working on our second album, which will be released in two or three months".

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