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Beat Street

Indian ragas, classic rock `n' roll and tracks from the ramp paint stores this week

RUNWAY MUSIC The models who walked to music from Fashion Week Special Edition

Year Of The Dog...Again (Explicit)

DMX/Sony

"I don't make music to make songs. I make music to record my life," says Earl Simmons a.k.a. Dog Man Xtreme, the hip-hop hit machine, as he releases his sixth solo album. Earlier, his fifth cover Grand Champ (2003) made him the only artist to consecutively debut at #1 on Billboard Top 200. As the voice of the hood, the rapper/actor is known for dark lyrical content and notes. Contemporary music he says, "It's not rap, its crap. There is no soul," he says, as he reconnects hip-hop with its roots through this new cover. Highway Companion

Tom Petty/Warner

Early this year ABC Television hired Petty to do music for NBA Playoffs. While, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, features an exhibit of Tom Petty items till 2007. The American rock `n' roll guru of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers fame, known for his album-specific music, returns with his third solo and 18th career disc with new compositions. Presently on the Highway Companion Tour, he will be joined by Pearl Jam, Stevie Nicks and more artistes during the first eight concerts who will perform from the Heartbreakers' catalogue. Fashion Week Special Edition

Various/World Wide Records

Fashion labels have explored the music scene to get the best soundtrack for their fashion shows and in the last years they were able to impose new trends on the music market. If the early Fashion Week Specials featured music that graced fashion shows of Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Prada, Diesel, Kenzo, Ungaro, Cacharel and Armani, the fourth volume in this series, best parties edition, includes tracks that have scorched parties during the fashion week. Flavours on the album range from minimalist techno to eighties retro, through house, electro, rock and pop. House with disco-funk flavour and notes from Bob Sinclar, Dennis Ferrer, Kings of Tomorrow, Cerrone, Earth Wind & Fire, The Sunburst Band, Prospect Park and Intuit make this cover real haute.

Sounds of India

Various/World Wide Records

Touted as pure selection of chill and funky Indian tunes, this volume has Nitin Sawhney— the multi faced British Asian artist who has been successful in dishing out the Indian musicurry to the chicken tikka crazy populace, as also Asian Dub Foundation with break beat bass, electronica, punk guitar and raga rap based lyrics condemning racism, fascism and an unequal world. Rama and Bally Sagoo bring their version of the Indian folk and Ohm Guru their rock/pop electronica. For us fed on Bollywood in this part of the world this album is an insight into sounds rocking musicscape worldwide.

SYEDA FARIDA

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