DJ Chart: Bollywood Disco with Teamy (Wrong Island)

I'm one of those proper nerds who goes searching for great music of the past, from around the world, rather than new music. I find myself sheepishly shrugging my shoulders at 'new' artists like Flo Rida (I even had to Google that to ensure I'd spelled it right). However this does mean I have great knowledge of genres most people haven't heard of, and my specialist subject is Bollywood Disco.

I play at least one track of this genre every Wrong Island and get people asking what the track name was every time – obviously it's hard to communicate the name Bappi Lahiri to a drunk person at 2.30am, so here's a list of my Top 10 Bollywood Disco tracks. You should be able to find most of them on my YouTube playlist, alongside others.

Teamy's Bollywood Disco Playlist: 

Jab Chhaye Mera Jadoo Mostly – Asha Bhosle
I like the slightly OTT nature of Bollywood disco, this one isn't as crazy as some though. Great rhythmic intro and the fantastic vocals of Bollywood legend Asha Bhosle.

Raat Aaye Raat Jaye – Asha Bhosle & Bappi Lahiri
From the Bollywood Western Wanted – a proper oddity with a Billie Jean bassline rip-off alongside Ennio Morricone The Good, The Bad & The Ugly-type soundtrack music.

Inteha Ho Gai Intezar Ki – Kishore Kumar 
It takes four minutes to get out of the Bachaan ballad bit then suddenly fires off into a pretty obvious steal from the Three Degrees' The Runner (this is a very common theme of most Bappi Lahiri disco tracks though he claims to merely have been 'influenced' by the orignals)

Jimmy Aaja – Parvati Khan
MIA sampled this for the best track on her Kala album. To be fair she doesn't really do much to it but that's a blessing as far as I'm concerned.

Boom Boom Dil Bole Boom – Nazia Hassan
Another pretty obvious rip-off, this time of I Feel Love (another one coming up too) by Pakistani Superstar Nazia Hassan.

Rhamba Ho Samba – Ho Usha Uthup & Bappi Lahiri
The track that started off this weird obsession of mine. A heady combo of I Feel Love, a Gibson Brothers' song I can never remember the name of, and traditional percussion that sounds very much like Hot Chip.

Chhupke Kaun Aya – Usha Uthup
This is a straight up and very well copied cover of Don't Stop Till You Get Enough: I love playing it out and seeing the instant combination of recognition followed by confusion when Usha Uthup starts singing the song in Hindi.

Tunak Tunak – Saira Naseem
I've picked the version by Saira Naseem but somewhere on YouTube someone has edited a more modern version into a ten hour extravaganza. So far I've managed 20 minutes before I started to feel vaguely deranged. It's that good that 20 minutes doesn't feel too long.

Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki – Vijay Benedict
Title track from the best Bollywood disco soundtrack I own. It's just the right side of over-the-top for a packed disco floor. I've seen Wrong Island go utterly mental to this plenty of times and loads of people ask what it is – whether or not they wake up the next morning remembering the name is another thing.

Mil Gaya Hum Ko Saathi – Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle
Starts off as a fairly faithful Asha Bhosle cover of ABBA (I know she appears a lot but she recorded over 12,000 tracks in her time!) then segues into a garage-rock freak-out.