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  • Re: What's with these jhankar beats

    From Yashovardhan Borad@21:1/5 to Kenzbenz on Sat Aug 26 01:34:29 2023
    On Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Kenzbenz wrote:
    God! This really cracked-me-up!
    The Jhankar "VIRUS" - Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    More like "Bhangar Beats" (as in "junky"- as Gujus say!)
    Well, (gotta get a hold of myself here..0-: )
    The Jhankar beats were an original attempt at remixing Filmi sound tracks to western beats by Indian record companies. The instrument primarily used for this purpose was the Roland SPD-11, a version of the OCTAPAD, a portable drum set popularly owned by Desi musicians across the world.
    However, fueled by better remixing by Bally Sagoo and others. A new level of quality appeared that put the Jhankar beats out of business as quickly as they
    had come in.
    Later,
    -Kenz-
    Jhankar beats: Is there any logic behind this cacophony ? I was aware of >this
    affliction in the audio world and had carefully avoided cassettes plagued by
    this corruption. However, it took me by surprise to find b/w video cassettes
    with the jhankar virus on them.
    "Desi Keys" The only Enhanced CD in the entire Asian Music Industry to feature
    awesome songs + software. Available in select Indian stores & on the Internet using secured credit-card transactions at: http://members.aol.com/touchbass
    i came to this thread from watching guns and gulaabs ( web series), where in the opening scene the protagonist discovers his cassette is laced with jhankar beats and quickly discards it. When did a bit of google search, i stumbled upon this golden
    thread back from 1998, Man! I wonder where the people on this thread are now :)

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  • From Bhaskar Saha@21:1/5 to Yashovardhan Borad on Sat Aug 26 22:43:30 2023
    On Saturday, 26 August 2023 at 14:04:31 UTC+5:30, Yashovardhan Borad wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Kenzbenz wrote:
    God! This really cracked-me-up!
    The Jhankar "VIRUS" - Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    More like "Bhangar Beats" (as in "junky"- as Gujus say!)
    Well, (gotta get a hold of myself here..0-: )
    The Jhankar beats were an original attempt at remixing Filmi sound tracks to
    western beats by Indian record companies. The instrument primarily used for
    this purpose was the Roland SPD-11, a version of the OCTAPAD, a portable drum
    set popularly owned by Desi musicians across the world.
    However, fueled by better remixing by Bally Sagoo and others. A new level of
    quality appeared that put the Jhankar beats out of business as quickly as they
    had come in.
    Later,
    -Kenz-
    Jhankar beats: Is there any logic behind this cacophony ? I was aware of >this
    affliction in the audio world and had carefully avoided cassettes plagued by
    this corruption. However, it took me by surprise to find b/w video cassettes
    with the jhankar virus on them.
    "Desi Keys" The only Enhanced CD in the entire Asian Music Industry to feature
    awesome songs + software. Available in select Indian stores & on the Internet
    using secured credit-card transactions at: http://members.aol.com/touchbass i came to this thread from watching guns and gulaabs ( web series), where in the opening scene the protagonist discovers his cassette is laced with jhankar beats and quickly discards it. When did a bit of google search, i stumbled upon this golden
    thread back from 1998, Man! I wonder where the people on this thread are now :) 1998 !!!!!!!!!!!! seriously?????????????

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  • From Jay Padia@21:1/5 to Yashovardhan Borad on Wed Aug 30 13:57:50 2023
    Absolutely the same for me.
    I fondly remember Jhankar beats as they had become quite common when I started listening to music on audio cassettes (1990 onwards).
    Love this thread - such wonderful history (something I have always wondered). Alas, there's nothing about the original Jhankar beats on the internet except for this thread. Such a wonderful conversation, guys (and gals?).


    On Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 4:34:31 AM UTC-4, Yashovardhan Borad wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Kenzbenz wrote:
    God! This really cracked-me-up!
    The Jhankar "VIRUS" - Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    More like "Bhangar Beats" (as in "junky"- as Gujus say!)
    Well, (gotta get a hold of myself here..0-: )
    The Jhankar beats were an original attempt at remixing Filmi sound tracks to
    western beats by Indian record companies. The instrument primarily used for
    this purpose was the Roland SPD-11, a version of the OCTAPAD, a portable drum
    set popularly owned by Desi musicians across the world.
    However, fueled by better remixing by Bally Sagoo and others. A new level of
    quality appeared that put the Jhankar beats out of business as quickly as they
    had come in.
    Later,
    -Kenz-
    Jhankar beats: Is there any logic behind this cacophony ? I was aware of >this
    affliction in the audio world and had carefully avoided cassettes plagued by
    this corruption. However, it took me by surprise to find b/w video cassettes
    with the jhankar virus on them.
    "Desi Keys" The only Enhanced CD in the entire Asian Music Industry to feature
    awesome songs + software. Available in select Indian stores & on the Internet
    using secured credit-card transactions at: http://members.aol.com/touchbass i came to this thread from watching guns and gulaabs ( web series), where in the opening scene the protagonist discovers his cassette is laced with jhankar beats and quickly discards it. When did a bit of google search, i stumbled upon this golden
    thread back from 1998, Man! I wonder where the people on this thread are now :)

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  • From Anand Kaushal@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 14 04:23:28 2023
    It was done as a way to bypass copyrights through a loophole, as original cassettes were very expensive, a certain businessman re recorded it and added a melody of a particular instrument. And he started selling it at one third of the price of original
    songs, and it went off like crazy. And you know what the company's name was- T-Series. And this person was Gulshan Kumar.

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  • From Sukesh Hoogan@21:1/5 to Yashovardhan Borad on Wed Sep 20 02:22:44 2023
    On Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 2:04:31 PM UTC+5:30, Yashovardhan Borad wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Kenzbenz wrote:
    God! This really cracked-me-up!
    The Jhankar "VIRUS" - Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    More like "Bhangar Beats" (as in "junky"- as Gujus say!)
    Well, (gotta get a hold of myself here..0-: )
    The Jhankar beats were an original attempt at remixing Filmi sound tracks to
    western beats by Indian record companies. The instrument primarily used for
    this purpose was the Roland SPD-11, a version of the OCTAPAD, a portable drum
    set popularly owned by Desi musicians across the world.
    However, fueled by better remixing by Bally Sagoo and others. A new level of
    quality appeared that put the Jhankar beats out of business as quickly as they
    had come in.
    Later,
    -Kenz-
    Jhankar beats: Is there any logic behind this cacophony ? I was aware of >this
    affliction in the audio world and had carefully avoided cassettes plagued by
    this corruption. However, it took me by surprise to find b/w video cassettes
    with the jhankar virus on them.
    "Desi Keys" The only Enhanced CD in the entire Asian Music Industry to feature
    awesome songs + software. Available in select Indian stores & on the Internet
    using secured credit-card transactions at: http://members.aol.com/touchbass i came to this thread from watching guns and gulaabs ( web series), where in the opening scene the protagonist discovers his cassette is laced with jhankar beats and quickly discards it. When did a bit of google search, i stumbled upon this golden
    thread back from 1998, Man! I wonder where the people on this thread are now :)

    The website was very busy until about 10 to 12 years ago. Then for some inexplicable reasons people lost interest & moved away. A great forum it was. Now as you can see the traffic is down to trickle.
    Some of them active then are no more.
    Regards

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