India’s truly international electronica artiste-duo Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, together known as the Midival Punditz, already have a heap of global acclaim to their credit, with contributions to soundtracks of films like Jude Law, Julia Roberts-starrer Closer, and TV series’ Prison Break and Six Feet Under.
Now, the Delhi-based duo has more to cheer about. The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com has named a song from their third album, Hello Hello, on their list of top 10 dance and electronic songs of 2009, that also features big names like Pet Shop Boys and Passion Pit.
The song, Har ek baat, was also chosen No 28 on the list of 100 best songs of 2009, ahead of songs by Black Eyed Peas, Bob Dylan, Shakira and U2. Amazon.com calls these the songs that “rocked our hearts, minds and headphones in 2009” on their ‘Best of 2009 Music’ web page. The album, Hello Hello, also finds a place on their Best Albums list, at No 92.
The Punditz can’t believe that the song has made such an impact. “Amazon.com is one of the biggest online music stores, so this honour means a lot to us,” says Raj.
“It is especially surprising because it’s an Urdu song and all the other songs on the list are in English. It gives us great pleasure since it means we don’t really have to conform to the set standards of making electronic songs in English,” he adds. This song is also special to the Punditz since it is one of their few songs that came out of an on-stage jam. The duo had started performing this track on stage in 2007, and it was singer Papon (of the band East India Company) who came up with the idea of adding Ghalib’s lyrics to it. Papon sung the song later.
{{/usCountry}}“It is especially surprising because it’s an Urdu song and all the other songs on the list are in English. It gives us great pleasure since it means we don’t really have to conform to the set standards of making electronic songs in English,” he adds. This song is also special to the Punditz since it is one of their few songs that came out of an on-stage jam. The duo had started performing this track on stage in 2007, and it was singer Papon (of the band East India Company) who came up with the idea of adding Ghalib’s lyrics to it. Papon sung the song later.
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