GOT THE INFECTION, GOING EAST FOR THE CURE!

I gotta tell you about this album. See, we've got history, and that makes it even more special, sort of. The artist, Ramasutra, he's been around for a while on the lounge front. His real name's Ramachandra Borcar, and under that identity, has released the fantastic Steel & Glass album, a formidable future jazz soundtrack in collaboration with The Stacked Deck that you should run and buy right away. But that's not the main subject of this post.

Because it all started with Ramasutra and his first album, The East Infection. Now, I used to own this album, and it was very dear to me: there was a couple of tracks that I played regularly on my radio show, and I really enjoyed it as a whole.

But if you've had teenage children, you'll know what this is about. Sometimes, some precious objects disappear, no one quite knows where. Usually, it's not stolen or anything, simply misplaced, borrowed or worst: forgotten. And that was the sad fate of The East Infection. It vanished. I noticed one day it was missing, and there's no telling how long it'd been gone.

Now this was all before the iPod, so I had not yet ripped the album to my hard drive. It was truly lost.

I tried Amazon, but it was stupidly priced. I looked in used cd places to no avail. Time went by. Zoom to january, when I suddenly get the urge to check iTunes. I know: how very 20th century of me! It should have been the first place to check, I suppose. And there it was, waiting for me to download it for a small fee (surprisingly small, in fact). So I'm back to being happy about this album. And it's aged pretty darn well, too.

In fact, if you enjoy Bombay The Hard Way, Indian Ropeman, or any of those indian electro hybrids, I highly recommend this album: you won't be disappointed. There's this amazing track, New Wave (Permanent Wave DJ) where we're treated to a mix of surf guitar, spacey sitar, Brazilian percussions, all in the span of some 4 minutes. It's simply amazing. And there's many more. I found a couple of tracks on Youtube that came from this album, you can sample them here and here if you'd like.