Description

Black Star Liner – Bengali Bantam Youth Experience / Warner Music CD Audio 1999

UPC 639842500425

Made in	Germany
Released:	Aug 1998
Genre:	Electronic, Reggae, Folk, World, & Country
Style:	Breakbeat, Trance, Dub

More Dub-based at heart than anything else, Bengali Bantam Youth Experience shows a musical development from Black Star Liner‘s début Yemen Cutta Connection which results in a more streamlined experience, with crisp production letting the bass reverberate around and under delicate keyboard tones, Bollywood strings and all manner of Eastern percussion. There’s some upbeat skanking beats on tracks like “Low BMW” and the laid-back single “Superfly And Bindi” which exhibit and infectious groove and sardonic vocals which take things well beyond the Asian Cool into the realms of Asian Sarkey. Yep, and there’s a vocoder about alongside the de rigueur samples from the On-U Sound back catalogue too, plus fuzz guitars and sitar twangs as is only to be expected, while there are even some sub-Hank Marvin moments on the chugging “Dark Shadow”.

Tracklist:

1	Sita D Vocals – Anju Sharda, Bobby Friction Vocals – Anju Sharda, Bobby Friction	3:36
2	Swimmer	4:43
3	Low BMW	2:28
4	Gurdeep's Yellow Funk	4:06
5	Superfly And Bindi Featuring – Dennis Hollins Featuring – Dennis Hollins	3:47
6	Pink Rupee Vocals – Neville Beckford Vocals – Neville Beckford	3:14
7	Ethnic Suicide Of The Volga Boatmen	3:57
8	Inder Automatic Featuring – Inder "Goldfinger" Matharu Vocals – Anna Samant Featuring – Inder "Goldfinger" Matharu Vocals – Anna Samant	3:39
9	Khaatoon	3:06
10	Silvini	3:33
11	Dark Shadow	3:04
12	Intafada Powder Line	2:17