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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Koolmuzone: Pakistani Underground & Mainstream Media

Koolmuzone: Pakistani Underground & Mainstream Media

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The Lighter Side of Coke Studio Pakistan Season 5

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:57 AM PDT

Check out the lighter side of Coke Studio Pakistan Season 5, in this latest featurette.

The Lighter Side of Coke Studio Pakistan Season 5 is a post from: Koolmuzone

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Quratulain Balouch – One and Only (Adele Tribute)

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:37 AM PDT

Artist: Quratulain Balouch

Song: One and Only

Produced by Jarar

A cover of Adele’s “One and Only” by Quratulain Balouch aka “QB”

Quratulain Balouch – One and Only (Adele Tribute) is a post from: Koolmuzone

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Kanza – A thousand Years (Christina Perri cover)

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 06:35 PM PDT

Artist: Kanza Munir

Song: A thousand Years (Christina Perri cover)

Music Mixed & Produced by Hassan Omer (SYMT)

Guitars: Umair Nadeem

Keyboards and Harmonies: Hassan Omer

Lyrics:

Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I’m afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What’s standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this

One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

One step closer
One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

Kanza – A thousand Years (Christina Perri cover) is a post from: Koolmuzone

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From band to disband

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 06:33 PM PDT

This is something every one of us can relate to. Through out our educational career, in school, colleges and even in universities, we often come across people dreaming of becoming singers, forming bands, and fantasizing themselves to be rock stars on stage. And many a times they pick up guitars and devote their whole lives in pursuit of their dreams. In fact quite a few make it to the top. Others live on their dreams. But band formation is not really a rocket science.

A bunch of young lads with similar music aspirations getting together and jamming probably at anyone's basement. But like in every case, hardwork and luck matters a lot.  After having spent some time with "underground" label they finally come off the ground. From the track record, this is the most crucial stage of band sustenance. Because at times this sudden abrupt rise above the ground makes it too difficult for the band members to handle as a unit and sooner or later they break up.

Over the period of time, as the pop culture evolved in Pakistan, in late 80's, we have seen some giant music bands in the likes of Vital Signs, Junoon, Awaaz, Strings, Fuzon, Noori, Jal, Ep and the list goes on. They have literally gone on to become world wide phenomenons. But sadly they all met the same fate; In the recent past, our bands are breaking away like any thing. It has led us to believe that perhaps "bands are made to be broken"

The first and foremost reason that leads up to the band getting disbanded is the abrupt popularity which the band gets. Surely they deserve it. But it just totally changes their orientations and the way they see the things. Once the band shoots off, its members develop their own interest and aims. Their simplistic approach diminishes and more factors come into play. Personal egos become higher than the band and certainly the riffs become visible.

The non professional attitude also proves to be a big reason as every band member starts to take the band as his own personal property which eventually results in infightings. When a band is getting on success, every member wants to enter his own friends or family into the band mainly to manage up things. But actually they just want to take the control of the unit. In past, we have seen some ugly examples of people fighting for appointing their own brothers as the band managers eventually falling apart.

Another technical aspect of band dynamics is that mostly the bands that make it to the higher level, are the brainchild of guitarist or some other musician behind the scene composing the music or writing lyrics for the band, certainly not the vocalist. But as they get fame and move their way up on to the media, the vocalist is always treated as the front man. Most of the time this doesn't go well with the band harmony and the other band members start feeling de-graded. The vocalist starts to think that it's merely because of his sheer vocals that the band is making it big. But in true sense that is not the real case. It's the whole unit and its essence which is behind the success but sadly not appreciated.

In recent times, law and order situation in our country is also not that good. This has resulted in a heavy shortfall of live concerts. These days bands avoid doing concerts for the obvious security reasons. Also it's been quite a long time since any of the major band came up with a full length album. This entire current situation has made music industry look more un-sustainable.  At the end of the day, the musicians also have to earn their bread and butter through their profession. And when it becomes difficult, they look out for other opportunities. The recent trend is the musician and singers going for the acting gamble which has really become a success story in recent past. This too eventually ends up with the band getting disband as we have seen in the recent breakup of EP and even Call getting almost dysfunctional.

The "Indian factor" has also played its role in planting intrigues among the band members. After a huge single is delivered by a band, the producers from across the border single handedly pick the singer of the band for the playback. But sadly the remaining whole unit is totally ignored by them. As we have seen with Fuzon whose split occurred just after Shafqat Amanat Ali went alone and sang Mitwa, despite knowing the fact that the success which has come to him was the result of the whole band.

What the band members fail to understand is that their success is only due to their working up as a unit. It's pretty common to observe that after the break up, neither the singer nor the remaining band, even after hiring a new vocalist, can match their earlier success. Of course exceptions can be there. But they simples lose their trade mark flavor of music. Whatever the reasons might be, but at the end of the day it's the music that suffers. And the music listeners who are deprived of some quality music.

From band to disband is a post from: Koolmuzone

Rap Engineers – Item Number [Dj Killa - Remix]

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT

Artist: Rap Engineers

Song: Item Number

Produced by Dj Danny

This is what the band has to say,

“A remix to Dj Killa Naz’s beat just for fun and just for fans. A little step towards the dance/party genre just to push our boundaries to the lighter side as well. ENJOY.”

Lyrics:

Intro [Maddy]:

J LO,
Nahin ayee hui,
It’s the Rap Engineers baby!
Maddy Khan’s in the house,
Take me to the floor,
C’mon shax that booty,

Chorus [Yaruq]: x2

Teekhay teekhay teekhay teray nain
saday dil da lay gaye chayn,
te dil nu saa na awaay,

1st Verse [Xpolymer]:

Ik pharr ik chadd, mundiyaan di line lagay,
teray pichay signal jakataan nu fine lagay,
daynn lagay raati jadun laa daway make-up,
break-up dastee tay phone tay kahn lagay,
‘Dar Dar may tumhairi juttni’
Aar paar ho zara side tay hatt ni,
dunya ich kuryaan Punjabiyaan nu ghatt nayee,
Rap Engineers ithay nikiyaan di rutt ni,
Udairyaan mariyaan teriyan baariyan ich,
variyaan layiaan, yariyaan funkariyaan ich,
chup chup luk luk pyaar nayio labda,
bahr aa o Tsunami, kaptaan wich khalda,
aam ilaan X pyaar jadun karda,
darda nayee o, aitebaar aj karda,
wich akaharay nikkay kar dittay ghayab,
ik kurri meri o, ik ishq mera Rap,

[Maddy]: J Lo ko kon dhoond raha tha?

Chorus [Yaruq]: x3

Teekhay teekhay teekhay teray nain
saday dil da lay gaye chayn,
te dil nu saa na awaay,

2nd Verse [Maddy Khan]:

walking in the party i saw this cute shawtie
acting like a diva dancing lil naughty
a silk black dress flowing down her body
she the queen of the club,
the queen of the party
I moved closer to her, hands on her waist!
Zig Zag right round her booty waved
and the way she dropped it was like a scud
and the taste of her still on my taste buds
ISLAMABAD! Im the national hunk
show me that girl i love big trunks
caught my eye with the boom boom shake
eyes wooble wooble with the grind and breaks
Dont mind me girl Im from the hood
my pointer pointing you understood
302 and eastlife, away from duty im yours tonight aite?

Breakdown [Yaruq]:

3rd Verse [Xpolymer Dar]:

kad k le gaya meray dil da sahara
Ik hassi, o teri akh da ishara,
jadun may kitta tera ik nazara,
phirdaa aey dil har jaa mara mara,
dil day, dil lay, may tun mil lay,
khul k gidday ich aaj tu hil lay,
chal bay mann lay ik gal,
aaj gaya mauka aana nayio kal,chal,
aey pal na jaway nikal,chal,
aey zindagi ki muskil,
tera pyaar meray wastay jiwain mashal,
is hal chal tun rub door karay,
teray dil nu majboor karay,
confuse karay amuse karay,
meray dil nu wi use karay,
tu saday punjab di saadi kurri, hassdi nachdi haan tapdi kurri,

Teekhay teekhay, teekhay teekhay,Teekhay teekhay teekhay teray nain

Rap Engineers – Item Number [Dj Killa - Remix] is a post from: Koolmuzone

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Kanza – Mean (Taylor Swift cover)

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 06:31 PM PDT

Artist: Kanza Munir

Song: Mean (Taylor Swift cover)

Music Mixed & Produced by Hassan Omer (SYMT)

Keyboards – Arrangements & Sequencing: Hassan Omer

Lyrics:

You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again
Got me feeling like I’m nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I’m wounded
You picking on the weaker man

You can take me down with just one single blow
But you don’t know, what you don’t know…

Someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

You, with your switching sides
And your wildfire lies and your humiliation
You have pointed out my flaws again
As if I don’t already see them
I walk with my head down
Trying to block you out ’cause I’ll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again

I bet you got pushed around
Somebody made you cold
But the cycle ends right now
‘Cause you can’t lead me down that road
And you don’t know, what you don’t know…

Someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

And I can see you years from now in a bar
Talking over a football game
With that same big loud opinion
But nobody’s listening
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can’t sing
But all you are is mean

All you are is mean
And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean

But someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean, yeah
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so?..

Someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city (Why you gotta be so?..)
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean (Why you gotta be so?..)
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me (Why you gotta be so?..)
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

Kanza – Mean (Taylor Swift cover) is a post from: Koolmuzone

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Basheer & The Pied Pipers – Basheer (Download Album)

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT

Basheer & The Pied Pipers - Baseer

Artist: Basheer & The Pied Pipers

Album: Basheer [2012]

Members: Saad Munzar & Salman Younas Khan.

Genre: Ambient, Electronic, Experimental, Funk, Indie, Post Rock and Progressive

Basheer & the Pied Pipers is a live drum and bass duo based in Karachi and Islamabad who make beautiful ambient experimental music and produces the most unique sounds ever heard in it's live acts. Recorded, mixed, mastered in Karachi, Pakistan.

Basheer is a 10-track album from duo Basheer & The Pied Pipers. Released on 16th July, 2012.

Take a listen to the album stream below or download, and let us know what you think.

- Cover/Header Illustrations by Dr. AA Khan

- Join Basheer & The Pied Pipers’s Official Facebook Page

Basheer & The Pied Pipers – Basheer (Download Album) is a post from: Koolmuzone

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