Album: Dakku Daddy
Artiste: Ishq Bector
Available on: Times Music
The album ‘Dakku Daddy’ by Ishq Bector is an Indian clone of reggaton music of ‘Yankee Daddy’. In fact, the title track, ‘Dakku Daddy’ has a striking resemblance to to ‘Gasolina.’ ‘Dakku Daddy’ has two versions — the first version features Shakti Kapoor, Hrishitaa Bhatt and the second remix version features Manasi Scott. ‘Aye hip hopper’ a hip hop song with Indian rhythms and beats has three versions - one featuring Sunidhi Chauhan and two remixes by DJ Suketu. ‘Ishq De’ featuring Pankaj Awasthi and Shruti Pathak has good rhythms and beats for aerobics.

Other tracks include ‘Teri judaiyon’ (featuring Raina Singh), ‘Bollywood Chick’ (featuring Shweta Pandit and Hanif Shaikh), ‘Nachana ve nachana’, ‘My world’ (featuring Zubeen Garg and ‘Bombay bounce’ (featuring Hamza) and Mic Fight.

Album: Savai Gandharva concert (live)
Artiste: Bhimsen Joshi
Available on: Fountain Music
The Savai Gandharva Festival, Pune, has a tradition of four decades. Almost all great artistes have performed on this concert platform. This album is a live recording of a classic concert by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi in 1992 which has now been re-mastered in DVD format. The concert begins with an almost hour-long recital of a composition in ‘Raga Ramkali’. This is followed by a rendition in ‘Raga Thumri Jagiya’ of about half an hour and a shorter recital in ‘Raga Deskar’. The concert ends with a 15-minute bhajan

Album: Hooganchalu
Artiste: Various
Available on: Lahari
Hooganchalu’ is an album of eight songs based on the poetry of poet Chandrashekhar Talya set to music by Upasana Mohan, a popular light music artiste and organiser of Bangalore. The eight songs have been sung by popular sugama sangeeth (light music) artistes of Bangalore including B N Sashikala, Smita Vasanth, Pancham Halibandi, M D Pallavi, Upasana Mohan, Sandhya Srinath, Pooja M Taiyur, Nagachandrika and Yashwanth Halibandi.