Thursday 4 January 2007

Kalyanji Anandji: Dharmatma (1975)

4.1.07    25 comments

Dharmatma

Right, I mentioned the famed funky soundtracks of Kalyanji Anandji earlier; 'Dharmatma' is one of their best (and certainly in my Bollywood top 10 list). Unlike most Hindi film albums where the focus is on songs, this one has loads of great instrumentals. Several ace versions of the 'El Condor Pasa'-inspired theme tune, the more traditional sounding 'Pathani Dance Music', and best of the lot, the wild 'Cabaret Dance Music', full of moogs, wah-wahs, loud beats, screams and mad giggling.

The songs are nice too; I'm especially fond of 'Kya Khoob Lagti Ho, Badi Suder Dikhti Ho', sung by Mukesh and Kanchan.

 And sorry about the naff cover; it's from a later pressing of the LP.
[Update: Now with original cover art.]

Track listing:
1. Title Music
2. Lata Mangeshkar & Mahendra Kapoor: Meri Galiyon Se Logon Ki Yaari Barh Gai
3. Mukesh & Kanchan: Tumne Kisi Se Kabhi Pyar Kiya Hai
4. Theme Music (Sad)
5. Pathani Dance Music
6. Cabaret Dance Music
7. Kishore Kumar: Tere Chehre Men Woh Jadoo Hai
8. Theme Music (Happy)
9. Mukesh & Kanchan: Kya Khoob Lagti Ho, Badi Suder Dikhti Ho
10. Back Ground Music

25 comments:

  1. Stack6 January 2007 at 16:14:00 CET

    New hosting works fine... and many cheers for all these great Bollywood uploads!

    Keep on steppin'
    -Stack

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  2. ZubZub7 January 2007 at 19:42:00 CET

    Very nice, thanks for all the groovy tunes.

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  3. SwaG!8 January 2007 at 02:52:00 CET

    Wow... downloaded and now just got to "Theme Music (Happy)" which is more like theme music trippy... thank you for this stuff. I've been dipping my toes in Bollywood for a while (starting, of course, with "Jan Pehechan Ho"). Sometimes, as may be the case with any decades-long popular music/film culture, I find a lot of average but ok stuff. What I need is a guide to the nifty. And you just may be that guide at the moment.

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  4. Anonymous8 January 2007 at 14:01:00 CET

    The new system works perfect for me, much better than megaupload. Great work, man! Thanks a lot!!

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  5. PC8 January 2007 at 14:51:00 CET

    Yeah, there's a lot of average stuff around, some of which I will be putting up here - to get them off my chest as it were - but then again some may in fact like those as well. Hope so anyway.
    And great that the new host seems to be working - no waiting time, which is nice.

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  6. J Thyme...kind15 March 2007 at 03:17:00 CET

    Good one! With an industry which produces over 500 scores a year, finding the good ones is no easy task or ask an East Indian record dealer as I did...ha ha
    There are some things in common with Bollywood, Brasil & Ennio Morricone. Ennio writes as good as these guys. He just doesn't have those instruments that these guys have in their culture. I know of only country which can compare to these East Indians for drumming & it's the Brasilians. The Brasilian are a force to be dealt with. Very developed rhythm section & very strong composers & arrangers. Voices for days, etc, ect.

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  7. Anonymous24 March 2007 at 01:29:00 CET

    Can't pick this up on "Easyshare" - keeps dropping out half way through - any chance of an re-up on another server????

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  8. Anonymous26 August 2007 at 23:08:00 CEST

    Love the blog! Would love to hear this one if it can be re-upped.

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  9. PC26 August 2007 at 23:10:00 CEST

    Will do so tomorrow :-)
    PC x

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  10. PC4 September 2007 at 08:55:00 CEST

    New DL: http://lix.in/57ea8c

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  11. Anonymous19 October 2007 at 14:12:00 CEST

    thanks for the re-up......love thisssssssssssssss

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  12. Anonymous16 December 2007 at 21:34:00 CET

    Thanks for re-up - :-)

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  13. Piyush Patel30 April 2009 at 03:38:00 CEST

    one of the best kalyanji-Anandji albums. the instrumentals and the vocals are both ace

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  14. Unknown8 May 2009 at 19:37:00 CEST

    how to i get this lp down. if anyone has the lp contact me
    g

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  15. PC8 May 2009 at 19:59:00 CEST

    From where I'm sitting the DL link (a few comments up) still works.

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  16. D.I.T.C.4 August 2009 at 21:39:00 CEST

    Great

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  17. Anonymous26 September 2009 at 22:23:00 CEST

    thanks alot!!great album
    Madlib sampled Theme Music (Sad) on Champion Sound...
    (that cover looks great it's like some library album)

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  18. LëKaR14 December 2009 at 22:48:00 CET

    Fantastic trip

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  19. Lady E22 February 2010 at 00:38:00 CET

    Is it possible to repost the link to Dharmatma Theme Music?

    Thanks. Really appreciate it.

    SS

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  20. MFT3F22 February 2010 at 08:48:00 CET

    Scroll up the comments a bit for download link posted Sept, 4, 2007 - that should still work :)

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  21. MFT3F6 May 2015 at 13:35:00 CEST

    One time only reup:
    http://lix.in/-14fafb6

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  22. Anonymous14 May 2015 at 03:07:00 CEST

    pc sir, with cover art, 128kbps to cbr 192kbps bitrate update.

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  23. MFT3F14 May 2015 at 11:47:00 CEST

    I said reup, not rerip.

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  24. Unknown22 May 2016 at 17:48:00 CEST

    neither of the above given link working,, kindly resolve

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  25. MFT3F23 May 2016 at 11:08:00 CEST

    There is a line above this comment field in regards to that, kindly read.

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