Friday, 21 September 2007

Laxmikant Pyarelal: Karz (1980)

21.9.07    11 comments

Karz

One that's been requested on a few occasions... good call, as 'Karz' is an excellent Laxmikant Pyarelal offering. Possibly their most dancefloor friendly; disco all around. The anthemic 'Om Shanti Om' starts things off with heavy beats, synth stabs, soaring horns and bits borrowed from Boney M; catchy as hell. 'Dard-E-Dil' has a great laid back groove and loads of fun instrumental details, 'Kamaal Hai' is more traditional but still wild and percussion heavy, 'Main Solah Baras Ki' is the poppy one, and 'Ek Haseena Thi' ends it all with thundering drums and more great multi-layered Bolly disco. Good stuff!

Track listing:
1. Kishore Kumar & Chorus: Om Shanti Om
2. Kishore Kumar & Chorus: Paisa Paisa
3. Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, Anuradha & Chorus: Kamaal Hai
4. Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar: Main Solah Baras Ki
5. Mohd. Rafi & Chorus: Dard-E-Dil
6. Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle & Chorus: Ek Haseena Thi

11 comments:

  1. PC21 September 2007 at 20:26:00 CEST

    http://lix.in/3df30e

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  2. litlgrey22 September 2007 at 05:16:00 CEST

    Ohhh..... FEED me!

    This looks like an album I can exploit from cover to cover.

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  3. Anonymous25 September 2007 at 02:04:00 CEST

    thanks a lot man.

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  4. raremarc26 September 2007 at 10:52:00 CEST

    i love hindi disco. this on is great! thanks

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  5. KayKat2 October 2007 at 22:35:00 CEST

    Love it! Definitely an all-time favorite. Thanks, PC!

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  6. Anonymous9 October 2007 at 16:30:00 CEST

    Om Shanti Om really is catch as hell.

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  7. J Thyme...kind29 October 2007 at 17:29:00 CET

    Hey PC, You're on a roll with these latest posts. I'm baffled by your Brass desciptions of GOLD though.
    I have a very nice rip of "Rocky", but no artwork. Might you have it?

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  8. PC29 October 2007 at 18:45:00 CET

    Yup, I've got 'Rocky'... to be posted in the not too distant future. The artwork will be a bit of a challenge though; it has a 'mirror' type cover which isn't really scannable, but I'll figure out someway of doing it. (The same thing goes for 'Shaan' as well).
    PC x

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  9. Souvik Chatterji27 February 2008 at 15:14:00 CET

    Laxmikant Pyarelal had a very eventful musical combination with Lata over 40 years. They were as respectful towards Rafi as they regarded Lata. Even during the phase when music got commercialised in the 80s,

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  10. Gordon26 June 2014 at 07:55:00 CEST

    Hi PC,
    was wondering if you could re upload this Karz album for me as the link is dead.I would appreciate it very much as it has some beautiful memories for me

    Thank you...

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  11. MFT3F26 June 2014 at 09:17:00 CEST

    No reups, sorry. => FAQ

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