90s breakbeat track with sitar

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I'm having another moment where I have a song stuck but can't remember what it is

this one is a group that I think sits kind of on the world/roots end of things, I think their name is part jamaican or similar, might even have "dub" or "sound system" in it, but the track is breakbeat with a sitar line, probably mid 90s

I know I'm going to kick myself with this one, it's right on the tip of my tongue and I think it's probably obvious

any ideas?

[Because789]

Maybe Twilight Circus Dub Sound System? There album Dub Plate Selection is from 1998 and they're messing around with sitars (there's even a track called Indian on the album). Though I wouldn't qualify it as breakbeat.

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thanks.. nah, it's something more obvious where I'm going to kick myself

it's contemporary with fatboy slim, chemical brothers, indian ropeman.. mid 90s

[turbomartin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ltSb02JKs

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ltSb02JKs

ha... thanks, no it's way more upbeat

[Because789]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE

Speed it up a little and you got your mid-90s breakbeat track with a sitar

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shit... I've found it, and it's totally not who I thought it was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_wCdv9eIKI

Mathar - Indian vibes

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now I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the band was I was thinking of... damn

it's definitely from that end of things... kind of psychedelic/roots/dub hippy kind of thing.... if it had a jamaican name it would be from Brixton
oh well fucked if I know

[Angstrom]

If this is the song you are thinking of I will laugh my fucking head off

Youtube : Timeshard - Cosmic Carrot part 2(PlanetDog records '95)


Indian people avert your ears, I can only apologise for the stoned folly of my youth. On the plus side .. I did have a Peel session.

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I wish it was just so that could happen! Who was on Sitar?

Actually I was almost going to message you directly about it because I felt sure you'd know it, but in the post above I actually found the track I was thinking of, but it wasn't by who I was thinking of, so now I'm stuck trying to work out who the band I was thinking of was and whether they also had a similar track, and I have no way of even really describing who they are, other than they were from that 'scene' I guess, but maybe on the more roots/dub/world end of things... I definitely have it in my head that they had a kind of Brixton jamaican kind of name

doing my head in

[siliconarc]

anandar shankar - streets of calcutta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJK6TQi-70

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anandar shankar - streets of calcutta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJK6TQi-70

Did they used to play that one up at Wigan Casino?

No it was Mathar - Indian vibes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_wCdv9eIKI

I just thought it was by someone else and now I'm trying to figure out who it was that I thought it was.... probably a lost cause though really

It's an obvious one, I'm sure of it

[siliconarc]

hah sorry, misread the thread.

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Along the lines of Transglobal underground or Banco De Gaia, but not asian dub foundation despite my ideas about it maybe having 'dub' in the name

fucked if I know, I guess I just have to wait until it pops into my head

[Angstrom]

Hmm, I don't actually remember anyone touring or releasing tracks on that scene at the time with a Sitar, and I used to pay close attention because it was kind of my thing. Also I was hanging out with all of those people, so I'd probably have noticed.

I must have blocked out any other contenders, or been too stoned to remember WTF was going on. Of course the tragic sitar player in my case was me.

Fun Fact - that Mathar : Indian Vibes track is actually a shady side project of Paul Weller, of the Jam/ Style Council.