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01. M. Ashraf & Noor Jehan - Disco Dildaar Mera
02. Tafo Brothers & Nahis Akhtar - Tere Saath Mulagaat Ek Raat Ki
03. M. Ashraf & Nahid Akhtar - Too Hai Phool Main Dali
04. Kamal Ahmed & Mehnaz - Tere Mere Larr Gaye
05. Nisar Bazmi & Runa Laila - Oh My Darling
06. M. Ashraf & Nahid Akhtar - Dil Dil Dil Sambhala Na Jave
07. Sohail Rana - Badaj Aur Bijli
08. Kamal Ahmed & Nahid Akhtar - O' Piya Piya Piya Ho
09. Kamal Ahmed & Nahid Akhtar - Aesh Kiye Jeh Subb-O-Shamm
10. Tafo Brothers & Noor Jehan - Happy New Year
ARTIST
TITLE
Disco Dildar
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
FKR 065CD FKR 065CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/31/2015

DIY disco from the Pakistani pop workshop. Never ones to merely scrape the surface of a niche genre, Finders Keepers Records dig deeper still into the core of the Indian subcontinent, exhuming a concise party pack of opulent, off-center Pakistani party targets driven by the pounding drum box rhythms of some of Lollywood pop's most notorious studio scientists. Disco Dildar features rare plugged-in proxy pop from some of the country's lesser-known teen flicks spanning the late 1970s and '80s, featuring drum-heavy disco guesstimates built around multilingual lyrics celebrating Saturday nights, Disco Dildars, and Hindustani Hogmanays. These original synth-dripped 45 EPs are not from the front of the pile, nor the quirky result of some token musical tourism. The music found here once soundtracked rebellious all-nighters and hotel bar rendezvous from films of which your parents might have not approved, hence their scarce obtainability. Again, the Sound of Wonder (BMS 012CD) team that bought you Life Is Dance (BMS 038CD/FKR 049LP), Ilectro (BMS 049CD), Bollywood Bloodbath (BMS 039CD), and others shares equal doses of the excitement, wonderment, and bewilderment that comes when first needle-dropping these elusive gems. Featuring the cut-and-paste electronics and fuzz-tones of flightless super heroes such as Tafo, Ashraf, Bazmi, Rana, and Ahmed, while voiced by Mehnaz, Nahid Akhtar, Runa Laila, and Queen Noor Jehan, it is plain to hear why the work of these DIY cosmic composers have eclipsed the collectable desirability of filmic fruits, igniting dancefloors and providing sample fodder of the wider continent for Wu-Tangular producers in their stride. This workshop funk redefines both DIY and disco, revealing a whole new side to world music, and marks Pakistani pop culture's transformation from disposable and indefinable to indispensable. Form a circle -- Disco Dildar is now in rotation.