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AHMEDABAD: This Navratri disc jockeys (DJs) are set to overwhelm garba venues with music never heard before. You could find yourself doing a teen taali with juiced up Shakira’s Hips don’t lie....

The music that is being fused with garba and dandia beats belongs to the various styles like rock, trance, hip-hop, house and club. The regular Bollywood music, though remains quite popular.

The main reason for this experiment is to catch the attention of the youth, who are more familiar with the DJ-music than the traditional garba music. One of the first DJs of the city, DJ Taral says, "There are many good orchestras playing the all time favourite garbas. If people invite us to play, then they are definitely looking for a different type of music that would retain the spirit of Garba and yet be more fun to dance to." DJ Taral, who usually plays trance music, has begun mixing dandia beats with the popular Bollywood and English numbers.

Uchit Rawal, 21, says, "I look forward to dance on these mixes. Nothing can ever beat the traditional garba music but in between for a break, if the DJs play a different style of garba, it would be very interesting."

DJ Abhijeet, who is experimenting with rock music, has developed a mix for ‘We don’t need no education..." with dandia beats. He says, "Though the traditional garba music cannot be beaten, there is a huge section amongst the youth who would like to have some more variety and punch in the music. Thus, mixes like these could be great crowd pullers." Tejender Binder, 24, a student from London, says, "I have seen dholis playing Punjabi mix but never DJs playing garba."

Most of these DJs have been invited at the private garba parties organised at farm houses by affluent families or corporate, educational institutes and hostels. DJ Varun said, "I usually play Electro music, but for this Navratri, I have mixed the latest Bollywood hit, Hare raam hare raam...The crowd expected is around 500 people mostly in the age group of 18-30 years."

source from : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/