Bally Sagoo

• Genre: Asian Underground
• Hometown: Birmingham

About

East meets West in the dance music of U.K.-based Bally Sagoo. An established DJ in high demand as a remix specialist, Sagoo has helped set the tone for the Asian underground movement. Mixing traditional instrumentation such as sitar, tabla and mandolin with House, Garage, and Techno beats, he creates club music that reaches beyond the East Indian community. Cleverly, he uses many different types of singers in his work, from Indian devotional and classical to Bhangra to Ragga to Soul vocalists. Armed with unique drum sounds, unusual breakbeats and general silliness, he rules dancefloors from Bombay to London to New York.

- Robert Leaver