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‘We want to get away from being pigeonholed’: How the next generation is redefining South Asian creativity

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sherwanis, pulling out gun fingers for house, dubstep, Punjabi folk songs, jungle and more. It seems as if there’s a renaissance afoot – with a new generation of club musicFor some, it felt like a moment in history not seen since the era of the “Asian Underground” in the Nineties, the umbrella term given to a loose collective in the UK who fused contemporary electronic music like drum’n’bass with elements of Indian classical, creating new and innovative diasporic sounds.

Now it seems as if there’s a renaissance afoot, but with a new generation of club music: brash cuts of UK garage, dubstep, funk, grime, footwork and more sit alongside sweet, melodic bhangra, Carnatic rhythms and clever licks of Bollywood edits.

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