This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
East meets West in the Asian techno of Bengali-born Brits Joi — aka Farook and Haroon Shamsher.
Like Talvin Singh, these DJs import traditional instruments — flutes, tabla, sitar — and use them to season their pan-cultural stew. Sometimes the dish is a rich, warm groove; sometimes it’s a spicy dance-floor motivator. Either way, the result is almost always exotic and hypnotic — like the soundtrack to a really cool travelogue.
