Trickbaby is a London

London

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 based, influenced by modern dance music

Dance music

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 and Indian Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 classics. They are based around the songwriting partnership of Saira Hussain and Steve Ager, and the rhythms of Vikaash Sankadecha. Lead singer Saira cites influences from modern Western music through to Bollywood movies.

Career

Trickbaby's debut single

Single (music)

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, "Indie-Yarn" received mainstream media attention. It reached #46 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 chart, and was the first Hindi language single to be playlisted at BBC Radio One. Following media support for "Neelaa" after its inclusion on the Asian Flavas album, particularly at Radio One, Trickbaby released their debut album

Album

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, Hanging Around on their own Chachaman label

Record label

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. Five stars in OK!

OK!

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, Mojo

Mojo (magazine)

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, and a good reviews in The Times

The Times

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, The Observer

The Observer

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and in the main Asian press resulted in Trickbaby signing to EMI’s Far East head office in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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. MTV

MTV

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 in the SE Asia region made Trickbaby artist of the month on their "Alert" programme, and playlisted the band's self produced "Slipping Through Your Fingers" video (which features members of the GB synchronised swimming team). Three Trickbaby songs were used in the cult Indian film

Film

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 Hyderabad Blues 2. Virgin UK released a compilation album

Compilation album

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, Asian Beat Bazaar, devised and compiled by Trickbaby and the band toured India, including a performance at MTV's Style Awards.

In 2006, Rohan Sippy asked the band for songs for his movie Bluffmaster

Bluffmaster

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, starring Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan

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 and Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra

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, which has gone on to become one of the biggest modern Indian movies of recent times. "Sabse Bada Rupaiya/Bluffmaster", a Trickbaby track based around the original 1970’s Mehmood song became the title track, and a hit in the India diaspora. "Neelaa", "Indie-Yarn" and a reworked Hindi version of "Nine Parts Of Desire" also all had key roles in the film and featured on a soundtrack album.

Trickbaby wrote the title track to Ashok Thakeria's movie, Pyare Mohan

Pyare Mohan

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, and they remixed two tracks for Victoria 203. The band spent 2007 finishing their second album, Chor Bazaar, named after a market in Mumbai famous for selling stolen goods. Featuring eleven songs and guest appearances by Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello

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's Eugene Hutz

Eugene Hütz

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, Sergey Ryabtzev (violin), and Yuri Lemeshev

Yuri Lemeshev

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 (accordion), as well as Marcella Detroit

Marcella Detroit

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  (harmonica).

To accompany Chor Bazaar the band made two videos. "To Fighter", an animation directed by Mox, and to a new version of "Nine Parts" ("Parde Ke Peeche" produced by Ramesh Sippy

Ramesh Sippy

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 (director of Sholay

Sholay

Sholay is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered among the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema. Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and...

)) and starring Bollywood's Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra.

Their music video "Nine Parts" was also screened at Deejay Ra's music video night in Toronto

Toronto

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, at the FILMI festival, North America's longest running South Asian film festival.

Album discography

• Hanging Around (2004)

1. "Nine Parts Of Desire"
2. "Slipping Through Your Fingers"
3. "Neelaa"
4. "December Blues" (Aluminium Headz mix)
5. "Dildara"
6. "Three Minds"
7. "Hanging Around" (Aluminium Headz mix)
8. "Because you Know"
9. "Sea Of Stories"
10. "Lost Ones"
11. "54"
12. "SSS"

• Chor Bazaar (2008)

1. "Fighter"
2. "Crisis"
3. "Baja (featuring Marcella Detroit)"
4. "Light Up My Life"
5. "Babu"
6. "Drove A Chevvy To The Devi"
7. "Chor Bazaar (featuring Eugene Hutz, Sergey Ryabtzev and Yuri Lemeshev)"
8. "Mujay Tujay"
9. "Broken Dream"
10. "Nine Parts (Parde Ke Peeche)"
11. "Neelaa" (remix)

External links

• Trickbaby's official site
• MySpace