For the Urban Typhoon going on there are all of artists and urbanologists doing alot in the slum here.  This is one of the hundred or more pictures that a local koli drew as on of the projects. All of the stuff going on over the week is going to put up later on Dharavi.org. I’ll post when its up and going. I’m really trying to get my hands on this baby massage video it’s crazy. I’ll post a link when i do.

When i first got to Koliwada I was trying to explain that i wanted to write some new songs with the locals and work together and make some tracks. They didn’t really understand what i meant, I think it’s because they mostly listen to Akon, Sean Paul, HIndi film scores or they just sing local songs that have been there for generations. So after 4 days I realised that i’d have to just do it to give them the idea. So we setup a speaker on the roof of the gym and i played a bunch of beats and instruments to my friends then we started getting somewhere. It was awesome I ended up spending the day recording up there. Also I arranged a Mad Decent Party on the roof for the locals and the people here for the Urban typhoon tomorrow.

So later we did more night recordings and this time in another hood and we seen what all the turf talk was all about. Koliwada is so dense the neighboring hood is just maybe 40 feet off the main path. You could feel there was something going on during the recording between our squad and the dudes who’s turf we were recording on, Mad beef.

Do you know how on Inspector Gadget how he’s just some idiot going around not really knowing what’s going on and he always solves the crime and stays out of trouble because his daughter and her dog are in behind the scenes saving him? Well that is exactly me in India, their my guardian angels in the slum here.