🙌🏾 🆙 - Desi Bass / Trap / Jersey Club banger 💃🏽🕺🏽

Smart Link: https://hypeddit.com/hands-up

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Su Real @realsureal
Jayhaan @jayhaanofficial
MC Zulu @mczulu

Video Director, Animator & Illustrator: Nayanika Chatterjee @isthisart__

Audio Mastering: Hanosh Khan @bigman_khan

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0CJa4R9Bh54zEmKUUNr4Lj?si=8-uX0xGsTmmy8867cupmUA

Apple: https://music.apple.com/in/album/hands-up-single/1726023442

Bandcamp: https://realsureal.bandcamp.com/album/hands-up-su-real-jayhaan-mc-zulu

Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/cAxVx

Hands Up is a party anthem in the original Desi Bass style popularized by Nucleya, blending Indian folk music with hard-hitting Western club beats, now updated with Jersey Club and Trap rhythms. The song is an international collaboration between Desi Bass pioneer Su Real (Delhi, India) and every South Asian DJ’s favourite remix producer Jayhaan (Mumbai, India). The shehnai and Maharashtrian percussions bring everyone to the dancefloor as the commanding vocals of “electro-reggae” pioneer MC Zulu gets everyone’s hands in the air.

The music video for Hands Up is inspired by cave paintings in Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, India. These are some of the earliest traces of human life and creativity in India. Further, some of the earliest cave art in the world is that of handprints. As such, putting your "hands up" is interpreted as painting your handprints on the wall - leaving your lasting mark on the world and having a positive impact with your life for hundreds of generations after you.

In the animated music video, the three main characters - the drummer, the shehnai player and the singer with a primitive version of MC Zulu’s signature megaphone - entertain their lively community of humans and animals with music and dance. In doing so, they are united.

Profiles:

Su Real is an award-winning music producer and DJ known for pioneering new genres like Trap, Reggaeton, Dancehall and Desi Bass in India. For over a decade, Su Real has raved at the rapidly-evolving forefront of South Asian dance music. His all-inclusive approach to music ensures his status as a champion of the underground who can also whip a main-stage crowd into joyful hysteria. Su Real has been featured on Amazon Prime Video, VH1 India, Apple Music, Spotify India, BBC Asian Network, Red Bull India, Rolling Stone India, GQ India, Homegrown, Wild City, Huff Po India, Time Out Delhi, & elsewhere. On previous releases, Su Real has collaborated with Ritviz, Rashmeet Kaur, MC Altaf (Gully Gang), Shah Rule (Gully Gang), GD 47, J Trix, among many others.

Jayhaan is a Mumbai-based music producer and DJ who has garnered an international following amongst elite DJ’s and music lovers for his club-smashing Bollywood remixes. His name is synonymous with popularizing Jersey Club in India and his musical style knows no bounds, constantly pushing the boundaries of high-energy dance music. Few would guess that Jehan V. Bhesania is also a part-time priest for his day job, carrying millenia of traditions into the future. This spirit extends to his musical endeavours where he is known for his skillful juxtapositions of traditional Indian folk music with the latest trends in Western dance music. Jayhaan’s music has been featured on BBC Asian Network, Boiler Room, Mixmag, Zee Music, among many others.

MC Zulu achieved worldwide notoriety among dance music afficianados for the combination of Reggae vocals with various forms of electronic music. It’s no exaggeration to say that MC Zulu’s music in the 2000’s helped change the understanding of what dance music could be. In the USA, the press called it “Lazer Bass” and that eventually morphed into “Global Bass”. It became the sound that opened doors for EDM and several mainstream acts. This resulted in collaborations with artists from around the globe including Nucleya, Alo Wala, Kush Arora, Liquid Stranger, Datsik and many others.

Nayanika Chatterjee is an animator/illustrator based in Mumbai. She specialises in music videos, animation for film, title sequences and illustration/comic work. Nayanika has previously worked with Dualist Inquiry, The Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and Dharmatic Entertainment, among others.