Opium Jukebox -

Never Mind the Bhangra, Here's the Opium Jukebox!

(Underground, Inc) www.undergroundinc.com

High concept to the moon, this record scores about 5 billion bonus points just for the sheer audacity of it's existence. Opium Jukebox are a liquid gang of post-industrial super groupers- Martin Atkins is the mastermind behind this one- teaming up with traditional Indian musicians to record Sitar-heavy Bollywood exotica versions of Sex Pistols songs. As you can imagine, it's quite insane, and as such, you'd have to have the patience and outer space ears of an obsessed mental patient to really hear the Pistols tunes behind the shuffling hi-hats and twanging sitar and Hari Krishna bell ringing. Reminds me of that time at the Cafe Casablanca when they swore it was nothing but banana flavored tobacco in the hookah, and I ended up getting chased by a six armed Captain America every time I walked down the street for a week. Seriously hallucinogenic, "Never Mind the Bhangra" is much more entertaining than yet another collection of badly recorded Sex Pistols demos, so skip the 14th botched take of "Anarchy in the UK" and try this lunacy in Kashmir instead.