Normally we DJs call it BTM-Bollywood Trance music.” And giving it a better sound or giving it a modern sound is what people want right now. Bollywood is something that every Indian loves… even if he or she is from London or from anywhere in the world. What I am doing right now is mixing the EDM sound with, Bollywood vocals. “The EDM scene is growing everywhere… all over the world. He talks about the Indian crowd catching up to the global craze of remixes and mash-ups. I will be doing my best.”Ĭhetas is the only DJ to have hosted his own two-hour show- House Of Dance-on primetime TV. Till the time people like it, I’ll be doing it. If they like recreations, then I have to do them. So let’s see how long it’s going to last. So it’s a phase and I am not saying it’s going to die but every genre and everything has a phase. And right now, we have recreations everywhere… Be it singles, or a Bollywood movie. I remember the ‘Kaanta laga’ days there were only remixes-remixes-remixes. Talking about why he thinks the trend died down, he says, “It was because there were too many remixes happening at that time.
I want to collaborate with a lot of singers.” Back then he started collaborating with a lot of singers and that’s what I want to do in Bollywood. Mainly someone like David Guetta because he has inspired me a lot and I really respect him for what he did on the EDM stage about 10 years back. As for other global musicians he’d like to collaborate with, he says, “I am really open for collaborations. He has reprised the classic song “Jab Koi Baat” in his EDM style with vocals by Atif Aslam and Shirley Setia. That’s what I want to do and that’s what I am going to keep on doing.” I am getting the EDM thing to Bollywood right now. So, I never wanted to get into EDM or something like that but I definitely wanted to change the Bollywood scene and I am still trying to do that. Talking about his influences in music while growing up, he says, “I’ve been listening to Bollywood since I was a kid. When I feel like I want to make a party number or a romantic number, I sit and work towards that. If I feel like I want to recreate an old track, then I work on it. It’s just that whatever you feel like, you do it. When I go to the studio, I don’t think that today I am going to make a recreation or something new. On being asked whether a conscious effort is required while shifting from original music to recreations, he says, “When you love music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a recreation or an original track. Also, Bollywood is something I will always be concentrating on because that’s what I love.” Hindi or Indian vocals have gone to another level and independent artistes are growing at a very good pace. And I think it’s not only Bollywood, it’s about something that has Hindi. When asked his views on whether the Indian audiences are more responsive to Bollywood music than to albums brought out by independent artistes, he responds, “Look at me and other independent artistes, today we are doing well. Since his debut album Life is a Mashup, he has released another, called Iqraar by Chance and entered mainstream Bollywood with a track for Golmaal. The fusion of music and technology has definitely helped.”
But these days, even the romantic numbers are more on the EDM side… most of them, so to speak. Like the tracks of 2005 or 2006 had a lot of dhol and other Indian instruments. Earlier, it didn’t have relevance in Bollywood.
He reflects on how Indian consumers of music have transformed their taste in the last decade: “I think electronic trance music has helped the music scene in India a lot. But it all depends on luck and meeting right people,” he says.ĭJ Chetas has observed the music industry as an insider. So, I met such people but it took me several years. Even today, there are people who are very talented but meeting the right people is important. I remember sitting at the T-Series office for four-five hours just to meet someone and make them listen to my remixes. “I have struggled a lot… almost eight years.
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Having spent 11 years in the music business, he is now well placed to look back on a decade full of struggle and hard work from the vantage point of his accomplished career. Today, he is affiliated with renowned record labels and is treating us to a welcome mix of EDM infused with retro, contemporary and yesteryear music. Apart from this, he was unanimously voted “My Fav DJ-Bollywood” in 20. He is the first Indian to get featured in DJ Mag’s Top 100, and in 2016 he was ranked 33, which won him recognition worldwide.