Habiba

Rediscovered Bappi Lahiri's 'Habiba'. This was the 1st ever Indian/Asian Electronica/House track that made it to the Billboard charts back in the late 80s. I had managed to wrangle a recording from Bunty back in the early 90s, I think, & it was one of the most played tapes in my precious collection back then.

It's memories came back to me somehow last Saturday while Arnie was packing for his US trip ..... & I immediately scoured the web - & found it. What joy hearing a long forgotten track brings ..... almost the same as chancing upon its elusive mp3 from cyberspace (long live coolgoose).

As for the track - my earlier recording was not too good - the mp3 is a crystal clear digital rendition with the full bass efffect - that still has the potential to blow the listener's socks off. It's been playing in a loop on the Walkman all this week. Now to get that car with the boombastic woofers to blast around in!