Creator and Director of Deepthrust, DJ Batuta's name (a.k.a. "The Beat" en espanol) has become synonomous with the underground electronic scene in New Delhi. As one of the first few DJ's to bring electronic sounds to the capital city a decade ago, Batuta's pioneering spirit and ever-expanding musical taste have continued to bring the most cutting edge music to the Delhi scene from across the globe, while also driving a demand for his artistic talents abroad. DJ Batuta has toured extensively across India and Europe,mainlining some of Europe's biggest clubs in France and Germany, and opening for such renowned artists as Elite Force, Talvin Singh, Midival Pundits & Jalebee Cartel. His beats are always seriously thumping, the energy levels are high, and the textures in the music are twisted and sub-woofer troubling. Driving percussive elements – usually associated with techno and breaks – are combined with an underpinning, rump-shaking groove to create an "attitude" that drives Batuta sets and far surpasses the usual electronica genre descriptions.
The mission is to fuse a variety of elements to challenge and expand the listeners' minds, from the occassional clubber to the most seasoned of music officionados. Deepthrust captures the interest of an expansive scene by stealthily fusing nightlife energy with performance art quality.
” After silence, something which expresses the inexpressible is music ”
Broke the silence of the world with his amusing crackle on 7 th December 1976 , the day he walked on this earth. Music became his predilection, passion and subsequently his life as he grew up tuning and taming the strings of guitar to make them hum on his notes. His interest spawned unfathomably from spanned jazz; classical; rock; hip-hop; disco; funk; country; anything! He loved everything: Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, old-skool roots stuff like Trojan, rock like The Doors and Santana. You have to give Santana his props, he was amazing! I was in complete awe of the work of art in music done beautifully; the huge collection of vinyl & cds in my room symbolizes this appreciation - says Batuta .His collection is from literally every spec of time when music had left its golden trail in different genres.
As a young kid I was deeply into disco, hip hop, pop, rock but started cruising to Electronic Music at the age of 16, when a friend handed me couple of cds from Holland . After listening to them my heart just said.... Damn! This Rocks! Music speaks nothing but sound! –The art of Djing'. The DJ isn't on display really, you have to seek that person out, it works in reverse. People are there to have a good time and you gotta read and understand the room. That's how music comes to me: Fundamentals. It's all about sound, not flash and that's why Soundsystems is my forte. Electronic Music smitten Delhi I was one of the first DJs playing House Music when its wave struck the capital of India ( New Delhi ). That's what I grew up with, my first love comments Batuta.
Besides having played to large crowds at private parties to big events he has also put together live acts with a Bass Guitarist and Percussionist. Also re-edited tracks by messing around with the arrangements not the content. It's just for my own sets because I might need a longer period to mix something in... A lot of DJs do that now.” states Batuta.
Clubs & Parties he has played in; No escape (New Delhi), Ricks Bar (Taj Hotel, New Delhi), Plutos (New Delhi) Capitol (Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi), Suede Bar (New Delhi), MKOP (Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi) , Scream (Le Meridien, Pune), Ssteel (New Delhi), TAPAS (Vasant Continental), Launch party of BLUEYE - Insects from the other Universe (Germany), Webdynamite Party (Austria), Nannu (Traunstien, Germany), Festung Cafe Lounge Bar (Traunstien, Germany) Baci ( New Delhi) Tabularasa (New delhi).
Music Styles .. The MIX All styles of HOUSE, FUNKY BREAKBEATS, TECHNO and some other twisted genres that could grab his ATTENTION!! “He always loved a certain level of risk taking when it comes to my DJ mixing. Marrying the most awkward music together often turns out to be crazy and sexy. And he strongly believes that if it's done right, it'll compliment the artists work while challenging the listener's mind. It's all a matter of momentum, like time does not exist anymore. His favourite time to DJ is at a private party, in a loft, at six in the morning, when everyone's completely fucked up. I just like to hit them on the brain with the music, just play the wackiest, weirdest shit. He really enjoy's it – not for cliché' reasons of fame/money – but on an education level. He wants to educate himself by experimenting more with it.
About Future, he says “Right now I'm focused on getting my first album together and looking for the right label to release it on; it's on its way, My ideas are down, and I'm going to make a record with a few dance pieces. It's going to be more eclectic, more downtempo, more loungey and experimental.
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