Lately I’ve been intrigued by Red Baraat. My take on them is that they have a New Orleans style Brass Band sound, but with the Indian (Punjabi) wedding drum beat, and they sing/rap in spanish/english/punjabi/etc.
First noticed them when I gave their Tiny Desk concert a shot:
Holy shit that’s new. A violin bow on a electric guitar
Also odd to see Indian music follow a more western traditional time signature
Its Breakcore. Just Breakcore. Igorrr often mixes breakcore with baroque or classical music. Very unique.
It seems very very crazy at first, but there is something behind it. The drum programming is just science. I love breakcore.
You can see it more as a tool to reach higher states of conciousness (psychedelics are speaking here) than just music.
The whole breakcore genre is very very experimental.
If you start to go veryyy deep into the psychedelic state, you start to understand the meanings behind this music.
Jimmy Page, guitarist for Led Zeppelin used a bow in a guitar in the 1970’s. You can actually see him performing with a violin bow and guitar on the live concert movie “The Song Remains the Same”, the song “Dazed and Confused”.
According to this list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_guitar, the first to do it was Eddie Phillips of The Creation on the song Making Time. Starts about 1:30.
It’s a neat effect. It must be tough to do as @RiceGuru points out. It seems that it creates a sound more bands would be interested in using than currently do.
This is true, but it was made famous by Jimmy Page, considering how commercially successful Led Zeppelin was.
Yes, I agree Page was the first to “popularize” the practice. I just listened to the Pink Floyd tracks from that list and the bowed bass guitar does not sound like I expected it to. It sounded more like an upright bass being played with a bow. I remember as a teenager my brother and I took his cello bow to my dad’s electric bass guitar and it sounded weird. Very deep, muddy, and creepy.
I play bass…the strings are just too thick, it won’t sound good, lol. With some cheap .08 super thin guitar strings though, it makes sense why it sounds good. 
He has a pretty well known song now (as far as I know only in The Netherlands though) but most people only know him from playing an intro to a rather bad football talking show. I really enjoy these.
Youtube works in misterious ways
I have watched that video for like 10 to 20 times now, and it still amuses me the what the fuckery and intrigue that video and music brought to me.
Just found this.
Colombian/French Gabriel Garzón “keep on runnig” “pour maman” are my favs
I still love the synthesizer music (Back to the 80s) Dabeull and FKJ
FKJ jazz
Sub urban
SKYND
In case the name of the song does sound familiar, it’s a song about this nutcase
This is SKYND’s shtick, they make songs about murder cases
qebrus
I felt the need to share this somewhere… Here is Miku playing a guitar.
I believe the video was a MMD contest submission. I don’t how hard it to use the MMD software, but I imagine this was an unreasonable amount of work.
Troldhaugen made some of the catchiest and weirdest songs i have ever heard. They started out as a folk metal band, but became more avant garde with every new album they released.