Mishthi Music

Mishthi Music Presents: The Never Lose Infinite Hope Concert

Join us for the relaunch of Mishthi Music with our first concert of 2025, the Never Lose Infinite Hope concert! It will be a night of music and dance as we build community through the power of liberatory joy and spirited resistance featuring some of the hottest South Asian musicians of this moment.

We are inspired by the words of Martin Luther King Jr. for this MLK weekend event: "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM-Midnight Location: Boomtown Brewery, 700 Jackson St. DTLA Cost: $25 Food Truck out front Street Parking https://bit.ly/MishthiMusic

Featuring:

Gurtéj (NY) - old-school rock & soulful R&B

Amrit Kaur (London) - Punjabi folks meets Aretha soul

Sayak Das (LA) - progressive rock & electrifying pop

Sadubas (LA) - Bollywood psychedelia DJ duo

MTooray (LA) - DJ-ed global sounds of afrohouse & Punjabi amapiano

Mishthi Music is a platform to feature, critique, and celebrate liberatory music of the the South Asian diaspora and was started by Taz Ahmed and Nitasha Sawhney in 2012. If resistance is joy and music is a tool for revolt, then Mishthi Music is that space for the South Asian American music scene. The Mishthi Music reinvention finds us on our all new Instagram account at @ MishthiMusic.

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Mishthi Music is back with another mix to get you those mashallah feelings when you most need it. Inspired by Zahra Noorbakhsh’s show On Behalf of All Muslims, this mixtape is centering Muslim-ish voices that will inspire joy. Tracks include hip-hop beats (Narcy, DJ Khaled, Mona Haydar, Anik Khan), booty dance tracks (Shaggy, OCHOBOYZ) and pop ballads (Yuna, Leo Kalyan, ZAYN) and much much more.

You can also hear this mixtape at the pre-show for On Behalf of All Muslims: Comedy Special show on June 21-22 2019 at the Brava Theater for Women in the Arts in San Francisco. A show by award winning comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, you can now use the code “ZAHRAGOLD” to get a discount.

Inspired by Doris Duke's Shangri La in Oahu, Mishthi Music's Taz Ahmed curates a mixtape inspired by the sounds of Hawaii, orientalist imaginations, crashing waves, and political music by Muslim-ish artists. We live in a time of Muslim bans and hate crimes and these tracks challenge you to re-imagine a better and more re-centered world. Tracks include exotica (Les Baxter, Korla Pandit, Martin Denny), Calcutta classical music on a Hawaiian slide guitar (Tau Meo, Debasish Bhattacharya), banging EDM DJ mixes (Desi Sub Culture, DJ TIkka Masala, Jai Wolf), politically-charged rap (Anik Khan, Brother Ali, Swet Shop Boys) and much much more.

Bali Ha'i by Tak Shindo

Resident Alien by Doctors & Engineers

Sei Valo Sei Valo by Shyamal Chowdhury & Hawaiian Symphony

Cleopatra by Anik Khan

R.E.D. by A Tribe Called Red (ft. Yassin Bey & Narcy & Black Bear)

Zombie by Swet Shop Boys

Playful Melina On Diamond Head by Debashish Bhattacharya

Brown Boy Lost by Kaly

Kehna Hi Kya by Desi Sub Culture vs DJ Khanvict Refix

Indian Summer by Jai Wolf

Maja by Yusuf Siddiquee

ilaahadda by OCHOBOYS

Chupa (Habibiboi x Bassbear remix) by Rainey

Choli Ke Remix Kyahe by DJ TIkka Masala

Habib Galbi by A-WA

Tehran by Les Baxter

Djin by Mashrou' Leila

Love Galore by SZA

Colonizer by HDLSS

H.A.I.R. by Humble the Poet

Let It Grow by SETI X

Indian Summer by The Kalua Beach Boys

Brown Girls by Vivek Shraya & Queer Songbook Orchestra

The Florist by Nilufer Yanya

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Nina and the Moon by DJ Tikka Masala

Amerika by Young the Giant

Twist the Knife by The Kominas

Rokhto by Big Baby Gandhi

Focus by Haseeb

Islamophobia by Professor A.L.I. (ft. Jinnsanity, K.B., Ras Ceylon & Swap)

Procession of the Grand Moghul by Korla Pandit

Korla Pandit by Brooklyn Shanti & Jason Chu

Never Learn by Brother Ali

Return to Paradise by Martin Denny

This is Taz here, and I made y’all a Ramadan Mixtape to get you through the holy month! Check out the write up over at The Mash-Up Americans: 

As a Muslim teenager growing up in America, one of the clearest memories I have is my parents swatting at my hand when I went to turn on the car radio in the month of Ramadan. It was usually followed up with, “Eh, no music! It’s Ramadan. None of this Rap-Bap, Punk-Dunk during the holy month!” They would then pop in a cassette tape of Quranic verses while I would teenage rage stew in the passenger seat.

Mishthi Music turned 5 today! TODAY must be a super auspicious anniversary-- our Mishthi Music 5th birthday falls on Bengali New Year and Vaisakhi!!! Yay!

A fun video from Ravi Shavi of his garage-punk track HOT off of the album Independent. 

The band lead by Rafay Rashid brings a vibrant aesthetic to their music with catchy rhythms. Rashid is also poetic with his idiosyncratic lyrics that talk about love, parties and dealing with one’s self.