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Originally initiated as a 3-member act including Mayur Narvekar, Udyan Sagar and Mehirrnath Chopra, Bandish Projekt was kicked off in 1997 – a time when the electronica genre was fraught with stereotyped remixes and remained a little-explored territory in the Indian music scene.

Bandish Projekt is currently spearheaded by one of its founding members, Mayur Narvekar, in a quest to incorporate classical Indian elements into bass-heavy electronica to form IDM(Intelligent Dance Music). Possessing a myriad of collaborations in his repertoire today, he has also toured internationally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sommerszene festival (Austria), Melbourne Electronic Festival, Village India UK, Incubate festival and the BBC Asian Network tour.

Emaho magazine speaks to him about his Indian percussion roots, his view of redefining genres and what it feels like to blow off bass bins.

  ’Projekt’, ‘Correkt’, ‘Connekt’. Tell us about this intriguing ‘k’ factor.

Nothing major about the “k”. It was just to keep a common thread, keep it in the family, so to speak. It also sounded cool. That’s about it.