Stefan Kaye is a Goa based composer/musician and DJ. Bands that he is currently a part of are The Ska Vengers, The Jass B'stards and Aukomakik, he writes music for film too.  This mix is more of a sample really for prospective bookers (where are you?). Mash-ups, originals and remixes. Often he plays live instruments with his sets including theremin, bongos and penny whistle and what have you. Oh.. and Riz Bakteria does visuals.

Flexi K - DJ Mixtape 1

Vampire

Vampire murderer they have us under pressure
Nuff man lined up for the executions
The kill more man fi get promotion
On top of that nuff a de mina extortion 
Dem collect dem tax and oppress poor man

Dem tek from autos and street vendor
But to the upper class the have a sweet temper 
But to the lower class they have a hot temper 

In Kashmir man dead and nobody remember 
North East man dead and nobody remember 
Chhattisgarh man dead and nobody remember
They murder people and call it encounter

Vampire, murderer under pressure
See police hit the accelerator
They make nuff men go meet them maker 
Guns and lathis that a body breaker
When it come to murder dem a perpetrator 

How come dem never face no investigator
Di whola dem a follow government order 
Nuff man get line up just fi get slaughter 
They murder people and call it encounter
Vampire, murderer, dem have wi under pressure

Music & Lyrics: Lee Perry, Taru Dalmia 
Arr. The Ska Vengers

Vampire


Gyal , she dont want the bankerboy she want the criminal 
She don’t want no I.I.T professional
Want the rudeboy, gyal she want the animal, she want the animal

Nah follow dem deh fashion, dem fashion we nah follow 
Have me own image, dem deh image we nah borrow 
Babylon a try come mek we inside hollow
Dem try come mek we inside hollow
So me say gyal, she don’t want the bankerboy 
She want the criminal

So then I can love you
And all of me can attend each kiss 
No low fraction, of my common self 
Will be out shopping somewhere else

I love the type of girls who don’t get impressed by money spenders
Nuff men come pose and profile but dem a pretender 
Devastate dem just like September type passengers 
One thing rudeboy shoulda remember
Remember that gyal, she don’t want di bankerboy she want di criminal
She don’t want no IIT professional
Want the rudeboy gyal she want the animal

So then I can love you
And all of me can attend each kiss 
No low fraction of my commonly self
 Will be out shopping somewhere else

I didn’t mean to leave you, in front of the TV 
Kissing the noose in the side of an alley
Giving up the ghost to a hole in the wall 
Paying penance to the most golden of all 
Holding a tube of toothpaste, smiling in a field 
Gives credit to the way you hold me here 
Feeling all happy, all toothless and loose 
Bathing my hands and kissing the noose

Music and lyrics: Stefan Kaye, Taru Dalmia, Jamie Kelsey-Fry 
Sax: Jaki Chapman
Trumpet: Gemma Reed
Trombone: Yohei Saito

Rude Boy Skank

Full version of the intro that was recorded for The Ska Vengers video 'Badda'. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeBflNNVVr0

Band members The Late Nikhil Vasudevan and Stefan 'Flexi' Kaye feature on tabla and sitar respectively.

Recorded at Saraswati Music College, New Delhi
sound engineer: Chaitanya Bhalla 

Badda Raga

from a session recorded live at Radio One Delhi, August 2015

Woman of the Ghetto (Live Radio One Delhi)

The Ska Vengers cover RD Burman song from 1972 Indian movie Anamika, originally sung by Asha Bhosle. 

They are joined by Rajhastani horn players 'Kawa Brass Band'. The song was produced for Fox Traveller TV programme 'Soundtrek'. 

Engineered by Chas Bhalla and Paul Schneiter
Mixed by Paul Schneiter
Mastered by Anupam Roy
Produced and arranged by Stefan Kaye
Additional lyrics by Delhi Sultanate

with Stephen MacKee on trombone

recorded in December 2015 at Katharas Studio, New Delhi. 





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