Northern Lights – Sparked

Release Type: Album — Release Date: 7th January 2005

01 – Janaab – Tanveer Gogi ft Aka Nobody
02 – Wrong Number – Fauji RajPuri
03 – Billo Tere Nakreh – Labh Janjua
04 – Serious – Calvin ft Aka Nobody
05 – Mittae Gunneh – K Preet
06 – Ek Kurri – Kuldip Manak
07 – Aashiq Dig Dig – Kaka Bhaniawala
08 – Mirza Boliyan – Bhupinder Singh
09 – Ni Umiye – Harvinder Vannat
10 – Matador – Lehmber Hussainpuri
11 – Pounda Naal – Amanjot Kaur
12 – Yaari Loani – Tanveer Gogi
13 – Billo Tere Nakreh (Remix)

This is a 13 track album by (Tarv and Dev) two new producers from Glasgow who have been behind the scenes for the past two years. The album has taken over a year to make and features many top artists including Kuldip Manak, Labh Janjhua, Lembhar Hussainpuri, Kaka Bhaniawala, Tanveer gogi and many more.

The album features different styles of tracks with the unique Northern Lights Urban Desi sound.
This is a freshly produced album where the boys have tried to stay away from sampling as much as they can to showpiece their production talents.

The album includes many different flexes including two urban tracks with new sick Mc Talents from the States. The album will also feature a bonus exclusive new track from Tigerstyle and video should start to appear on music channels early June 2005.

Tarv:

Tarvinder Singh Nijjar (Tarv), Born 4th December 1980 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England had a huge interest in music from a very young age. While growing up he listened to his uncle and dads old Punjabi vinyl’s from vocalists such as Manak, Chamkila, Shinda, Saddiq, Raffi, Luhaar and big brothers 2 live crew, NWA and other Hip Hop influences.

At the age of twelve he moved to Scotland but continued his passion of music by starting to learn how to dj with western music in smaller venues. After starting Uni at 16 Tarv soon started learning how to improve his Djing and started appearing at various underground events throughout
Scotland.

He burst onto the main Dj Circuit in Scotland in January 2003 after launching a radio show on Radio Awaz called Urban Fusion. Since then he has featured at many events included hosting the official Glasgow Mela 2004 and performing at the Bramas Club tour in October 2004 and UK Asian Music Awards in Hammersmith London in 2005.

He is currently one of the top Urban Djs within Scotland and has his own unique in key mixing technique which helps him stand out from the rest.

Dev:

Dev Singh Pabla (Lil Dev), Born 22nd September 1988. Born in
Chatham, Kent, England. His desire for a passion in music grew from a very young age. He was given a Dhol at the age of three and started playing the basics.

At the age of five he moved to Scotland but continued his passion of playing classical musical instruments. He started playing different Indian percussions mainly Dhol but also on other percussions and instruments such as Dholak, Tabla , Drums and Tumbi. He then started to learn dhol professionally at the age of 10. Since 10 he has been performing at events all over Scotland and built a reputation as one of Scotlands top dholis, with this being further strengthened by joining
Dhol Foundation for a massive event in Turkey after appearing at various other events over the UK.

While growing up he listened to a lot of old Punjabi folk music, and as he got older he started listening to other genres’ of music such as hip hop, garage, reggae, drum n base etc. His inspirations have emerged from both east and west, from legends such as Gurdas Maan, Kuldip Manak, Chamkila, Surinder Shinda to 2pac, Biggie, Dr Dre, and Jay Z.