I am constantly probing around for more and in my search I recently went out to the Internet looking for musicians who are pushing the boundaries on South Asian music. Not necessarily from people of that origin but anyone pushing the envelope on sounds emanating from that part of earth. I was looking for the avant-garde and experimental musicians who are infusing the amazing heritage of music from South Asia with fresh sounds and ideas? It was, by and large, a disappointing journey and I'd like to believe that this was mostly my failure at finding them.
I heard loads of bhangra, trance, house and hip hop... apparently that last one is called bollyhood. People seem to like that stuff.
In my opinion, the astists who stand out of the crowd are Nitin Sawhney, Karsh Kale, T J Rehmi, Talvin Singh, Badmarsh & Shri, Dj Cheb I Sabbah, Bill Laswell to the league of Badawi, Muslimgauze and Raz Mesinai. If you know of others that you'd like to point out, especially any independent ones, I'd love to hear about them.