Ottawa Citizen gives Planet Electric 3.5 Stars

Thank you to Patrick Langston from the Ottawa Citizen for this review.

Planet Electric *** 1/2

If you pop by the Ottawa Folk Festival’s dance tent on Sunday, you’ll understand immediately why Delhi 2 Dublin is playing back-to-back gigs there. The good-humoured Bhangra-Celtic mash-up by this Vancouver quintet pretty much dares you to sit still. Blending electronic and acoustic music with reggae, hip hop and a healthy DJ sensibility, the band finds a place for everything from sitar and tabla to horns and guitar.

The album is cheerful, infectious and energetic, highlighted by tunes like Laughing Buddha with its message to live robustly and Happy Ending, a violin and percussion-driven tune that bubbles with joy.

– Aug. 15: Galaxie Dance Tent, 1:15 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.

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Planet Electric Review from Fast Forward Weekly

Delhi 2 Dublin – Planet Electric
Indie/Self-Released
Published April 29, 2010 by Christine Leonard in CD Reviews

An impressive third outing from the East-meets-West sensation out of Vancouver, Planet Electric sparkles like a disco ball suspended over the Ganges River. Pairing rich bhangra beats and reggae vocals with surging electronic effects, this genre-melding collective offers its most dancefloor-worthy release to date. A shift away from the international caravan presented in Delhi 2 Dublin’s previous efforts, Planet Electric has a more glamorous bent; amping up the tabla rhythms with dynamic violin flourishes, cosmic synth samples and plenty of dub-soaked invocations of the spirit. The opener “Master Crowley” holds court, spinning a Sean Paul-calibre buzz over the crowd, a rapture in five-parts that gradually surrenders itself to the steel-drumversus Shanti ohm undulations of the sitar-laced skank “S.O.S.” Smashing borders and mashing styles like the new generation of musical revolutionaries it belongs to, Delhi 2 Dublin cleverly delivers the future shock of the Zen-tastic “Laughing Buddha” and the crazy Celtic-Bollywood reel of “Cabin Fever” in one all-encompassing breath.