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Video: This one’s from the archives (2012) while shooting for Rangbhoomi in Benaras, one of the busiest, holiest cities of India. The entire video is from one long cycle rickshaw ride, dodging cows and traffic. In some sense the unsteady handheld footage went well with Nucleya’s then bass heavy music that referenced a lot of street sounds. I remember being fascinated by almost every passing moment- the traffic being a befitting metaphor for the ‘jungle’ music. Music: Nucleya’s Koocha Monster EP (2013) marked the beginning of experimentation within electronic music circles in India. While it was earlier far removed from it, more producers started to tinker with sounds that had an established Indian context (like snippets from Bollywood for example). Although his success in mainstream music in India was not surprising, this particular track (New Delhi Nuttah ft Delhi Sultanate) still holds up in a genre he would later go on to define as solely his own.