Artist Alert: Calm Chor/ Minimal Tech producer

The alter ego of Ashvin Mani Sharma aka AMS, Calm Chor is blasting his way on music portals.Few artistes have been as closely associated with India'?s electronic dance music scene as Ashvin. He co-founded the erstwhile Jalebee Cartel with Ash Roy and has been a part of the Indian underground music scene since 1995. Over his splendid 16 year-long career, he has stormed dancefloors globally. He’s one of the people who put India on the international EDM map, delivering power-packed performances in cities as alive as Amsterdam and Berlin. “I started deejaying and producing music in the late 90s,” he says in a telephonic conversation from Goa. He’s in the Indian paradise to perform at a bike festival with A Bit Of Both, another electronic live band he has set up with Ash. Over the last five years, he has been extensively touring Germany every summer, playing at the music festivals and clubs. Last year saw him visit USA and perform at Burning Man as well. Calm Chor is his latest stage name as a techno producer. His new EP titled Dance Floor Sci Fi is already being talked about online. He says, “I intend to make music a tool for emptying the mind with unpredictable and unusual sounds, and then fill the open space with the beauty of surrender through dance, a state of mind that takes you away from the safe space of the self to a consciousness where the tribe becomes aware of its existence. To reaffirm that we are a bunch of freaks who listen to bizarre, crazy music that just somehow moves our soul to action.” Under his record label, Ashvin is also launching artistes like Folic State from Mumbai and Ajmal from Chennai. “I play a lot of music by Indian producers in Europe and they love it. We have a lot of talent out here,” he says. As Calm Chor, he wants to focus on making music that’s ‘dramatic and emotional, like every Indian is at heart’.