Ashu | en

Mumbai-born composer Ashutosh Phatak’s music is the stuff of dreams. Opulent, lucid and at times unsettling, Ashu’s mystic sound scapes artfully weave stories of love and loss, of hope and fear: stories that are at once intensely personal and invitingly universal. His debut album ‘Sigh of an Angel’ is rooted in duality, and exists in fantastic worlds that are intimate, expansive and rich in their visual imagery. 

 Ashu, a graduate in Western Classical Music Theory from The University of Pennsylvania, has been professionally composing music for the last 15 years. He started out composing for television serials and commercials on...

Mashup is a house act also known as Anoma, The Collective, DCM, Elijah, Headstate, Kybosh and Swain & Snell. The members are David Snell and Kevin Swain. .

There are sereval bands with the name Ashura. 1) a French death/thrash band from Amiens. They recorded their first album at Walnut Groove Studio with Axel Wursthorn from Carnival In Coal. One member of the band also plays with death-metal band Drowning. 2) a pop-rock/pop-metal band from Chengdu. 3) a rapper. 4) Ashura is the name of a multicultural musical theatre play from Istanbul, Turkey reflecting various cultures of Anatolia. Soundtrack includes songs in Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, Zaza, Pontic, Greek, Gypsy language, Kurdish, Laz, Sephardic and Assyrian. .

About MashUp-Germany IS MASHUP-GERMANY JUST ONE PERSON? Yes, it’s just me and my other me’s WHEN DID YOU START PRODUCING MASHUPS? September, 2008. HOW OLD ARE YOU? 26 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? I was born in Germany and I live there, but I am half-American. DO YOU PLAY A MUSIC INSTRUMENT? I started playing the drums when I was 12 and I play a little piano. WHERE DO YOU GET ALL THE ACAPELLAS AND INSTRUMENTALS FROM? Check my friends page to find an answer on this one. HOW DO YOU DO THE KEY MATCHING? Usually by ear, but I use...

DM (Digital Maestro) Ashura has composed and remixed many songs. His songs have been widely used in DDR/StepMania simfiles. His song GO! marks his entry into an official DDR game (DDR Ultramix 4). .