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Well that all changed as Radio 1 freed me to do the job I'd wanted to all my life, and the act of making an innovative show playing a music I'd championed since my teenage years was an artistic utopia.Ìý I got to talk about a scene I had believed in through thick and thin, as well deciding, along with Nihal, how that music wasÌýfed to the world at large.Ìý All of this was a rich source of food for my artistic engine.Ìý Along the way I joined the Asian Network to start a show withÌýeven more hours on air, and more creative freedom to really push the scene/music forward.

And that brings me to why I'm only doing the 'Friction' show now.Ìý I had been aware for a very long time that me and Nihal were doing a great show on Radio 1 with massive entertainment value that lots of people saw as groundbreaking back in the day when it first started.Ìý Seven years in and the itch started!Ìý I felt the show was OK, but I personally wasn't getting the nourishment I needed musically, and the buzz I got from its innovative sides was diminishing.Ìý This is totally normal as any creative person will tell you when you're in the act of making something you believe in.Ìý Most people get their itches after six months, I think I did pretty well riding out mine till the seventh year!Ìý That my friends is why I needed to make a change.Ìý Asian Music is alive like never before, the Asian Music 'Industry' on the other hand is not in a healthy state, and nor was I mentally. Short of going back into a studio and making music myself, shaking things up a bit on the Radio side of the industry was my little intervention towards a new era in the Desi music scene.Ìý That's why I decided that the last year on Radio 1 should be my last.

Now that I can focus on one Asian Music show, while I do my other media work, I can give one hundred percent of my Radio/Music passion to a new state of play in the Desi scene, as well as in my ownÌýhead.x