This weeks Friction Introducing hails from Bangalore in India and is - as far as I know - the first South Indian Rock/Folk artist who sings in Kanada (the language of the state of Karnataka).

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If you're one of the lucky people who have tickets, then let me just say you're in for something special.  I've been playing Lowkey on the Friction show for a while now, and we have our hands on our hearts when we say he could possibly be one of the best MC's in the UK right now!  Yes - we're talking Riz MC style heights of dexterity and delivery.

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What a week eh?  On Monday Tigerstyle launched the long awaited album 'Mystics, Martyrs and Maharaja's' on the Friction show, then on Tuesday Asian Dub Foundation popped in to talk about the impending release of 'Punkara' which was then followed by Nitin Sawheny on the Bobby Friction and Nihal show - and then tonight a rare species called Panjabi MC will co-host Friction with me, and give an exclusive airing of 'Indian Timing', his first original album since the success of 'Mundian To Bach Ke/Beware Of The Boys'.

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