The producer’s 15-track deluxe version came out in February, featuring Pakistani pop artists Natasha Noorani, Asim Azhar and India’s Mitika Kanwar and Yashraj, among others
Pakistani producer Talal Qureshi has released a deluxe edition of his new album ‘Turbo.’
In the game for more than a decade as a producer, Karachi-based beatsmith Talal Qureshi released his debut full-length album Turbo only in September last year, with a deluxe edition featuring three additional tracks out now.
Until now, there have been several EPs, but like most producers, Qureshi thrived as the music-maker in the studio for several artists, from Faris Shafi to Natasha Noorani and his own duo SNKM with artist Adil Omar. In more recent times, Qureshi was tapped for projects like Coke Studio (“Peechay Hutt”) and New Delhi duo Seedhe Maut’s massive mixtape Lunch Break, producing “Asal G” which also featured Pakistani rapper Faris Shafi. Qureshi says, “All my life people have been like, ‘Okay, so this song is called this and this is the artist.’ That’s it. And I’ve been okay with that because that’s how everything was going, I guess. But I’m glad that it has changed and everyone’s getting the credit.”
Like a true creative mind at work, Qureshi says he feels grateful that he could finish his debut album Turbo on time and deliver it to longtime and recent fans. “I’ve been meaning to do my debut album for the longest time but I guess I never thought that I was there yet,” he says. Luckily for him, Qureshi says jokingly his agent was “on my case the whole time.” There were always 15 tracks in mind for Turbo but he went with the 12 that were ready in time for the set deadline in 2023. More than the people around him or a looming deadline, Qureshi says it was also about finding the confidence to put out a body of work on this scale.
Qureshi has traversed trap, hip-hop, pop and electronic music – even remixing metal band Takatak’s song “Flash Your Bones” – but Turbo is all about desi-pop sound in a modern context. He says, “I don’t think that I’ve heard this sound anywhere else. So I felt like all these tracks connect to me very differently and I would like to put them out in a project.”
The goal in terms of the output then – and a goal that’s been a constant for Qureshi – was to “elevate the sound of the
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