I suppose the Punjabi MC record means that the whole asian dance music has now been digested and regurgitated about three times now, alongside the “This Year’s Big Thing”-ness that was anglo-Asian culture in 2002.
Nevertheless there is a whole underground of fast-rapping-in-punjabi UK-garage records that are fanatstic, yet I’ve never seen them in a record shop or heard them on the radio. Still looks like an undiscovered oasis to me, but no doubt it will get discovered and pulled apart soon…