'Urban Asian' presents the contemporary sound of South Asian music as it thumps out of nightclubs and the car sound systems of young British Asians on the streets of London, Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham. They have blended a raw mix of traditional bhangra and Bollywood sounds with the beats of Western hip hop, UK garage, house, even dancehall and reggaeton. It is a swaggering soundtrack that is now being echoed by other urban Asians from New York to New Delhi.

Toby Shergold is a music writer and journalist for Britain's biggest Asian radio station 'Sunrise Radio'. Here he presents an essential selection of tunes that are impossible to find away from the backstreet record shops and strictly Asian nightclubs. The likes of RnB producer Rishi Rich, gritty Northern urbanistas and underground dance acts have been pulled together in a collection that ill make you want to, as the say in Punjabi 'Chuck de Phatte!' or 'Rip up the Floorboards'.