crolling through YouTube, and watching a single video about Kurt Cobain means every Nirvana music video as well as self-made documentaries on the man can and do come up. Amateur efforts or not, these videos will also bring up the rest of Nirvana members and what they have been doing with their lives since Cobain’s tragic and untimely passing.

But the algorithm doesn’t always highlight one subject. Usually between these videos, random videos as well as ads will come up and by design, some of these are unskippable.

However – and this is a big one, my friends – the same algorithm that is highlighting content on Nirvana can showcase – from time to time – a song that is so arresting that you listen to the whole thing and get lost in learning more about that artist or artists and begin sharing it with others as well.

A case in point is an artist called Khanvict.

Khanvict and another artist called Raaginder teamed up on a song called ‘Cyber Bazaar’ and as it appeared out of the blue, it drew me out of my Nirvana rabbit hole and captured my attention without creating some vortex of weird music. Khanvict and Raaginder, two separate artists, have worked together before. The music video opens with a shot of several speakers and music instruments stacked together and that shot stays with us throughout the song.

The single, running at three minutes and 13 seconds, has an addictive sound, which is not exactly ambient. As you try to understand a finer interpretation of this song, the description below it on YouTube does clarify matters.

It notes that the song, “opens with the sound of a mysterious bazaar set as a meeting place between nature, beautiful string melodies and zesty synth work,” and articulates the soundscape. The opening is very alluring before leading the single into an electro universe where eastern and western instruments come together as one. Halfway through, the track echoes a subtle marketscape before it gets edgier with some distortion deliberately added and moved.

According to his YouTube profile, Khanvict is the stage name of Asad Khan. “He is a Pakistani-Canadian DJ and producer based in Surrey”.

Surrey is a city in British Columbia, Canada. “Having arrived as an immigrant in 2001, Khanvict explores his roots through music.”

True to his word, his music carries elements of “classic Bollywood, Sufi and Punjabi music with bass, Moombahton and Trap.”

The song, meanwhile, is part of an upcoming EP called Arrival. Raaginder, much more than a violin or rabab player [and with several releases to his name] is as responsible for the melancholy strings as Khanvict’s contribution to the song. Whether the album Arrival is a collaborative effort between the two artists remains unclear, but this instrumental song is powerful and brilliant enough to make one hope that it is.

We must also remember that in terms of South Asian context, the two have added through their collaboration and helped in bridging gaps.