Kata Taarer Bera (Bengali: কাঁটা তারের বেড়া) is a collaborated Hip hop album of the duo, DJ Raf and Jasper Al-rashid. It was released in 2008 (15th March).
Also colloquially shortened to simply "KTB", the album was originally an idea of DJ Raf. He later took the liberty to turn this into a duo act with Jasper Al-rashid. All of the tracks are either collaborated or individually performed by these two artists including a small number of tracks featuring appearances of a few guest artists. There were a very few exceptional solo tracks of the guest artists as well.
The album was entirely composed and produced by DJ Raf & Jasper Al-rashid while Jasper, himself, engineered the entire album in his home studio which, later a year, was revamped to be formed into Jasper Lab Works.
Among the guest artists, there was an array of a few prominent Bangladeshi rappers (Skibkhan, Shaq, Mugz, Slick) and also a few new American Bengali rappers (Traffick, Orion). There were a few singers (Simin, Sakib) involved in the production of the album along with Jasper Al-rashid, singing a few songs, becoming the first officially recognized R&B singer of Bangladesh. The album also featured the fastest rap song (the first track, "The History") ever recorded, till date, in Bangladeshi history by Jasper Al-rashid, making him the fastest Bengali rapper. It featured experiments of instrumental Hip hop by DJ Raf which also has never been attempted in the local industry. The album also had a hidden bonus track which is a method the local industry was unaware of prior to "Kata Taarer Bera". The album's front cover featured a footer message placed right above the Parental Advisory message stating "Strong Language / Amazing Content". This was the origin of this which has later inspired other prominent local Hip hop artists to include similar contents in their albums.
The album mostly played a very important role into shaping Bengali Hip hop towards the newer era of artists with vigorous changes and discovery of a stronger local movement. With all of its participants making their own spaces in the industry after it was released, the album eventually resulted into being one of the very few massively successful Hip hop albums in the early era of Bangladeshi Hip hop industry and thus considered an all-time Bengali Hip hop classic.
Copies of the album are widely available all over Bangladesh. It can also be purchased online at AmaderGaan.com.
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Also colloquially shortened to simply "KTB", the album was originally an idea of DJ Raf. He later took the liberty to turn this into a duo act with Jasper Al-rashid. All of the tracks are either collaborated or individually performed by these two artists including a small number of tracks featuring appearances of a few guest artists. There...
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