Bhangra often called as Asian Music, which derived its name from Punjabi harvest festival, has now crossed the boundaries and reached worldwide in the last 3 decades. Travelling to the east, its evolution has been continuously changing and challenging. Originally, an energetic beat with doublesided drum or dhol used to be performed on dhol with tumbi, Kato and algoza instruments, which is now being widely mixed with other traditional/folkloric instruments and electronic strings, drums and base.

Desi music can be attributed to the diaspora of immigrants from both to east and west Punjab to the United Kingdom in the 1970s or 1980s, which gave birth to fusion music and is now being referred to as