Making a Minus One track

You would have come across this term-minus one track-if you are into music.A minus one track is essentially the song without the vocals.It is not so easy to get a minus one track;you have to get it from the music director or the record company,and they charge you well for it.But for some particular songs you can make a minus one track using software.I use a software from Adobe called Audition to make minus one tracks.Here's the minus one(you can all it karaoke if you want to) I made,for the song Barso Re from Guru:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/0887d0fb-443a-44fb-8e92-cca15c3b27a9/barso_minus1_mod

A good fusion in violin

Check out this fusion on violin by Balabhaskar.The piece is in the raag Kaapi,the same one as Kaadhal Rojave is based on(though not purely I guess).This is one of the best fusion pieces I've listened to,along with Yakshaas' Pariksha(search in Google and you'll find links to that one).I must say Balabhaskar has done a good job here,nicely blending in the different sections of the piece.And just observe the bassie in the video,he's a real professional :)

Karaoke songs

I've searched quite a lot for tamil karaoke songs on the net but really didn't find any site that hosted perfect minus one tracks.People always confuse karaoke with minus one tracks.A karaoke track is usually done using MIDI(though the track will be in mp3 format) which is sequenced by somebody and therefore will NOT be same as the original song.A minus one track is essentially the original soundtrack with the vocals removed(the vocal track alone is absent;hence the name minus one),so the beats and BGM are those used in the original song.These are hard to get,believe me.

Anyway some sites for karaokes and minus one tracks for tamil and hindi:

iniya-thamizhosai.blogspot.com
bdroot.com/karaokelovers/home/index.php
rose4you.dk
esnips.com

In esnips you'll find hundreds of tracks.Search appropriately.