For years, MadStarBase existed in the grey zone of the music world where their tracks were being played at clubs, shared online, and celebrated by audiences across the globe, but they lived outside the traditional music industry system. Their Bollywood edits were technically bootlegs, created as DJ tools rather than official releases.

Today, the Delhi-based DJ and production collective, comprising childhood friends Neal Sekhri and Anant Ahuja aka Ase, finds itself on the other side of that divide. After signing four remixes with Universal Music in 2024, the duo has now received an official stamp of approval from Saregama, India’s oldest music label, which will release four of their remixes this month.