synthesizing - ten ragas to a disco beat

very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXiB7OQOYJ0

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*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.

 

So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive.

http://www.bombay-connection.com/en_GB/site/page/1

very jazzband but very cool

can i buy a fucking lp of it yet?

There's a 16 page thread on this album I think. (most of it about wanting a repressing)

It's on boomkat and some other distros now I think.

dope shit.

ah jazzed again...

Oh man why haven't I heard of this? This is the shit! I find it particularly interesting because I've been studying sitar for a few years now. I can play Yaman, Bhupali, Todi, and Malkauns so hearing them done on 303 is insane!

i dont like it at all. just because it's 303 and Indian and from the 80s does not automatically make it good music.

edit: oh, and every song sounds exactly the same

  On 4/13/2010 at 2:45 AM, Hanratty said:

i dont like it at all. just because it's 303 and Indian and from the 80s does not automatically make it good music.

 

 

edit: oh, and every song sounds exactly the same

I agree. you listen to the first track and it feels like you have pretty much heard the whole album.

each track does pretty much sound the same, but I still think the record is fantastic. I listened to it on the train ride to Amsterdam, the first time I ever went there, and it was perfect. I felt like this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNCOFJnpPGs

  On 4/13/2010 at 5:06 AM, ieafs said:

yeah but they're ragas aren't they? just think of it as one big track.

 

fuckin kraftwerk's acid house shit back in the early 80s had nothing on this

fuck yes, this

  On 4/13/2010 at 2:45 AM, Hanratty said:

i dont like acid festishim at all. just because it's 303 line over an 808 drum machine and is from 1987-1994 does not automatically make it good music.

 

 

edit: oh, and every song sounds exactly the same

I'm predicting this is

A) real and the guy was a super genius or knew someone who could translate japanese for him (see: chris moss acid 303 manual evidence)

OR

B) is one of the best musical hoaxes ever created and is the brainchild of Matmos member Drew Daniel, he was the first person historically that i ever saw talk about it.

pretty sure its not a hoax.

Am I the only one who doesn't find this mindblowing? It just makes me want to listen to other stuff in a similar vein that's better...

well obviously not, considering some of the responses earlier in the thread. i dont think its mind blowing but its certainly enjoyable to listen to.

this stuff seems like it came out last week lol

well I really know nothing about acid house so probably not but I thought of analord in spots

the artwork really reminds me of boards of canada

http://weedbrothers.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/boards-of-canada.jpg this

Disappointing after the initial ZOMG!!!11 Worth a listen but after that, meh.

Kind of interesting to think if it had managed to get any attention when it was first recorded, you think it would've made an impact and we'd all be talking about it to this day, hailing it as a classic?

amazing find, for sure.

  On 4/13/2010 at 5:25 AM, KY said:

  On 4/13/2010 at 5:06 AM, ieafs said:

yeah but they're ragas aren't they? just think of it as one big track.

 

fuckin kraftwerk's acid house shit back in the early 80s had nothing on this

fuck yes, this

I'm sorry what acid house did Kraftwerk ever make?

apart from *maybe* Spacelab in 1978...

edit: and this record is cool too.