ceephax Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat

Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb94xrOa5Mk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqnPYwoiF4

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Boomkat:

 

*SERIOUS FIND HERE - 1982 PROTO-TECHNO MADE IN INDIA - AN ABSOLUTE TREASURE TROVE OF EARLY ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC THAT SOUNDS LIKE

APHEX'S ANALORD TRANSPORTED TO EARLY 80'S MUMBAI - DO NOT MISS!* Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is quite easily one of the maddest

records we've ever had in stock. It was originally made in 1982 by a Bollywood soundtrack composer, intending to capitalise on the disco phenomenon with

a combination of centuries-old classical Indian Ragas set to a disco backing. To achieve this Charanjit used a prototypical acid set-up of Roland TB303 bass

melody sequencer and TR808 drum computer together with a Jupiter-8 keyboard. He basically created a sound which mirrored, and more importantly, pre-dated

the first acid house record - Phuture's 'Acid Track' by five years, and even preceded Chip E's 'Jack Trax' in 1985. It's no throw-away novelty record either, instead

capturing the hypnotic potential of acid music in the most ornate and scarily prescient fashion, making explicit the similarities of infinitely arpeggiated bass sequences

and pure electronic pulses that would soundtrack dancefloors for the next 30 odd years. The more cynical among you will probably be thinking this is

Ceephax or Aphex Twin delivering one of the most elaborate in-jokes of their career, but with the gatefold sleeve depicting the original sleeve and

some in-depth liner notes from the label and Charanjit, our cynicism is waning in favour of absolute shock and awe. 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat'

is vintage futurism of the highest calibre, and made all the more amazing by the fact it came from India, a place hardly renowned for its electronic

output! This is a remarkable record and comes with our highest recommendation

Boomkat

Bombay Connection

Yeah this was posted a few months back

i love this

Raga Wiki

more about microtones

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For everyone's reference:

Official Petition for Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing Reissue! (June 2009) Good thread

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/46995-official-petition-for-charanjit-singhs-synthesizing-reissue/page__hl__charanjit

Charanjit Singh, acid house pioneer (April 2010) more

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/55270-charanjit-singh-acid-house-pioneer/page__hl__charanjit

Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (Also April 2010)

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/55248-synthesizing-ten-ragas-to-a-disco-beat/page__hl__ragas

  On 7/14/2010 at 3:02 PM, Jimbob said:

Yeah this was posted a few months back

oop - yeah i should have figured as much - this is really spinning me round - i've been listening all day

i'd like to get a look at some of the films this was composed for.

i haven't read all the liner notes but i don't think this was a soundtrack release

so he created these trac's based on the original 1982 bollywood soundtrac? is that right?

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Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is quite easily one of the maddest records we've ever had in stock.

It was originally made in 1982 by a Bollywood soundtrack composer, intending to capitalise on the disco phenomenon

with a combination of centuries-old classical Indian Ragas set to a disco backing. To achieve this Charanjit used a

prototypical acid set-up of Roland TB303 bass melody sequencer and TR808 drum computer

together with a Jupiter-8 keyboard.

I take that to mean he was primarily a professional soundtrack composer, not that these tracks were necessarily soundtrack material.

lol ...

what exactly did he do again?

social experiment in human nature

Need to see this re-issued on CD too.

This does exist on CD as well! I know because I just picked it up at the store yesterday even though I already had bought the FLACs. It's awesome.