Friday, March 12, 2010

Charanjit Singh- Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat

Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing is a rad experiment in electrified disco ragas, originally released in 1982. With basslines courtesy of the Roland 303, this is essentially a proto-Acid House record in an Indian mode. Synthesizing is slated for an April reissue by Bombay Connection. I recommend picking this up. My own digital copy is not mastered as pristinely as the BC release and, further, its not broken up by song- the files are just labelled as sides 1 & 2. That in mind, I feel just fine about sharing it with you; my interweb friends.
"Raga Bhairav"

"Raga Megh Malhar"

Mediafire Download Link: Charanjit Singh- Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

thank you so much. a fantastic discovery!

Anonymous said...

thank you for mentioning this great find! my god what music!!!

MJ said...

Thank yoU!

Anonymous said...

Awesome. Thank you.

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Anonymous said...

Many thanks.. though I should add that the 303 was not a rhythm machine, but a bass synth..

sense said...

TB = Transistor Bass..
TR = Transistor Rhythm

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F/M said...

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing!

M.J. said...

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Anonymous said...

Dude - thank you I read a glowing review of this in Mojo and never thought Id get to hear it!!! Cheeeers!!!