Charanjit Singh: "Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat"This 1982 record is every bit as important as Gottsching’s "E2-E4" or, dare I say any Kraftwerk release - one major difference is that Charanjit Singh's album is still under the radar in comparison. This predates acid house by more than 3 years - that does not make it the "original acid house" but it is astonishing all the same. It was the future. *I'm only posting 2 of the 10 tracks as the full album is already up. My hope is to lead at least a few people down that glorious path of discovery :)
Charanjit Singh is a Bollywood composer who had a plan to translate ancient traditional Indian classical ragas to the synthesizer. Using the very synths that would later define Acid House (Roland TB-303 and TR-808), Singh unwittingly created a proto-acid masterpiece, before the techno genre ever existed.
After decades of near-complete obscurity, "10 Ragas" resurfaced when Bombay Connection label impresario Edo Bouman snapped it up while traveling in India. He was blown away when, back at his hotel, he heard the psychedelic mind-meld of East and West on his portable record player. Intrigued, Bouman tracked Singh down: "He was most friendly and surprised I knew the album. I remember asking him how he got to this acid-like sound, but he didn't quite get my point. He didn't realize how stunningly modern it was." Singh's sound didn't appear wholly out of thin air. As music critic Geeta Dayal points out, both the 303 and the 808 had been issued right around the time, and the rhythms of '70s disco had in 1982 only just reached Indian ears. *Needless to say, though, the word "disco" in the title is a complete misnomer - there simply wasn't a genre called techno or house that could be invoked.
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