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Charanjit Singh
12+ albums
electronicacid houseexperimentalAcidDisco
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Charanjit Singh (1940 - 2015) started out as a session musician, playing on numerous Bollywood film soundtracks throughout the 1960s and 1970s, before moving on to compose music himself. In 1982 he imported with much pain some of the latest synthesizer equipment into India. A good investment as Bollywood composers liked to feature the latest sound in their songs, and with these keyboards Singh spiced up numerous Bollywood recordings. But apart from that, in the late nightly hours after the studio recording were over, Singh set out on his own, wholly original project. His goal was to translate the language of Indian classical music, the ragas, to the synthesizer. His basis was a plain disco beat, on which he synthesized the melodies of ancient Indian ragas. By chance the machines Singh bought were exactly the synths that would define the sound of electronic dance some years later. The beat he synthesized with the Roland TR-808; the bass-lines he programmed with a Roland TB-303, the synth that some 5 years later would create the sound of acid house. Last but not least, he used the Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard, with which he generated psychedelic melody patterns and improvised the melodies of the ragas. With its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness it is hard to believe Singh recorded and issued it in 1982. All that is essential to house is there: the hypnotic beat, the mesmerizing melodies. And the sound of the Roland synths give it that House sound and feel that some
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Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
Charanjit Singh
Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Instrumental - Charanjit Singh
Bollywood Steel Guitar
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Charanjit Singh - Instrumental
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Bengali Modern Songs
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Instrumental Film Tunes : Charanjit Singh