Get ready for your face to melt off when you listen to this piece of "Wait, this track was made when?". Charanjit Singh must have had access to a time machine in 1982 is all I can figure. Only a few hundred of the LPs: Sythesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (now released on cd) were ever pressed, with only a handful surviving. He performed these massive tracks on the synths that would much later define Acid House, specifically the Roland TB-303 and TR-808. I challenge anyone to find any type of House music or Acid that predates these gems. To me he inadvertently created proto-House when he was really digitizing Ragas (a brilliant idea in itself). After hearing this I realize many Ragas would sound quite amazing digitized. I could actually imagine Ali Akbar Khan (posted on this blog weeks ago) and his ilk smashing a rave better than any deejay if the sounds they make with their fingers (when their Ragas get going fast) could be digitized.
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