Debut OTO show for Charanjit Singh – a musician from Mumbai, India, who performed as a session musician, often as a guitarist or synthesizer player, in numerous Bollywood soundtrack orchestras from the 1960s to 1980s. Singh is best known for his 1982 release Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, an album originally intended as a fusion of electronic disco music with Indian classical ragas. Some music journalists have speculated that it is perhaps the earliest example of acid house because it pre-dates Phuture’s seminal Chicago acid house record “Acid Tracks” (1987) by five years.

“An album astonishingly unusual and ahead of its time.” – Stuart Aitken, The Guardian on Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.

“The record’s lithe synth leads and cold, robotic rhythms make perfect sense in the anything-goes world of dance music in 2012. It’s been praised by those on techno’s top tier, including Andrew Weatherall, Four Tet and Caribou’s Dan Snaith, whose own recent album, ‘Jiaolong’, contains a similar mix of Eastern scales and techno drive. Back in 1982, however, one can only wonder just how alien and otherworldly it sounded.” – Time Out

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