Charanjit Singh
Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (1982)
We touched on this album in our East-West mixtape a few weeks back, and it remains one of the most intriguing reissues of 2010. The idea that a Bollywood producer armed himself with a Jupiter-8 keyboard and a couple of synths that were just on the market back in 1982 – namely the TB-303 and TR-808 – and produced a proto-acid house record years before acid house was invented is almost too outlandish to be true… but true it is. Singh’s record marries the 808’s beats and the 303’s trademark sinuous bass sounds to traditional India ragas (essentially, the modes on which the melodies in Indian classical music are based), creating a hyper-modern trans-continental record that still sounds remarkable today.
Music
The Best Album Reissues of 2010
8Video of the Day: Incredible Animated Street Art
Your Personalized Flavorpill
Editors
- Caroline Stanley
Managing Editor
- Mark Mangan
Executive Editor
- Judy Berman
Deputy Editor /
Music Editor - Emily Temple
Literary Editor / Weekend Editor - Marina Galperina
Art Editor
- Alison Nastasi
Night Editor - Jason Bailey
Film Editor - Tom Hawking
Contributing Editor
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
-
“ ps, Aaron Young, did u wreck that beautiful car for this ” posted on Preview James Franco's 'Rebel' Art Exhibit in Los Angeles on
-
“ Too bad some of the writers on this list do *not* represent the best women poets. It's one... ” posted on 10 Feminist Poets You Should Know on
-
“ The man is chasing down a butterfly. That counts as silly in my book. ” posted on Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers on
-
“ electronic magazine... [...]Flavorwire » images5[...]... ” posted on images5 on
-
“ The photo of Nabokov does not count as silly. He was an expert on butterflies. The photo shows... ” posted on Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers on
Going Viral
Links from
Comments (8)
really, not going to include weezer’s pinkerton? great radio session / acoustic stuff, and a comprehensive collection of fantastic b-sides?
NO KATE BUSH AAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHH
“An Introduction to Syd Barret”
How about Kraftwerk’s remastered library? Always the recording connoisseurs, Kraftwerk was making “digital” music in the analog age. Now remastered in the digital age, this work sounds even more amazing.
LOVE the Cure-Disintegration.
Adam – nope
Jakub – wowowow curses I was not told about these! Going off to Google them now
artistx – it’s purely subjective, of course, but for me Kraftwerk’s original output was *so* perfect that remastering seems like gilding the lily
Great that Chris + Cosey get an honourable mention, but Chris Carter’s ‘The Space Between’ is perhaps more essential. And while some of the Love Of Life Orchestra album (not strictly a reissue) on DFA is utter garbage, there are moments of Arthur Russell-like genius on it too. Propaganda’s ‘A Secret Wish’ is probably the most notable omission here.
Dexterity – yeah, all the Throbbing Gristle-related stuff is quality. And yes indeed, Propaganda is also the business – but you gotta draw the line somewhere…
Post a new comment