About
Who we are
Indian Electronica is a Toronto, Canada based Arts organization focused on promoting modern aesthetics in music paired with South Asian tradition.
Since its early roots as a simple zine chronicling developments in the music we showcase, indianelectronica.com has grown in scope and through fostering a community of industry professionals and music enthusiasts. Though we are based in Toronto, our large online community and network of friends and supporters is international and multi-cultural; in turn allowing us to continue producing the site and our annual series of music festivals. The core Indian Electronica Team responsible for event planning and our publishing efforts consists of:
- Qasim Virjee (aka Abdul Smooth) - Director
- Anuj Rastogi - Event Co-ordinator
- Lee Dale - Photographer
Our music
Initially popularised in the mid 1990s with the UK's Asian Underground movement, the music of Indian Electronica is expressive of an increasingly complex global identity. Indian Electronica music fuses 'East' and 'West' using technology and tradition to produce some of the World's most innovatively emotive and exciting sounds.
Indian Electronica is not a genre; instead, it is a loose term referring to electronic music/IDM which exhibits an influence/characteristics of South Asian musical tradition - be it percussion, vocal styling, harmonic elements and so on.
Get a better feel for the music we love; tune in to our podcasts and check out our music releases!
You can learn more about the past, present and future of [ie] by watching this short flick filmed in 2007:
