An interview with Charanjit Singh

I just came across an interesting little video interview with Charanjit Singh - an Indian musician who has performed live covering Bollywood songs for about three decades (or more) accompanied by his wife and bevvy of keyboards. 

The video above was filmed in accompanyment to the HuB book probject by Samrat B (aka Audiopervert); which we were also featured in as a source of info about global indian electronica movements [ :) ].

Its his keyboard playing actually which you may have connected with when reading his name on this post - back in 1982 Charanjit released a record with his band, the Charanjit Singh Orchestra, called Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.  The record went on to garner overseas acclaim but was a sleeping hit, popular with crate diggers around the world (including myself - found a copy on vinyl in 2004 in NYC) an finding a place in India only on the radio in Bombay as transitional music in-between programming.

It seems that Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat is Charanjit's only original recording and was unique in exhibiting sounds familiar to Acid House from the US (albeit 4 years before a Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a Roland TB-303 came together to create music under that genre title).

Attached to this post is a sample from the album as well - I highly recommend trying to find a copy of it to hear more of this classic!