Charanjit Singh - Synthesizing : Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat

In 1982, inside a Mumbai studio, veteran Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh plugged in a Roland TB-303 synthesizer and a TR-808 drum machine, accidentally inventing acid house years before the subgenre ever had a name in Chicago. Now, Light In The Attic’s deluxe reissue of Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat restores this mythical, cross-cultural masterpiece to its rightful place in electronic music history. Spread across two heavyweight LPs pressed at Germany's premier Optimal Media plant, this definitive archival release breathes new life into Singh’s hypnotic, bass-heavy raga-disco fusions, offering audiophiles and dance floor historians alike the ultimate gateway into a sonic future that arrived decades ahead of its time.

1982 heard Mumbai keyboardist Charanjit Singh put a sonic bomb in a time capsule; Synthesizing Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat was considered far ahead of the curve. Working at HMV Studios with newly OK'ed Roland machines, Singh would fuse classical Indian ragas with drum machines and acid bass, years before the latter term existed. The album arrived midway through his career as a film session musician and arranger, then slipped into obscurity as he stepped back from recording. This 2026 reissue restores the ten-track set to full splendour, remastered and spread over deluxe double vinyl, as ancient melodic forms are made demonstrably fusible across cultures, shown to "colour the mind" of the floor.