When we asked Caribou about his favorite records from last year, the LP on top of his list wasn’t Kanye West; it was an obscure electronic raga album from 1982. Recently given a long-overdue reissue, Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat proves that a former wedding band leader/Bollywood composer (Charanjit Singh) beat Aphex Twin and all of those Detroit techno dons to the preset punch by a few years.
In the following video (discovered via the San Francisco Bay Guardian), Rana Ghose visits Singh nearly three decades later to discuss the impact of his synth-phonic symphonies. We’ve also included a free MP3 from Singh’s album, which you can still snag as a limited double LP…
