Singh had bought his TB-303 in Singapore soon after its introduction in late 1981. It was one of the first records to use the TB-303, a machine that has become synonymous with acid house. Singh produced Ten Ragas using three electronic musical instruments made by the Roland Corporation: the Jupiter-8 synthesizer, Roland TR-808, and Roland TB-303. According to The Guardian writer Stuart Aitken, Singh's record was "far ahead" of its time. Comparisons have also been made with the work of other electronic dance musicians who were inspired by acid house such as Ceephax, Phuture 303, and Aphex Twin. Singh's use of both the TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synthesizer has led some music journalists to suggest that it is perhaps the earliest example of acid house music predating Phuture's seminal Chicago acid house record " Acid Tracks" (1987) by five years. In the 21st century, Charanjit Singh gained attention for his 1982 release Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, an album originally intended as a fusion of electronic disco music with Indian classical ragas. Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco BeatĬharanjit Singh: Plays Hit Tunes on Synthesizer of Silsila Ĭharanjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in his sleep during the midnight of 4 July 2015 at his home in Bandra, Mumbai. His son Raju Singh is a composer, who has scored for films and television shows. He also used the same drum machine and synthesizers for his experimental electronic calypso record, Experiments in Calypso. Since then, certain commentators in the music press have recast Singh as an originator of acid house music. Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, an album of original electronic disco compositions Singh recorded in 1982, was a commercial failure at the time of its original release, but its re-discovery in 2002 and re-issue in early 2010 garnered attention due to comparisons with acid house from the mid to late 1980s. In 1981, he produced synthesizer-based electronic renditions of the Silsila soundtrack in his record Charanjit Singh: Plays Hit Tunes on Synthesizer of Silsila. These were a form of instrumental elevator music, some of which have since been re-released by Sublime Frequencies, such as his steel guitar renditions of "Manje Re" from Bandhe Haath in 1973 and " Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne" from Yaadon Ki Baaraat in 1975. Singh led a wedding band and recorded and released a number of albums covering popular film songs.
2 Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.
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