Charanjit Singh – "Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat" (His Master's Voice – ECSD. 2912) 1982

Groan!.Here we go again......Who's invented Acid House this time?

Ay Up, its a bloke from India of course,who in the process of modernising the instrumentation of some classical Indian Raga's, and bunging a TR 808 and an Acid in a box TB303 in there amongst his tinkling fingers, he accidently came up with something that sounded a bit like........yep......Acid House?

He had as little idea about Acid House as Frankie Knuckles had about Indian Raga's. But Acid disco leaked out of every infected sphincter, a sound that is very difficult to avoid as soon as you switch a 303 on. Charanjit doesn't actually do much,if any, of the famed Knob-Twiddling stuff,the very thing that distinguished yer Acid House from yer actual House and yer actual Disco in the first place. As it says on the tin,it is very much Synthesizing Ten Raga's to a Disco Beat,which to western ears sounds like the electronic Disco music that started to emerge in 1985 in a Chicago-ized parallel universe. 

So, when a crate digging Dutch D.J. found a copy of this and played it,he obviously concluded instantly that he'd found the missing link of  House music, which is basically the "Disco" that Charanjit Singh did actually know about.

It sounds more like a speeded up version of Gottshing's E2-E4 to these tired ears.

And there's no knob twiddling,so it ain't Acid is it?

It sold fuck all copies in India, and now goes for as much as US$11,000 to some tiny minded idiots who are probably mentally ill.

They can give me Eleven Grand if they want for the digital download, but for normal people out there, here it is for FREE.

Tracklist:

A1 Raga: Bhairavi
A2 Raga: Lalit
A3 Raga: Bhupali
A4 Raga: Todi
A5 Raga: Madhuvanti
B1 Raga: Meghmalhar
B2 Raga: Yaman
B3 Raga: Kalavati
B4 Raga: Malkauns
B5 Raga: Bairagi

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Mr. Fingers – "Washing Machine / Can You Feel It / Beyond The Clouds (Trax Records – TX127) 1986

 

Under the guise of Mr Fingers,aka Larry Heard,the inventor of House music,one can certainly feel the transition from Disco to House to Acid House occurring before our very ears.The difference between standard House and Acid House being,a bit of knob twiddling,and some rubbish electronics rescued from the orphanage of Electronica.

Its hard to imagine now, but these tunes,especially "Can You Feel It" entered many a young persons Brain like a parasite, and seemed to infect everyone who heard, or Misheard it.Partly because it sounded like NOTHING else on earth at the time.

I don't normally approve of such linguistic aberrations as Important,or Seminal to ever leave my magical fingers, but.....This really is one of the most important records in the history of 20th century music......probably!?
I Larry Heard someone say that somewhere, and thought maybe it was a fact.Sitting on my arrogant perch in 1986,looking down on it all with a Billy Idol sneer; i would never have uttered such a superlative ever, especially for what I would have considered silly Disco music......but maybe it is?.....Innit?

This was all created in the post warehouse clubs of clubland,and the fact that all these places are in severe financial woe, and Gen Z ain't interested,means that stuff with this impact will never be created ever again.The time is nigh kids, for the new Acid House Revival to kick ass in the green belt of the UK,so dust off your smiley emoji's and get those Cows dancing again on lab tested Ecstasy,leeching it into the milk cartons of the Elysian Fields of all Phuture dancing idiots the world over. 

Tracklist:

A1 Washing Machine 4:24
A2 Can You Feel It 5:45
B Beyond The Clouds 7:55

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