10 Ragas To a Disco Beat

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 1982, Charanjit Singh released ‘Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat’ which is my favorite acid house album. (There are a lot of words in that sentence that don’t go together.) It was a marketplace flop from a musician & composer who otherwise had a long & successful career in the Indian 🇮🇳 music & film industries.

I love talking about flops. Learning about & talking about flops makes me feel better. It gives me hope that so many of the things considered failures or “bad” often are really just out of phase - ahead or behind the rest of the world at the time of their release or invention.

Louis Cole on nonpunctual

10 Ragas To a Disco Beat