Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat

Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Studio album by
Released1982
2010 (re-issue)
Recorded1982
GenreElectro-disco
acid house
LabelGramophone Company of India/Saregama,
Bombay Connection (2010 reissue)
ProducerCharanjit Singh
Charanjit Singh chronology
Charanjit Singh: Plays Hit Tunes on Synthesizer of Silsila
(1981)
Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
(1982)
Experiments in Calypso

Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat is the debut studio album by Indian musician Charanjit Singh. It was released in 1982 through the Gramophone Company of India, now known as Saregama. The album primarily utilizes the Roland TR-808 drum machine and Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer and was originally intended as a fusion of electronic disco music with Indian classical ragas.

Singh's distinctive utilization of both the TR-808 and the TB-303 on the album 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. Because of this, Charanjit Singh is often regarded as the pioneer of acid house.