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Thursday, July 9, 2015
Charanjit Singh
Musician -- via Diffuser. A Bollywood session man, he also made many albums what us now termed "elevator music," and created an album in 1982, "Synthesizing: Ten Rags to a Disco Beat," that is seen as an independent creation point for acid house. If you listen to a cut, it's all there, three years before Frankie Knuckles and the Chicago scene in 1985 are popularly conceived to have created the music genre.
