Product details
Title: Anokha (Talvin Singh Presents Soundz Of The Asian Underground)
Performer: Various Artists
Genre: Electronic
Sub Genre: Drum 'N' Bass / Jungle
Release Date: 02/1997
Recomended Retail Price: 13.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 1997
Label / Distributor: Omni / Universal Music
Guest Artist(s): Various Artists
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 731452434128
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Full title: Talvin Singh Presents Anokha: Soundz Of The Asian Underground. This album is a cross-section of some of the dance/drum-and-bass/electronica/beats/ambient sounds coming from young India and those in other countries of Indian decent. The artists featured here mix electronically oriented sounds and samples of traditional Indian music to create a heady sonic stew that is mesmerizing (even if you're not a dance-dance-dancin' machine). The contribution by State of Bengal, "Chittagong Chill," conjures visions of early 1970s Miles Davis playing with some Indian flutists doing the soundtrack to a film noir spaghetti western movie, with the whole thing mixed by Moby or Goldie. Lelonek's "Kizmet" is a punchy, dizzying drum 'n' bass workout, with driving, precise, relentless beats and sitar and vocal samples. This is a fine sampler for adventurous dance music fans, as well as those who want to get a handle on what's on-the-edge in electronica.
Album Reviews: Q (6/00, p.64) - Ranked #70 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...This compiles a posse of artists intnet on pushing Asian tradition in a primarily drum'n'bass adventure..." Rolling Stone (6/26/97, p.57) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...a collage of traditional South Asian sounds (sitar, tabla, female chants) set to modern Western dance beats--specifically, the frenetic, highly percussive rhythms of drum and bass (aka jungle)..." Spin (7/97, pp.114-116) - 8 (out of 10) - "...should drive wack world-music fusionists like Deep Forest and Transglobal Underground clear outta town: Here are accomplished DJs sculpting sounds they intimately know and feel..." Entertainment Weekly (6/27-7/4/97, p.124) - "From the Asian-Indo-British quadrant comes a hypnotic sonic stew, not quite ambient, not quite world-beaten, but pulsating with an East-meets-West energy..." - Rating: B+
Titles on disc 1
1.: Jaan
2.: Flight IC 408 - State Of Bengal
3.: Kizmet - Lelonek
4.: Shang High - Future Soundz Of India
5.: Chitagong Chill - State Of Bengal
6.: Mumbai Theme Tune - Rahman, A.R.
7.: Distant Sun
8.: Heavy Intro - Amar
9.: Equation - Equal I
10.: Spiritual Masterkey - Osmani Soundz
11.: Accepting Tranquility - Milky Bar Kid
12.: K Ascendant - Biswas, Kingsuk
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