TALVIN SINGH

'Talvin Singh (Matharoo)' (born in 1970 in Leytonstone, London, England) is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of classical Indian music and drum n bass. Talvin Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica sub genre called Asian Underground.
Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, breakdancing and listening to punk rock as a child. At the age of 15, Singh went to India where he studied tabla under Pandit Lashman Singh, but he returned to the UK after just one year. In spite of this classical training, Singh's tabla playing was not accepted by British promoters of classical Indian music, as he incorporated too strongly his western influences. By the late 1980s, Singh had decided to turn towards the fusion of sounds, and soon he began working as a musician with such artists as Madonna,the Indigo Girls, David Sylvian, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sun Ra, Björk, Massive Attack and the Future Sound of London.
In late 1995, Singh founded the Anokha club night with promoter Sweety Kapoor at East London's Blue Note, where drum'n'bass DJs and South Asian punk bands went head to head with the amped-up sounds of his tabla and percussion. Guest spots by LTJ Bukem and others made Anokha a Monday-night hotspot in London, and Singh signed to Island for an Anokha compilation including several of his own productions. He worked as a remixer until releasing his solo debut, ''OK'', in 1999. The album won him the Mercury Music Prize for 1999.

Contents

Recorded Work

Solo Albums

Collaborations & original contributions

Compilation

Remixes

External links

Recorded Work

Solo Albums

★ ''Sweet Box'' (2007) Chilly Media

★ ''Ha'' (2001) Island

★ ''Ok'' (1998) Island

Collaborations & original contributions

★ Madonna, "Cyber Raga", Music (2000)

★ Voxygen, a commission by [English National Opera]

★ Talvin Singh & Sangat - Songs for the inner world (2004) Live French Import.

★ Talvin Singh & Rakesh Chaurasi - Vira (2002) Navras.

★ Tabla Beat Science - Tala Matrix (2002) Palm Pictures.

★ Remixsingh OK (2001)Island / Japan Import.

★ Master Musicians of Jajouka (2000)

★ Randall & Hopkirk - Original soundtrack (2000) Island.

★ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Star rise (1997) Realworld.

★ Anokha - Soundz of the Asian Underground (1997) Island.

★ Calcutta Cyber Cafe: Drum + Space (1995) Omni Records.
8 Talvin Singh feat Amar-Jaan

Compilation

★ Back to Mine (2001) DJ-Series

★ Abracatabla (1994) Sampling CD

Remixes

★ Blondie - Maria

★ Madonna - Nothing Really Matters

★ Nargis - Ghoom Charakhana

★ Björk - Possibly Maybe

★ Ryuichi Sakamoto - Grief

★ John Martyn - Sunshines Better

★ Sarah McLachlan - Answer

★ Natacha Atlas - Duden

External links

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★ Talvin Singh Official website

★ Talvin Singh Official Myspace page