Indian Origins of the American “Acid House”

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with freelance writer Stuart Aitken about a nearly 30-year-old song out of India, “Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat,” that seems to be the precursor to the very American sound “Acid House.”

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• Listen to the samples of the 1982 tracks
• Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house … by mistake