PGM Note: the vibrant intersection of Indian music and electronica
First Broadcast: 10.06.05
Info: PGM 732
Size: 58 MB
Format: MP3 160 kbps
New York Times columnist TOM FRIEDMAN says the world is flat — because India's electronics and software companies can now compete with American and European firms. But electronic musicians discovered Indian music 40 years ago, and a new generation of Indian musicians have now discovered electronics. The point is to innovate, inspire, and immerse, with a potent fusion of traditional Indian sounds pumped up with the rhythms of electronic trance, expanded with the spaciousness of ambient, and extended to the scale of a worldwide audience.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, another report from the vibrant cultural intersection of Indian and western music.