OK

Rave music with an Indian vibe and some tracks feature what sounds like screaming children. Not my jam.

I don't really get the bad reviews. I really fw with this kind of music. I can put it on as background music for when I am studying or reading. I never heard any song that is similar to this which shows how unique it is.

Another awful random noises album with way too long tracks

Ok chilled electronic songs but largely forgettable

***An ok album, easy listening. Strange noises/sounds, but not offensive

Sehr experimentell, sehr spaßig. Noch nie was von dem Künstler gehört, hat mir aber von Anfang bis Ende gut gefallen.

Bodenlos belastend.

Spannende Idee der Fusion von Drum and Bass mit indischen Klängen und Querflöten. Es trägt nicht über die gesamte Albumlänge und ein wenig dated wirkt das Ganze schon, weil sich das Genre seitdem auch stark weiterentwickelt hat. Aber für ein paar Songs hat das schon ziemlich Laune gemacht. 3,5 Sterne.

Ich höre es gleich auf der Autofahrt und kann es deswegen grade noch nicht bewerten. Aber ich würde gleich auch gerne das heutige Album hören. Also hier: Eine random Bewertung.

Was für eine Odyssee, gut gemeinter Stern, aber selbst wenn man das Genre mag, empfinde ich es durch diesen bestimmten Sound als zu anstrengend.

Eine glatte Stunde voller Genuss mit diesem Meisterwerk. Die asiatischen Einflüsse sind prägnant und zugleich elegant in die Atmosphäre des Albums eingewoben. Das hat Spaß gemacht!

Ok wer hat diese Liste erstellt? Warum ist das hier da drauf? Ich checks einfach nicht...

This is a really fab record, but my god - 90s' and 00s' CD lengths, where everyone made hour long records - really grinds. Cut 3 tracks from this LP and it's be a 4 instead of a 3 for me.

I liked the diversity of this album

It's "OK" I like the middle eastern/world influence but it's not really relaxing/grooving OR jamming.

Very glad to have listened to this but, aside from Butterfly, unlikely to listen to it again. Super fun, though.

I love tabla so much

Not my thing

Just...no 1/5

The idea of this album I really liked. And I tried to like the album itself but that was.. a bit challenging.

Behagelig og med mye spennende lydkulisser. Svak firer.

Haaa I remember listening to this on college. The way it was hyped you'd think it was the next coming of Christ but it's just another example of jungle being used by an artist to be "cool" (see David Bowie's Earthling as the biggest example). Going back to it and it has aged poorly and is absolutely not a good example of the genre. If anything it's a great example of the somewhat lacking depth of knowledge the authors have with 90's electronic music and what was truly culturally and artistically impactful.

One of these songs mixed in to a DJ set would probably be good, a whole album? Not so much.

Mais ou menos

Nah

Nah.

Traditional instruments from different parts of the world mixed with electronic beats here. I like the concept, but the execution leaves something to be desired - you might say something less than OK.

Es un disco extraño, pero debe ser muy agradable en un rato de calma.

As a fan of electronic / ambient / D&B whatever you want to call it at the time, this album was already in my collection at the time and was a regular love of mine and has continued to be over the years. It's obvious that this style of music doesn't appeal to many hear (or is unknown / uninitiated) but for me this is a fabulous twist on things with his Eastern influence.

Cool 11-minute prog track to start with. The lack of tempo really adds to the floaty soundscape. At first I didn't really know what to make of it. Picture a barren desert, except it's completely made of vast swaths of grey and blue metal. It's eerie, otherworldly, and a sort of desert-cyberpunk. Pretty different to anything else I've heard, and for that, it gets at least some points. The strings coming in towards the end of Traveller really elevate the track to a level worthy of my praise. Very cinematic. Foreboding, mysterious, and surprisingly loud and in-your-face for a track that's pretty soft-spoken up until that point. The pace significantly picks up in the following track, Butterfly, with the addition of some gnarly electronic percussion. I like the split mixing here. Less of a fan of the sitar – it feels out of place – but the Indian classical percussion being mixed with the electronics is sick as heck. It is kind of boring, though – particularly in some of the (oddly numerous) 5/6/7 minute tracks, and after the first four (which are all pretty solid). The total album duration is also a bit questionable. A 60-minute album better have some serious justification for being that length other than "well, we have one track over 10 minutes in length, so I'm sure they'll understand." No, I do not understand. I also have zero interest in whatever plot is being pushed in the interlude tracks (Decca, Disser/Point.Mento.B). The album gets less accessible as you go on, and not in a particularly interesting way. In a loud, cacophonic way, in fact (see Soni and Vikram The Vampire). Also: I have no idea what's going on in the title track. It sounds like something straight out of a 90s Japanese karaoke parlour. It's both a sore thumb and earbleed material. 2/5 Key tracks: Butterfly, Sutrix

Ok

Genre: Atmospheric Drum and Bass So… this is interesting? South Asian music mixed with spacey, ambient breakbeats. Sort of like what you’d hear at a hookah bar. But is this essential? No. I couldn’t play this anywhere that would feel appropriate. Me alone in my car, I felt semi-embarrassed the whole time. Odd album. 2/5

C'est peut-être "one of the best efforts yet at blending Asian sounds with techno", mais jamais personne n'a demandé ça.

Ben non voyons. C'est tellement épais de dire à du monde qu'ils ont besoin d'entendre ça.

I’ve never heard of Talvin Singh before, but naming this album OK is a bold choice, because you know the smartass critics are going to have a field day with that. Reading about this album, it seems like an interesting concept to combine electronic elements with elements of traditional Indian music. I’m not sure if this is going to land with me, but there’s only one way to find out! I wasn’t that into OK. I like the idea of this album, but in practice, I found it pretty tedious to get through. Nothing on this album was abrasive or annoying to listen to, but these songs weren’t very memorable, and even with their longer run times, the melodies never went anywhere interesting. It didn’t feel like there was a unifying tone or atmosphere to the whole album, and as a result, I found myself just passively letting these songs pass through my brain.

1.5

1.5

1.5

*OK* Honestly music like this doesn't bother me. Except I can onkt listen to it for about 20 min before I get restless. The runtime is three times that and feels twice the runtime. (4.66) ★★

I like some of the Indian elements, but this album is far too long for the tolerance I have for this music. 2.5 stars

The title of this album is super appropriate. It's OK. Is it essential? No. I feel like Robert Dimery really crapped the bed in the late 90s -- devoting a bunch of spots to mediocre electronica instead of actual classic albums. 2.5 stars.

2.5

I am partial to my atmospheric drum and bass but this was a bit too higgeldy piggeldy. Opener Traveller was quite the journey and to my surprise my girlfriend actually walked in midway and started meditating to it. She eventually had to pause her meditation routine because there is a bit too much garbage that floods the album later on - bombastic Bhangra rapping and heavy heavy cheesy techno beats. So not a quality release through and through but had its moments. Very OK except for the parts that weren’t OK. Apparently a Mercury Music Prize Winner which is NOT OK.

C'est une expérience

Love the concept, don't love the execution.

In places, it sounds like two or three completely different records playing at the same time. That drum 'n' bass sound was probably great at 3am on a Sunday morning in the late 90s while you were waiting for the drugs to ease off so you could go to your mum's for lunch, but in 2025 it sounds like someone in the studio made a mistake. I like some elements, like the string sounds and the Asian influences but for the most part, it sounds like the kind of record that gets played slightly too loudly in the kinds of bars I don't want to be in.

Off the cuff remark: It feels like I ought to know Talvin Singh, but I don't. It starts off like a chillout album, has some interesting instrumentation and engages me for a while. There's a moment about halfway through that is horrible then it wanders back into breakbeats and other stuff. Standout track: none really Revisit?: part of me is glad I listened to it, part of me is glad I don't have to again.

Today's album sounds like some seventeen year old teenager after just being gifted 3 different computer programs to make his own music, installed them promptly onto his Windows 98 machine and then proceeded to churn out 61 minutes of sporadic drumbeats and Indian chants, weaving them together to make an album that can cause seizures in 75% of his listening audience. To quote Marsellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction, this album was "pretty fucking far from OK."

The music bed is enjoyable and some of the instrumental work over the top melds well. The bulk of these songs however have overly repetitive instrument and vocal motifs, making them impossible to enjoy. Uncertain why this is included.

Some nice beats, but the lyrics weren‘t my taste

This is a huge steaming pile of atonal shit

Seems there's a bit of a story to this album but it didn't come through really when listening to it, probably my fault as I'd dismissed it as fairly laid back electronica a few tracks in. Passed by quickly enough but I think that's because it is pure background music so I didn't really pay attention. Not a genre for me, seems like a pretty standard example of it.

I really struggled with this - don't mind Electronica, don't mind Indian music, but turns out I don't like them mixed together. The whole album felt egregious - like it did neither thing particularly well. It wasn't dire, but it was something immediately forgettable.

I feel like most, if not all, of the fusion albums we've had on this list have had Indian music as one of the components. Most I haven't enjoyed either.... This is no exception. I don't mind the chilled dub really, but it was sometimes a bit too techno for me. Also I just don't think it works with the more traditional Indian sounding stuff. Probably a reason why it isn't a popular genre Talvin! Not sold on the concept and won't be back 1.5

Can't really figure out how I feel about this album. Maybe its just not my style, felt very empty.

Ei jaksanut kahta biisiä pidemmälle. 1/5.

nije okej

Definitely not someone I’ve heard of before, but this was more than okay. Turns out mixing Indian music and electronica is a great combination! A worthwhile listening experience.

Is noise

Ok is not Ok. I was only 2 minutes and 10 seconds in when I first questioned if I could make it all of the way through this album. The answer turned out to be no.

Although I've never heard anything from this album (or artist) before, I feel like it belongs squarely in that 80s/90s outpouring of world-beat, electronic, choral ambient music, alongside much better known groups like Enya, Deep Forest, Enigma, Dead Can Dance, and plenty more like it, albeit a bit more beat-heavy and Indian-music-oriented. It's an enjoyable album, and I particularly liked the intro sampler "Traveller", especially the section that had various flutes (including contributions by Ryuichi Sakamoto). But it's not exactly the sort of album that comes to mind for a 1001 list, I'll admit, especially given that *none* of those other aforementioned bands/groups/artists are included. Such are the vagaries of this collection, though, and I suspect the fact that this album beat out Blur and Chemical Brothers for the 1999 Mercury Music Award probably clinched its place (that or because Talvin Singh appears to be an arrogant but talented jerk).

I enjoyed this but it felt more like ambient background music, which I don't think was intended.

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is pretty interesting. It's like a modern sounding electronic/dance album with Indian flourishes. It is unlike anything I've heard before. No specific tracks really stood out to me, good or bad. I am glad to have heard it once, but I am not likely to listen to it again.

Ok, sigh. It's one of those - Robert Dimery et al. dilettantely including electronica - but I actually have no ill feelings about this one. Certainly, admittedly a stand-out album in its blend of ~World~ and late 90s DnB adjacent sounds, for whatever that's worth. And, hey: Ryuichi Sakamoto on some flutes; that's a plus. Not crazy about what I listened to, but I can respect it.

Ugh.

Not a fan, other than a bit of the Sitars.

Interesting atmospheric album but not something I'd put on often.

#108 Ok ~ Talvin Singh A somewhat incredibly average electronica album. Perhaps safe to say that the title describes my feelings. Atmospheric? Yes. Drum and Bass? Yes. Abstract lyrics are the meaning of life and what not? Yes. Hindustani music? Yes. Japanese music? Yes. By this rationale, it should have wowwed me away, but somehow nothing necessarily stuck out to me. No sense of climax or 'wow, wtf did I just hear, I need to play this again.' Somehow, whether the world folk of Indian and Okinawan music was sterilised by the electronica sensitivities or the electronica bits seemed too grating, but it sounds very artificial. However, I wouldn't call this bad, nor would I say there's a specifically terrible part of the album. The track 2 and 3 are really something, and track 1 is a decent opener. But it's just OK. I must say though having tried after a bit of brainstorming, rather than just sitting and actively trying to listen to this album, have this as a soundtrack to something else like reading a book or playing Uncharted, and the enjoyment really goes up.

OK

Late 90s electronica, English Indian. Borderline annoying.

++: Butterfly, Sutrix, Decca, Eclipse, OK +: Traveller, Mombasstic, Light +-: Disser/Point.Mento.B, Soni, Vikram the Vampire 6,4/10

Damn this album hit me hard out of nowhere. The combination of traditional Indian and Japanese instruments with 90s drum and bass is so unique and cool. If an album deserved the title "this is an album you should listen to before you die" this would be my top pick so far. Absolutely incredible. The song OK is such a banger.

Ok is right, just okay. Better than Suicide the band/album, but mostly because I suppose this guy to be mostly not too "head up his ass" superior to the rest of us. And I suppose on the right drugs I could dance to this. There are no drugs druggy enough to save us from Suicide (literally).

It sounds like a high school music student laying down his jams on his Casio keyboard at the food court of the local mall

# 575 : OK OK – But Mostly Not OK This album starts off like it might be something—cool textures, intriguing fusion, a sense of promise. Then five minutes pass. Then boredom sets in. Then you start wondering if your speakers are broken or if the album is just gaslighting you into thinking it's still interesting. It’s challenging, sure. But so is assembling IKEA furniture, and at least that comes with instructions and a sense of accomplishment. OK is long, meandering, and progressively worse with each track. It’s like watching a beautiful sunset slowly turn into a PowerPoint presentation on ambient noise. No standout tracks. No desire to revisit. No idea how this got past quality control. Verdict: 1 Star for initial curiosity. File under “albums that should’ve ended after the intro.” Best Track (if you must): [None stood out.] Listened: 24/09/2025

I liked some of the more ambient tracks, but the vocal tracks were not OK

Hey man, I listened to 30 minutes of this 1 hour album and I don't think I'm gonna listen to the other 35-40 minutes. I've heard enough. I get and appreciate the artist was doing, I guess he was recording all around the world and took him 9 months to record or something like that? That's pretty cool, I can respect that. But I don't think I can respect this man, and I'm shocked cuz I like Indian music.

La flemme, j'aime pas du tout ce genre de musique même si c'est original et que ça change, pas du tout ma came les sonorités un peu indiennes comme ça

J’avoue j’ai pas eu envie de le finir. Ça s’écoute plutôt en soirée je trouve +1 parce que ça change de style mais les sons sont trop longs C’est pas forcément mal fait mais je trouve ça long… Bien aimé « disser point mento b »

J'ai vraiment pas du tout accroché... J'ai même hésité à lâcher avant la fin. 1/5

Very obscure shit, not sure it belongs in this list. Don't think its bad, its just kinda boring...

In the late-90's/early-00's, there was a bit of crossover between Indian music and Western Pop. Artists such as Cornershop and Punjabi MC broke through and added a new twist. This album is too atmospheric and ambient to have made much of a dent, airplay-wise. But, I'm sure it was excellent background music for hipster nightclubs and expensive day spas.

The album title is apt because it sure exemplified the idea of OK. The eastern influence is ok. The drum and bass is ok. The overall design of this album is ok. It just sounds like the reason all video game soundtracks in the 2000s tried to combine eastern musical themes with drum machines for certain levels. Overall pretty forgettable and I don’t think I really needed to hear this.

No way, the album starts with saying “the whole world is sound”. This is a prank. Don’t listen past that.

Electronic music is very hard for me to rate. I do not have much experience with this genre and have never heard an album that was what I would consider great. This album is definitely interesting and I enjoy the "softer" parts but like other electronic music it sounds very formulaic to me and sort of blends together.

Yea. I like this ok. Reminds me a bit of this group I used to listen to many years back - ah! I can’t recall their name now. Less Indian but electronic sounds similar and similar vibes.

Maybe the worst thing I've ever listened to

2,5/5

Back in the early aughts I used to go to Las Vegas a lot. Whenever we would visit some hotel, restaurant, or lounge that wanted to be cool the music sounded just like this.

Indians K&D.

On today's pick for 1001 albums to hear before I die, I rolled an album and artist I have never heard of yet the description of the album seemed to really intrigue myself. Today I got Talvin Singh's OK, a late 1990's Atmospheric DnB album. Even from the very beginning it is clear that Talvin's music here is heavily influenced by the European underground and his own musical heritage from India, which I find to be quite a unique perspective as I feel it brings to light some sounds that simply don't get as much recognition or praise as they normally would. As much as I can respect this album's very original approach to the genre it is embodying, I can't help but say that most of this project just wasn't really for me. While I was never bored throughout the project's 1 hour runtime, I can say that there wasn't too much I latched onto outside of Butterfly, Eclipse, Light, and the very intense Vikram the Vampire. This album for sure has its' moments but I feel as a whole it doesn't quite ever stick the landing. I don't understand why Vikram the Vampire has like 20 seconds of silence at the end but okay I guess? I can definitely see why OK is so divisive as I continue to add a very mixed review to the pot, but I also can see someone really digging the blends of cultures and musical ideas here as I truly have never heard another project like this. OK is commendable but that doesn't automatically make it good by any means.

Meh

Bollywood techno. Its kinda interesting but still electronica. So this one misses me.

1.5

1.5

Great tabla playing, but trying way too hard. The artist is way too conscious of and thirsty for a very niche audience — the new age+rave crowd? It’s leads to overdramatic, self-conscious music. Not a good look — or a good listen. A 2.

Not a big fan of Drum & Bass, this did nothing to change that.

Psychedelic blend of traditional instruments and dnb beats. Flute solo won me over.

Interessant. Habe ich damals verpasst.

Great soundtrack for when you’re trying to aggravate an anxiety attack.

Hmmm …

Good sound and energy. The mix of drum&bass with the indian harmonies and instrumentation is really cool and makes me want to move. In the end, it’s still not my preferred kind of tune.

Don’t like it.

I think this is pretty underrated. I don’t know that I’d include it in this list, but I’m not at all on board with the complaints of it being boring.

No thanks

I had high hopes for this one from the Wikipedia description. The first song was very interesting. Unfortunately on the whole it didn’t end up meeting my expectations. It felt like it got stuck in third gear, and then never really went anywhere. It was a nice change of pace though, to have music from someplace other than the UK or US, and did hold my interest just from the standpoint of being something different than I usually hear.

this was beyond shit - zero stars

OK

Feels like a global mixtape, the sounds come from everywhere. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Traveller - Butterfly - Light

It was ok

Good Songs: Butterfly, Sutrix, Eclipse, O.K., Light, Vikram the Vampire Mid Songs: Traveller, Mombasstic, Disser / Point. Mento. B., Soni, Bad Songs: Decca

It's an interesting idea, but I don't think enough was done with it. I enjoyed it for a few songs, but then my interest started to wane.

How do I rate this? There were a couple songs or parts of songs that I really liked. There were also songs that I really didn't like. I think it exceeded my expectations when I read about what the album was, but it isn't anything that I would listen to again. I was listening while driving, so I don't have notes of any specific tracks.

I really don't know what to write for this review, I just did not like 1 second of this album

Weird.

In het begin vond ik het nog wel lachen maar halverwege het album raakte ik al wel aardig verveeld.

Origineel maar wat intens. Het is een soundtrack voor de oosterse spa ervaring die overgaat in Yakuza achtervolgingen

Meandering and nothing to write home about.

Not for me.

I’ve attempted to listen to this in its entirety several times and never managed to make it to the end.

This was interesting and could do with more listens. High 2s.

Música tradicional india mezclada con electrónica. El disco suena igual de extraño que la propia mezcla de géneros. De entre la electrónica que me ha tocado hasta ahora esta es la más pasable. 2/5

Buenos toques indios a la música electrónica. No le conocía

I felt nothing.

7/10

I don't find it interesting at all

On paper I probably shouldn't like this - it can feel like a collection/mashup of a bunch of noise at times, but the whole thing felt surprisingly cohesive. Vibes on vibes on vibes. Except for "OK", this feels like a great night time drive playlist. Unfortunately falls off in the second half.

Meh not too bad. Just not really my thing.

Cool blend of Asian influence and electronic. First track is a banger

Alo Yoga playlist snapped with this one.

2.5 stars. Traditional Indian meets electronic. Standout is "Butterfly".

Didn’t listen

Production quality was great... everything sounded nice. But, musically it's not for me. I can appreciate it, especially the percussion, but it was just different versions of the same thing for an hour.

I'm not knowledgeable about the genre, but I didn't really enjoy this. Especially the random speaking parts.

First track had me worried. Glad it picked up from there. Haven't even finished it yet but it's getting a 4 just because Eclipse goes so hard

While riding on my bike, I continuously thought "I need a lot more acid for this". I listened again while working and that was better... Except the start of track 5 "Decca". That voice-intro-thingy is horrible. At that point I thought "I need drugs. Any kind of drugs". Track 6 "Eclipse" has some good DnB in it. In summary: I get why people like it. Some day, I might even like it with right amount of chemicals pumping through my veins. But not today. Today it's a 2/5.

1998. Indian 90's tech club music. Kinda fun but also whacky as heck.

Muzika klausymuisi ir kažką veikimui. Vienos jos gal neklausyčiau, bet šiaip vaibas.

It was... different.

Cirque du soleil ass core music. Fusion restaurant sounds. The music at an immersive art experience. What plays before a new age talk. This never needs to be heard outside of those settings. Why is this one of the 1001 most important albums? What’s the branch it was so important on? This is the worst thing so far. There are thousands of albums not included here so this can play. I would give zero stars if I could.

I enjoyed this - a cool mix of influences and styles.

Wow. Really didn’t like this.

No thanks

not for me

not bad

This had its moments. It never really went anywhere though, or did anything to catch my attention. Musically it’s good, albeit a little too cautious. Well produced, but very easily background music and all bit new age.

Comme le nom l'indique, c'est juste OK. C'est le genre de musique d'ambiance électro qui dérange juste un peu trop, le cul pogné entre deux chaises.

So stoked I found this. This is my favorite type of work from coffee shop forget you have music on but it’s scratching the brain just right.

It was ok. It was unique for sure, but nothing really grabbed onto me. I wouldn't mind listening to this again, but I don't foresee trying to seek it out.

Very anticlimactic finale, but this generator has been life changing, and I am very thankful for that. This album, on the other hand, is just okay. Onwards to the user submitted albums!

I bought this when it came out as I was listening to a lot of music like this at the time. Though I thought it was good it was never a regular listen! I have the same feeling again, good but not one to play over and over again!

Atmospheric. Interesting.

Elektronista musiikkia ja intialaista perinnemusiikkia, mielenkiintoinen kombo. Toimi ihan hyvin, välillä tuli vähän liquid dnb vibatkin. Liquid indian bass? Myös aika ambienttia ja maalailevaa ajoittain. Parhaat: Traveller, Light

Butterfly

Interesting variety of sounds

I guess it’s more unique than most of the other electronic albums on here but that doesn’t make it good

To the person that said this was their new everyday listen... I think about you sometimes before I go to sleep. I cannot fathom people listening to this willingly. 2/5 for the audacity.

Certainly has some of that '90s drum and bass cheese, but honestly, this was a pretty cool record. I was immediately drawn in by the eastern-influenced ambient coasting of 'Traveller'. I also really loved the title track; something about those group vocals was just so outlandish that I couldn't help but enjoy it - especially during the dreamy mid-way interlude. Could've gone without some of the spoken word pieces here, but I generally enjoyed this thing.

I found this to be a pretty interesting listen, loving the worldly influences along the way. The images it evokes definitely allow space to dream and conjure up all kinds of mental images. Also gets you into the zone when focusing on a task.

3- Stars (7/15)

Oll Korrect

put your collars up, you look stupid ya

…and finally, I’ve cracked it. The Mercury Music Prize of the 90s and 00s was all about what MAMIVinyl thought the young ‘uns ought to be listening to. Nah then, still nah now.

Maso

Weird but good. Not my style

Eclectic and worldly

Good start

So much nominative determinism about this! Almost as much as houmous and chutneys ‘sexy n ready’ from 1956. 2.5 9/11 Disser/Mento.B

I am rocking with this!!!!1

When a voice at the beginning of this record declares "the world is sound" over New Age flutes 'n' synthesizers, it's a clear sign that this is going to be some pretentious drivel and *hoo boy* is it. Content-wise, it's little more than repetitious one- and two-bar drum loops with random samples (and flute noodling) on top. Would be fine if it were a demo reel designed to show off Singh's skills with Pro Tools but otherwise has scant entertaiment value.

Kind of cool. Didn’t know what to expect. I like and respect the effort to make something new and different. Got a little monotonous but def glad i listened.

No, sorry this isn’t for me. It’s my second ever listen and it’s not for me. I respect the idea behind it and I appreciate what Talvin Singh is trying to do, but I will stick to Cornershop for my indie Indian fusion from the 1990s.

Some ok beats but overall not a fun listen for me

felt a bit try hard tbh

You'd think not English but it's English. Cool ideas, I found it irritating

Unique crossover that I hadn’t heard of before. A lot going on. First half was intriguing but lost interest a bit towards the end. Too repetitive.

You know when you watch one of those chase scenes in a movie that takes place somewhere in Asia and it is trying to be hip and get you pump while also trying to be Asian? Now imagine that for an hour

generalnie ciekawe ale rzadko kiedy piosenki sa warte wiecej niz jakies 6 minut i ten album nie jest wyjatkiem

Traditional Indian instruments did NOTHING to deserve this crap.

painful listen

ok

Not back-to-front enthralling but I thought this was really sick, had some fantastic sounds!!

Pretty rad! I had never heard of Asian Underground until this list. Cool stuff.

i was impressed that this guy was only 18 when he made this album but i am curious why the list maker felt the need to include two Asian Underground albums ... just feels like a movement that wasnt particularly influential or groundbreaking... anyways it was cool at points dont get me wrong 3 stars

It's alright. It's nice listening to drum and bass that isn't fully from the UK, but it's really just DnB with eastern instruments. It's cool, but nothing crazy or mindbreaking.

Loved it. Like nothing i've ever heard before. Mysterious. Relaxing. Other worldly. The mix of East and West. The Indian style vocals. Instruments you wouldn't usually hear over a drum and bass or trance style beat. Different. Imaginative. New. Interesting. Exciting. Long tracks but i didn't get bored. Favourite track - Sutrix or Light. 8/10

I keep starting these albums thinking maybe electronica is growing on me, and then remembering why I don't like it by the end

Konemusaa joka ei toimi sitten yhtään

Some good beats, and a couple of them had me bobbing my head. The last few songs weren't good, but the first two thirds of the album I could dig! Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. 3/5

electronic is not my fav kind but it worth

I like music from other countries, mostly Latin music, but this is pretty much unlistenable. The twangy sitar and turn of the century electronic beats give me flashbacks to Mogadishu.

I don't hate this album. It was nice to listen to during a work day; however I don't see this making it into my regular rotation.

Really great album. Such range and diverse sounds.

4/10

Only like traveller

Electronic music that has a very interesting and listenable mix of eastern musical instruments, in addition to the sounds that you would typically associate with the genre. Above average listenability, reminds me a bit of Enigma with an eastern twist.

El concepto es interesante pero la música no me ha resultado realmente muy atractiva. Parece una banda de sonido.

I understand how it can good of you're in mood for it. I'll probably never be in that mood

one, stop picking bad foreign music, not bad because it’s foreign, but it’s just bad

Pre-listening thoughts: bad gut feeling about this one. Post/during listening thoughts: I was right! This is dog shit! Every song sounds exactly the same! God i hate trip hop. 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: HELL NO Fav tracks: nope Least fav tracks: all

First couple of songs were good. Later songs though...

It lives up to its name

absolutely brilliant

Admittedly fast forwarded a little through this one but I did find the fusion of like the electronica elements and the Indian elements very interesting! Like a lot of albums lately it just kind of strikes me as music I would only ever throw on in the background of studying if I needed a wall of sound background kind of thing, like I would never consciously play this. But it is a step above the usual electronica stuff for me in terms of that cultural sonic mix. (2.5 stars)

I know nothing about this album, its history, its context or the artist. What I do know is that I've had this on repeat at work all day. The perfect blend of background beats, storytelling moments and eclectic but smooth musical choices.

Weird

I liked this. Helped i was working while listening. Got a little long. Very very 90s.

Word for my taste, definitely not for night ski

some of this was delightful, some a bit too heavy techno.

There's a genre of British electronic music that mixed it together with traditional Indian classical themes which I've always enjoyed. This is a great example, mixing in D&B, jazz, it keeps the songs varied. Some real standouts I was already familiar with.

Cool mashup of cultures and styles here, but it misses the mark for me. Too many parts I wanted to skip through.

This is the shitty relaxation music they play when you're getting a massage on top of the shitty late-'90s electronica they play when you're watching whoever opened for the Prodigy in 1998. This is fucking horrendous and gimmicky.

Talvin Singh “Ok” I’ve always liked this album. When I was a club DJ, I loved dropping the opening track, “Traveller” as a wild journey midway through a set. The back half of the album is much better than I remember. This is a classic example of why we need a half star system because this is a 3.5 to me. I think I’ll round down and give it a 3.

And now the true story of ecstasy It is told that the one, the almighty Shiraji Climbed to the top of Mount Kailash With his radiant wife, Parvathi And there they spent ten thousand years in union We call this first position Nasty

Not for me

Nothing of much interest here. Not really sure why this is on the list.

This was an interesting one - Indian, classical, electronic. The first half of this album was crazy good, the second half was fine. I'll certainly keep coming back though. 3.5/5 -> 4/5

The sounds were interesting. However it’s just not for me. But I can tell it was well composed.

не мой жанр но что-то в этом есть + местами прям знакомо (возможно знакомо от часа назад когда я в прошлый раз это слушала)

Eu nem sei direito o que pensar desse. Talvez uma trilha sonora de um filme ou jogo cyberpunk possa aproveitar de um conceito assim, mas a execução não me pegou tanto. Acho que ficou bem datado e tá preso no espírito da virada do milênio de como as máquinas estão avançando muito rápido

After reading up a bit on Talvin Singh and the recording of the album, I can see its cultural significance. There are a few tracks on here that I really enjoyed ("Traveler", "Ok"), but for the most part it was just background music. Nothing bad about it, just nothing that really caught my attention.

This was ... OK. I enjoy world music and I enjoy electronic music, but I don't care for them together. This album would have been better, if Talvin, spent nine months travelling the world and making folk music with different cultures, and not drowning out those world sounds with overpowering electronic music.

Interesting electro African kinda noise ? Idk what I would call this. Not bad music to listen to while doing some legal writing. 3/5

4.95 fabulous

Day546 - as far as background music goes it’s fine

I guess interesting? Not really for me but it's something to listen to Will I listen to again: 0%

This was solid electronic music. Was a nice album to accompany me for a workout. Need more listens

Boring techno is still boring with non western instruments

An interesting listen, if not always easy. I guess I sometimes like some dub and some house, and I guess I sometimes like listening to talented tabla players. Do I like the whole thing together? Not sure. When it works, it works well though, as on the title track. Just a note to say that I vaguely remember this winning the Mercury, back when it was a proper award. I was probably appalled that [insert generic indie album by Gomez or whatever] didn't win, but fair play, this kind of left-field choice is what the Mercury should be about really.

This was not great for me but I appreciate listening to something different from a different culture. It wasn't totally boring or anything, just not my thing.

< The Beatles Ugh, 2 shit English electronic albums in a row, neither of which should be on the list.

I tried, I really do appreciate a lot of the good beats, but I really don’t see myself coming back to this. It’s interesting to hear in the mix of all the different world sounds, the Indian influence, and I can’t appreciate this type of music in the right context, but not really what I was looking for in this list. I’ll give it a two out of five because it is interesting, I can see where it would fit in if it’s the first of its kind, just not for me.

I’ll give it a couple of stars for being interesting music, but I think this is another example of prioritizing experimentation over payoff. For an album with so much flow, I never found my entry point.

I kept waiting for beat drop that never came. It brought a bunch of things together in an interesting way. It was different, and glad I heard something new, but this never landed for me. Ok was the best song on the album. The man is an OBE so curious what the rest of his work is like

Hard to get through, felt very one note with no real highs and lows. Kind of monotonous

Thought this was a real chore to listen to.. very repetitive, couldn't get into it.

Talvin Singh's combination of traditional Indian instrumentation and drum & bass is delightful. "Butterflies" and "Sutrix" were a few of the standouts! Slower songs like "Soni", weren't as entertaining, but still souunded interesting. "Vikram the Vampire" is so great!

*Ahhh, don't like. Weird mix of repetitive club beats with occasionally a cool Indian or Middle East sounding song/instrument. *Almost entirely instrumental. *There's an 11 minute 'song' - whyyyy? RATING - 3/10

Blend of electronica/ambient. It also has some Indian musical elements, maybe others, that make it sound more exotic. It is interesting, but after about the third song it all started to sound the same to me. I appreciate what was done here. This is a well made album by what sounds like talented musicians, but it just doesn't click for me. However, if you're looking for slightly out of the ordinary background music, look no further.

En su época lo escuché y me pareció interesante. En Siglo XXI de Radio3 no paraba de sonar. Pero ha envejecido mal, se me ha hecho pesado y ha pasado la sorpresa. Entiendo que hay que oírlo por lo que fue, pero poco más.

OK without Computer makes a one star album out of a five star album.

I did not hate this. Beats were good. I would have loved this in college.

I love fusion and crossover music. This was a bit too out there for me.

Interesting indian classical music meets electronica but not that good

Like a voyage round the world taken from the safety of an elevator

Not my first choice but honestly not bad work music

“Britpop was the sound of the nineties!” so goes the aging writer, as they attempt to sell another reminiscence of being ridiculed by Damon Albarn outside of The Good Mixer. They are wrong; Popular trance and house music was the sound of the nineties. This was not popular.

Again, not really my cup of tea

First of all, this is THE MOST late-90s looking album cover. This album cover might most embody a certain time period better than any other cover on this list. I see this won the Mercury Prize in 1999 but I found it pretty boring. All the worldly sounds were interesting and I can see why music critics ate it up, but it was just too ambient for me.

Way more unique and interesting then, say, a third Dexys Midnight Runners album or similar. Good uptempo driving music as well that works for me.

Really solid at parts but too ambient for me to reeeeally get into at any given point.

Bit patchy imo but some good tracks

Quite creative to merge electronica/dance with Indian instruments but I found it a bit tedious eventually

Interesting at first to hear the Indian-electronic fusion, and Singh is clearly a talented musician, but ultimately it's not our genre and our interest waned as the album progressed until it began to feel like it was dragging towards the end.

Awful, terrible, and horrible. I didn't like it one bit. Sounded like an alarm going off and I couldn’t wake up.

Haha it was OK. To be fair I had this on in the background and did not pay the best attention, but it was enjoyable at times.

I imagine Talvin Singh recording his strange mouth noises while admiring himself shirtless in the mirror, confident that his genius will never be matched This is acceptable background music but it's not going on the rotation

Pretty odd

Not a fan of electronica. As a hybrid of indian styles and electronica, this didn't work. It was uninteresting. Boring. Hated it.

OK is anything but okay. This album throws Eastern spirituality, tablas, electronica, ambient, drum & bass, and a splash of self-help mysticism at the listener in one big chaotic sonic stew. It wants to be deep, urban, global, and transcendent all at once, but to me, it feels more like being trapped at a spiritual world music festival with a broken sound system. “The World is Sound”? Sure!, and everything is playing at once. It’s overwhelming. There’s no room to breathe, and the music tries to say so much that it ends up saying nothing at all. 1/5

Not OK.

Another sigh... I feel that God must be testing me. My trial shall be fair but also be filled with an effort of grueling endurance through the lowest rated and overly-long electronica/dance albums in this book. Today is another test and I shall pass it. As God as my witness, I will listen through this album and come out the other side...hopefully alive. I don't know if every variation on electronica needs to be in this book. Adding a sitar or random instrument on a few songs doesn't make it an album I need to hear. These songs ran together for me and I am probably just a bit tired of hearing this 90's electronic/dance music at this point. This album is from 1998, so it feels like it's all been done with the tiniest variation the editors apparently very much respect. The worst part is every song is so long, with the majority being 5 minutes or longer. The selling point on this album seems to be, "If you like techno/electronic music then you should hear what Talvin Singh does on his album." The issue is you need to hear it if you like this kind of music already, as Singh adds on to what is already been done. Outside of an interest in the music, another variation feels pointless. I don't think I'm being reductive either. I look forward to the next electronica album in this book, where an artist will add a tambourine to a beat and that obviously will deserve inclusion in the book.

Kom inte ens förbi första låten. Kommer nog aldrig försöka igen.

ok

It was…okay?

OK is the debut album from Talvin Singh, a British musician who plays the tabla, and produces electronic music. His work integrates Indian traditions - like the rhythmic patterns he performs on the tabla - into electronic music that ranges from ambient to dance tracks. The album was very well received, critically, and won the Mercury Prize in 1999. This is an interesting collection of tracks, highlighting the unusual mixture of traditions Singh utilizes. The result is good, but uneven. The ambient material is slow - even boring - in places.

I went into OK by Talvin Singh with no idea what to expect. I vaguely remembered it winning the Mercury Prize years ago, so I was curious to hear what made it stand out at the time. Unfortunately, this album just didn’t work for me. The fusion of tabla, Indian classical elements, and electronic production felt overly polished and, at times, disjointed. It was a challenging listen, and I found myself struggling to get through it within a day. This one’s not for me, and I don’t see myself revisiting it. Favourite track: “Traveller” – one of the more listenable songs on the album Least favourite: Honestly, most of the rest – it just didn’t land Album artwork: Surprisingly decent – probably my favourite part of the experience

indian electronica highly conceptual

I like these vibes a lot

I really liked this. Very unique, a little weird. A vibe.

Ricura. Repetiría. OK hermoso. Nada más que decir. Muy de su época pero muy bueno, que se yo, rico, muy bueno. Nota: 4.1

Outstanding!

One of the worst decisions of the Mercury Panel. So desperate so seem "ooh soooo edgy" and up to date with the kids that this fairly mundane album wins. It wasn't a vintage year, looking at the shortlist, but nobody is going to go back to this. Drab, monotonous and without any kind of light and shade.

Quoting his Spotify bio: "Asian Underground, one of the most exciting movements in the history of British music." This is the most British sentence I could imagine hearing, truly encapsulating the totality of British-ness. PAs for the album, there's some truly great moments in there, interrupted constantly by some of the most truly goofy moments. Really feels like he was trying to cram too many ideas into the album. Better to let one excellent idea ride and permutate than try shoehorn in a bunch of other mediocre ideas into the first one. But that's the British way... Chicken vindaloo, the Elgin marbles, and cheesy techno.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this!

No

Garbage

Un elettro veramente forte

Never heard of this or him. Not really my genre, but it is hard to describe how refreshing this sounds after 3 hours and 14 minutes of Ella Fitzgerald singing the Gershwin song book. That wore off fairly quickly, though.

Overall, nothing exciting but it is not really what I expected. I think that this is a pretty niche type of album and it was a mix of Indian and electronic music, which I haven't really heard before. Overall, a bit repetitive, slightly confusing at times even, maybe a bit annoying at moments.

This is the 119th album I’m rating. I don't know who this is but winning the Mercury Prize is pretty cool. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Traveller, Butterfly, Sutrix, Mombasstic, Decca, Eclipse, OK, Light, Disser/Point.Mento.B, Soni, and Vikram the Vampire. All in all I liked 0/11 songs. I can't believe that he won the same award that PJ Harvey did.

Электронщина. Терпеть не могу

I like electronic music but this wasn't really for me. I liked the combination of sounds but it wouldn't be something I listen to.

Unfortunately the two worlds that are colliding on this, I haven't got an interest in. Didn't enjoy this really.

Couldn't finis - did not hit. V 90s

Really good love the composition

Killer drum n' bass mixed with Indian influences makes this an excellent, atmospheric, and immersive listening experience. Super underrated.

If only it were longer.

Fav: Butterfly Least Fav: Mombasstic This is where I find out that Ambient DnB mixed with Asian instruments is secretly what I’ve been waiting for (as a big fan of the Sitar)

an extremely strange album, but still quite interesting. some songs I found entirely difficult to listen to and skipped, some i solidly enjoyed. some songs I saved but not one I think I’ll revisit much.

Electronic Indian music. Cool album i probably otherwise never would have found!

A remarkable fusion. Truly original and a great listen

Possibly the worst music ever recorded.

Unfortunately, this album was one that I just couldn't get into no matter how much I wanted to. It starts out alright but just gets progressively more tedious with each passing song. Which is funny considering that the first song is the longest. It just wasn't really the style of music I enjoy, and I found it to be boring. It was a bit hard for me to get through it. That being said, I did like some of the instruments used. Especially the flutes!

- So outside my wheelhouse that it is hard for me to have much of an opinion. Would probably never seek out a mix of electronic and "world" music like this, but it does not bother me either. - Liked the tracks "OK" and "Light" the most.

Pretty good

this was challenging, but interesting. sort of like moby x some of the classical south asian musicians on this list.

I'll say this: I appreciate what this thing was going for. Combining Indian classical music with electronica? That's interesting, and, from what I understand of both genres, could result in something great if handled right. But, y'know... Well, when the album leans into its Indian classical influence, I like it quite a bit. Of the little of the genre I've engaged with so far, it's far from my favorite, but it does just well. If the whole album were like this, I'd give it a solid nod of approval. Of course, then there's the parts where the album leans into the electronica influence — which it does way more commonly — and when it does... B'oof. Being fair, it's nothing I can be too hard, since, believe me, I **have** heard worse, but... Like, I don't know. It's just not terribly interesting. When you're listening to it it's perfectly fine, but jeez, even as wallpaper there's stuff out there with more to chew on. Really, the album title sums it up pretty well: it's "OK." And this leaves me with one of those disappointed 3's that're never fun to give. Again, I can only imagine how combining Indian classical and electronica could've gone off — when they do happen to intermingle, it's neat stuff. And I don't wanna rate this thing based on what it's not, but jeez, it could've been so much more interesting. Like, if it weren't for the fact that my group's coming up on our 500th album, I probably could've let it sit in the backlog for a week like I did that French hip hop, and I wouldn't have missed anything. Y'know? Bleh, whatever. I'm not gonna pad out the word count any more. I just wish it coulda been more than OK.

It certainly do be late 90s electronic music, to say the least. 3.5 bumped down to 3.

I’m at a 3.5 that I’ll bump up to a slightly biased 4. When it comes to mostly instrumental albums like this, I don’t think there’s too much to say, because you either like it, or you don’t. In this case, I liked it. I didn’t like it enough to give it a flat 4, because there’s certainly enough repetition in the soundscape and enough filler moments to create a DBZ arc, but I like this enough to bump it up to a 4. My bias is simply that this appeals to a lot of my VGM sensibilities. That is to say, give me a PS1 jungle style beat, and I’ll vibe with it a lot of the time. This feels a LOT like PS1 jungle, and I love the way this blends aspects of traditional Indian music, Japanese DnB, & electronica. It makes for a really coherent soundscape, one that’s not too far removed from the Ridge Racers or Ape Escapes of the world, but just distinct enough to feel unique, at least for the hour-long runtime that this has. I do fully understand why this has a 2.61 average on the site, because to an ear that’s not paying attention, every track here sounds the same. Hell, even to my ears, I’m sure there are a few tracks that sounded the same that I just sort of chose to ignore. At an hour long, it’s shorter than some of the other DnB albums we’ve gotten, which helps a bit. It’s still long though. However, when it fully clicks, there are moments here where it just feels great to listen to – the stretch of Eclipse to Light in particular is the best stuff on the album, by far. If I gave this another listen, I might find it tedious, but I do think the floor here is a 3 regardless. It’s totally competent Indian-infused electronica that I vibed with on most of the tracks, and even at its most bland, it still sounds pretty good to listen to. Hence, a 3.5 bumped up to a slightly biased 4.