OK

Not very interested in instrumental music

While Indian influences proved to be a fresh take on electronic music, the album is too long and the new idea also gets old fast

Can't help but notice it's just common Indian compositions (and not very profound) on common EDM stuff (and not very exceptional structure). It got a lot better for the final few tracks. Still there's a great recipe here, so it gets some credit assuming it led that principle a bit. (I think the Prodigy may have played with this a bit earlier, tho.) It was explored more, and better, by Tabla Beat Science's "Tala Matrix" so check that out if you liked this.

Meh. I want music to listen to. Dance music does nothing for me at all, it's just pointless if you don't dance.

I really didn’t feel this one. I will note that appreciate the attempt to do electronic music with an international influence, particularly with the use of Indian music. I also think the flute work of Sakamoto and Chaurasia was very nice, as well as Suchitra Pillai’s vocals. But overall, the album ends up being a bit of a hodgepodge mess. A little goes a long way when you do fusion in music, and Singh struggles to have a cohesive sound here. Additionally, the frenetic pace of some of these songs makes them a rather unpleasant listen, like I felt agitated and impatient for the album to just be over. Fave Songs: OK, Disser/Point.Mento.B, Sutrix

Not for me. Kind of an "Enya" style electronica. Might be nice stuff to play in the background when I'm working or something.

Fine I guess. Nothing interesting about it though. Good background music.

Ok, describes it well. 2/5

Mediocre. Nothing amazing, most probably good at the time but hasn't aged well.

not for me

OK by Talvin Singh (1998) It only takes one listen to India tabla playing to recognize its potential for fusion with techno/pop, and OK by Talvin Singh almost shows how it can be done. But first, a correction: The world is not sound, contrary to the theme-establishing lyrics on this album (in the opening track, “Traveller”). The singer (Singh?) sings “The world is sound. . . Leave the troubles behind”. This is a clumsy ode to the musician’s conceit. Of course “the world” is much more and much other than “sound”. The opening eleven-minute track insufficiently introduces what is clearly important about the album. By relying on the saucy background provided by the Madras Philharmonic Orchestra, it points the listener in the wrong direction. The album really takes off with the second track “Butterfly” and picks up speed with track three, “Sutrix”, adding vocalizations, techno flourishes, and standard western trap drum accompaniment, with a modified backbeat. The female choir on “Soni” has some serious pitch problems (although the spoken poetic conclusion of this track is interesting). And the rather manic and obscene Kama Sutra-‘inspired’ “Decca” fails musically on the erotic level. But the highlight of the record is “Light”, which capably provides the flavor of the project—heavy on tabla and flute. I recommend listening to this track first and then starting at the beginning if it meets your taste. Hearing the album twenty three years after its release, one gets a sense that it could have been better if it had incorporated influences of hip hop. It seems to be pulling in that direction, but it doesn’t even really leave the station. It sounds more like a suitable soundtrack to a Bollywood sci-fi epic, if there even is such a thing. The album is suitably titled. It’s OK (barely). 2/5

Ok, never heard of this before. Looking at the cover I'm gonna say scungy 90s UK techno - my guess is by the name, UK but son of Indian migrants. Potential Indian sounds. Baseline 3/5 but liable to drop. I also get the feeling this is gonna be an hour-long jobbie, not sure why but even without loading it yet I just get vibes of outstaying its welcome (like all scungy 90s UK electronica). HA! exactly one hour according to Spotify. Fuckin nailed it. Ok you might as well call me Nostradamus: UK but Indian background, scungy 90s UK techno. Has a bit of an Indian flavour along with the scungy beats. It sounds like the soundtrack to a snowboarding game on the ps1 lol. Honestly, I kinda like the exotic bits but as expected it just goes far too long. Even by halfway I was bored and completely lost interest. Would have gotten higher if it had the sense to be a bit shorter. 2/5.

27th July 2021 Listened throughout the day on my phone while working before going on a huge bike ride round Richmond Park with Sam. Interesting listen, reminded me of when I was a kid and my mum bought this on cd.

"Bella l'hindi, bella l'elettronica, bello il tabla! Bello, bello, bello tutto! Bravo, grazie! Adesso te ne poi pure annà!" Semi-cit. Io e Talvin non abbiamo legato. Non c'è stata alchimia. Al primo ascolto mi son detto: "E mo che voto gli do?" Ho provato un secondo ascolto per capirlo meglio, ma ho lasciato perdere. Voto: 2 perché non mi ha fatto schifo/vomitare

idk dude what even

Everything sort of blends together. This is pretty avant garde with electronica and experimental music, which I don't particularly enjoy, but I understand the concept behind it.

`utter madness

Talvin Singh's OK is a very creative and atmospheric effort, full of uncoventional jazzy and dubby sounds, though it's a bit too weird for me. I am not particular fond of Indian culture or of music that has more focus on instrumentals than vocals, so I am not a big fan. 2/5.

че-то вощще полумузыка какая-то. ну наверн можно зачиллить под этот абстракт как-то, но слушать на серьёзке желания никакого 3/10

As the title states; the album is OK🤷🏻‍♂️

It was ok, not really my thing but I can appreciate the thought gone into the arrangements 2*

No thanks. Didn't listen to much

Ik houd van drum 'n bass maar dat Aziatische gezang en die steeds terugkomende sitar trek ik minder.

Not the kind of music I like. Too repetitive and spacey.

4

Having links to Indian music is pretty cool. I like it, but don’t love it... not quite an album for this list

It starts better than it finishes. I like the atmospheric electronic world music as it ebbs and flows, but by the time we get to O.K., they've let Yoko Ono loose on this album and the squeeling and high energy makes it interesting but not entertaining.

Ehkä sienien kanssa voisi olla nerokasta ja lumoavaa menoa. Nyt jätti genreen suuremmin vihkiytymättömälle lähinnä kiusallisen kokemuksen.

Not at all appealing to me. Sounds like a bad dj tried to meld music and failed.

I immediately got pretentious vibes from the first track. "The world is sound" repeated over lazy electronic music with random vocals does not set a great tone for the album moving forward. Turned this off after track 4. If you like this sort of thing more power to you, I do not.

Traveller - 2 Butterfly - 2 Sutrix - 2 Mombasstic - 2 Decca - 1 Eclipse - 1 Ok - 2 Light - 2 Disser/point.mento.b - 1 Soni - 1 Vikram the vampire - 1

An album that doesn't even live up to the title. Formulaic drumbeats and disinterested melodies abound here

That’s a no from me dawg

maybe it was doing somethin when it came out but it did nothing for me today

Gar bage

Not every idea needs to be acted upon

o god no

World music with electro beat. No. No no no.

Kakva je ovo freaky psihodelija, baš uznemirujuće 😰 1/5, 1/10

I wish I never heard this

I want to branch out and discover new-to-me sounds, but that means running into some duds along the way and this is a prime example of duddery. This comes off as someone having just gotten a new keyboard and wanting to see what it can do. Unfortunately this album does not live up to its modest title.

totally not OK.

Another electronic music project into the bin. I didn't even get all the way through this one.

This is on a par with lift music. This World Music fusion style has been done better in the past. I will stick with Transglobal Underground if I want this sort of stuff.

shit ruined my day

Yikes

An awful combination of pretentiousness and sheer boredom. Maybe it’s my Eurocentric ignorance but I didn’t feel the non western elements worked at all with the electronica. Flour, eggs and sugar can make a cake, but that doesn’t mean every random combination of flour, eggs and sugar makes a cake, or even anything palatable. This album was just chucking random elements together and cajoling the critics into professing their admiration of it because it’s different. I wager very few listened to it more than twice, they might have admired it but no one truly loves music like this.

Mix of Indian music and electronica / drum and bass. On the plus side, it was very different from most of the other albums on this list. On the negative side, I found it extremely boring and difficult to get through. The slow, relaxing flute clashes with the fast tempo, polyrhythmic drums and I'm left wondering what situation I could be in where I'd want to listen to this.

C'mon guys, what is this.

Sounds like something Derek Zoolander would be super into

Bajo

I think this is really bad. One star...

actually genuinely put me to sleep

I rate this according to the number of songs I made it through.

Not it for me, just very weird, but not in a good way.

The music seems to always be in a rush to get to the next thing, which makes it doubly surprising that it's all so boring.

Not okay

no thanks

Não gosto de eletronica

Most definitely not for me.

Nah

It wasn't absolutely awful all the time but this feels like what one stars should be used for

Electronica at its worst.

Turns out I’m not a fan of electronica in any culture. At least it’s consistent.

Deeply boring and I hate electronica

There has been some bad stuff on here. Then there is this. A whole new category of bad. Beyond the ygtbfkm and into WTFITTTSBR?? 0.000

i wish i had a copy of the book to see the reasoning behind some album inclusions. i enjoy the "world" music inclusions on the list, if only for exposure - some are flat out incredible (fela kuti), but this seems to be an odd inclusion. world music + techno beats does not an interesting album make.

This is way too instrumental for me. Couldn’t get past track 1.

this was proper dead

Interesting combination of Indian and electronic but the delivery is kinda just boring 90s ambient stuff.

What a waste of time.

Not sure how much respect I had for the Mercury Prize when this endeavor started but it's not getting larger. This was long and boopy. The only thing elevating it from one star is that at least parts of it are interesting and it's clear that there's a vision being implemented (although it's not for me).

Definitely not for me, whilst it wasn't an earbleeder, ot's one i'd happily bever encounter again

Niet vet

Oh my God I'm so sick of this pointless meandering bullshit. Like does every song *need* to be that long and repetitive? And I want to be able to say I admire the attempt to incorporate a more diverse range of influences with the very Indian inspired sound, but it only ends up making it worse. Taking a very traditional and organic style of music and trying to mix it with this type of electronica just makes it sound so cheesy and really quite weird. I'm all for trying to use non western influences in music like this, but Jesus Christ this is just so far from how to do it well.

Not my thing

Did not enjoy this whatsoever

This is why colonialism is wrong.

Heb echt geprobeerd om het leuk te vinden

I feel like there is a shit ton of better Indian music that you can choose to add to this list. I'm not that into electronica, this whole album feels atmospheric for a lack of a better description. Interesting sounds, but it's just something you would hear in the background of a local cafe or tea place that's trying to go for that oriental vibe. That whole trippy, out of this world, let's take some LSD vibe if that makes sense. It's not for me at all. It's interesting, enjoy it if you want, but I just can't get through this. It's not the worst thing ever. It bores me so fast though. Some of these songs I would barely call songs. This is the type of music they would play in American movies about India. Action movies to be specific. It's just giving me nothing. Growing up, my grandma used to be obsessed with Indian dramas(I feel like each Eastern European and Balkan get this one) and the soundtrack on those was MAGNIFICENT. Even the background extra sounds were better than this album. I'm not even gonna mention Bollywood songs. Those absolutely SLAP. Do I understand a single thing? No. Do I get up to do the Saki Saki and Sheila Ki Jawani dance each time I hear those songs? Hell yeah. And there are many more incredible bangers that India put out. OK is the best song on this album. Soni is pretty good too. I'm actually vibing a tad bit. It's not enough to get this album out of the trash bin though. I just can't enjoy this. Just beacause you are using some traditional elements doesn't make this a masterpiece. If you wanna act so cool and different because you like music outside the English sphere, at least pick something interesting. If I hear a single person say this is their favourite Indian album I swear to god I'm gonna pull some Indian dramas type stunts on them.

Highlights: Butterfly, Mombasstic, OK This feels like music made for shitposts, while also being a giant shitpost of various sounds on its own. It had its moments of beauty, but most of the time I couldn't take it seriously. I don't have a lot to comment here... The traditional music is beautiful but it was spoiled by stupid noises.

Would be fire if I WAS geometry dash

Very pretentious

This was terrible. Indian electronica wasn’t on my bingo card.

My fiancé says i can't be mean and call this Indian hiest music. Althought it is. I don't mind exploring this genre. But it was a tough listen. I wish I had kinder words. But in order to enjoy this genre I need to find something I like so I can explore all genre mates.

1.4/10 I used all my skips for the hour on this album. The concept is good. Execution not great. at all. Only for those into techno stuff with Indian/East Asian fusion.

Like the concept not the execution would not listen again

What on earth have I been listening to? I guess the only positive thing to say about it is that is unique. Really really not my type of music. 1/5

Хуйня поганая какой еблан включил это в этот список какой ебалн создал эту величайшию хуйню

It's like Indian electronic? And now orchestra? Okay the repetition starts to get a bit annoying after a while.

The soundtrack of a field mouse who’s consumed 8 espressos, while floating in space, orbiting the earth.

Jeg klarer ikke sette pris på dette akkurat nå

It seems everyone got an album from a random nobody today from what I've seen. Apparently, this guy worked on Bjork's Debut. It was a nice listen and a 11 minute opening track was interesting.

Nope! Did not like it. Not my thing. At one point I thought I liked one track but then couldn't find it when I went to look for it again. I ended up skipping part way through a lot of tracks at the end. Just not my thing.

Ha, na prvi pogled, I will hate this? Zj k sm wiki opis prebrala je pa odvisno v katero smer bo šel album (60 minut, ugh). Mja, zj dva komada v album - to gre bl v te vode elektronike, which I do not enjoy. Ta late 90s, early 2000s elektronika z miksom drum'n'bassa - ugh. Čist neki druzga, k to včer. Kraftwerk pa Tangerine Dream zvenita outerworldly, etherial, k da floataš in space, kle pa k da je miks vsega možnega, k da si na speedu ob 3h zjutri v shitty lokalu. K un del v The Beach k se Leonardu sfuka v gozdu. S pridihom Indije.

I like world music, but this combination is incredibly irritating to me.

1.4/5 Stars Its just really not for me

Not for me, so close to music I like that it annoys me in places, and then just irritating in other places

At some points of this album, you can actually hear some indian guy getting high.

Not sure if Talvin needs less LSD or more

Not my thang...

How the fuck is something like this in here. It has like 12 listeners

Hell no

Less than OK

ass 3/10

not for me personally, found it extremely boring. may just be my preferences, however was the same as things i had heard before

I am sure this album is for someone, but that someone is not me.

This was a slog. A fusion of drum & bass, Indian classical, and ambient textures that sounds intriguing on paper but collapses under its own weight. The album feels disjointed, overly long, and often meanders without purpose. Instead of hypnotic, it’s monotonous; instead of groundbreaking, it’s grating. Quite possibly the worst album I’ve encountered so far in this challenge.

That was pretty bad not sure who that was for.

He traveled the world for nine months and made this album? I can't even force myself to finish the first song, let alone an hour long album. Brother, this was NOT it.

Good one, guys. You pranked me hard with this one. Seriously, did someone lose a bet?

Awful!

ебать хуета

Another awful random noises album with way too long tracks

Bodenlos belastend.

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

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

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

Just...no 1/5

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.

1.5

1.5

This is a huge steaming pile of atonal shit

Ei jaksanut kahta biisiä pidemmälle. 1/5.

Is noise

Ugh.

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

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

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

1.5

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

Don’t like it.

this was beyond shit - zero stars

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

I felt nothing.

I don't find it interesting at all

Didn’t listen

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.

Wow. Really didn’t like this.

No thanks

Butterfly

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.

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

painful listen

Konemusaa joka ei toimi sitten yhtään

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.

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

Word for my taste, definitely not for night ski

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.

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

*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

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

Again, not really my cup of tea

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

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.

Not OK.

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

No

Garbage

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

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

Possibly the worst music ever recorded.

Well, that’s an hour of my life that i’ll never get back

I would never listen to this again

don't really like electronic music, I appreciate the religious theme but I don't like it 1/5

Background noise.

Nah

Nah

Fusion genres are very hit or miss, and this is very clearly a miss.

No, it's spelled O-K-A-Y.

More muzak than music, and a record that no one needs to hear, not even the guy who made it.

Oof. Indian techno BS. When there were no lyrics I thought, couldn’t there at least be singing? And then when they started singing I thought, holy cow, can they stop singing and just play the music? And then it seemed it would never end.

Jag har god lust att söka upp författaren till boken och därefter slita bort hans tånaglar, en efter en, med tång tills han vet skillnaden mellan bra elektronisk musik och urusel elektronisk musik. Det här tillhör ju förstås det sistnämnda. Det är någon jävla indier som har irrat bort sig i djungeln när han skulle stjäla ris och råkat snubbla på en synthesizer och kommit på den ytterst ointelligenta idén med att försöka göra musik.

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg. DNF Best Song: Butterfly Rating: 2/10 Excellent Irritating Stars: 1/10

Not great. Became tiresome very quickly.

nix für mich

Você definitivamente não precisa escutar esse álbum antes de morrer

Yeah, don't know that I needed to hear this one. I'm not an electronica fan at all, and this didn't help. I couldn't finish it. I hate giving 1 stars, but this is a 1 star album for me.

Oriental techno with breakbeats, interesting, but not my style.

Seems like there's some nice Indian music here, wish it wasn't being drowned out by all these shitty electronics. 1/5

Album - OK Artist - Talvin Singh Release - 1998 Genre - Electronica/Indian Classical/Exotica Ok. 1/10

As soon as the first two seconds entered my eardrums, I knew I would regret the next hour I was gonna spend. I find better stuff on Youtube study compilations. Glad I know It exists and I gave it a semblance of a shot, but ya.... no

I like the eastern instruments used in the album but the rest of it sucked

Gave me a headache

Nah

p837. 1998. 1 star. On paper, drum and bass with Indian influences sounds like a good idea. In reality, it's just a mis-mash of tedious noise.

He successfully takes the neat idea of combining Asian instrumentation with western electronic music and manages to make something truly uninteresting here. Would not listen again. Absolute slog.

Nope

Perhaps in '98 this sounded much more original than it does now... I got bored after three songs

Indian plus electronic music? I don't get it. Doesn't belong in top 1001 IMO

If I'm rating purely on musical artistry or creativity, then sure this might warrant at least 3 stars. But these are my ratings, based (in large part, at least) on how much I *like* the music, and on that basis this one's a dud.

Desde el principio no me enganchó por lo que no terminé de escucharlo. Quizá si le daba más tiempo podía sorprenderme pero no quise descubrirlo. Sin haberlo escuchado completo, opino que otros álbumes mejores podían haber ocupado un lugar en esta lista de 1001 álbumes que una persona debe escuchar antes de morir en lugar de este.

Nah bruh

This annoyed the fuck out of me.

Part of me was hoping that by beginning this project, I'd be forced to rethink my preconceived notions of particular subgenres of music that I think I don't like. Alas, I still don't like drum n bass or whatever this would be. I've enjoyed a lot of Four Tet's experimentations with sampling South Asian music in his electronic tracks, but this is just more shitty, drawn-out 90s British electronica that doesn't add anything to the conversation.

No.

This is what happens when someone rents out a studio and there is no one around to say no you shouldn't. I feel I could have put my time to better use like watching Emmerdale.

This album has all I hate in one. Chants Religous crap Electronic This is a 1001 albums you can deffintively live without listening.

1/5

Not my type of music at all. Didn’t even get through the first song.

This was not a good record for me. Indian jazz mixed with dance music isn't something i'm going to revisit.

I hated this so much. It's two genres I don't like to start and combining them together doesn't make it any better. Even my daughter asked "You're giving this a one, right?" when listening to it in the car. Nothing here was enjoyable for any length of time and then it keeps going on forever.

Oh dear… this is just terrible in my ears. It starts okay, but as it progresses, it just gets worse and worse.

An album to listen to before you die.... this one... really????!!!

Didn't care for it. Too much Indian / Asian influence. Found myself skipping ahead and not completing tracks

Oh! Sitar electronica with a little flute! I’m glad the people who want this have this, but I am not one of those people. (ntm.)

I'll be honest, hearing a voice over in the first two seconds repeatedly saying "the world is sound" is not a great start and puts me a little on edge. It didn’t get better from there.

Sounds like the soundtrack to a Bollywood action movie

NO

It started off strong with 'Traveller', but then got progressively worse with each track. I like that he was trying to incorporate various sounds from around the world (especially the inclusion of the female choirs and some interesting instruments), but the backing electronic/ambient sounds present on almost every track made the album extremely monotone and a real drag to get through. -1 star because it also reminds me of being in a bus/taxi during a holiday where the driver's blasting this sort of annoying music at full volume 1.5 stars

Probably would have been better if I had died before listening to this drivel....

Nothing feels authentic. Just a cash grab. Nothing about this record is required listening. This was all very old sounding by ‘98. 1/5

Instrumental techno

Absolute crap. No melody nor harmony!

Idc. Boring and bad

Didn't enjoy it.

I'm reading reviews that mention electronica (not promising) and ambient, which is code for too boring to be elevator music. It was even worse than I predicted. Easiest 1 rating in nearly 2 years

Not really of any interest to me. Techno traditional Indian.

I did 3 songs and felt I had it covered. Not for me

It was fine, but by the end I couldn’t wait for it to be over.

Sounds like a radio in a restaurant got stuck between stations

Did not enjoy.

Gah i’m sorry but in no way whatsoever will I listen to this again. No hate towards anything however I can’t do an hour of this not even one song. It went on for far too long and i was just - not good.

I don't really have the palate to appreciate this. It's not my cup of tea at all.

Never heard this album before. It gives New Age music a bad name. Utterly pointless. So glad when it was over.

Indian techno

"Experimental\" is the perfect description. This album reminds me of WD2; closer, but still about 38 tries before you get something worthwhile.

Boooo

Dybt uessentialt og periodisk virkelig træls at høre på. Aner ikke hvad det laver på listen.

Not OK

I'm very far from being OK after this listening

If you're going to make an 11 minute sing, make sure it doesn't suck.

Waste of my time. I could’ve died before listening to this one.

This album was always a bit too tedious for me, and I am not too keen on the sound of it either.

No, just no.

So stupid

I can’t with the robot voice

Just American edm with an Indian accent.

Lmao this is hilarious. But it is not good.

yeah i'm afraid this one wasn't for me. i appreciate the effort here - the combination of electronic music and indian music is an interesting one, but i knew halfway through the first track this was going to be not my thing. i can see how this is music that you can get lost in, but unfortunately i don't really get lost in it - i more just get bored. the repetitive rhythms don't do much for me and to be honest, there's not a whole deal more here besides stilted vocals every so often and some muted trumpets (and such). just not my thing.

bi traveller seiter afoch 100 mol the world is sound. ???? de shit isch chli ass? oke jetz machter flötitime und ein ton halte uf de sitar? funni? ha de shit etz viel z lang gfunde. zweite track het seeeehr 90er drums. sehr. sutrix goht no recht dumm findi. mombasstic findi wieder easy ass. decca nervt au recht. tabla scho cool aber näh. light au easy aber jaaaaa eig ass. disser au chli ass als interlude. ischmer alles zu lounge. gar nöd miis. fänds chli assi zum es 1 geh aber fühls halt nuuuull. hoff ich han weg dem nöd alli indisch klassisch musig nöd gern. vikram the vampire au afoch 90s drums irgendwie nöd so cool. nai echt nöd agnehm. es 1 oder es 2 wenni morn gurt gluunt bin.

thalwil singt bruder wieder e stund UHH hallooo chan öppis passiere ussert e pfiffe wo usem letschte loch röchlet ok cool striicher sutrix tönt na cool back to langwiliahh oke decca gaht jz defür aktiv uf de sack hey ja cooli idee I guess und ich chan jz nöd sege dass es schlecht gmacht isch aber es isch die meist ziit entweder langwilig oder müehsam gsi sorry

This is fucking boring.

Not ok. Not at all.

Beyond my small ability to evaluate.

You would have to do force me to listen to this album again. WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT AMBIANCE AND TRANCE MUSIC FOR THIS LIST. YOU COULD WATERBOARD ME AND I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT A COHERENT OPINION ON WHAT I LISTENED TO. I AM A BIT DRAMATIC HERE BUT IT IS A 2/10 I LIKE THE SECOND SONG THAT IS IT. WHEN PEOPLE SAY JAZZ IS BACKGROUND MUSIC THEY REALLY MEAN THIS TYPE OF MUSIC THIS IS MUSIC TO FALL ASLEEP TO. THIS IS MUSIC YOU HEAR IN A SPA. JUST FORGETTABLE AND NOT WORTH THE SLOT I AM NOT A HATER it's just not iconic I like butterfly and thats it next

This was very long. And VERY meh.

This wasn't even worth putting in on the background while I did my chores

Really Boring

Different strokes for different folks

so boring to me sorry i could barely get thru a song.... 1.5/5

DNF at song 3. Dude....

Lyssnade bara på delar av varje låt. Låter som att någon snubblar över ett trumset. 1 / 5

OMG i hate this album really nothing about it i like. Discordant and total lack of flow. I hated listening to this. Will not listen to again.

I tried. In fact, I checked out his other albums. But no, it's a no for me.

When starting this I wondered if I would give any 1 star reviews. I can usually see something positive in a record even if it isn’t a style I usually enjoy. Then 55 records in I got this. I did not enjoy this.

1. traveller - 1.5 2. butterfly - 0 3. zutriz - 0 4. mombazztic - 0 5. decca - 0 6. eclipze - 1 7. ok - 0 8. light - 1 9. dizzer - 1 10. zoni - 1 11. vikram - 1.5

Boring

No...

Seriously it's like whoever is doing this is just fucking with us.

One of those albums you put on and know within 30 seconds you don't like it and dread the experience. I did my best to make it through this album. I listened to the first two songs and then parts of the rest. Overall, seems like his take on world music is blending some of the most random stuff over techno beats.

Not my style at all- all of these songs sounded the same

I did not enjoy that.

Cool concept. Bad execution

Not a fan, this was hard for me to get through. I can appreciate the composition but it doesn’t do anything for me.

Hippity Dippity World Electronica. No bueno. Makes me want to smash my neighbor's wind chimes.

Gepflegte Langeweile! Supermarkthintergrundgedudel. Warteschleifensound?

This wasn’t even OK.

*sigh* this is some bullshit. "The world is sound" ohhhh wow, so profound, such amaze!! /s Are we at the point yet where we can admit that the music that really matters and is most representative of our daily lived human experiences is simply pop music? The music that has broad range appeal, that gets endless radio play and imbeds itself seamlessly into our collective cultural consciousness. It's cool to discover new things, but at the same time if aliens came down to our planet and asked the average person to play them the most amazing music we as a human race have, would anyone choose this album? No. I truly believe that no, nobody would think of this first and say "oh man, have I got just the thing for you! Classical Indian Electronica!" NO! I suppose the journey of exploration and understanding how music evolves combined with how artists innovate in the space is what this project is all about, but the constant cognitive dissonance I experience with the concept of "so good you MUST hear it" + "meaningful impact on music as a cultural medium" is insurmountable some days. Today is one of those days. More Stones and Creedence please, less ridiculous genre fusion bullshit for the sake of it.

I was not a fan. It was pointed out to me that it sounds like a movie score. I would have to agree.

Starts off sounding like the soundtrack for a Venice Beach guru cult, complete with gropey hot yoga sessions in a converted shipping container. Cheap, cliche and very posery. Even the cover art looks like an AI prompt. Nothing feels authentic. Just a cash grab. Nothing about this record is required listening. This was all very old sounding by ‘98. There are much better recordings that were overlooked for this mall muzak.

from start to finish this is boring and actually difficult to listen to. when the artist says "there are more sonic territories to explore" I imagine the recording studio must be a personal fart huffing chamber.

I do not enjoy music like this at all

This was a really strange blend of a lot of different kinds of music...

not ok

1.5

I don't know much about this genre, but some things in music are universal. And this is universally crap. I was so bored the whole time.

Sounded like a kid checking out the functions on a keyboard

Le concept aurait pu être bien, mais c'est vraiment "la musique électronique cliché des années 90's", c'est très irritant.

Didn't like

Ik kan vatten wat er hier gaande is en het is waarschijnlijk een van de geslaagdere mixen van ambient/Liquid drum & bass en Aziatisch instrumentarium, maar dit kan echt mijn kouwe kut kussen. Ik ben zeker niet allergisch aan die Aziatische klanken, want gemengd met de juiste electronica, pyschedelic rock of postrock kan dat u echt teleporteren naar een andere wereld. Mocht er hier qua electronische beats/groove harder gegaan worden, richting Shpongle ofzo, zou ik dit op een vuile goa-dansvloer nog wel kunnen appreciëren, maar het blijft allemaal absurd braafjes. Dit hoort zelfs niet thuis in een top 1001 albums uitgebracht in 1998. Neen, meneer Singh, niet OK.

Misschien niet helemaal fair om het te reviewen want heb maar een kleine poging gedaan om te luisteren en het na een paar nummers opgegeven. Dit album klinkt zo enorm 90ies, en dat bedoel ik niet al iets positief. Het was precies de soundtrack van één of andere oude civ-building videogame.

Nope, not my thing.

If I could give this a 0 I would

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: not my thing at all but wasn’t awful Favourite song: didn’t have one

Es una electrónica medio chota, tranqui pero ruidosa. No gustó.

1.5/5. This is pretty unenjoyable (at least I did not enjoy it). A little bit painful at parts. Sometimes electronic music is really good, but most of the time it's like this (hard to listen to).

Skimmed through this one because of the 11 minute first track and I can tell that this album is NOT for me. Long tracks, instrumental tracks, stranger production, ehhhhhhhhh. Favorite Tracks:

NOPE. The world may be sound but I don't want to hear your sound ever again.

Enpä ennen tätä projektia ajatellut, että dubia ja intialaista (& aasialaista) perinnemusiikkia yhdistävä taiteellinen elektroninen musiikki olis oma genrensä, mutta tämä ei ole listauksessa eka laatuaan ja kansi heti kertoi, mitä on luvassa. Josko jossain biisissä olis voinut olla muuta kuin korvissa vaeltava nopea rumpukone.

Ysäri delivers: kumean kolkkoa teknisyyttä, jota en kaipaa tähän saati mihinkään päivään.

gets ko yung "concept" pero boring

Hmmm - complete codswallop

I really tried, but I just couldn’t get into it

Highlights: Sutrix, OK Leave Em's: Traveller, Vikram the Vampire Overall Thoughts: If I were a movie producer creating an action movie set in India then I would be all over this album. But alas, I am producing no such movie and I can only imagine getting chased down the side streets and alleyways of Mumbai for so long before I start to lose interest. The added elements of electronic sounds to more traditional Indian music is interesting although I am not convinced that it makes the music any more approachable or appealing. As background noise, which is the only way I imagine I could ever listen to this album again, nixing the heavy electronic elements would have been less distracting and more soothing and increase my likelihood of trying Talvin's album again. It felt like this album just carried on for a whole hour without providing much inspiration or disgust, almost like Singh was aiming to be just OK. Score Breakdown: 2.052 & 1 -> 1.526