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Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, Breakdancing and listening to Punk Rock as a child. At the age of 15, Singh went to India where he studied tabla under Pandit Lashman Singh , but he returned to the UK after just one year. In spite of this classical training, Singh's tabla playing was not accepted by British promoters of Classical Indian Music , as he incorporated too strongly his western influences. By the late 1980s , Singh had decided to turn towards the fusion of sounds, and soon he began working as a musician with such artists as the Indigo Girls , David Sylvian , Siouxsie & The Banshees , Sun Ra , Björk , Massive Attack and the Future Sound Of London .

In late 1995 , Singh founded the Anokha club night at East London's Blue Note, where drum'n'bass DJs and South Asian punk bands went head to head with the amped-up sounds of his tabla and percussion. Guest spots by LTJ Bukem and others made Anokha a Monday-night hotspot in London, and Singh signed to Island for an Anokha compilation including several of his own productions. He worked as a remixer until releasing his solo debut, ''OK'', in 1998 . The album won him the Mercury Music Prize for 1999 .


RECORDED WORK


Solo Albums



Collaborations & original contibutions

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

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

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

  • Remixsingh OK (2001)Island / Japan Import.

  • Master Musicians of Jajouka (2000)

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

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

  • Anokha - sounds of the asian underground (1996)Island.

  • Calcutta Cyber Cafe: Drum + Space(1995) Omni Records.



Compilation

  • Back To Mine (2001) DJ-Series

  • Abracatabla (1994) Sampling CD



Remixes



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