Various - Naya Beat Volume 2: South Asian Dance And Electronic Music 1988-1994 (Repress)Naya Beat Records reveals Volume 2 of its critically acclaimed series dedicated to South Asian dance and electronic music. Label founders Turbotito and Ragz have curated an exceptional 13 track compilation with a focus on an overlooked era of house and electronic music released between '88 and '94. While Volume 1 explored early 80s Balearic, synth pop, and disco, Volume 2 uncovers lost or forgotten future classics from later in the decade. The release

With the studio as a laboratory for experimentation

solo or always well accompanied (Mungo's Hi-Fi

Eight solo pioneers vibing out at home in their headphones

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effortlessly transporting the listeners back in time

which he’d later record in Ojai with Scott Hirsch and name for a “pretty devastating” episode of Little House on the Prairie from 1978

for cruising extra smoothly through those hot summer nights

resembling a sort of ritual music that builds up a sticky

sometimes edging toward free improvisation in echoes of John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders

is finally here

joins the roster of Kerri Chandler’s Kaoz Theory with ‘The Waves’ EP

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