Indiatronic
May 18, 2020

Documentary: The birth of Indian electronic music

'Electronic India' is "a wonderful, warm, and eye-opening documentary" by Paul Purgas about pioneers of Indian electronic music, who produced innovating music at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad from 1969 to 1973, but then got forgotten about. The Quietus talked to Purgas about his docu, and that moment of fresh creative energy from 50 years ago - "there was a really beautiful scene that emerged in some of the conversations we had while making the documentary, this idea that at that moment India was still dreaming, there was this sense of a possibility of imagination, a utopian set of ideals and ideologies that were emerging around shaping India post-independence". Listen to the documentary at BBC.