Cumulatively, Tamil electro synth-pop may even represent the triumph of import-substitution in cultural production. Besides reflecting national preoccupations, their absorption of transnational trends serves to show the global influences on Kollywood even before India’s liberalization in 1991. Here’s a curated playlist on Spotify!īy listening to, and looking at, electro synth-pop’s staging in Tamil cinema, we see how they were repositories for the zeitgeist, material and sonic culture of its time. If you’d like a soundtrack for your reading experience, we’ve embedded or linked in each song on YouTube. Curated here therefore is an audio-visual playlist from that era as cultural artefacts for the unacquainted.
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While the record labels B-Music and Bollywood Connection have tried to compile a sample of some of these, the full auditory and ocular significance of Ilaiyaraaja’s compositions remains to be explored.
Ilaiyaraaja’s most prodigious output in electro synth-pop came in the years between 19. In the process, he also ushered in a digital revolution in music technology in India. South India thus opened another node in the global cultural flows of electronic music just as synth-pop in the west entered a period of relative decline. At times, he did so by fusing them with Indian classical and folk music forms.
Ilaiyaraaja experimented with electronic funk and synthesizer pop.
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