Geeta Dayal

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We want to help solve your digital music collection conundrums! Our series on Supercollectors continues with answers to your questions about digital music – from ripping CDs to storing MP3s. Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.FM and San Francisco-based music and technology writer Geeta Dayal join us to take your calls.

In 1983, well after Studio 54's heyday, a musician in India named Charanjit Singh released an album called Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. But it was hardly a Diana Ross rip-off. Writer Geeta Dayal says it predicted electronic music to come. She joins us with the recently re-issued Ten Ragas and other deep cuts from Indian disco.

In 1983, well after Studio 54's heyday, a musician in India named Charanjit Singh released an album called Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. But it was hardly a Diana Ross rip-off. Writer Geeta Dayal says it predicted electronic music to come. She joins us with the recently re-issued Ten Ragas and other deep cuts from Indian disco.