Dancing Drums is the first album from trip hop

Trip hop

Trip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...

 duo Badmarsh & Shri

Badmarsh & Shri

Badmarsh & Shri are an electronic/trip hop duo from London, UK.- Formation :Prior to their formation, Badmarsh worked at the reggae studio Easy Street; which was hiring PA equipment to a nightclub called Labyrinth...

. The name comes from a 1975 track of Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar was a Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanusree Shankar.-Early life:...

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Reception

Allmusic praised Shri's melodic basslines and strong tabla rhythms, and concluded that "Several tracks go on a couple of minutes too long, and techno snobs will find its pleasantness objectionable. Overall, though, this album is a success."

Track listing

1. "Dancing Drums"
2. "Asian Detective"
3. "Gharana"
4. "130 Steps"
5. "Air I Breathe"
6. "Lament"
7. "Mathar"
8. "Parallel Crossing"
9. "Interlude"
10. "Disturbed Synapses"
11. "Salsa Gharana"