There are a whole host of new-fangled sounds - including glitch, trap, folktronica and what have you - that have infiltrated the Indian electronic music circuit these days like outgoing US President Donald Trump supporters infiltrated Capitol Hill earlier this week. But the scene was a lot more pared down in the 1990s. That’s when pioneers such as Talvin Singh, Trilok Gurtu and Karsh Kale started introducing Indian elements like the tabla to the global electronica soundscape, giving birth to a genre known as Asian underground. Technological advancements and changing tastes meant that it took somewhat of a backseat after the turn of this century. But a new album called In Other Words seeks to turn the clock back, aiming to highlight how those influences remain relevant even today.

Indo-US duo Anhad+Tanner are the brains behind it, and the record consists of a musical menu of homegrown electronic songs that they have flavoured with Hindustani classical ingredients. Anhad Khanna, the Indian half of the act, tells us that they handpicked tracks that the current crop of Indian electronic artistes have created, before collaborating with them online to give it their own spin. He says that these artistes - including Komorebi, Anish Sood and 8-Bit Culprit - are going back in time with their music while simultaneously moving towards newer spaces. “They are recalibrating their sounds,” Khanna says, adding that many genres that have their roots in the 1970s and ’80s, such as Detroit or Chicago house, are starting to resurface in clubs these days.