Tabla Beat Science is a musical group founded in 1999 by Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell. Its style consists of a mixture of Hindustani music, Asian Underground

Asian Underground

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, ambient music

Ambient music

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, drum and bass

Drum and bass

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 and electronica

Electronica

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. Laswell met with Karsh Kale

Karsh Kale

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 (who had worked together with Bill for years), and they later teamed up with Talvin Singh and Trilok Gurtu. All six have written for Tabla Beat Science's music.

Personnel

• Zakir Hussain
  Zakir Hussain (musician)
  Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...
  
  , a classical musician and accompanist.
• Trilok Gurtu is another Indian percussionist.
• Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...
  
   is an Asian Underground artist.
• Bill Laswell
  Bill Laswell
  Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
  
  . Laswell is a bassist
  Bassist
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  , producer, and composer.
• Ustad Sultan Khan
  Ustad Sultan Khan
  Ustad Sultan Khan was an Indian sarangi player and singer who performed Hindustani classical music. He was one of the members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell...
  
  . Khan plays the sarangi
  Sarangi
  The Sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument of India which is originated from Rajasthani folk instruments. It plays an important role in India's Hindustani classical music tradition...
  
  .
• Karsh Kale
  Karsh Kale
  Karsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer, and is considered one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music...
  
   plays tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
   and drum kit.
• DJ Disk
  DJ Disk
  DJ Disk is a San Francisco Bay Area turntablist of Panamanian, Colombian, and Nicaraguan descent. Born Luis Quintanilla on October 7, 1970, in San Francisco, Disk began scratching and mixing vinyl at a young age...
  
   plays turntable
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Discography

• Tala Matrix (2000)
• Live in San Francisco at Stern Grove (2002)
• Talamanam Sound Clash: Further Adventures in Hypercussion (DVD) (2003)