在加勒比地区废除奴隶制之后，东印度契约劳工来到西印度群岛，带来了另一种文化。他们带来的最重要的元素是他们的音乐身份。东印度的契约劳工主要来自印度斯坦带，主要在特立尼达和多巴哥、苏里南和圭亚那种植甘蔗种植园。此样本库提供包含西印度克里奥尔音乐创新历史中出现的两种主要音乐子流派，这两种音乐都是东印度移民在加勒比地区存在的结果。
In the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, the East Indian indentured labourers arrived bringing with them another culture to the melting pot of the West Indies. Foremost of the elements which they brought with them was their musical identity. East Indian indentured labourers came mainly from the Hindustan belt to cultivate the sugar plantations predominantly in Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, and Guyana. This sample library offer comprises the two major musical sub-genres to emerge within the history of West Indian Creole musical innovations, both of which are the result of the East Indian immigrant presence in the Caribbean.