The exact origin of the affirmative slang term "ok" is still largely a mystery, though many theories abound. One states that it was first used in a regular newspaper column from the 1800s, written for humorous effect in a U.S. regional dialect, and is short for "oll korrect".

According to Bill Bryson's "Made in America", OK was at one time speculated to have meant "only kissing" or "only kidding", or even - allegedly used by the only semi-literate American President Andrew Jackson - "oll korrect".
Some thought it came from Greek "olla kalla" ("all good"), or from a brand of Haitian Rum called "Aux Cayes", or indeed that it stood for "open key" in early telegraphy.
1941 Allen Walker Read from Columbia University started investigating the matter. It took him 20 years to establish that OK was first used on March 23rd 1839 in the Boston Morning Post as a jocular abbreviation for "Oll Korrect".
However, the word only became widely used after a support group for the election of Martin van Buren, whose nickname was "Old Kinderhook", as American President in 1840, called itself "The Democratic OK Support Group".

In a literature class in college, we read what was supposed to be the true background of the word "OK".

In the Choctaw (American Indian) language, the word "oke" means "it is so".

I tend to believe this one ... though the other theories are quite interesting.

OK was the debut album from Talvin Singh, released in 1998 on Island's Omni sub-label. Talvin Singh has probably been the man most associated with the mix of drum and bass and bhangra to come up with an exciting new (at the time) sound. The number of people who worked on this album was high enough that whoever did the album art made a little symbol for each one.

Here they are:
• Cleveland Watkiss - voice - A little pair of headphones
• Shankar Mahadevan - Voice - Three parallel horizontal lines
• Bhairvi - Solo voice - A little dude with a spiky hat
• Ajay Naidu - Voice, Poetry - A pair of shoes
• Nenes - Voice - A flower
• Suchitra Pillai - Voice - A tiny woman wearing a skirt and apparently a bikini top
• Ustad Sultan Khan - Sarangi - A little dude with a hula hoop
• Madhukar T Dhumal - Shenai - A little dude with big earrings
• Valijanthi-Limaye Sumati Antrolikat Purinama Shah, Archana, Arpaha, Karti Jyotsina Hardikar B Vijayalakshumi - Choir - three little stick figures
• Madras Philharmonic Orchestra - Strings - three odd looking violins
• Chandrasekar - Electric violin - a large odd looking violin
• Chintoo Singh - Rabab - A um... rabab perchance?
• Byron Wallace - Trumpet - A mute below a ^ which probably represents the bell
• Devi - Veena - A little barbell
• Jon Klein - Guitar - A guitar that looks more like a balalaika
• Aziz Abrahim - Guitar - A symmetrical guitar pictograph
• Dhiren Raichura - MIDI guitar - a box in the shape of a guitar
• Bill Laswell - Bass - A funny-looking bass guitar
• Guy Sigsworth - Keys, distortions - something similar to a loaded up Apex keyboard stand
• Heat China - Sanshin - A little string instrument with a triangular body
• Rakesh Churasia - Flute - An equilateral triangle with one point exalted
• Naveen - Flute, Pipes - An equilateral triangle with two points up
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Modular Flute - Looks like a guy in a wheelchair
• Somatik - Additional Breaks - a, um, cartridgeish thing
• Tristin Norwell - Arrangement Edits - A mixing desk from above
• Talvin Singh - everything else - the Talvin Singh logo

*whew*

Tracklisting (no track review on this one, they are ALL splendid)

1. Traveller
2. Butterfly
3. Sutrix
4. Mombasstic
5. Decca
6. Eclipse
7. OK
8. Light
9. Disser/Point.Mento B
10. Soni
11. Vikram the Vampire

The sound of this album pretty far removed from danceable drum and bass, save the second track. The beats skitter in and out, and some of the tracks quite short, and only serve as links between longer sections.