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Asian Dub Foundation [UK]

Postby lampard.serg » 05 Apr 2017, 11:50

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BIOGRAPHY

Asian Dub Foundation are an English electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence. Their distinctive sound also combines indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and traditional sounds, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.

HISTORY

Asian Dub Foundation is better described as a group that arose from a community education organisation. The different forms of music include toasting, dub, funky guitars and many other African instrumentals. "Their distinctive sound is a combination of hard ragga-jungle rhythms, indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and 'traditional' sounds gleaned from their parents' record collections, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics". The band was formed in summer 1993 as an education workshop run by Aniruddha Das aka Dr Das (bass, programming) assisted by Pandit G(Decks) and attended by Deeder Zaman. This early line-up released the sound-system based Conscious E.P. in late 1993 on Nation Records. Guitarist /programmer Steve Chandra Savale was invited to join in early 1994 and ADF became edged towards more of a band format.NME. Sanjay Tailor, also known as Sun-J, joined the band as live midi/programmer and DJ soon after. This completed the full live line-up of the band and their debut album Facts and Fictions was released in late 1995 having won widespread acclaim for the 1995 single "Rebel Warrior” .Initially shunned in the UK which was submerged in the Britpop movement the band honed their skills in Europe and gained a substantial following particularly in France where their (French-only) release RAFI sold 100,000 copies. In early 1997 the band was signed by London records and their British profile was upped considerably by the support of Primal Scream with whom the band began to tour regularly.

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums:

Facts and Fictions (1995)
R.A.F.I. (1997)
Rafi's Revenge (1998)
Conscious Party (1998)
Community Music (2000)
Frontline 1993-1997: rarities and remixes (2001)
Enemy of the Enemy (2003)
Tank (2005)
Time Freeze: The Best of Asian Dub Foundation (2007)
Punkara (2008)
A History of Now (2011)
The Signal and the Noise (2013)
More Signal More Noise (2015)

MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/3129-Asian-Dub-Foundation
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