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Asian Dub Foundation is a British alternative electronica band, that play a mix of breakbeat, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence. Image File history File linksMetadata AsianDubFoundation. ...
A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straighted 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). ...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ragga. ...
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1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straighted 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). ...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ragga. ...
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Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Biography
The band formed in 1993 as an outgrowth of the documentary Identical Beat, a film shot at London's Farringdon Community Music House, the site of a series of summer workshops designed to teach Asian children the essentials of music technology. In charge of the workshops were tutor Aniruddha Das and youth worker John Pandit, also a noted DJ; with one of their students, a 14-year-old Bengali rapper named Deeder Zaman, they soon formed a sound system which they called the Asian Dub Foundation. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
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Deeder Zaman is the former vocalist of Asian Dub Foundation. ...
A sound system is a group of DJs and engineers contributing and working together as one, often playing and producing one particular kind of music. ...
After each adopted an alias — bassist/tabla player Das became Dr. Das, Pandit became Pandit G, and Zaman became Master D — they gradually evolved into a working band with the 1994 addition of former Higher Intelligence Agency and Atom Spies guitarist Steve Chandra Savale, an innovative performer known for tuning his strings to one note (like a sitar), turning up the distortion unit and playing his instrument with a knife, earning him the nickname "Chandrasonic." 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Higher Intelligence Agency, often also refered to by its acronym HIA, is the main electronic music project of Birmingham UK based Bobby Bird. ...
Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the best-known South Asian instrument in the West. ...
Emerging in the midst of considerable anti-Asian violence throughout Britain, the Foundation's early demos landed them a contract with Nation Records, and they recorded their debut EP Conscious in 1994. Nation Records is a record label set up by Aki Nawaz which released the first new take on world dance music, an album called Fuse. Featuring the earliest appearance by Talvin Singh as Mahatma T, the label went on to feature the early releases of Asian Dub Foundation, Joi, Transglobal...
Channeling influences ranging from punk to ambient music to Bengali folk songs, Asian Dub Foundation quickly gained a strong fanbase not only among clubgoers but also among the anti-fascist movement, who applauded the group's vocal stand against racism. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ...
Members of the Dutch Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the US 101st Airborne in Eindhoven in September 1944. ...
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After earning a reputation as formidable live performers, the band — which now included dancer Bubble-E and second DJ Sun-J — won widespread acclaim for the 1995 single "Rebel Warrior". Their second album Rafi's Revenge was nominated for a Mercury Prize combining a unique combination of punk energy with a jungle/reggae core. Tours to America (with the Beastie Boys) and Japan followed to wide acclaim. Their following album developed their sound further and received a coveted 10/10 review in NME. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Deeder Zaman left the band after playing his last concert on New Year's Eve 2000, and the band expanded to include Pritphal Rajput (dhol, tabla), Rocky Singh (drums), MC Spex (vocals), Akhtarvator (vocals), the latter recruited from the band's ongoing education project ADFED. The new line-up played a few one off gigs mostly at festivals over the summer of 2000 with thier first full tour taking place in Brazil in 2001 where they visited various music projects especially "Afro-Reggae" in Rio, who are the subject of the recent film "Favela Rising". This article is about the year 2000. ...
The band pursued other avenues performing a live rescore to the film La Haine in 2001, and continuing to perform it round the world for the next five years. They developed this approach in 2004 with The Battle of Algiers, first performing the piece at the Brighton dome on the same day that photographs of torture in Abu Ghraib were released, adding great poignancy to the event. La Haine (Hate) is a French black-and-white film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995. ...
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In 2003 they released Enemy of the Enemy which became their best-selling album and contained the track "Fortress Europe," a stinging attack on European immigration policy along with "1000 Mirrors" a collaboration with Sinéad O'Connor about a woman serving life for killing an abusive husband. In 2003 ADF played their biggest gig in front of 100,000 people at Larzac in France at a celebration of José Bové, a radical campaigning farmer. For 2005's Tank they were joined by On-U Sound collaborator Ghetto Priest on vocals. Sinéad Marie Bernadette OConnor (born December 8, 1966) is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter. ...
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Asian Dub Foundation are currently working on a dub/punk opera, Gaddafi: A Living Myth about the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, which opened at the London Coliseum on September 7th 2006. Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi1 (Arabic: ‎ ) (born c. ...
Bassit Dr. Das announced his intention to retire from ADF in May 2006 to resume teaching and producing his own music. He was replaced by Martin Savale, aka Babu Stormz, who also plays bass with highly-acclaimed British-Asian electro/grunge/hip-hop band Swami. Swami is a critically-acclaimed [1] Asian rap/rock/bhangra band from Birmingham, England. ...
In Spring 2007 Asian Dub Foundation announced the release of a best of compilation Timefreeze 1995-2007 which will include a bonusdisc of rare remixes and live tracks (featuring Public Enemy's lead rapper Chuck D). The album will also feature a new track recorded with former vocalist Deeder Zaman. A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a best of album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. ...
Discography
Albums Facts and Fictions is an album by the British band Asian Dub Foundation. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Rafis Revenge is an album from 1998 by Asian Dub Foundation. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
Community Music is an album by British band Asian Dub Foundation, released on 27 August 1998 Tracklisting All songs by Das, Pandit, Tailor, Savale, Zaman unless otherwise stated. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Enemy Of The Enemy is an album by British band Asian Dub Foundation, released on February 3, 2003 Tracklisting Intro – ? Fortress Europe – 3:50 Rise To The Challenge – 4:25 La Haine – 3:54 1000 Mirrors – 4:55 19 Rebellions - 5:22 Blowback - 2:56 2 Face – 5:15 Power...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...
DVDs - Asian Dub Foundation live: Asian Dub Foundation live (DVD) (2003)
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Others Asian Dub Foundation's music has been featured in some video game titles; "Flyover" in Burnout Revenge, "Rise To The Challenge" in FIFA 2004 and "Fortress Europe" in Need for Speed: Underground. Burnout Revenge is the 4th video game in the Burnout series. ...
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Need for Speed: Underground is a racing video game, developed and published by Electronic Arts in 2003. ...
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