Artist.......: Asian Dub Foundation
Album........: A History Of Now
Label........: Cooking Vinyl
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: COOKCD532
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2011-02-09
Str.date.....: 2011-02-07
Quality......: 209kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.asiandubfoundation.com/
track title time
1. A New London Eye 4:48
2. Urgency Frequency 4:27
3. London To Shanghai 4:55
4. A History Of Now 4:18
5. Spirit In The Machine 4:05
6. Where's All the Money Gone? 4:07
7. In Another Life 5:36
8. Power Of 10 3:52
9. Futureproof 3:33
10. This Land Is Not For Sale 4:40
11. Temple Siren 5:39
Runtime 50:00
Size 75.32
Release Notes:
Asian Dub Foundation 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 15-year-old
Bengali rapper named Deedar Zaman, they soon formed a sound system that they
called the Asian Dub Foundation. 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 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." 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.
Channeling influences ranging from punk to ambient music to Bengali folk songs,
Asian Dub Foundation quickly gained a strong fan base not only among clubgoers
but also among the anti-fascist movement, who applauded the group's vocal stand
against racism. After earning a reputation as standout live performers, the
Foundation -- who now included dancer Bubble-E and second DJ Sun-J -- won
widespread acclaim for the 1995 single "Rebel Warrior." Their first full-length
effort, Facts and Fictions, followed later that same year, and in 1998 Asian Dub
Foundation returned with Rafi's Revenge. Community Music appeared in mid-2000,
followed later that year by another full-length, R.A.F.I. Subsequent Asian Dub
Foundation albums have included Enemy of the Enemy (2003) and Tank (2005).