Asian Dub Foundation biography
They challenge the argument that Asians are passive onlookers in popular culture who are hardly involved in the music industry. Their music functions to bridge the black influence with their own Asian style, using such lyrics as "I grab the mic to commence with the mic check. Supply rhymes, man you never heard yet, you've never thought an Asian could do this." Reckoning a traditional hip-hop MC style with their own Asian influence and simultaneously mixing in various other musical styles, thus disbanding the polarisation of the racial terms and addressing the "ongoing racialised violence and inequality evident in everyday experience in their neighbourhood".
Discography
Albums
Asian Dub Foundation
- Facts and Fictions (1995)
- R.A.F.I. (1997) (originally only released in France)
- Rafi's Revenge (1998) UK #20
- Conscious Party (1998) (originally only released in France)
- Community Music (2000) UK #20
- Frontline 1993-1997: rarities and remixes (2001)
- Enemy of the Enemy (2003)
- Live: Keep Bangin' on the Walls (2003) live at Ancienne Belgique
- Tank (2005)
- Time Freeze: The Best of Asian Dub Foundation (2007)
- Punkara (2008)
- A History of Now (2011)
Dr. Das
- Emergency Basslines (2006)
- Keep the Grime On (2007)
Deeder Zaman
- Minority Large (2008) (only released in Japan)
Ghetto Priest
- Vulture Culture
- Beyond Flesh
Singles