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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 polarization 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) (original only released in France)
• Rafi's Revenge (1998) UK #20
• Conscious Party (1998) (original only released in France)
• Community Music (2000) UK #20
• Frontline 1993-1997: rarities and remixes (2001)
• Enemy of the Enemy (2003) UK #81
• Live: Keep Bangin' on the Walls (CD) (2003)
• Tank (2005)
• Time Freeze 1995/2007: The Best Of (CD) (2007)
• Punkara (CD) (2008)

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

• 1997 "Naxalite" UK #112
• 1998 "Free Satpal Ram" UK #56
• 1998 "Buzzin'" UK #31
• 1998 "Black White" UK #52
• 2000 "Real Great Britain" UK #41
• 2000 "New Way, New Life" UK #49
• 2003 "Fortress Europe" UK #57
• 2003 "1000 Mirrors" (feat. Sinéad O'Connor) UK #81

DVDs

• Asian Dub Foundation live: Asian Dub Foundation live (DVD) (2003)

Others

Asian Dub Foundation's music has been featured in several video game titles; "Flyover" in Burnout Revenge, "Rise To The Challenge" in FIFA Football 2004 and Test Drive Unlimited, "Fortress Europe" in Need for Speed: Underground and "Burning Fence" in Need for Speed: Undercover.

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