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Release Information
Artist : Asian Dub Foundation
Album : Time Freeze (1995-2007 The Best Of)
Label : Virgin
Genre : Electronic
Bitrate : 175 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 02:27:30 (192.MB)
Rls date : 2007-03-07
Store date : 2007-03-12
Tracklist
Disc 1/2
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1. Rebel Warrior 6:24
2. Box (Andy Kershaw BBC Radio 1 Session 1996) 4:04
3. Jericho (Andy Kershaw BBC Radio 1 Session 1996) 7:01
4. TH9 5:24
5. Naxalite (Main Mix) 3:35
6. Black White 3:33
7. Change 3:09
8. Free Satpal Ram 3:46
9. Buzzin' 3:54
10.Real Great Britain 3:12
11.Collective Mode 3:48
12.New Way New Life 3:34
13.Fortress Europe 3:52
14.Thousand Mirrors 4:53
15.Flyover 4:16
16.Stop Start 3:42
17.Target Practice 3:32
Disc 2/2
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1. Debris 4:19
2. Culture Move (Pusher Sound Mix) 7:36
3. Memory War 3:35
4. Siberian Slengteng 5:07
5. Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Feat. Chuck D 3:14
6. Son Of A Bush (Feat. Chuck D) 5:56
7. Modern Apprentice 4:54
8. Free Satpal Ram (Russel Simmins Remix) 5:44
9. Fortress Europe (Jazzwad Remix) 6:07
10.Journey 7:05
11.Oil 4:36
12.Hope (Congo Natty Remix) 4:23
13.Rafi 4:21
14.Roundup (Sun J Remix) 5:13
15.Activists & Selectors 3:41
Notes
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. 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." 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 fanbase 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 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. 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's debut took 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".
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.
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 Sinad 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
Jos Bov, a radical campaigning farmer. For 2005's Tank they were joined by On-U Sound collaborator Ghetto Priest on vocals. 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. 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.
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.
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