Asian_Dub_Foundation-Time_Freeze_(1995-2007_The_Best_Of)-2CD-2007-SAW

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


[Track List]

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       7:01
   1996)
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   3:14
   D)
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


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 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.

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.