Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band, that plays a mix of breakbeat, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence.
Rebel Warrior, was inspired by the 1920s poem, "Bidrohi" by Bengali poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, an advocate for Indian independence. The song discusses the racial violence and inequality that the group state still plagues their British communities. Asian Dub Foundation have used their music in conjunction with education and social work for youth in the East End of London, as well as other British anti-racism campaigns. 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".
Albums
* 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)
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