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new website

Finally the NEW Asian Dub Foundation website is online. So far there are only new gigs online, soon the website will filled with news and media.

posted: 2008-06-24 00:05:22

Asian Dub Foundation "Punkara" album European release

Finally i'm can announce that Asian Dub Foundation is gonna release thier 'Punkara' album also in Europe. The record gonna release october 2008 via Naïve records in France, the album gonna release with different bonustracks and artwork as the Japanese release of 'Punkara'.

Traffic Inc. gonna re-release three albums; R.A.F.I., Community Music, Enemy Of The Enemy and Tank with each 2 or 3 bonustracks. The albums gonna be in store in Japan on 4 july 2008.

posted: 2008-06-14 00:06:10

Visionary Underground video

Visionary Underground finised thier first video from thier second album Fired Up. The video for Freedom Fightaz is recorded in Hackney and South Bank in London (England). There is still no official date of the release of the single.

posted: 2008-05-19 20:27:51

Visionary Underground + Dr Das live gigs (may - august 2008)

* saturday 24 may 2008 is Dr Das live @ Paradise Gardens in Victoria Park in London (England)
* friday 13 june 2008 are Visionary Underground featuring Dr Das live @ Rhythm Factory in London (England)
* thursday 19 june 2008 are Visionary Underground featuring Dr Das live @ Eastatic @ Vibe bar in London (England)
* saturday 21 june 2008 are Red Cardell with Dr Das live @ Fete De Ma Musique in Evian (France)

* saturday 5 july 2008 are Visionary Underground featuring Dr Das live @ Hodokvas festival in Piešťany (Slovakia)
* friday 18 july 2008 are Visionary Underground featuring Dr Das live @ Dour festival in Dour (Belgium)
* tuesday 29 july 2008 are Red Cardell with Dr Das live @ Muzikale Dinsdagen festival in Ieper (Belgium)

* friday 1 august 2008 is Dr Das invites Red Cardell & UK Tabz live @ Festival Les Arts Dînent à l’Huile in Douarnenez (France)

posted: 2008-05-17 05:42:03

Asian Dub Foundation live gigs (may - august 2008)

* friday 16 may 2008 live in Murcia (Spain)
* saturday 17 may 2008 live @ In Somni festival in Girona near Barcelona (Spain)
* thursday 29 may 2008 live @ Quattro club in Nagoya, Japan
* friday 29 may 2008 live @ Namba Hatch in Osaka, Japan

* sunday 1 june 2008 live @ Studio Coast in Tokyo, Japan
Special guests for the Japanese gigs are The Blue Herb from Sapporo, Japan.
* monday 28 june 2008 live @ festival Rochan Feu in Rochan (France)

* thursday 4 july 2008 live @ Eólica international festival renewable energies in Tenerife (Spain)
* friday 5 july 2008 live @ Solidarité festival in Paris (France)
* wednesday 9 july 2008 live @ Rototom Sunsplash festival in Udine (Italy)
* saturday 19 july 2008 live @ Jarocin festival in Jarocin (Poland)
* saturday 26 july 2008 live @ Fuji Rock festival in Naeba ski resort (Japan)
* wednesday 30 july 2008 @ Pau festival in Pau (France)

* thursday 28 augustus 2008 live @ Greenbeat festival in Belgrade (Serbia)

posted: 2008-05-17 05:00:20

Asian Dub Foundation - Speed Of Light (unplugged)

Asian Dub Foundation played last week @ Open Ohr festival in Mainz, Germany. After thier gig at the mainstage they did an acoustic live session at the open mic stage.

Here is an exclusive version of Speed Of Light from the open mic session. Speed Of Light is taken from thier new album Punkara. Other songs and excerpts playing in the open mic session are Krafwerk's Das Autobahn and Target Practice. While Martin, Prithpal and Sanjay where jamming coming up on stage different vocalists from the crowd doing thier vocal skills

posted: 2008-05-17 04:41:01

Indigenous Resistance "DIRECT ACTION DUB MISSION" album

Dub consciousness rebels, Indigenous Resistance and Detroit techno guerillas Underground Resistance collaborate to create the first Detroit techno tracks remixed in Jamaica with full-on dubology.
After Mad Mike of Underground Resistance created IR track 'Krikate' featuring tablas and dub driven basslines by Dr. Das.

IR was inspired for 'Krikate' by the acts of resistance of the Krikati Indians in Brasil who been slashed and burnt from thier land to make way for electricity powerlines. While this happening the inhabitants Krikate indians went off thier land without any compensation. Now after years of being ignored by the bureaucrats, the Krikati indians took matters into thier own hands.
Armed only with bows and arrows and dubwisdom, the Krikati were able to change the dynamic. With the access to this high voltage powerlines they where able to burn the lines down and cutting the electricty that fed the major cities of the state.
Their decision to adopt this tactic was particularly courageous when you comprehend the facts:
not only were they small in numbers and without arms, other than bows and arrows, but also their isolated location made them potentially an easy target for a reprisal by the heavily-armed and well-trained military forces of the state. Way deep in the interior of the state, the attacks could occur unreported and forever hidden from the public view.
This situation is parallel to one faced by many indigenous people in various parts of the world. Dig deep and you will hear stories out of countries like Columbia. Killings and exploitation of indigenous people often go unreported there because of the remote locations where indigenous people live.
Or go to West Papua where indigenous groups like the Free West Papua movement (OPM) wage jungle guerrilla warfare against Indonesia which has been under-reported or outright neglected for many years.
IR made the ardous journey to the ancestral domain of the Krikati show solidarity with them and consequently recorded them there. The vocals recorded by the Krikati in their indigenous language JE, partially contains code. Translated, the vocals relate that, “the resistance underground continues.”

Those words actually lead to the inspiration of finding first musical participants of this track. Mad Mike, founder with Jeff Mills of Detroit techno-militants Underground Resistance aka UR.
UR and Mad Mike have consciously over the years made coded and musical references to indigenous people and various political struggles.
For Direct Action Dubmissions, Dr Das built on the beats and synthesizer work created by UR and injected his his dub-influenced bass lines along with other additional synth programming and some tablas.
Dr Das has been a long time collaborator within IR, contributing music for tracks like “Sacred Power” and “IR Jungle Base.”
IR producer “the ghost”, Brasilian DJ, Dubdem and mapuche activist Mapu, decided to pull in the services of Jamaican Mixmaster Steven Stanley for the remixes of “Krikati” that form the Direct Action Dubmissions album.
IR wanted wanted with Direct Action Dubmissions to dissolve even more musical boundaries and CREATE THE FIRST DETROIT TECHNO RECORD TO BE MIXED IN JAMAICA by someone who had the original Jamaican dub techniques and that ability to mix bass frequencies that have made Jamaican sound engineers famous. IR have, at times, been disappointed by some dance music vinyl releases that advertise a dub version on their “b side” and finding that these mixes have very little of the authentic dub treatments and studio effects pioneered by dub geniuses like Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby.

IR having worked with Steven Stanley for their cd Indigenous Dublands, IR felt he was the perfect choice to remix the tracks to create IR14.
Indigenous Dublands is a 6 track EP with crucial pan global collaborations between indigenous cultures from the jungles, favelas and barrios with those in the industrialized world who work their musical magic in mixing studios and on laptops.
This 6 tracks feature Dr. Das, Kokonda Dub (of TFTT), Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare (Sly ‘n’ Robbie), Soy Sos and Christiane D. (of Soma Mestizo), Cree singer Jimmy Dick, Saevo and Tohununo of the Solomon Islands, mixer extraordinaire Ramjac in the U.K., percussionist & sound engineer Dubmeister Steven Stanley in Jamaica and Tapedave at m/t dublab pulled the tracks together.

Dubdem, a dub DJ, remixer and designer based in Brazil has created a space on his website where you can download the IR11, IR12 and IR13 releases. This 3 releases where orginally only released as 7" vinyl, orginally mastered and pressed at Tuff Gong studio in Kingston, Jamaica.

Indigenous Dublands and Direct Action dubmissions are released via CD Baby and digital via iTunes & Beatport.

posted: 2008-04-10 17:06:08

Ghetto Priest left ADF

Ghetto Priest left Asian Dub Foundation after playing and touring along with ADF for 4 years. There are at the moment no further more details about why Ghetto Priest left ADF.

posted: 2008-03-26 03:19:39

Asian Dub Foundation Takeover Show @ BBC Asian Network

Bobby Friction hands over his radio mic and headphones to Asian Dub Foundation @ Friction on BBC Asian Network. In the shows are selection of favourite tracks of ADF members and few tracks from Punkara album.
You can listening back to this show HERE back till tuesday 25 march 2008.

posted: 2008-03-19 07:52:13

Asian Dub Foundation "Punkara" album release (2)

Wednesday 26 march 2008 is Asian Dub Foundation releasing thier new album Punkara. ADF's 7th studio album will be released on Traffic Inc. in Japan and online via iTunes.
This album is the first album with ADF's new line up featuring Al Rumjen, Aktarv8r and Martin Savale. For the rest is the current ADF line up Ghetto Priest, Cyber, Pandit-G, Sunjay and Chandrasonic.
On the album are 11 tracks and 1 bonus track.
Guests on the album are Iggy Pop, Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee and Amina Annabi; one of the female players from the Gaddafi A Living Myth hip-hop opera.
The album have various kind of songs, Bride Of Punkara is an instrumental dubstep song, Radar and Ease Up Caesar are punky vibe and Speed Of The Light is having a Middle Eastern taste. The biggest highlight of the album is ADF's cover version of No Fun featuring Iggy Pop himself.
On the album is also a new version of Target Practice featuring Al Rumjen and Aktarv8r.
First single of the album will be the track Burning Fence and you can watch the video HERE.

ADF promotional poster in recordstore

Asian Dub Foundation announce also 3 gigs in Japan.
* thursday 29 may 2008 @ Quattro club in Nagoya, Japan
* friday 29 may 2008 @ Namba Hatch in Osaka, Japan
* sunday 1 june 2008 @ Studio Coast in Tokyo, Japan
Special guests for the Japanese gigs are The Blue Herb from Sapporo, Japan.
(thanks to Ecomija for the information and translations)

posted: 2008-03-17 20:22:43
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