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Community Music
About This Album
Anarchist Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." This sentiment lies at the core of Community Music. At the intersection of dub, punk, funk, reggae, dancehall, Bollywood, and political polemic, you'll find Asian Dub Foundation. And you most certainly can dance to it. Community Music is thick with speaking "Truth to Power", while ADF storms the Bastille with an awe-inspiring musical ferocity and their crystalline political vision. The first half of Community Music is fierce and unrelenting in its musical influences, construction, and politics. From the thunderous opening cut, "Real Great Britain," we are left in no uncertain terms with where the politics of ADF lie or how passionately they hold them. Sharp observations on the current state of capitalism, politics, and race in Britain form the focal point of the CD. The blistering exposé of police incompetence on "Officer XX" refers to the botched Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry, set to a simple guitar and drum pattern. The stirring dub/electronic account of how second-generation immigrants to Britain have emerged both influenced and, in turn, influencing Cool Britannia on "New Way, New Life" make it one of their strongest songs to date.
Track List (try tracks 1,4,9,11,13 and 14)

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