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	Asian Underground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asian Underground is a term associated with various British Asian musicians (mostly Indian or Pakistani) who blend elements of western underground dance music and the traditional music of their home countries.
		The first well-known mention was the compilation album Anokha - Soundz of the Asian Underground released in 1997 and masterminded by Talvin Singh.
		In the 1990s, Asian Underground was considered hip and broke through to the mainstream.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_Underground (300 words)

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		Although the Asian Underground (its most common name), in its current form, has only been getting noticed for the past 5 years, the seeds of the movement were sown a long time ago, in the Indian sub-continent.
		Young South Asians born and raised in the UK were facing somewhat of an identity crisis; they weren’t considered 'English' enough in their adopted land but on the other hand they would never be accepted at home in India as being truly Indian.
		The Asian Dub Foundation (calling their style 'Asian jungle-punk') is repeatedly considered one of the greatest live bands in the world.
	www.angelfire.com /md/shree/aznunderground.html (1280 words)

	Asians In Media magazine \| A quick guide to 'Asian Underground'
		The term Asian underground has been a double edged sword just as Britpop turned, with its rise and now its fight for survival in the fickle world of fad culture.
		The sound of Asian Fusion subsequently caught global attention and put State Of Bengal, Amar, Future Sound of India, Asian Dub Foundation and Singh himself firmly in the spotlight.
		Another British Asian artist also working in the same ball park is Nitin Sawhney, currently riding high above the Asian underground tag, with his sixth album titled 'Human'.
	www.asiansinmedia.org /news/article.php/music/215 (1264 words)

	Music of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the late 1980s, Indian-British artists fused Indian and Western traditions to make the Asian Underground.
		Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically-charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK edit]
		The arrival of films and pop music weakened folk music's popularity, but cheaply recordable music has made it easier to find and helped revive the traditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_India (1809 words)

	ASIAN UNDERGROUND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Asian Underground (AU) is a phrase that Talvin Singh (more about him later on) came up with to describe a style established by a collective of Dj's Musicians and Producers who are ethnically from Asia (Mainly India & Pakistan) makin underground D&B and dance music.
		This is when Talvin Singh came up with the phrase "Asian Underground" to describe this unique style of electronica which fused age old classical ethnic styles with modern futuristic beats.
		Also Asian Dub Foundation...vetrans of the AU scene have recently released 'Community Music' which is sure to go down in history as a punk dub classic.
	www.axp.mdx.ac.uk /~KL262/history.htm (877 words)

	Rough Guide to the Asian Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Compiled by DJ Ritu, the famed British Asian DJ, who hosts her own show on the BBC's Asian Network entitled "In the Mix with DJ Ritu," the Rough Guide to the Asian Underground serves as an introduction to the sounds that have laid the foundation for the Asian Underground movement.
		While I question her exclusion of Nitin Sawhney, she does include tracks composed by such Asian underground mainstays as State of Bengal, TJ Rehmi, the Asian Dub Foundation (ADF), and Asian Underground poster child Talvin Singh (whose track is under the nom de guerre, Mahatma T).
		The ADF track with its political undertones represents an aspect of the British Asian movement that is not an overt quality in many of the American releases that are associated with the Asian Underground.
	www.ethnotechno.com /roughguide_au.php (585 words)

	LINES
		For instance, the authors report on the band Asian Dub Foundation's attempts to raise consciousness about racism and police brutality, as well as their active campaign against the unjust imprisonment of Satpal Ram-- who was finally freed last month after fifteen years of imprisonment, largely due to ADF's efforts.
		The Asian Underground’s role in setting up the conditions for the release of a major musical based on Bollywood themes should not be underestimated.
		The Asian Underground, in turn, has benefited from the public's newfound penchant for yoga, bindis and mehndi, and curtains fashioned from saris that can double as sarongs—all of which were being heavily marketed in every department store, at one point.
	www.lines-magazine.org /Art_Aug02/Nila.htm (2134 words)

	www.theinder.net > Asian Underground: Konzertreport 'Asian Dub Foundation'
		Asian Dub Foundation both would like to arouse people's interest in Asian culture as well as inform about it by singing their revolutionary slogans, hook lines and refrains.
		Asian Dub Foundation underlines : "Our home is London, but unfortunately we are living in one of the most racist countries in the world so we have to deal with it in our songs.
		The Asian Dub Foundation doesn't like to be called a "political band", they are first of all musicians and deal with different problems in their songs.
	www.indien-netzwerk.de /navigation/unterhaltung/Asianunderground/au-partys/adf-konzert/adf-konzert-eng.htm (1749 words)

	Putumayo World Music Collections Featuring Ancient Future
		Asian Lounge is a Putumayo World Music sampler of cross-cultural fusions and beats inspired by the musical traditions of Asia.
		In London, an 'Asian Underground' movement began among young musicians in the Indian and Pakistani immigrant community.
		The Asian Fusion Dance Ensemble variation of Ancient Future is available to perform at Asian Underground dance events to support the release.
	www.ancient-future.com /putumayo.html (574 words)

	AsianVibrations.com->Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In other words, when you have a melting pot of various cultures and musical traditions clashing with each other, you end up with something new, which is initially seen as fusion or underground or a distortion of the traditional norm.
		TJ I don't usually think about classifying music and I tend to make music which reflects how I feel at the time...but for the purpose of music retailers and their customers, I must accept that it is part of the marketing and sales procedure to slot music into a particular classification...
		Asian music influences have become part of the western culture because we live here and we are adding our vibe to the evolving global society...and my point is that rap - hip/hop is and has been open to all sorts of influences...
	www.asianvibrations.com /cgi-bin/getFeature.cgi?featureNum=4 (1838 words)

	AsianWeek.com
		In fact, some South Asian Brits and Americans are trading in unforgettable Bollywood scenes of lovers singing and dancing around lush gardens in Mysore for a young Punjabi woman kicking around a soccer ball in London.
		Documentary and independent South Asian filmmakers are influenced by Bollywood, Lollywood, art films, even the music situation, are influential forces that are combining and making something different.
		Nintey-nine percent of independent films are English language films — a lot of second generation South Asians do not speak their mother tongue — they can identify with South Asian characters in an English medium.
	news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=9cac90e947226836c2ebe2341ddad956 (1166 words)

	TIME.com - Europe
		South Asian culture suffuses almost every facet of modern British life: Bollywood movies outdraw West End musicals, and curry is the national cuisine.
		Now, with the novelty of the "Asian underground" fading, Asian musicians are demanding recognition as mainstream British artists with global appeal.
		Sriram included the song on the album not only as a homage to his father but also as a retort to those pretenders—the guys who couldn't hold their sitars properly—who once populated the so-called Asian underground.
	www.time.com /time/musicgoesglobal/europe/msonic.html (642 words)

	The British, Invaded
		The single was originally part of Talvin Singh’s Anokha: Sounds of the Azian Underground, a compilation released in 1997 that documented a small scene of wistful, forward-thinking South Asian fusionists who applied a punky yet tradition- minded sensibility to British dance music.
		If part of what this Asian underground sought was a new identity, then the airplane’s restless movement between London and Calcutta seems the perfect way to understand an identity constantly under construction, devised and revised on the fly.
		Begun in 1997 at the height of the “Asian underground” movement, Bald’s labor of love is a rich, engaging work, equal parts social history and cheerleader.
	www.arc.org /C_Lines/CLArchive/story6_4_03.html (1684 words)

	Various Artists, Rough Guide to the Asian Underground
		Featuring some of the best-known names in the Asian Underground -- Ananda Shankar, Joi, Asian Dub Foundation -- and a number of lesser known acts, Rough Guide’s latest compilation dares to compete with what must be the essential guide to the scene, the legendary 1997 Anokha Presents the Sounds of the Asian Underground (Vol 1).
		Perhaps the most fascinating, and probably the most commercially successful act in the Asian Underground scene, the ADF has a distinct hip-hop sensibility, with elements of Rage Against the Machine and the Beastie Boys toughening up their breakbeat east/west fusion.
		TJ Rehmi’s “Is It Legal?” is a bizarre mix, pushing the incongruities of the mixed genres to the forefront, and rather than blending the sounds, the song actually alternates between them.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_va_roughguide_asianunderground.html (650 words)

	Asians In Media magazine \| Trickbaby launch new British Asian music compilation album
		The growing appetite for British Asian music has not gone unnoticed by many within the industry, who would like nothing more than to feed the demand so the market can grow and sustain more talent.
		From Bhangra to 'Asian underground' to chilled-out beats to a mixture of everything, the compilation album is coming to dominate the scene and cater for those still not sure what this 'Asian music thing' is all about.
		These are the tunes that have been bubbling to the surface from the underground.
	www.asiansinmedia.org /news/article.php/music/528 (612 words)

	Shringara: Seattle’s Asian Sound… Underground \| Infinite Connections
		Asian Underground just found a new home in Seattle at the CHAC Lower Level every first Saturday.
		She is inspired to continue her travels both overland and underground, seeking out and weaving old and new world sounds into rich musical tapestries hailing from the Four Corners of Earth.
		In his teens, Tarun was exposed to a steady dosage of the soundz of the Asian Underground and all-night raves on Canada's West Coast.
	www.infiniteconnections.org /shringara080506 (940 words)

	AsianVibrations.com->Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Are you satisfied with the "Asian Underground scene" or are you more sad about the fact, that the Beatz of "Asian Future" scarcely placed in the charts?
		The difference between the Asian music and the Black music scene are the never-ending number one hits the Hip Hop and R&B scene is producing.
		Living in Germany as an Asian person is no problem, but in England where the Asian population isn't just a minority, problems like the fighting's between young Asians and the police during the elections could arise.
	www.asianvibrations.com /cgi-bin/getFeature.cgi?featureNum=5 (1291 words)

	Asian Groove
		Asian Groove features many of the leading figures in the new Asian styles, as well as number of recent discoveries and future stars.
		One of the epicenters of this revolution in Asian music is not Bombay, but Birmingham, a working-class city in western England that is home to a large South Asian population.
		London-based Nitin Sawhney is one of the leading figures of London's so-called Asian Underground, a creative sub- culture of DJs, producers, and musicians who borrow freely from multitudes of sources.
	www.putumayo.com /catalog/item.php?cat_id=00003&item_id=00057 (568 words)

	Shringara: Asian Sound... Underground \| Infinite Connections
		Layla transforms her performance space not only though her intuitive sense of programing, but through her tribal inspired costuming which she feels is an integral part of her overall presentation and a catalyst to transport listeners and dancers to a space outside their normal realm of perception.
		Painted the fl sheep in the NW electronic scene (although being known internationally as an authority on the two genre's.) he joined up with the NW's leading World music event Co. 'Planet Beat', and sounds of the east (one of the nations biggest bhangra and bollywood production companies).
		He has been featured with underground artists such as Brian, Brad, and Trevor of L.A. Moontribe, Manoj of Uplift in Portland, OR, trance goddess Phoenix Olivia in Vancouver B.C., and Lorin (bassnectar) from Santa Cruz/SF, CA.
	www.infiniteconnections.org /shringara090206 (1082 words)

	Asian-Underground-Best-of-the-Selector-Music-British-Council-USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I was asking a very silly racist question that everybody was asking before: “you're from London but where are you actually from?” and I was asking that very innocently because for me you're either Indian, or Pakistani.
		You know, you have a world where say 57% of the world is Asian or 52% is female or what ever and you kind of don't feel that these things are represented.
		Here are a few suggestions for anyone interested in Asian Underground music from the UK.
	www.britishcouncil.org /usa-arts-music-selector-best-of-the-selector-asian-underground.htm (2351 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Laboratory > Asian Bird Flu.
		While I agree that the Bird Flu bears watching, I'm under the impression that, short of a preventative quarantine of the Asian subcontinent, there's little we can do until the jump from avian to human is made.
		What has yet to occur is the transmission of the virus from human to human, and this is the big concern as flu viruses mutate extremely quickly.
		A quarantine of the Asian continent wouldn't really be practical, what would be needed is some type of international effort in place to respond in the event AFV becomes an effective human pathogen.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/21968 (838 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There will be up-and-coming and independent Asian Pacific American performers as well as a glimpse of music videos by or featuring Asian and APA artists, and screenings of films with a music/pop culture twist.
		These South Asian hip hop underground dwellers promise to give “Martha Stewart a recipe for samosa” in their powerfully atmospheric video, which layers images of Indian street life with the movements of dancers and the faces of the trio.
		Directions in Sound: Notes from the Asian Underground kicks off with Karmacy, From Bubblegum to Sky, Freenom Circle and others at 8:30 p.m., March 9 at the Justice League, 628 Divisadero St., San Francisco.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_03_08/feature_celuloid.html (905 words)

	Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Asian Underground - PopMatters Music Review
		In the case of The Rough Guide to the Asian Underground, that expert is DJ Ritu, a veteran of London's Asian underground scene, which is where this style of music first began to take on the trappings of a bona fide movement about a decade ago.
		Still, this grab bag of styles is part of the fun on any Asian underground compilation, and Ritu's mix is no exception.
		The other big names of Asian underground are all represented here, as well -- with the one obvious exception of Nitin Sawhney, who's presumably left out either because he's always tended to distance himself from this scene or because he's signed to a major label and just too expensive to license.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/various/various-roughguideasianunderground.shtml (733 words)

	AsianWeek.com: A&E: Hot 'n' Sour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Future Asian Beat is here — that’s the title of the recent full-length compilation on Times Square Records assembled by the DJs of Swaraj (“self-rule” in Sanskrit), a bubbling London club night that’s been breaking beats and twisting tabla lines around frenetic polyrhythms since 1997.
		From the sound of Swaraj’s first CD, the evening should be rich and varied, ranging from techno, breakbeats and house to drum ’n’ bass, garage and jungle, tinged with dub and bhangra and touched by freefloating sitars, sarangis and tablas.
		And then there are standouts that don’t seem to fall into the convenient Asian Underground classification.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_01_11/arts_hotnsour.html (802 words)

	Amazon.ca: V1 Asian Travels (India): Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The emphasis is heavy on the U.K.-based Asian Underground scene, which is oriented towards electronic dance music, and many of the familiar names are here, often remixing one another--Fun-Da-Mental, Transglobal Underground, Kingsuk Biswas (a.k.a.
		Asian Travels is one of the best of the Travel Series.
		Kingsuk Biswas is from the Asian Underground movement in the London club scene and has worked with Talvin Singh.
	www.amazon.ca /Asian-Travels-India-Various-Artists/dp/B00004RDS7 (1831 words)

	Amazon.com: Talvin Singh Presents Anokha Soundz of the Asian Underground: Music: Talvin Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This CD is an outlet for the loose coalition of remixers, DJs, and studioheads known as the Asian Underground (because of their Asian or Anglo-Asian backgrounds).
		He also remixed songs by artists like Madonna, Blondie etc. And now he is considered the center figure of Asian Underground.
		This CD is the result of an experiment that began with Talvins budding career as an underground DJ catering to the diverse Asian community (unlike the US, the term 'Asian' in UK conveys an East Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan stereotype).
	www.amazon.com /Talvin-Presents-Anokha-Soundz-Underground/dp/B000001EAS (1214 words)

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