Description
Label Review.
1998 album with 11 bonus tracks. Also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
This 21 year anniversary reissue includes bonus tracks selected by Adrian Sherwood. By the time they recorded ‘Rafi’s Revenge’ in 1998, Asian Dub Foundation were primed to explode. Having initially emerged from East London’s grassroots Community Music project as a largely studio based collective, the band had galvanised themselves into a riotously exciting touring machine by the late Nineties. Their extraordinary live shows around this period were electrifying to witness, kinetic and dynamic, incendiary and euphoric, confrontational yet celebratory. For sheer roof-raising energy, they were unrivalled.
‘Rafi’s Revenge’ originally peaked at Number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and was shortlisted for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize, with Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) hailing them at the time as “the bes tlive act in Britain.” NME (1997) reported “Right here, right now ADF are the most important band inBritain.”
Of course ADF have evolved enormously over the last two decades but their breakthrough album remains a fascinating chapter in the real, complex, unwritten history of Britpop. Expanded and enlarged for this anniversary edition, these multi-layered musical treasures still dazzle and delight with their grandiose ambition and riotous energy.
Double CD version features second CD with tracks selected by Adrian Sherwood. 3-panel digisleeve printed on reversed cardboard with 24-page booklet.
White double vinyl format includes a CD featuring the bonus material inserted in the packaging. Gatefold sleeve and innersleeves printed on reversed cardboard. 4-page 30cm insert.
The Band are to play ‘Rafi’s Revenge’ gig at Rich Mix in London on the 28th of March in celebration of the anniversary.ADF will also be part of the major Music & Immigration exhibition in Paris and London.