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Asian Dub Foundation

David Stubbs, Uncut, August 1998

"BRITPOP IS AN ATTEMPT TO REASSERT A sort of mythical whiteness," asserts Aniruddha Das, aka Dr Das, bassist of Asian Dub Foundation, leaning forward in the back of the cramped tour bus in Cologne. "In that respect, I'd say it's implicitly racist. It did to music what Enoch Powell did to politics."

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