Asian Dub Foundation

You know if it’s like they skip through an ADF LP and go "they are the band that Primal Scream like, lets support them." What the Primal Scream did should be a starting point for people and they should go out and make their own mind up but we didn’t even need the Primals to start it off."
"A lot of this comes from an interview," begins Pandit G. "What interests me in what the press are saying is that they are more interested in saying Primal Scream love us rather than what Bobby Gillespie said. Which was, there is racism in this industry. That if we were such and such and fitted the bill of what they wanted to be then we would have got signed up and everything else a lot earlier. He was making a direct criticism of the British music industry. He’s quite high in the hierarchy to say that. That is the significant thing, not that they like us or whatever else. It’s relevant to the point. But people don’t want to deal with it, they don’t want to touch the issue of racism in the music industry. So they pick on those little bits and they count the nice, simple, easy things but they don’t look up what Bobby Gillespie is actually saying."
Chandrasonic continues "They've got a problem now because if they've got to interview us and interview Cornershop as well, we're saying similar things, people will find it difficult. They'll find it difficult with a band like Cornershop, who write good songs and have an individual sound but they are fronted by a paki, that is essentially what is happening. It's harder for them, but they've done it, you know? They've done it, big up to them, 'Brimful of Asha' fucking great song. Eventually you can't stop something especially if it gets really strong and the music itself is so powerful and the passion behind it is obvious. You can keep it down, we always say "twice as hard for half as much."
This week you've had a track released on a session tape with the Melody Maker, next week you have a track on a CD with the NME how do you feel about this?
Pandit G comments first "It's good to get on the CD and get the exposure to people who buy the NME. They'll hear that tune and go "ooh what's this? >>
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