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La Haine (feat. Asian Dub Foundation)
Jan. 21st, 2004 11:06 amLa Haine is a 1994 French film about the brutality of life in France’s immigrant ghettoes.
Asian Dub Foundation are a British band that mixes dub, drum n’ bass and ragga with political activism.
ADF love the film, wrote a new soundtrack for it, and last night at the Myer Music Bowl, we got to see them perform it live.
I haven’t seen La Haine before, so I can’t comment on how much the new soundtrack changes the film. But the two seem to match perfectly. The film is gritty black and white new wave realism. It follows the day in the life of three ghetto youths - a black boxer, an Arab wannabe hustler and an angry Jew - after a riot against police brutality lands one of their friends in hospital.
ADF’s soundtrack was brilliant. Much better than their last album. The blend of thudding hip-hop beats and Middle Eastern riffs played up the rage, alienation and feeling of being trapped. If I had a criticism, it was that ADF only had two levels: silent and pounding. The music occasionally overwhelmed the film. Not just the dialoge (although that happened too), but the emotion. Maybe it was just an inevitable side-effect of a live performance: you play live, you have to play loud.
There’s talk that a 10th anniversary DVD of La Haine will be released next year, with both the original soundtrack, and the new. I’m looking forward to that, to hearing the ADF music mixed properly with the film.
Of course, what I’d really love is for the soundtrack to be released on CD.
And for ADF to play an actual concert. I know their playing at Good Vibrations, but I don’t want to go to some crappy R&B festival just to hear one good band.
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andricongirl had to wait in line for an hour to get a beer.)
Asian Dub Foundation are a British band that mixes dub, drum n’ bass and ragga with political activism.
ADF love the film, wrote a new soundtrack for it, and last night at the Myer Music Bowl, we got to see them perform it live.
I haven’t seen La Haine before, so I can’t comment on how much the new soundtrack changes the film. But the two seem to match perfectly. The film is gritty black and white new wave realism. It follows the day in the life of three ghetto youths - a black boxer, an Arab wannabe hustler and an angry Jew - after a riot against police brutality lands one of their friends in hospital.
ADF’s soundtrack was brilliant. Much better than their last album. The blend of thudding hip-hop beats and Middle Eastern riffs played up the rage, alienation and feeling of being trapped. If I had a criticism, it was that ADF only had two levels: silent and pounding. The music occasionally overwhelmed the film. Not just the dialoge (although that happened too), but the emotion. Maybe it was just an inevitable side-effect of a live performance: you play live, you have to play loud.
There’s talk that a 10th anniversary DVD of La Haine will be released next year, with both the original soundtrack, and the new. I’m looking forward to that, to hearing the ADF music mixed properly with the film.
Of course, what I’d really love is for the soundtrack to be released on CD.
And for ADF to play an actual concert. I know their playing at Good Vibrations, but I don’t want to go to some crappy R&B festival just to hear one good band.
(Oh, and
andricongirl had to wait in line for an hour to get a beer.)
