''Pride of the Underdog'' is the second studio album by English rapper

Deeder Zaman Saidullah "Deeder" Zaman (; Hindi: सईदउल्लाह दीदार जमान; born 25 July 1978), is a Bangladeshi-British rapper and former lead vocalist for British band Asian Dub Foundation. Early life Zaman got involved ...

, released on 31 October 2011 by Modulor.

Critical response

Mat Ward of ''

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'' described ''Pride of the Underdog'' as "...warm, wide bass and shuffling sounds from speaker to speaker like shifting sands. Its reversed snares seem to slip through your cranium as they surreally slide from ear to ear."

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians *Deeder Zaman –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usu ...

*Devon White – guitar *Skip McDonald – guitar *Alok Verma – percussion,

tabla A ''tabla'' is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, it has been the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, where it may be played solo, as an accompaniment with other instruments a ...

;Vocals *Deeder Zaman *Devon White *Ghetto Priest *Elaine Cheng ;Technical *Vinod Gadher – executive producer *

Adrian Sherwood Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms ...

– mix engineer

References

External links

* * * 2011 albums Deeder Zaman albums {{reggae-album-stub