Adrian Sherwood - C/D, S & D?

i ordered the cd boxset a couple of weeks ago, and did not get an email re the mp3s,
so logged into my account at on-u, and boom.
there they are !
ta for the nudge.

well, this year has been interesting for on-u/AMS fans.

the fair-to-middling coldcut/on-u album (high hopes, but i think both sides of the partnership played it too safely),
the mellow sunday morning vibes of ghetto priest
and a surprise new album from little axe.

all released on other labels as opposed to on-u.
however, we did get the excellent dub syndicate boxset which i have been waiting years for.

what about 2018 then ?
word has reached me that alongside the AHC tour that has been promised, this is what's supposedly on the way :

Dub From Creation 40th anniversary reissue
more AHC reissues
Dub comp
new Lee Perry album
new Horace Andy album
new Creation Rebel album
Dub No Frontiers [the long-awaited and increasingly-outdated!]
Mark Stewart reissue

oh, and 2017 gave us the wonderful second AMS/Pinch collaboration album.

new Creation Rebel album - !!!!

ha, thought you might be interested in that.

he has been promising a excessive psych dub album a la starship africa now for a while.

but as any on-u fan knows, what's rumoured to be released is often very different to what actually is made available.

missing brazilians is amazing. "savanna prance" is seriously one of the most psychedelic things i've ever heard. i like it when sherwood restrains himself, but when he goes all out, he's pretty damn special.

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A month or so ago (right before the world shut down) I bought the second African Head Charge box set and the Dub Syndicate box set. Now I just wish they'd do one for Creation Rebel.

Creation Rebel, and Singers & Players are top of my wish list re boxsets.
was supposed to be at the On-U 40th (!!!) Anniversary AHC gig last night.
been rearranged for March 2021.

Creation Rebel top of mine along with a Hitrun singles comp.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/bonjo-iyabinghi-noah-by-dave-segal

Interview w/ African Head Charge member

Really, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah IS African Head Charge. Cheers for the link.

ta for the pointer re the interview.
not got the latest AHC boxset as i have all the albums on cd from when they were originally released.
however, i suspect that during the current situation, i will succumb to the lure of the extra tracks, and cd of unreleased bits-n-bobs.

Man, Drastic Season is going down really well right now. I love this era of Sherwood. Almost makes me want to get the first box.

I can’t stop listening to this stuff now that it’s all on Spotify – the Lee Perry/Dub Syndicate/AHC playlists there are all pretty well-curated overviews and a good launching point for dipping into individual albums. Even tho a lot of it is blending into a psychedelic haze, some observations from my quarantine OST:

AHC – Drastic Season, as noted, this hits the spot in a ton of ways. Notably this is Xgau’s favorite.

Gary Clail – End of the Century Party, I’m kind of surprised I’m enjoying this as much as I am but this is a poppish side of the On-U sound yet plenty experimental

Lee Perry/Dub Syndicate – Time Boom X De Devil Dead, maybe a little disappointing? It almost feels like a James Brown record with all the boasting in the first several tracks but any version of Music & Science Madness is worth your time. Allergic to Lie is a great little tune as well. Oddly not on Spotify for some reason.

Barmy Army – The English Disease, kind of a mellower Tackhead with football cheers instead of Maggie Thatcher samples? That’s kind of hilarious.

Flux – Uncarved Block, digging into this now. Took me a second to realize this was a different record from AMM’s The Nameless Uncarved Block. Well, this wasn’t remotely what I was expecting. MBV-style backing vox? Hmm. Def. an unprecedented car crash of influences but I’m not totally sure the singalong choruses over stadium funk workouts entirely work for me.

I'd love to be hearing Time Boom X De Devil Dead and Uncarved Block with fresh ears. Both are totemic albums for me, with Uncarved Block in particular being one I return to again and again over the years. Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah is all over this as much as Sherwood.

I revisit Time Boom a little less but Kiss The Champion remains all time.

i find it hard to pick an AHC fave out of the first phase (the first 4 albums).

Gary Clail and Barmy Army I can't see myself revisiting any time soon though. I loved them then but time has not been so kind, Two Thieves And A Liar and Sharp As A Needle possibly excepted.

this feels rather strange, and makes me feel old.
but many years ago adrians daughter appeared on various on-u tracks as a kid (eg gary clail/magic penny) , and now, tomorrow she is releasing her debut album - 'this road'.
i love the opening d-n-b track featuring LSP, but suspect this is a one off and the rest will be laid back mellow grooves.
that said, of course i will purchase it during bandcamp friday

https://denisesherwood.bandcamp.com/album/this-road

if I were to buy one of the new age steppers reissues, which would be The One?

tough, tough, tough...

the debut.

nice, thanks for the spiritual guidance stirmonster

the new AMS remix album for Spoon makes it 4 non-On-U remix albums yeah ?
the other 3 being Primal Scream (Echodek), Screaming Soul, and Mongrel (a Reverend and the Makers side project).
weirdly, the Screaming Soul remix album seems to have been scrubbed off bandcamp.

https://darkfloor.co.uk/recommended-screaming-soul-ghost-inna-dub-emerging-species/

correction, the screaming soul dub album is still up on bandcamp, just takes some digging to find it :

https://emergingspecies.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-inna-dub

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/mark-stewart-the-pop-group-has-died/

fuck.

the artwork for their new shirts/prints is amazing

https://on-u-sound.myshopify.com/collections/all

New Creation Rebel album - their first in 40 years! - in October.

I interviewed Keith LeBlanc, drummer for Tackhead (and the Sugar Hill Records house band, who played on all your favorite early hip-hop hits).

Interesting. Thanks.

Nice

very sick timing—will link out to you on a post ive been working on