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Adrian Sherwood has been around for a long time.The one that usually does the rounds at least once a year, and has done so for as long as you can remember.Sound have released over 100 albums and singles, and the list is endless as to whose careers have been launched, and is even longer if you add on the amount of people influenced by the label.Adrian Sherwood has been at it for over 15 years.He's like the great grandfather of the organisation, wise, sincere, and he actually cares about his family.From the cool Dub Syndicate and the wild tribal sounds of African Headcharge, to Prince Far I, Lee Perry, Keith Le Blanc, Bim Sherman and Gary Clail.He's also remixed and produced bands such as Depeche Mode, Simply Red, Cabaret Voltaire, The Woodentops and lots lots more...Adrian, "and make them up, because a lot of them are studio bands before they become real bands, I produce the records, record the records and mix the records, and then I try and make sure our records are presented in a way that is suitable to me, that feels right with my own sensibilties."But maybe that's why he's still there after all this time.I'd rather try and create a niche amongst like minded people, and create our own little market place be that 5, 50 or 500,000 sales" Adrian muses "and also be true to our principles of making things, and to your own spirit that you put into the work.Sometime's it's hard to believe that someone who's worked as hard as Adrian Sherwood, isn't interested in making any money, but when Adrian proudly recalls the reasons that he makes music and then says he's happy to have just enough to stay at home most evenings with friends and a couple of bottles of wine stating "I'm rich enough already, not in money but I've got all these people, a good set of friends and I've got a nice house", you know he's past that bullshit stage in his life when he acknowledges that "what I've got is what I've always wanted, I'm just learning to appreciate it a bit".When you watch Adrian Sherwood in action, getting ready to do a gig, setting up the sound system.In the process he can't help but build into his life plan a network where he'll help young musicians particularly on the black music scene in London.Prod Deutschland Strikeback 1989
Pankow Gisela Album Tracks Mix It,Contempo Records 1989
Pankow Art+Madness Single Mix I.Island 1990
The Stone Rosese Waterfall Single Tracks Remix Silvertone Records 1991
S.East West Records 1992
Deep Joy Something Inside Single Track Mix Kinetix Records 1992
Snakeman Show Snakeman Show in the 90's (The Remix) E.Players, Dub Syndicate and a host of other artists.Biography
Adrian Sherwood (born 1958) is a British record producer best known for his work with dub music as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode and Sinead O'Conner.He is also the fourth member of industrial funk outfit, Tackhead, credited as "mixologist".Sound Records is an English record label best known for releasing its own unique flavour of dub music since the 1980s.Punk, New Wave, or Funk, producing a sound which is not considered pure reggae though traditional reggae performers such as Prince Far I, Bim Sherman, the Roots Radics and even Lee Perry himself are also associated with the label.Sound label in 1980 as an outlet for scruffy punks and righteous rastas infatuated with reggae and its experimental spectrum of dub, he just wanted to make good records.Born in London in 1958 (on a cusp between Capricorn and Aquarius), Sherwood showed a precocious talent for music.Emperor Rosko, Judge Dread, Johnny Walker and Steve Barnard.Carib Gems record label, showing commendable foresight by issuing the first Black Uhuru sides, not to mention some fine early dub work by Prince Far I.Far I was to become a regular colleague of Adrian's until his tragic death in 1983.As a producer, Sherwood cut his teeth on the fine "Dub From Creation" set from Creation Rebel issued on Hitrun Records, Adrian's next label formed in 1978.Pablo) and Prince Far I's "Higher Field Marshall."Other artists who have enlisted Sherwood's production talents include: Depeche Mode, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails and Ministry.Panic gigs, Prince Far I and Bim Sherman have been revolutionary since the late seventies using (at the time unheard of) ambience and delay.Robbie make guest appearances here, as do Sherwood's
daughters who contribute backing vocals to two tracks.After close to
20 years of producing music for others, it's nice to see Adrian step
into the spotlight with his own record.Personally, I've always considered it a sad professional failing for the authors of album sleevenotes to inject any hint of subjectivity into their work.........When "On the Wire" launched on BBC Radio Lancashire on Sunday 16 September 1984 its first guests were Adrian Sherwood and Keith LeBlanc, its adopted theme tune, and therefore the first tune to be heard on the show, was a remix of the yet to be unleashed "Ravi Shankar Pt.However "Tunes", as we shall refer to the album from here on in, was not so much a follow up but more of an initiation of a whole new genre, for what we now know today as "new roots" can track its modern development back to this album as its source.From the late seventies Sherwood had ploughed a lonely furrow, with only the likes of the underground Shaka, Dennis Bovell and Neal Fraser a.Dub Syndicate was, and still is, a conglomerate formed around the drums of Jamaican Style Scott and producer Adrian Sherwood.This cut no ice with the critical mass of the London based press corps who at the time had no time for reggae, let alone UK productions.What was different about "Tunes" though was the discovery of some new technology, its use and abuse.Steinski as a result of razored edits, instead you just invoke Emperor Rosko (the album's Fats Comet) via machine triggers to appear in "The show is coming".PIL playmates Wobble and Levene in addition to members of African Head Charge and Creation Rebel, the sweet crooning of Bim Sherman and the apparently game for anything Steve Beresford.Little Roy, Junior Delgado, Dub Syndicate, Ghetto Priest.Eerie Robert Johnson blues style echoey cut ups, with one drop
drum rhythms and backward tape loops.Bunny Lee "flying cymbals" style.African chants, cut up and spliced
into a weird refrain in the background, swooping in and out of the mix.It has an overwhelming sense
of the genuine, a work of integrity.Skip returned to the studio to work on some new rhythms with
one of Adrian's engineers, Nick Coplowe."Me and Adrian work well together and get on well, because we both have
a common interest in noise."He didn't need to say any more...Adrian to focus on the interview process, because
he was doing so many things at once.Adrian would juggle ideas back and forth,
striving to flesh out new ideas, adapting and innovating together.Luciano) enquiring about record release and tour
dates and so on.He has earned respect from his many years in the reggae world, and his
work as an innovator.Ghetto Priest arrives and joins the work in the
studio.When I was pretty young, I was heavily into soul music.Wayne Jarrett and the Righteous Flames were strong, strong tracks,
they really were.Especially I loved the Sleepers track.Hitrun label tunes, it's a matter of ownership and copyright that
prevents me.It's a shame because there are a whole lot of unreleased
tunes which just haven't seen reissue because of ownership debates.Run 12's were very good, such as Beware.So if you met up with
Adrian, they'd all be there too.Prince Far I and Bim Sherman if they were in London at the time"."Of course the early African Head Charge music, which is pretty far
out stuff.UK roots outfit they were at that time.John Lydon, Jah Wobble, Ari and Keith Levene.Crucial Tony and Eskimo Fox now.Little Roy music I'm working on, and
Crucial did some stuff on the Little Roy Long Time album.Far I was a great thing for me at that time because it opened up access
and pathways to a whole pool of great Jamaican talent too.John really knew his reggae, he loved his reggae.John Lydon really helped the progress of roots and culture in Britain
at that time.The lyric of that tune was relevant you know?"If you feel like you have no reason for living, don't determine my
life!"That was John's reply to the idiots that had beaten him up.Keith Levene who I was really impressed by, and then through him I linked
up with Jah Wobble, which was great for me at the time.So it was John Lydon who had the idea for
me to work with his band, and I loved their sound and what they were doing.Bim Sherman's earlier Kingston
releases.Earl Chinna's style on the East
of The River Nile album...What about working with Jah Wobble, I asked Adrian?He made some remark he thought was insulting like: 'I don't like your
trousers.This was a real speed freak, and
this is when it got very unhealthy.It was all a set up: Vicious then had a clear
aim, and got me with the bike chain."The one with Nick Kent was
not one of those.Like Sid, resembled a random destruction machine, wound up and placed
in the middle of an event to see what would occur.Wobble really can play now!Wobble was at his wedding and he looked so happy.African Head Charge albums as
well.Adrian's insight in to these strange records.Bonjo I et al had created all those years ago.When you listen to a record like Environmental Studies,
it's clear that a sound like that might be intimidating to some people.Woven into the mix, you can hear car crashes, water flowing, bottles breaking.My Life In A Hole In The
Ground album, the eerie and haunting Far Away Chant.There was a slow and hard track, Plant Up,
with a classic, growling Far I chant about the herb...Far I's anti nuclear chant over the top.It creates a pretty
surreal effect!Wood Green or Peckham, even if the dubs were as heavy and
creative as what was coming out of Jamaica).It's true that some purists on the London scene dissed me for those records
I was producing at the time.Really, they didn't matter to me.When listened to repeatedly there were some extraordinary rhythms at play
here.It is the strangest collection of rhythms
I've ever encountered, yet one of the most rewarding...Special treats in store for steam locomotive enthusiasts and
biologists.Hip Hop and other styles too, so that has
to be taken into account.UK has always had good roots music.Fraser has done over the years.They came to me and said "give us some rhythms!"He answered with a sense
of awe, respect and reverence.What was his opinion about the current roots music coming out of Jamaica?There is a lot of hard, tough music coming out of Jamaica right now.Xterminator studio works, and the album MLK
in Dub was a real groundbreaker.Then of course there's people like
Daweh Congo.Kingston such as Steven Stanley, Soljie, Bulby, Penthouse label,
African Star and Xterminator music...Where did Adrian think was the main market in Europe right now for
roots music?This kind of thing just doesn't happen in UK for roots
artists.I'm glad this vibe is continuing.Finally, I felt I had to ask him about the death of Bim
Sherman.Bim and it is obviously still
a delicate point, since they had worked together for a long time.That says a lot about Bim.He was a lovely human being, just a pleasure to work with,
and I had been a huge fan of his, right from the early records.Bim is not someone you would fuck around
with.He could speak up for himself, stand up for himself.Bim had fallen ill and was in hospital.We got the news that he passed on the 17th while we were in Dijon.Skip McDonald and Bim had a very close friendship.Specially dedicated to the angelic muse of a true and individual artist,
the peaceful spirit, Bim Sherman.Thanks to Adrian, Kiki, Inner Wisdom, The Bass Sanctuary Sekt, and
especially, Choi Mi Kyoung.Charts
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Y!Rating affects your music played in LAUNCHcast and Music Videos.Sound label pioneered a distinctive fusion of dub, rock and dance which made waves not only in roots circles but...Far I was to become a regular colleague of Adrian's until his tragic death in 1983.Sound records such as the stupendous "Crytuff Dub Encounter Chapter III" on Daddy Kool, "Revenge of the Mozabites" by Suns of Arqa on Rock Steady in Manchester and "One Way System" by Dub Syndicate.Adrian Sherwood has been a key character in the music scene of the past 30 years.Early contact with reggae world was through work for the Pama and Trojan roadshows, and school vacations were spent working for the legendary Pama and Vulcan labels.Black Uhuru sides, not to mention some fine early dub work by Prince Far I.Sound Records, in partnership with photographer Kishi Yamamoto.Maffia, Judy Nylon, London Underground, African Head Charge, Dub Syndicate and in conjunction with Tommy Boy Records of New York City, Akabu.Sherwood was among the most visible producers and remixers in all of contemporary music, working on tracks for artists as varied as Depeche Mode, Einsturzende Neubauten, Simply Red, The Woodentops and Ministry.Sound continued to reflect its leader's eclectic tastes the label remained a top reggae outlet.During the 90's the label slowed down its activity, even though keeping its cult status with a thick program of reprints on cd of its catalogue.Adrian's natural attitude to stir up the sounds from different cultures with sensitiveness and taste, has attracted the attention of Peter Gabriel's Real World Records, who commissioned him his first real solo album.His debut album coincides with a new activity of Adrian's 'dub live show', which has seen him in action in the main international clubs and stages: a show which consists of a real time remixing of a selection of music tracks, with the aid of a 24 channels mixer and with the support of the Jamaican singer Ghetto Priest plus eventual guests.The compilation Chainstore Massacre has been the first sampler of the label new style, followed by the Ghetto Priest's debut album Vulture Culture.
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