hell.o
i may not have yet reviewed them, but the forthcoming on-u sound related albums are all fantastic.
so to prepare you for all this bass juddering excellence, here’s an new interview thats gone online by those folks @ fact magazine.
more detail : interview
also, just a word of advise, you seriously need to get extra dub disc of adrians second album for realworld records, becoming a cliche, it’s a limited edition extra – but for those of you who like their on-u all messy and deep, the dub version is far better than the album proper.
according to amazon, the discs are all out next week.
you should be looking for :
becoming a cliche/dub cliche – adrian sherwood
tackhead soundcrash – tackhead (slash and mix by adrian sherwood)
on-u soundcrash – various artists (slash and mix by adrian sherwood)
the slash and mix cds are like cut-n-paste mixtapes blending hits and misses from the relative on-u soundsystem related back catalogues.
obviously, the tackhead disc focuses on the harder edged industrial funk side of things with exclusive edits from tackhead, fats comet, and even solo material by the bands drummer, keith leblanc, whereas, the on-u soundcrash takes a dip into the dubby world with all manner of old classics and new twists by prince far i, lee scratch perry, gary clail, mark stewart, and the awesome african headcharge.
if you dont have any on-u soundsystem in your life then both of these discs are essential starter points, and even if you do have, then adrian provides a great mashup mix for when you can’t quite decide which record to dig out of the archive that makes you go, ‘oh, i know this one’, or ‘oh, i really need to get more like this’.
which is surely the whole point if the originals are once again made available to any newcomers (cos they aint having my copies)
however, for us who have followed the producers output for too many a year, there was one main issue that came through loud and clear.
i really miss andy fairleys vocals. his gruff spoken cutup newsreader styled voiceovers were a mainstay feature within the sonics for years, and hearing his voice within new surroundings was somewhat weird and unsettling, but still very special.
oh, and here’s the proper official on-u sound website : here
stay tuned.