Berichten met de tag ‘on-u sound’
New African Head Charge album coming up
Three tracks from the forthcoming African Head Charge album “Voodoo Of The Godsent”. The release is announced for end of march and it will be the first release to mark legendary dub label On-U Sound’s 30th anniversary.
Some Little Axe
In this video, Skip McDonald explains the story behind the new Little Axe album, Bought For A Dollar, Sold For A Dime. The album will be out on June 6 on Real World Records.
Little Axe is the blues outfit of this guitarist Skip McDonald. He played in the house band for pioneering rap label Sugar Hill, providing the music for some of the most seminal records of the era by Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata M.D.’s and others. From there he worked closely with Adrian Sherwood on many projects for the On-U Sound label, as well as spearheading the band Tackhead and working with Living Colour. Little Axe was a return to the blues he knew from his childhood, but with Little Axe taking the blues right into the 21th century.
… and this is how they sounded almost 15 years ago. Ride on.
Adrian Sherwood: Boogaloo
Just felt like throwing in some Adrian Sherwood. Always makes my day. Hope yours as well.
Indigenous Resistance Dubcast
We discovered this one through Exile On Moan Street (a blog very much worth checking out). It’s a podcast called “IR 18.3 Atenco”. The “IR” being short for Indigenous Resistance, and Atenco being a classic indigenous land rights struggle in Mexico, you can already feel this one coming.
This issue 18.3 of the podcast combines the land struggles with autonomous resistance (“the land is not for sale”), the Zapatistas with Asian Dub Foundation and mixes it with loads of great music. What you get is a speech fragments, ideas flying back and forward in the digital domain and lots of dub and dubversive music.
A serious message and some wonderfull music. Nice one!
Download it from Dubreality’s Podcast where you can also find all the info you need (plus a playlist). And don’t forget: be reasonable, demand the impossible!
On-U Sound announcements
Quoting Adrian Sherwood from the official AMS & On-U Sound myspace page. Some things to wet your appetite:
Released in January (at long last) is AFRICAN HEADCHARGE … “ViSION OF A PSYCHEDELIC AFRICA” onucd distributed via Cargo uk, available now>>> Also available Jan,2010 is IAN KING -”PANIC GRASS AND FEVER FEW”. this is an ONU Production released on the Fledg’ling record label. This is a unique English folk album and we are very proud of it>>> Due for imminent release is … “DUBSETTER” by LEE”Scratch”PERRY and ADRIAN SHERWOOD.This is a new Dub album from The Upsetter and myself and it will be on vinyl and cd (late March)… “THE MIGHTY UPSETTER” will also be made available on vinyl at the same time>>> Just completed and mastered is an album by singer/songwriter/artist JEB LOY NICHOLS -”LONG TIME TRAVELLER” this is truly wonderful and features live rhythms recorded during last summer and classic re modelled ONU/Radics/Dub Syndicate rhythms>>> DUE ( long overdue, soon come) is “THE ROYAL VARIETY SHOW” (the best of..) DUB SYNDICATE a double cd of pure gems>>> Currently in production and scheduled for release hopefully before the summer is, “DUB … NO FRONTIERS” this is a true epic . It is a fresh and original 16 track double vinyl/cd release of all women vocalists from around the world , all singing in non English it is a labor of love and is becoming one of my proudest productions it features vocals in Chinese,German,Arabic,Eritrean,Italian,Polish,Samoan,French, Japanese,Russian and more in progress.>>> “Suck on this planet of noise” Currently in production and well underway is “LET THE ROBOTS MELT” – ONUSOUNDSYSTEM featuring Primal Scream w.Lee Perry,Dennis Bovel,Pempy,John McClure,Carl Barat,Mark Stewart,Deeder Zaman,New Age Steppers and more,a truly wonderful sheet of noise “Listen up real close now”>>> Also currently in production for a 2010 release is a new NEW AGE STEPPERS album (the first for 25 years !) Recordings were done in Jamaica last year and hopefully it will be finished soon>>> also well underway is, “CRISPY HORNS MEET ROOTS RADICS AND DUB SYNDICATE” a classic new dub/horns album>>> Also work is well underway on GHETTO PRIEST – “SACRED GROUND” this is the Onu follow up to “Vulture Culture” the debut Priest album from a few seasons back.GP returns on ONU with a slamming new set ! >>> And also DEEDER ZAMAN brand new album from the original Asian Dub Foundation front man. and also SKIP “Little Axe”McDONALD a brand new authentic collision of Blues meets Dub live rhythms with Style Scott and the crew with Skip on Dobro in true Blues National style this is well underway and sounding “proper” >>> Also in our studio (and their own) LSK is working on new tracks BROTHER CULTURE has voiced new tracks and also my daughter DENISE SHERWOOD is producing herself {and sometimes with dad and other “family”} check her on her myspace >>> DECEMBER 2010 MARKS 30 YEARS SINCE THE RELEASE OF the 7′ single “FADE AWAY” by NEW AGE STEPPERS cw “Learn a Language” by LONDON UNDERGROUND – However early 1981 saw ONU SOUND’s first album releases, so we are planning to put on events all round the world throughout 2011 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the label. we will also issue a box set with music dvds , a book and many other goodies so hopefully after such a long wait,for those intersted there will be lots of things to buy (or copy) and lots of live shows to catch. Also a new Adrian Sherwood album will be released 2011 >>> Thanks for all the positive messages and its good to make contact with so many old and new friends
Best wishes
Adrian
Adrian Sherwood: AHeadfullofNoise
Taken from the 38 Minutes site:
A few years back Adrian Sherwood and Doug Aubrey‘s worlds met and mixed somewhere in North London. A shared interest in noise, silence and a mutual hearing loss, caused by Bombs, Drum and Bass, led the Godfather of dub and Aubrey starting to talk about trying to make a film together. Aided by a few fellow conspirators from On-U-sounds world: Ghetto Priest, Doug Wimbish, Mark Stewart and a passing cat, they produced a short never seen video … until now.
The dubmaster and the filmmaker again met recently in Edinburgh and at Graham Fagan’s fantastic ‘I murder Hate‘ event in Stirling and there’s now rumour of a major film collaboration for the 30th anniversary of the seminal On-U Sound in 2011, which will form part of a dvd box set, a work for cinema and who knows even television?Enjoy!
For the true dubheads, there’s a great soundboard recording of the Sherwood show over at Demonoid. Wonderfull stuff, so be fast.
Independence Dub Day 2009
Dub Flash has some great videos online, taken on the Independence Dub Day 2009 festival in Wroclaw, Poland, 7th March 2009. Featuring Adrian Sherwood deejaying with Little Roy on the mic, Dubblestandart, Brain Damage, Aba Shanti and the All Sunrises Soundsystem from Poland. The videos are slow loaders, but they show some great footage so they’re surely worth the waiting. Nice work.
Perry meets Lennon mashup
A great mashup of Max Romeo’s “Chase The Devil” (produced by Lee Perry) & The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life”, recently uploaded on Adrian Sherwood’s myspace page with some pictures to match. Somebody played around with some software, added some pictures and put the result on Youtube. Wondering how long it’s going to stay up, so listen fast.
More dubs and some other great tunes on Adrian Sherwood’s myspace page. He has recently released Lee Perry’s “The Mighty Upsetter” on the On-U Sound Label. One of the best Perry albums in years and with a dub companion on the way.
