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Post by Ras Berry on Dec 11, 2010 12:07:22 GMT
To mark the label’s 30th anniversary in 2011, we will be reissuing a number of classic On-U Sound albums, a selection of new releases, renewed live activity and the release of an extensive box-set. The year of celebration begins in early March with the release of a new African Head Charge album and 3 classic reissues – New Age Steppers debut, Creation Rebel’s highly influential Starship Africa and African Head Charge’s hard-to-find Off The Beaten Track. The plan will then be to release further new albums and classic reissues throughout 2011. The new releases planned include a collection of contemporary remixes of Lee Perry’s On-U Sound output, the long-awaited On-U produced Little Axe album and a New Age Steppers long-player – their first since Foundation Steppers in 1983 – featuring vocal contributions from the late Ari Up and Mark Stewart amongst others. Details of further new releases will be announced shortly. Amongst the classic reissues are albums from some of the label’s most acclaimed artists including Lee Perry, Dub Syndicate, Bim Sherman, Tackhead, Little Annie and Singers & Players. There are also plans for a deluxe box-set which will include extensive sleeve-notes from Adrian Sherwood, rare and un-released tracks from the archive, a collection of classic tracks and a selection of some of Adrian’s finest remixes.
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Post by Ras Berry on Dec 19, 2010 18:01:18 GMT
(taken from www.tackhead.com/news/article/274/ ) "2011 will mark 30 years of On-U Sound, Adrian Sherwood's record label that made (British) dub what it is today. To commemorate this milestone On-U will put out several releases. Adrian Sherwood promises twelve re-issues in 2011, three every three months, he says in an interview. Titles have yet to be announced.
Apart from the re-issues, four new albums will see the light of day: African Head Charge's 'Voodoo of the Godsend' (expected in March) and a new Little Axe album with the On-U Sound signature (working title: 'The Misadventures of Blind Willy Drug Pig').
Sherwood will also put out an album, called 'Dub - No Frontiers', with female vocalists singing tracks in all kinds of languages. It's a project AMS has been working on for years.
Among the singers will be the late Ari Up, singing a song in German. Other songs will be in Arabic, Chinese, Eritrean, Spanish, Italian and French, to name but a few languages.
There will also be a new, contemporary Lee 'Scratch Perry' album, with the cooperation of the likes of Kode 9, Horsepower, Congo Natty and Digital Mystikz, Sherwood says."There's some interview clips with Adrian interspersed with Lee Perry live footage here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWf3LkTuqTs
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