Tracklist:
01:Kama Sutra
02:Sound Desert
03:She Brings The Rain
04:Spoon
05:Shikaku Maru Ten
06:Turtles Have Short Legs
07:Halleluwah
08:I'm So Green
09:Mushroom
10:Vitamin C
11:Moonshake
12:Future Days
13:Dizzy Dizzy
14:Splash
15:The Thief (long version from Electric Rock Sampler)
16:Chain Reaction (edit only on vinyl Cannibalism)
17:Hunters and Collctors
18:Vernal Equinox
19:Silent Night
20:Cascade Waltz
21:I Want More
22:...And More
23:Return
A curated selection of classics, rarities and unreleased tracks from the On-U Sound vaults by DJ & Audio Visual artist Trevor Jackson (aka Playgroup / Underdog), renowned for his Metal Dance compilations of industrial-dance on Strut Records, having worked with the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Four Tet via his Output Recordings Label, and a recently released acclaimed multi edition album of his own music (FORMAT) via the vinyl factory.
This is the electro-fried avant-garde side of On-U Sound. Whilst still containing the dub DNA that define Adrian Sherwood’s productions, these tracks document a period when this sonic vision was realised through saturated sheets of electronics, reverberating drum machines and extreme chopped-up tape edits.
Fully annotated with sleevenotes that tell the story behind each track. Features 3 completely unreleased tracks (inc. a crucial early cut by Neneh Cherry) and 6 tracks that have never been reissued on CD or digital (inc. the amazing debut recording by a pre-Massive Attack Shara Nelson)
Adrian Sherwood really was ahead of his time back then. Ten years to be exact. Albums released in 1981, for example, bore the imprint 'another 1991 on-u sound production'
A little over two hours worth of a small selection of 12" vinyl releases A & B sides from Adrian Sherwood's Hit Run record label.
Adrian licensed the tracks on these vinyl releases for the U.K reggae market from various Jamaican record labels, Scorpio, Cry Tuff etc in 1979
Hit Run records was a relatively short lived project that eventually wound down for the birth of Adrian's On U Sound record label.
For the new On U Sound project Adrian himself oversaw and engineered all recording the sessions in London Studios like Berry Street and Southern Studios. Adrian used some of the same musicians and artists that he had dealt with bringing reggae music to Hit Run records, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I, Roots Radics and Creation Rebel etc.
Track listing:
Errol Holt - Sweet Reggae Music
Prince Far I - Hairdressing Salon
Prince Hammer - Ten Thousand Lions
Prince Hammer - North London Thing
Bim Sherman / Jah Lion - Down In Jamdown
Teem All Stars - Version
Bobby Melody / Jah Lion - Hunger And Strife
Jah Lion - Jonnie Walker
Peter Broggs / Prince Far I - Higher Field Marshall
Prince Far I / Brigadier Jam Brown - Loved By Everyone
Carol Kalphat / Clint Eastwood - African Land
Doctor Pablo / Cry Tuff All Stars - African Melody
Bim Sherman / Jah Buzz - Love Jah Only
Cry Tuff All Stars - Dub From The Ghetto
The ultimate injustice one can commit to Aylan Kurdi and his family is to omit the parts of his story which explain why he ended up dead on the beach. The details matter. 1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000) 2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Alyan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant aerial bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown. 3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos. 4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms. 5) Kurdi had applied in June for refuge to Canada, but was rejected. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for."
1 - Got To Move Part 2 - Melting Pot
2 - Gary Clail - Beef (Future mix )
3 - Strange Parcels - Disconnection
4 - Beatmaster - LipService (instrumental)
5 - Fats Comet - O.K. BYE !
6 - Tackhead - The King Of The Beat
7 - Keith Le Blanc - You Drummers Listen Good
8 -Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat
9 - Gary Clail & On U Sound System - Peace Perfect Peace
10 - Tackhead - Stealing
11 - Mark Stewart - Hysteria (dub)
12 - Keith Le Blanc - Taxider
13 - New Age Steppers - Private Armies
14 - Barmy Army - Privatise The Air
15 - Singers & Players - Bedward The Flying Preacher
16 - African Head Charge - BeriBeri
17 - African Head Charge - Some Bizarre
18 - Primal Scream - The Big Man & The Scream Team Meet The Barmy Army Uptown
'Punishment Park' is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers seem to flare as some of the 'acting' got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully + Peter Watkins discusses his radical pseudo documentary Punishment Park in 2004