In recent years he’s worked extensively with Tectonic co-founder Pinch, both on studio material and live performances. In the years that followed, Sherwood divided his time between On-U-Sound’s in-house projects – collectives such as Tackhead, Dub Syndicate and Playgroup – and high profile jobs for the likes of Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Simply Red and one of his early dub heroes, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. Although he did work with reggae legends such as Prince Far I, it was joining forces with open-minded post-punk era artists such as Mark Stewart, the Fall, Maximum Joy, the Slits, London Underground and Bim Sherman that earned Sherwood a reputation as a producer on the rise. Sherwood had already turned his hand to production, creating his first dub album as Creation Rebel in 1977, but it was On-U-Sound and its associated sub-labels that offered him an opportunity to develop his own sound. He launched and closed a number of labels of his own during the late 1970s, before establishing the production house and imprint that would make him famous: On-U-Sound. Sherwood got his start in the music industry as a teenager, first as a part-time DJ at a social club in his hometown of High Wycombe and then later as a distributor of reggae singles. Since the turn of the 1980s, the British producer has worked with a breathtakingly diverse range of artists, serving up singles and albums that apply dub reggae techniques to everything from post-punk rock, electro, industrial music, synth-pop, jazz and soul. Few producers can claim to have produced quite so much revolutionary, groundbreaking music as Adrian Sherwood.
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