5013929941007

Dread Operator From The On U Sound Archives - Produced By Adrian Sherwood

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: MILKCRATE10

Release Date:  02 July 2021

Label:  Hot Milk / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929941007

Genres:  Reggae  

  • Description

    RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2016 .



    • Hot Milk is back with a crucially wicked box set of some of the most forward thinking and experimental reggae of the early 80’s. 



    • Inside you’ll find four studio albums from Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label, including the fourth instalment of the Singers & Players series, two Creation Rebel albums and the other planetary compilation of industrial reggae experiments, Wild Paarty Sounds Vol.1.



    • Released in 1984 “Leaps & Bounds” by the collective known as Singers & Players features vocal contributions from Prince Far I (who was murdered the previous year), Congo Ashanti Roy (famed for his work with The Congos), Mikey Dread and Bim Sherman with the addition on the players side of the likes of the Roots Radics as well as Deadly Headley on sax making this album a who’s who of early 80’s reggae and a fine follow up to the previous Singers & Players records.



    • 1981’s “Threat To Creation” is a Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers double billing. Probably the most daring dub album to emerge from the UK, this is the nexus where reggae and post punk collide. There’s too much cloud and soot for this to be a 100% Jamaican affair, its dark and brooding pulsations mixes Caribbean beats with vibrations from the dark satanic mills.



    • Coming out of 1982, Creation Rebel’s “Lows & Highs” featuring vocals from Crucial Tony and Lizard Logan is the most straight ahead reggae album in the box. One for those less experimentally minded, Style Scott lays down the beats next to Eskimo Fox and Donald Campbell and Deadly Headley blows away on his horns yet again. Includes the bonus track ‘Read And Learn’, the B-side from the ‘Love I Can Feel’ 7” single.



    • Wild Paarty Sounds is where it all starts to get really weird. There must have been something in the water in 1981, this is Charles and Diana’s child the establishment didn’t want you to know about. Reggae greats like Jah Woosh and On U Sound staple Prince Far I mix with the likes of arty outsiders Jeb Loy and Al Pillay. There are even measures of reggae vs industrial post punk noise colliding in a proper clash style. This is the sound of the currents meeting down at Cape Horn. An album for those who like reggae influenced by PiL’s Metal Box.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Moses
      • 2. Make A Joyful Noise
      • 3. Alla La - Dreadlocks Soldier
      • 4. Autobiography (Dread Operator)
      • 5. Breaking Down The Pressure
      • 6. Dog Park
      • 7. Vegetable Matter
      • 8. Striving

      Disc 2

      • 1. Chemical Specialist
      • 2. Threat To Creation
      • 3. Eugenic Device
      • 4. Last Sane Dream
      • 5. Painstaker
      • 6. Earthwire Line
      • 7. Ethos Design
      • 8. Final Frontier

      Disc 3

      • 1. Independent Man (Part 1)
      • 2. Independent Man (Part 2)
      • 3. Rebel Party
      • 4. A Reasoning
      • 5. No Peace
      • 6. Love I Can Feel
      • 7. Rubber Skirt (Parts 1 / 2 /3 )
      • 8. Creation Rebel
      • 9. Creative Involvements
      • 10. Read And Learn (B-Side To Love I Can Feel 7" Single

      Disc 4

      • 1. WOODPECKER SOUND – Jah Woosh
      • 2. BED BOUND SAGA – Machine Gun Hogg & Co. "
      • 3. QUANTÉ JUBILA – Prince Far I & Creation Rebel
      • 4. QUIT THE BODY – The Chicken Granny
      • 5. PARASITIC MACHINE – Alan Pillay
      • 6. DREAMS ARE BETTER – London Underground
      • 7. ASIAN REBEL – Suns Of Arqa
      • 8. DEMONIC FORCES – Alan Pillay
      • 9. AFGHANI DUB – The Mothmen
      • 10. THINGS THAT MADE U.S. – Jeb Loy & The Oil Wells
      • 11. YIPEE I AAH – New Age Steppers
      • 12. THE DICE – Judy Nylon

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