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Coldcut and Adrian Sherwood team up for new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 10 March 2017
Coldcut and Adrian Sherwood of the On-U Sound label have teamed up for a new album, ‘Outside The Echo Chamber’, combining their sounds into “freshly-minted, electronic dub-pop”.
“Their records were a unique and powerful influence on us”, says Coldcut’s Matt Black of the affect On-U Sound’s releases had on him and his own music, and the duo’s label Ninja Tune. “Me and my mates used to collect the records, the design of On-U Sound ten-inch black and white sleeves were so cool. Without On-U there would be no Ninja Tune”.
“The whole Coldcut mash up thing was partly inspired by On-U”, he continues. “When we made a Go-Go style record ‘Stop That Crazy Thing’ for our first album and put reggae vocalist Junior Reed [who features on ‘Outside The Echo Chamber’] on there, that was the On-U influence. Adrian made connections, he also did a remix of it”.
The album will feature vocals from Roots Manuva, Chezidek, Ce’Cile, Hamsika Iyer and Rholin X, among others, plus production on two tracks from Toddla T. It’ll be released through Coldcut’s revived pre-Ninja Tune label Ahead Of Our Time on 19 May.
Here’s the first track from it, ‘Divide And Rule’ featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Junior Reid and Elan: