Dub From Creation: Forthcoming material

Items listed here will hopefully, in time, end up in the main discographies section as released material, or if shelved, added to The Vaults list instead. Know any more? Let me know.

• Adrian Sherwood - New remixes for Primal Scream and Asian Dub Foundation have been reported recently.



• African Head Charge - Their most recent album 'Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa' has, to date, only been released in Japan - but plans remain for more widespread distribution.



• Dave Dobbyn - According to Adrian Sherwood's MySpace page, "during March [2008] Adrian [Sherwood] and Skip [McDonald] were producing Kiwi singer/songwriter legend Dave Dobbyn, working at On-U and Livingstone studios with Dave's band and our crew."



• Dub Syndicate - A compilation called 'The Royal Variety Show (The Best Of)', with material spanning the full career of the outfit, is planned.



• Harry Beckett - Album on EMI/Virgin entitled 'The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett' featuring the trumpeter "...[blowing] over some of the newer On-U riddims". The track names are thought to be: The Forgotten Man / Blow Harry Blow / Harry Bubblers 3 / Harry Nick Lovie / None Shall Escape His Trumpet / 50ft Harry / Switch Up / Duel Of Doncaster / Rise & Shine / Fully Terrible / You & Me / Cry Dreadful.



• Ian King - AMS and Skip McDonald have recently completed an album with a folk singer from Barnsley, UK called Ian King called 'King... Of England' (at least one track has been aired in the UK by Steve Barker's radio show).



• Lee Perry - A new album for On-U Sound called 'The Mighty Upsetter' has been completed, is awaiting mastering and is expected to appear in the first half of 2008 (initially in Japan at the end of May). Remixes of album track 'God Smiled' by the Moody Boyz, Digital Mystikz and Kode9 are either complete or planned. There is talk of a further dub album for release in 2009 of further tracks from these recording sessions.



• Little Axe - "[New album - 'Bought for a Dollar Sold For a Dime'] just completed at Real World studios ... featuring on vocals Bernard Fowler, the legendary Ken Boothe, Kevin Gibbs, Saz Bell and Valerie Skeete alongside Skip. Alan Glen on harmonica and with Keith Le Blanc (drums) and Doug Wimbish (bass) ... This is like an old style recording."



• New Age Steppers - Adrian has apparently been working with Ari Up and Denise Sherwood on some new New Age Steppers material.



• Mark Stewart - A DVD called 'ON/OFF: Mark Stewart - from the Pop Group to the Maffia' by Tøni Schifer is due to be released on Monitorpop in 2008, including interviews with the likes of Nick Cave, Daniel Miller, Pop Group members, Adrian Sherwood, Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Keith LeBlanc, Fritz Hart (23 Skidoo) and others.



• FORCEofTWO - New album and/or EP by Pete Lockett and Steve Sidelnyk featuring some "ultra dub" mixes being done by Adrian Sherwood.



• Samia Farah - A new album 'The Many Moods Of Samia Farah', mixed by AMS, has been reported.



• Tackhead - A new limited edition album called '070707' (a mixture of new and archive tracks), financed and initially exclusively available to shareholders of the re-launched 'Sharehead' initiative, is currently in the planning stages. The first two tracks, 'Homeless' (a Curtis Mayfield cover) and 'I'm Afraid of Americans' (the David Bowie tune) have already been recorded.



• Tuffasonics - A currently untitled album produced by LSK and mixed by AMS has recently been completed.



• Various - Also according to Adrian Sherwood's MySpace page, a full length DVD is planned, produced by Beat Ink in Japan for worldwide distribution, featuring rare footage "such as Lee Perry burying HIS t.v. in my garden watched by a laughing Bim Sherman and a very young Max Sherwood ... all of the Bim/Skip/Bonjo accoustic footage and all sorts of interviews, gigs and many other bits and bits!!!"



• Various - "A new On-U compilation 'Let The Robots Melt' will hopefully be out before [summer 2008] on the On-U label. It will feature all new, un-released tracks / versions from Lee "Scratch" Perry, Samia Farah, African Head Charge, Mark Stewart, New Age Steppers (new recordings), Harry Beckett, Tuffasonics (LSK), Ian King, Little Axe, Junior Delgado, Doug Wimbish (new recordings) and Denise Sherwood."