On-U Sound Links Page

This section lists external On-U related links that may be of interest to you. Contact me if you'd like your site to be added to it. It goes without saying that I am not responsible for the content or availability of the sites referenced here, but I will always attempt to make sure that the listed links work and are valid. There is a separate section which features On-U supporting record stores that are on the web.

If you'd like to provide a link to my website you can download an icon for your site. The Home Page at http://www.skysaw.org/onu/ is the recommended place to link to.

• www.onusoundrecords.com - On-U Sound's own official website was recently re-established and, like this site, is still very much in development. It's looking promising though and it eventually seems that online mail ordering of product will be possible.



• www.obsolete.com/on-u/ - On-U's old website, no long active but still may be of interest. The mail order facility there is now defunct.



• www.pressure.co.uk - The website of Pressure Sounds, the former On-U subsidiary. News of releases on the Pressure Sounds, Green Tea and Maximum Pressure labels are given here and there is an online mail order facility to that works quite efficiently.



• www.bloodandfire.co.uk - Another long established and respected reggae reissue label. There is a busy message board for talking all things on a reggae tip.



• www.beatink.com/TheDeli/framenr.shtml - The online shop for Beat Records in Japan. A good source of news about On-U releases or reissues licensed to them.



• www.realworldrecords.com/artists/adrian-sherwood - The official promotional site for Adrian Sherwood's releases on Realworld. Includes a video version of the track 'Boogaloo' to watch and the audio album version of it to download.



• realworldrecords.com/littleaxe/ - The official promotional site for Little Axe's most recent albums.

• www.myspace.com/adrianmaxwellsherwood - Adrian Sherwood on MySpace.



• www.dougwimbish.com - Doug Wimbish's official website.



• www.myspace.com/dougwimbish - Another piece of Doug Wimbish web space.



• www.keithleblanc.com - Keith LeBlanc's official web presence...



• www.myspace.com/keithleblanc - ...and home on MySpace.



• www.tackhead.com - Tackhead's official website. Lots of photos, images and news updates about the band, its members and plans for new recordings.



• www.myspace.com/mightytackhead - Tackhead at MySpace.



• www.myspace.com/bernardfowler - Bernard Fowler: The MySpace home of Tackhead vocalist and former Peech Boy.



• www.little-axe.com - The offical website of Skip McDonald's Little Axe.



• www.myspace.com/littleaxesound - Little Axe at MySpace.



• www.paperclip-agency.com - Agents across Europe for Mark Stewart and the Maffia, Tackhead, and Little Axe (Skip McDonald).



• www.princefari.com - A website dedicated to Adrian Sherwood's late, great mentor - Prince Far I.



• www.myspace.com/markstewartmaffia - Mark Stewart and the Maffia at MySpace.



• www.dubsyndicate.com - The official website for Dub Syndicate.



• www.brainwashed.com/anxiety/ - All about the creative exploits of Little Annie Anxiety Bandez.



• www.myspace.com/littleannieakaannieanxietybandez - Another piece of Little Annie web space.



• www.uncarved.org/music/maffia/ - Mark Stewart & the Maffia information.



• www.jebloynichols.com - Jeb Loy Nichols' official site.



• www.davidharrow.com and www.jameshardway.com - The official homes of David Harrow, one-time On-U Sound System member.



• www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomghettopriest - Ghetto Priest at MySpace



• www.sunsofarqa.co.uk - Wadada's Suns Of Arqa musical collective was born around the same time as On-U Sound, with strong links between them and Sherwood, especially in the early days.



• www.alanbranch.com - Alan Branch: One of Adrian's longest-standing engineers, programmers and co-producers.



• www.headfake.de - Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun's sound system.



• www.alpillay.com - The wonderful world of the multimedia artist Alan Pillay / Lana Pellay.



• www.petelockett.com - Percussionist and some-time On-U Sound collaborator, Pete Lockett.



• www.luzuli.music.btinternet.co.uk - Thought to be Jesse Rae's website, and though poorly designed and vague in content, gives a flavour of what he is up to these days.



• www.mikeydread.com - On-U Sound collaborator from the early days, Mikey Dread.

• www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/ARTS/greg1.html - An article by Greg Whitfield focusing on UK artists influenced by Jamaican dub at the end of the 1970s - including references to Adrian Sherwood / On-U Sound.



• www.uncarved.org/dub/onu/onu.html - An in-depth interview by Greg Whitfield with Adrian Sherwood focussing mainly on his past influences and early Hitrun / On-U releases and artists. Definitely worth a read.



• www.uncarved.org/dub/onu/eskimo.html - More from the interviewer's pad of Greg Whitfield - this time On-U mainstay Charlie "Eskimo Fox" is in the frame.



• www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2003/nov/interview_tessa_pollitt.html - An interview by Greg Whitfield with Tessa Pollitt of the Slits. Their work with Sherwood is well documented and gives a good feel for the music scene he was associated with at the time On-U Sound started.



• freeradicalsounds.com/style.htm - An interview with Style Scott focussing on his early Roots Radics / Dub Syndicate / On-U Sound days.

• otwradio.blogspot.com - Website for Steve Barker's 'On The Wire' radio show on BBC Radio Lancashire in the UK. Steve is probably Sherwood's longest standing supporter and continues to play his new material as it rolls off the mixing desk. The site has playlists, interesting links, sounds and a message board.



• www.wtm-paris.com - The website of Laurent Diouf's 'Wreck This Mess' radio show: Radio Libertaire in Paris, France. Another of the few On-U supporters on the world's airwaves.



• taxcider.blogspot.com - An On-U dedicated blog by mARCO of tackhead.com featuring a slowly growing collection of rare photos and videos. Also see his profile at www.youtube.com/profile?user=taxcider for more.



• perso.orange.fr/dancehallstyle/ - The radio show of Prince Thierry on the French station Radio Méga 99.2FM called Dance Hall Style. On it he plays reggae-flavoured On-U material from time to time.



• www.dreadheadz.de - DJ Tomcat and crew presents a dread-filled fortnightly show called DREADheadz on Querfunk 104.8FM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Occasional interspersions of On-U material can be expected.



• www.dub.org.uk - An On-U Sound supporter's site by Owen McShane with some of his own photos from gigs and downloadable MP3 files of hard to find or impossible to get tracks.



• www.object-craft.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/on-u - Ben Golding in Australia has run the On-U Sound email discussion list for many years. Here is some more information about the list, how to subscribe and how to access the email archives right back to 1989.

• Shops have their own section.



• My own list of items I have for sale.

• www.xs4all.nl/~tapirs - A large and interesting collection of reggae discographies arranged by imprint. Some label and sleeve scans too.



• www.asiandubfoundation.eu - An Asian Dub Foundation unofficial discography by Jurgen van Roovert. Sherwood continues to work with ADF from time to time.



• www.dubflash.com - An excellent directory of all things dubwise.



• reggaediscographies.free.fr/ - A well presented French language reggae site crammed full of artist and label based discographies as well as interviews and lyrics.



• www.roots-archives.com/index.php - A large reggae discography site extensively covering roots reggae albums from 1970 to 1985.



• www.reggaenews.co.uk - Not only news, but links to many other reggae resources such as radio shows, shops, reviews and its own online store.



• www.dub.com - A dub directory.



• www.this-is-dub.net - "A link catalogue about dub-reggae". Nice site.



• kingtubby.jp - A resource (mostly in Japanese) called "Masterstroke of Reggae, voices from Japan". To quote it's owner, "... [a Japanese] information site ... to promote understanding of Reggae."



• www.drumdrops.com - A project extensively featuring Style Scott and Keith LeBlanc that releases drum and percussion sampler DVD-ROMs for use by music makers.