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Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers - Chemical Specialist

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Although jointly credited to two key early On-U groups, the Threat To Creation album was more of an experimental take on the already skewed concept of a dub set by producer Adrian Sherwood, taking existing backing tracks from his own tape archive and driving them through the desk with judicious use of echo, distortion and filtering, dropping instruments in and out to give a head-clearing sense of space. One of a number of works-for-hire that On-U leased out to the Cherry Red label in order to keep the label afloat, the album is a prime example of pushing the potential of primitive studio outboard gear to achieve remarkable results. On the recent LP reissue, Pitchfork wrote: "The way Sherwood chopped up, processed, and reassembled Creation Rebel and New Age Steppers’ rhythmic components hints at the more extreme cut-and-paste techniques that dance music and hip-hop would acquire after samplers came on the market a few years later. It’s a sublime listening experience and a profound statement about the power of experimentation, and over twenty years after the fact it still sounds shockingly new."

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from Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics, released October 1, 2015
1981, Cherry Red Records

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Longtime On-U fan Trevor Jackon curated this compilation of classic, rarities and deep cuts in 2015 - an amazing introduction to the maverick early days of the label and some of the key 80s dancefloor weapons in the Adrian Sherwood production arsenal.

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