The 1984 first meeting in New York between Adrian Sherwood and Keith LeBlanc was one of the most important events in the history and direction of On-U Sound. It saw the birth of radical collaboration between the British producer and three American musicians that continues to this today:

Tackhead is the vanishing point, the vortex, at [...]

Harry Beckett had already had a long and celebrated career as a jazz trumpeter before Adrian Sherwood requested his services. Here then is an introduction to Beckett’s first appearance for On-U Sound:
A long-standing figure on the London jazz scene, trumpeter Harry Beckett has kept his music fresh over a long career, and none more so [...]

The arrival of Gary Clail at the On-U Sound stable brought with it the emergence of a previously undreamed raggamuffin tendency. Gary had come in from Bristol as an acquaintance of Mark Stewart, also zooming in on the West Country ley lines was poet and wordsmith Andy Fairley, alas now departed from this “poor world [...]

If you get the voice you deserve then smokey central to Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez has earned every blue hued note. Singer, composer, adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, Reverend, rancatoure, actress, self taught painter, multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen, Annie armed with a survivors wonder lust that has followed a jagged torch lit path [...]

A legend who left a lasting mark on the world of music returns with a new studio album: Edit. Created and recorded between London, Vienna, Bristol and Berlin, Stewart’s sixth full-length release, Mark will embark on a global tour in 2008. As teenage front man and mastermind of seminal Bristol post-punk legends The Pop Group [...]