Adrian Maxwell Sherwood was born on 20 January 1958 and is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music.
12 Facts About Adrian Sherwood
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Adrian Sherwood has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms of electronic dance music and popular music outside of the genre.
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Adrian Sherwood has worked extensively with a variety of reggae artists as well as the musicians Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald.
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Adrian Sherwood has remixed tracks by Coldcut, Depeche Mode, The Woodentops, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sinead O'Connor, and Skinny Puppy.
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Adrian Sherwood considers himself tone deaf, and focuses on making sounds and noises rather than melody.
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Adrian Sherwood was co-founder of Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, and founder of Hitrun Records as well as Green Tea Records and Soundboy Records.
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Adrian Sherwood is the fourth member of industrial hip-hop outfit Tackhead, credited as "mixologist".
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Adrian Sherwood worked with Suns of Arqa on many of their early records.
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In 1982, Adrian Sherwood produced an EP, Hot Sagas, with a version of Love for Sale sung by Anne Pigalle, released on Illuminated Records.
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Adrian Sherwood made contributions to the industrial genre in his remix of Einsturzende Neubauten's song "Yu Gung" on the album Halber Mensch, as well as his production work with Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, KMFDM, Terminal Power Company and Nine Inch Nails.
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Adrian Sherwood produced the original score for the 2006 independent film Johnny Was, starring Vinnie Jones, Roger Daltrey and Samantha Mumba.
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Since 2015, Adrian Sherwood commissioned an album from Bristol dubstep artist Pinch; which he twiddled a few knobs on and released under the moniker "Adrian Sherwood and Pinch".