2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Nightmares On Wax‘s (George Evelyn) seminal In a Space Outta Sound, as a dub clash with On-U Sound producer and mixing desk wizard Adrian Sherwood titled In a Space Outta Dub, revisioning eight of the 2006 album’s songs. While the original tunes remain recognizable, Sherwood adds his own visionary sonic signature full of humid warmth, languid rhythms, and sultry grooves
Opener “You Bliss” is a sonic redesign of “You Wish.” The original William Bell Stax guitar sample remains, but it’s submerged by smoky saxophone and an organ that sounds like it was lifted from the Doors’ LA Woman sessions. Sherwood’s trademark dread bassline is boosted, heavily reverbed, and echo-laden. It sounds quite…
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UK dub maestro and producer, Adrian Sherwood is hardly what anyone might call a slacker, but it’s 13 years since the release of his last solo album, Survival and Resistance. Those who have been eagerly anticipating more of his particular take on one of Jamaica’s greatest musical exports, however, need wait no longer.
While The Collapse of Everything doesn’t offer too many surprises to those familiar with the On-U Sound, it does bring in plenty of other textures along the way. Smouldering, moody and intoxicating, it is an album that may not hit the extremes of some of Sherwood’s previous collaborations, but it does have more than enough to earn some space in any dub set.
Indeed, the presence of fellow travellers…