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Adrian Sherwood

real name Adrian Maxwell Sherwood

London, United Kingdom

Adrian Sherwood is credited on 2,041 releases across 677 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,041

Credits

677

Albums

6

Decades active

651

In collections

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English record producer & musician, born on 1958-01-20 in London. Sherwood is best known for his label and his dub music, as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, Sinéad O'Connor, Primal Scream, Skinny Puppy, and Panda Bear. Sherwood is also the founder of the labels Hitrun Records, Green Tea and Sound Boy, and cofounder of Carib Gems & Pressure Sounds.
His most well-known label is, (= label page), a name Sherwood sometimes also operates under cf. On-U Sound (= artist credits page). He is also the 4th member of industrial hip-hop outfit Tackhead, credited as "mixologist". During the early 1980s he brought together many Jamaican artists under the collective name of Singers & Players including Prince Far I, Mikey Dread, Bim Sherman and many others, this helped promote the individual artists at the same time as promoting the On-U label.

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Credited work

2,041 releases · 677 albums · active 1977–2026

  • Production · 1,355
  • Performance · 1,048
  • Engineering · 984
  • Other credits · 89
  • Mastering · 2

Studios: On-U Sound Studios · Southern Studios · The Manor · Matrix Studios

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