Adrian Sherwood

Adrian Maxwell Sherwood

English record producer & musician, born on 1958-01-20 in London. Sherwood is best known for his On-U Sound 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 On-U Sound, (= 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.

In Groups:
2 Badcard, Africa Express, Barmy Army, Fats Comet, Forehead Bros, Gary Clail & On-U Sound System, London Underground, Missing Brazilians, Playgroup, Singers & Players, Strange Parcels, Tackhead, The Circuit, The Enemy Within, Voice Of Authority