Re: Little Axe

Tony Reid (t-bird@salata.com)
06 May 97 00:28:24 -0800


> dope on plastic 4- react
> lots and lots of music. mostly good for new leads to search the bins
> for like Little Axe and Killer Moses. Love the dritry synth on
> Insomniac. kind of Skint-like but better.

mt> FYI, the Little Axe remix on DOP4 sounds a lot more like the remixers
mt> (Pressure Drop) than the original artist.

see if you can find the 10" for "ride on", the original is dope, the fluke
remix is really cool (more beat oriented, i.e. stripped down), and there's
another tune on there that really gives you that blues w/beats vibe... i've
really liked pressure drop mixes in the past, but i felt that they
obliterated too much of the original--or maybe i just didn't like what they
substituted...

mt> Little Axe is a blues/dub
mt> fusion project from the On-U Sound posse (aka Tackhead).

adrian sherwood is really the guy behind on-u. i have a tackhead record
that's post-sherwood, and while it's good, it's *nothing* like the stuff
they
were doing w/him. one of the other guises that these guys use is african
head
charge--check out the compilation series "pay it all back" to get a real
taste of that "on-u" flavor.

-t

p.s. does anyone know what bernard fowler's doing these days?