Avant Gardening | Full Colour Printed Sleeve

‘Avant Gardening’: Rare dubs, version excursions and unreleased tracks from the vault 1980 - 1983. In the tradition of archival On-U Sound compilations of recent years such as the ‘Return Of The Crocodile’ and ‘Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi’ sets for African Head Charge; and the ‘Displaced Masters’ LP of early Dub Synidcate rarities, the label have gone through the tape vaults to put together this special record of unreleased versions and rarities from the white hot early days of the New Age Steppers. Highlights include a restored track from their infamous and long-lost 1983 John Peel session (an ebullient cover of Atlantic Starr’s ‘Send For Me’ featuring a beautifully spirited vocal performance from the much-missed Ari Up), the Jah Woosh deejay cut of ‘Love Forever’, some rare dubs previously only available on Japanese import CDs, all bookended by two very different takes on Chaka Khan’s ‘Some Love’. An essential set for collectors of post-punk, dub and other outernational sounds.

Tracks

1~1~Aggro Dub Version
1~2~Send For Me
1~3~Izalize
1~4~Unclear
1~5~Singing Love
1~6~I Scream (Rimshot)
1~7~Avante Gardening
1~8~Wide World Version
1~9~Some Dub

Details

Format: Vinyl
Artist: New Age Steppers
Release Date: 19 March 2021
Genre: Rock
Label: ON-U SOUND
Distributor: Inertia Music