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		New Age Steppers - New Age Steppers album / manufactured by Beat Records / licenced from On-U Sound ('03.8.30) CD (BRC79 / Japanese): 2500 yen

レゲエ/ダブのみならずニュー・ウェイヴ/ポスト・パンク等ロックの流れをも大きく変えたエイドリアン・シャーウッドの主宰する伝説的レーベル≪ON-U SOUND≫の歴史的名盤2タイトルがリマスター＆未発表ボーナス・トラック付の紙ジャケット仕様で再発!!

UK ダブの鬼才エイドリアン・シャーウッドが主宰の≪ON-U SOUND≫第1弾である"NEW AGE STEPPERS"の1stが待望の再発!!もはや説明不要のエイドリアンを中心にポップ・グループ、スリッツ、クリエーション・レベルといった当時の先鋭達17人が集まったプロジェクト"NEW AGE STEPPERS"は、ロック、パンク、ニュー・ウェイヴ、レゲエ、ダブといったカテゴリーを遥かに超えた前人未踏のサウンド。間違いなく80年代のシーンを代表し現在でもその革新性が年々評価される全音楽ファン必携の最重要アルバム。オリジナル・マスター・テープからエイドリアン自身による最新リマスタリングとオリジナル・アート・ワークを忠実に再現した紙ジャケット仕様、さらに未発表音源とレアトラックを4曲（奇跡!!）を加えた全14曲収録!!≪ON-U SOUND≫の全てはここから始まった!!!!!



-> 同時再リリースアイテム：Creation Rebel "Starship Africa"



■■ NEW AGE STEPPERS ■■

In 1978-79 Creation Rebel were doing live shows in England and also Holland extensively. The band worked with Price Far I, Bim Sherman, and Prince Hammer in the capacity of a ﾒbacking bandﾓ but also did a pioneering live dub show.
Although the group failed to achieve great records sales (largely through poor distribution) they started to gain the attention of Radio 1 DJ, John Peel who had a hugely influential radio show each evening on national radio.
At the bandﾕs live shows in the U.K. the audiences often included members of the Sex Pistols (P.I.L.), The Clash, The Slits, The Ruts, Generation X, and many other non-reggae bands working in the gig circuit at the time. This was the Punks Reggae Party ﾐ Rock Against Racism ﾐ The Legalize Cannabis Campaign and a feeling of optimism and for change existed.
In 1979 following a sell out UK tour, Creation Rebel and Prince Hammer were invited to join the Slits on their UK tour to promote their Dennis Bovell produced album ﾒCut.ﾓ Also on the bill for the tour was jazz legend Don Cherry and 15 year old daughter Neneh.
During the tour friendships were made. The tour was crazy. Style Scott was rushed to the hospital in Glasglow with acute appendicitis and missed the main London show where ﾒCrucialﾓ Tony (the guitarist) tried to play drums in front of a sell out Rainbow audience. It was truly anarchic.
At this time Ari-Up was getting more and more into the Jamaican scene. She was going to sound system dances and Blues parties. She had had dreadlocks from the age of fifteen and in 1979 at only seventeen she was becoming obsessed with rhythms, not only Jamaican but also all the New York embryonic scratch / turntable DJﾕs. I played Ari ﾒFade Awayﾓ by Junior Byles and Bim Shermanﾕs ﾒLove Foreverﾓ and she said lets record some tracks and call them New Age Steppers.
Through Ari I met John Lydon and Keith Levine. Also at this time I met Mark Stewart, Bruce Smith, John Waddington, Steve Beresford, Viv Goldman, The Raincoats, and many more bands and musicians (reggae and non-reggae).
When we started work in the studio we had reggae-UK funk-free jazz and an all round original cast in the studio. New Age Steppers had the true spirit of the Punks Reggae Party.
This CD was made in about one week and Ariﾕs wonderful ideas and vocals still stands the test of time. This was also the first On-U record.

ﾒON-U Soundsﾓ ﾐ Sound, very important sound (dictionary definition)

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