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		Creation Rebel - Starship Africa album / manufactured by Beat Records / licenced from On-U Sound ('03.8.30) CD (BRC80 / 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!!

プリンス・ファーライのバックからそのキャリアをスタートさせた≪ON-U SOUND≫の大黒柱"CREATION　REBEL"が"NEW AGE STEPPERS"と合わせて再発!!　本作『CREATION REBEL/Starship Africa』は、≪ON-U SOUND≫の前身である≪4D RHYTHMS≫からリリースされた名盤中の名盤で、UK ダブ、レゲエの歴史的1枚。当初≪4D RHYTHMS≫よりカラー・ジャケットでリリースされたが本作を1枚リリースしただけで消滅。そして新たに設立された≪ON-U SOUND≫から再発されたが、そちらは残念ながらモノクロでカラージャケはコレクター涙物の貴重なアイテムとなっている。今回再発される『CREATION REBEL/Starship Africa』は、もちろんオリジナル・アート・ワーク（カラージャケ）でのリリース。さらにボーナス・トラックとして未発表音源4曲（奇跡!!）を収録し、さらにエイドリアン・シャーウッド自身による最新リマスタリングといった充実振り!!　



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



CREATION REBEL ﾒSTARSHIP AFRICAﾓ

My First two productions were recorded in 1977, ﾒDub From Creationﾓ and ﾒStarship Africaﾓ both by Creation Rebel.
As fans of reggae/dub my friends and I would spend every evening listening to new sounds coming from Jamaica. I was truly a lucky fan. I worked in PAMAﾕs Soundville record shop (now Jetstar) in Harlesden during my summer holiday in 1975 at the age of seventeen. Later that same year I got involved with starting a pioneering distribution company J and A and the Carib Gems record label, where I helped select the recordings we licensed from Jamaican producers for release in the UK.
During this period I met label owners, producers, singers, DJﾕs and musicians. This gave me the opportunity to run my own session. Being very inspired by the work of Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, King Tubby, and Keith Hudson, my friend Doctor Pablo and I set out to make a dub album. For the first session we did we used the great Dennis Bovell as engineer and this resulted in the album ﾒDub From Creationﾓ, released on our own Hitrun label in March of 1978. However, almost immediately we recorded another set of rhythms which would eventually become ﾒStarship Africaﾓ. Also recorded in 1977, the bas player was Tony Henry of Misty in Roots. This I recently discovered was his first time in a studio.
The strange thing about this album was that it was made in a backwards kind of way. We were not happy with the drums so the recordings werenﾕt finished. In 1978 we met Style Scott who was introduced to us by Prince Far I. It was pre-Roots Radics and we paid for Style to fly to the UK to make Creation Rebel sound great when backing Far I live.
On this first visit we took style into the studio and overdubbed the drums. This is a very difficult thing to do for any drummer but Style is so god that it was done in almost one take.
About one year later the album was to be mixed. The tracks sounded god but a bit strange because the timing of the playing was not perfect. We decided to disguise the imperfections by turning over the 2 inch multi-track tape and mixed the tapes backwards. We added reverb and delay at random and then we turned over the mixed _ inch tape to play forwards. This resulted in the effects playing before the beat or piano or wherever we applied the effects to. The results still sound refreshing.
When we first played the record to people we got some very mixed responses. David Rodigan (reggae DJ) said, ﾒWhat the fuck do you think you are doing reggae?ﾓ Others loved it. The album was originally was originally released in 1980 on the 4D Rhythms label. Later that same year On-U Sound was started.
Iﾕm very proud of ﾒStarship Africaﾓ and Iﾕm very pleased to see it re-released ﾒRe-masteredﾓ and featuring here are unreleased tracks from the original session.

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