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Avant Gardening
Artist
New Age Steppers
ReleaseProduct
Avant Gardening
Label
On-U Sound
Catalogue Number
ONUDL147
Release Date
March 19, 2021

Genres

On-U Sound add another treat to their expansive discography reissue campaign of the band who kicked off the label in the first place. Avant Gardening collects the outtakes and rarities of inimitable post-punk dub reggae crossover legends New Age Steppers, and throughout its runtime, you can almost feel the shape of genres morphing into a synchronous whole. It might be trite to call project masterminds Ari-Up and Adrian Sherwood utopian, but if these heyday-spanning cuts prove one thing, they certainly had their eyes seton a promised land.

Lifted from the sessions of their first three LPs, recorded between 1980 and 1983, the tracks that constitute Avant Gardening neatly showcase the collective’s sonic fascinations, be they totally immediate or utterly strange. ‘Aggro Dub Version’ and ‘Unclear’ are masterful dub exercises, all echo, reverb and many other free-wheeling sounds besides. Meanwhile, the likes of ‘Avant Gardening’ and ‘I Scream (Rim Shot)’ are exploratory works which recall Can’s heady far-outness, Ari-Up vocal trilling and yelping into the void. Dotted among these demonstrations are straight-up, get-up-off-your-feet classics like the jazzy clavinet funk number ‘Izalize’ and ‘Send For Me’, a tune which wouldn’t be out of place on a reggae anthology.

Avant Gardening shows that the remarkable post-punk dub reggae mingling of New Age Steppers knew no bounds.

Digital Track List

  1. 1 Aggro Dub Version 5:55 Buy

    Aggro Dub Version

  2. 2 Send For Me 4:10 Buy

    Send For Me

  3. 3 Izalize 4:38 Buy

    Izalize

  4. 4 Unclear 5:03 Buy

    Unclear

  5. 5 Singing Love 5:07 Buy

    Singing Love

  6. 6 I Scream (Rimshot) 4:50 Buy

    I Scream (Rimshot)

  7. 7 Avante Gardening 4:06 Buy

    Avante Gardening

  8. 8 Wide World Version 3:56 Buy

    Wide World Version

  9. 9 Some Dub 4:15 Buy

    Some Dub

  10. 10 May I Version (Bonus Track) 6:11 Buy

    May I Version (Bonus Track)

New Age Steppers

New Age Steppers

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Dub, Reggae and Dancehall

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