- Record Label: On-U Sound
- Release Date: Oct 2, 2015
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Oct 13, 2015Another spectacular audio document of an enormously creative period for underground music.
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Oct 13, 2015A substantial number of previously-unreleased or new-to-cd tracks means that even ardent On-U Sound collectors will find Science Fiction Dancehall Classics worthwhile. For everyone else, Sherwood’s wonderful cauldron awaits, still boiling over with creativity.
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Dec 14, 2015Science Fiction Dancehall Classics is a treasure trove for newcomers as well as On-U completists (there's a generous number of previously unreleased tracks), and a fascinating piece of dance music genealogy.
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The WireOct 13, 2015Science Fiction Dancehall Classics is a more than serviceable as an On-U sound primer, yet may throw even those who think they know the label. [Oct 2015, p.70]
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Oct 13, 2015Science Fiction Dancehall Classics, with its blend of revamped urban dub and bizarre cybernetic aesthetics, proves the most suitable companion primer to Sherwood's own 2015 selective compilation, Sherwood At The Controls, Vol. 1: 1979-1984.
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Oct 29, 2015Though minimalist, it's not all austere.
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Oct 13, 2015This material represents the label’s least easily translatable zone, startling to--and still held dear by--an 80s audience only just adjusting to drum machine funk, but now dated in a way that Adrian Sherwood’s more earthy reggae recordings and totemic pieces with name acts are not. That is not to say that it is unworthy of investigation, though.