Loads of people wrote about Mark Stewart and Adrian Sherwood.
I write:
For even more of those trademark jackhammer beats and earthquakin' grooves,
also checkout Tackhead (basically Keith Leblanc, Doug Wimbish, Skip
McDonald and Adrian Sherwood). They kind of form the backbone of all that
On-U Sound stuff which encompasses so many projects - Gary Clail, Barmy
Army, Dub Syndicate etc.
Some of the later Tackhead stuff is a bit too 'clean' for me, but there's
an album called 'Tackhead Tape Time' credited to Gary Clail's Tackhead
Sound System which consists of arse-rumblin' Tackhead grooves cut-up,
remixed, rearranged, generally chuffed about with and Gary Clail's weird
distorted Bristolian rants over the top. This I like.
There's also an ace album called 'Major Malfunction' credited to drummer
Keith Leblanc, although this is a Tackhead album to all intents and
purposes. This I also like.
All this stuff dates from the mid-eighties. Very hard, crunching funk.
Keith Leblanc, Doug Wimbish etc. were essentially the in-house rhythm
section for Sugarhill Records - without going into the history here, if you
don't already know, they deserve much respect.
Ta ra,
Damon.
ears now twitching to: The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials