Stepping Up
The New Age Steppers - Avant Gardening [ON-U LP147 UK 2021 24-Bit FLAC] Those reinvigorated chaps at On-U Sound have been baking tapes again, this time out of the oven we get a well preserved compilation of out-takes, re-dubs and session tracks from the original post-punk dub-reggae New Age Steppers. Adrian's daughter Denise Sherwood, stepped up to supply the vocals when Ari-Up sadly passed away in 2010, these tracks are all pure Ari backed by the usual On-U suspects. Most of these 'lost' tracks could be found on some of the band's Japanese releases, however you should make a bee-line for their cover of Atlantic Starr's Send For Me recorded for a John Peel radio session. On the whole this album fits snugly around & between the first three New Age Steppers' albums, however the background vinyl rumble evidences that a little more care should have been taken with this very recent pressing. A1 Aggro Dub Version A2 Send For Me A3 Izalize A4 Unc...