PEL Presents NEM#239: Adrian Sherwood's Dub Productions
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Adrian has applied his distinctive, spacey dub mixing techniques to numerous recordings since 1978 including Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sinéad O'Connor, and Spoon and has released nine albums under his own name since 2003. He has effectively served as a key band member in several groups including Creation Rebel and African Head Charge.
We discuss "Body Roll" from The Collapse of Everything (2025), "Starship Bahia" from Survival & Resistance (2012), and "Sharp as a Needle" by Barmy Army from The English Disease (1989). End song: "Make Up Your Mind" by Coldcut (Ninja Tunes), et al from Outside the Echo Chamber (2017). Intro: "Movement in Space" by Creation Rebel from Starship Africa (1980). More at adriansherwood.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. |
| 0:21.9 | My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. |
| 0:23.5 | My guest for episode 239 is Adrian Sherwood, best known as a producer with a distinctive dub mixing style. |
| 0:32.6 | He has worked with Ministry, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Sheney O'Connor, Primal Scream, and a variety of reggae artists. |
| 0:40.9 | You're right now hearing Movement in Space by Creation Rebel from their album Starship Africa, 1980, |
| 0:49.5 | which, as he will tell us, is not just a project that he came on and produced. |
| 0:54.7 | It is his project. |
| 0:56.3 | He has many, many releases, often just attributed to his record label, On You Sound. |
| 1:02.8 | He's a key member and composer for African Head Charge, a group we featured on this podcast. |
| 1:08.3 | He didn't start releasing music under his own name until 2003's Never Trust a Hippie, |
| 1:15.8 | and now has nine LPs under his own name, and has remixed, reissued some of his other |
| 1:22.7 | material for his five decades of destruction series of EPs. |
| 1:27.7 | Today we're going to discuss body roll from his new record, |
| 1:31.0 | The Collapse of Everything, |
| 1:32.7 | then Starship Bahia from Survival and Resistance 2012, |
| 1:37.3 | then Sharp as a Needle from an album called The English Disease from 1989 |
| 1:41.8 | that he released under the band name Barmy Army, |
| 1:46.0 | and will conclude by listening to one of his many, many collaborations, |
| 1:50.2 | Make Up Your Mind by Colcut and the Ninja Tunes, On You Sound, Cecile, Todd Latie, |
| 1:58.1 | and Adrian Sherwood from the album Outside the Echo Chamber 2017. |
| 2:03.3 | For more information, please see adrian sherwood.com. |
| 2:06.9 | For more about this podcast, see nakedly examined music.com or support the effort at |
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