About Adrian Sherwood
English record producer & musician, born on 1958-01-20 in London. Sherwood is best known for his [[label:2409]] label and his dub music, as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as [[artist:Coldcut]], [[artist:Depeche Mode]], [[artist:Sinéad O'Connor]], [[artist:Primal Scream]], [[artist:Skinny Puppy]], and [[artist:Panda Bear]]. Sherwood is also the founder of the labels [[label:Hitrun Records]], [[label:Green Tea]] and [[label:Sound Boy]], and cofounder of [[label:Carib Gems]] & [[label:Pressure Sounds]].
His most well-known label is [[label:2409]], (= label page), a name Sherwood sometimes also operates under cf. [[artist:59141]] (= artist credits page). He is also the 4th member of industrial hip-hop outfit [[artist:Tackhead]], credited as "mixologist". During the early 1980s he brought together many Jamaican artists under the collective name of [[artist:Singers & Players]] including [[artist:Prince Far I]], [[artist:Mikey Dread]], [[artist:Bim Sherman]] and many others, this helped promote the individual artists at the same time as promoting the On-U label.
