Adrian Sherwood’s legendary On-U Sound Record label has been releasing some shit-hot stuff recently and this new one is another classic!
What we have here is Perry covering Black Sabbath’s Ironman with Sherwood at the controls. It’s hilarious and a real woofer destroyer!
Listen to snippets of it and the Dub below…
Here’s the Piccadilly Records lowdown on this mighty 12"…
“Under secret construction in the On-U workshop for the last few months, Lee Perry’s interpretation of the Black Sabbath classic “Iron Man” is finally ready, complete with heavy boots of lead. With Adrian Sherwood at the controls, and additional input from renowned reggae producer Dennis Bovell, this full-on thumping dub-stepper finds Scratch positioning himself as the ‘Iron Man - lion man - lightning man - super man’ who ‘don’t drink no booze’ while a fat sub-bass line throbs and wobbles the bolts from his joints and the beat hits harder than a rivet gun … surely not what Ted Hughes had in mind. The flipside dub mix arrives courtesy of Pempi, who recently broke out with a track on Studio Rockers’ “At The Controls” compilation. Pempi ups the full-of-dread quota with a heavy barrage of drums, stuttering synths and swelling bass, to create a version that has the potential to consume every motor vehicle in the southern hemisphere. Iron Man lives again!”
