Adrian Sherwood

Adrian Sherwood founded On-U Sound in 1980 and has spent four decades using dub as a method rather than a genre, applying it to post punk, industrial music, hip hop and whatever else came through the door.

His production is aggressive in a way Jamaican dub rarely is. Where Tubby leaves a hole, Sherwood fills it with something unpleasant and then removes it suddenly. The results are divisive and have aged much better than most of what surrounded them.

He is still working, and still the most obvious answer to what dub became once it stopped being Jamaican.