The Grand Designer (10")

Format: 10" Label: On-U Sound Year: 2025  Media Condition: New Sleeve/Cover Condition: New  TRACKS: A1 The Grand Designer A2 Let's Come Together (ft. Lee Perry) B1 Russian Oscillator B2 Cold War Skank Adrian Sherwood returns with his first music as a solo artist in 13 years with the mutating rhythmic soundscapes of The Grand Designer EP, the latest installment in On-U Sound's long-running 'disco plate' series. The title track serves as a trailer for a forthcoming full-length album, with different instruments filtered through Sherwood's bank of effects over an irresistible groove, and typically deft percussive detail. "Let's Come Together" flips the same rhythm into a mystical dub, with sadly departed friend and collaborator Lee "Scratch" Perry providing typically off-the-wall vocal interjections. "Russian Oscillator" perhaps cleaves closest to the Sherwood & Pinch records, experimental electronics weaving in and out of heavy sound system sonics and a ruffneck dan