NEW AGE STEPPERS - My Nerves (Punk) / Bad For My Nerve

Producer Adrian Sherwood and Ari Up, the lead singer of the formative British all-female punk group The Slits, first met in 1978. Adrian and Ari would go on to form a long-lasting friendship and musical partnership. Ari Up featured as part of the original On-U collective which recorded under the guise of New Age Steppers in 1980. Their eponymous debut album formed one of the cornerstones of On-U Sound, both as a record label and as a musical production house for the next three decades. Whenever Sherwood and Ari met up in the UK, they worked together on a then-untitled album. When, in 2008, she was diagnosed with the cancer from which she would die just two years later at the end of 2010, Ari maintained that she and Adrian would finish the work they had begun, and that New Age Steppers album has just been released, entitled ove Forever'. This limited pressing 7", available now on immediate release in full picture sleeve (art & design by Chris Bigg), features two different readings of the album track My Nerves'; the A side being a harder and rawer take on the original vocal mix, while the flip is a dub version executed in Adrian Sherwood's typical leftfield style Record Label: On-U Sound Style: Dub