Sheriff Lindo

2026 repress

𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙤 ‘𝙏𝙚𝙣 𝘿𝙪𝙗𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙’ (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟴), 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙪𝙗 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙮 “𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙛 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤” 𝙈𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙖 𝙥𝙞𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩-𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙠 (𝙋𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨), 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 & 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨.

Cooked up at Sheriff Lindo’s 4/5 Studio in Sydney, ‘Aftershock Dubs’ stands sturdy next to the ‘Ten Dubs That Shook The World’ as a vital documentation of how far the dancehall dub virus travelled during the post-digi years. Far from any Afro-Caribbean diasporic hotspots, Sheriff Lindo would flex his outsider authority on a classic sound, testing his faithful but subtly mutant dubs on local sound systems, and lending tunes to a range of rave-era comps (along with his other projects such as Itch-E & Scratch-E & Friends).

Lindo’s dubs would eventually reach the ears of Japanese sound system savants Takuto Kuratani (Ruv Bytes) and Atsushi Muneshige (Touch the Sky/Corner Stone Music), who cherry-picked this set form a tranche of dubs, all mastered by Kuritani for proper pressure. The sound is exemplary of his outsider/insider steez, straddling catholic and dare-to-differ sounds ranging from full vocal cuts such as the syrupy sweet ‘What You Give (Inna Fire Style)’ with Ras Roni, thru the wickedly freakish trotter ‘Pass the Sheriff his Straightjacket (Many Holes Version)’ with its shearing CPU sounds, and thru rudest Sleng Teng stylings in ‘Pull Back Riddim,’ with more gothic jangle in ‘Creepy Dub’ that perhaps betray his background in post punk aces Pelican Daughters.