Strange Parcels

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After the dissolution of Fats Comet and disbanding of Tack>>head, for many of its former members there was still work to be done. Steve Barker tells it like it was along with edits and additions from the Editor and extracts from an On-U press release: It seems to be a time honoured tradition down at jolly old On-U Sound HQ to announce new albums, allocate them catalogue numbers, then to keep the devotees in suspense by waiting several years before delivering the goods. Such was the case with the Strange Parcels who first appeared in '91 with a trio of killer cuts on On-U's "Pay It All Back: Volume 3" (ON-U LP53) compilation (PIAB3) and the promise of an album to follow. The Strange Parcels and Fats Comet before them were reputedly conceived as a sort of "Temptations on acid" whereas I always thought of them more as the "'Diamonds on dope"! Originally the brainchild of mixologist Adrian Sherwood, bassist Doug Wimbish and one-time On-U main man David Harrow, the former Sugarhill Gang and ex-Tackhead supremos Skip McDonald and Keith LeBlanc were drafted in and the creation of studio mayhem and a string of headcrunching rhythms was soon underway. Pay It All Back: Volume 3 "Pay It All Back: Volume 3" Kicking off PIAB3, "Disconnection" featured Mark Stewart on vocals, credited as "A. Salvador" (Angel Salvador). The MC introduction, an exhortation to burn down all the shelters of the corporate beast, was courtesy of Tokyo's Snakeman Show - Sherwood's productions for which were re