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More than just a drummer for the apocalyptic dub/funk produced by <a href="spotify:artist:4vZIz0gG5DD3Qj9MB6kclW">Adrian Sherwood</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22On-U+Sound%22">On-U Sound</a> productions, Keith LeBlanc was also an accomplished solo artist who uses the same collage of sound and aural layering learned from years of playing in the <a href="spotify:artist:4vZIz0gG5DD3Qj9MB6kclW">Sherwood</a>-produced band <a href="spotify:artist:0Hmx35vRstyw5AaqXmzQ2G">Tackhead</a>. Admittedly, LeBlanc got a lot of help from cohorts <a href="spotify:artist:19l1pnOM9X4cSf8QhuRGwT">Doug Wimbish</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2nWwuMA3fFPzKiI0x4Xhrd">Skip McDonald</a> (the other two-thirds of <a href="spotify:artist:0Hmx35vRstyw5AaqXmzQ2G">Tackhead</a>, originally part of <a href="spotify:artist:5tSWhJQyABPCBpRmYLWXOA">Sylvia Robinson</a>'s Sugarhill studio band), as well as <a href="spotify:artist:4vZIz0gG5DD3Qj9MB6kclW">Sherwood</a> himself. That said, the recordings that bear his name were exciting, experimental hunks of postmodern music that combine live playing with musique concrete and spoken word segments with snippets from film and television. In other words, easy listening it wasn't. LeBlanc's career started auspiciously with the release of the EP No Sell Out, which was a hip-hop deconstruction of a <a href="spotify:artist:2IsulP0BplLNJn8BGsvUQo">Malcolm X</a> speech. An alternative scene "hit," it helped engender interest for LeBlanc's first full-blown solo effort, Major Malfunction, which got its title from the description used by engineers of the Challenger space shuttle disaster; LeBlanc used some of the tape-recorded reports from the disaster for effect. Not a big seller, Major Malfunction was followed by Stranger Than Fiction, which was a bit of a letdown, but still had enough squalling noise and reggae-inflected creepiness to make it well worthwhile. Keith LeBlanc died on April 4, 2024, at the age of 70. ~ John Dougan, Rovi
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