IS there a missed call on your phone? If there is, it’s probably producer Adrian Sherwood ringing to suggest a collaboration.

The dub maestro has worked with so many different people over the years in his relentless search for new beats and sounds, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

And of all the acts Sherwood has guided to success on his legendary On-U Sound label, the one that sparks most affection is African Head Charge.

AHC have been away for a while, which made their return to Brighton a mouth-watering prospect.

Their mix of heavy-duty dub, African rhythms, industrial noise and psychedelia is one of music’s most original and startling sounds and in Ghanaian singer/percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (CORR), they have one of reggae’s most engaging frontmen.

Opening with Wicked Kingdom, this was a 90-minute greatest hits set. OK, AHC don’t have hits per se, but it was a nod to their most accessible material, with groove-heavy tracks such as Conspiring (Dancing To My Own Drums), Who Are You?, Animal Law, Hold Some More and Somebody Touch I.

Dressed in robes, Bonjo (Burnell Anderson to his mum) has a touch of the willful eccentricities of Lee Perry about him but a sold-out Komedia audience lapped it up.

The musicians – second bongo player, guitar, bass, drums and keyboard/samples – were as strong as any AHC has employed. And this is a band that used to have legends such as drummer Style Scott, and guitarist Skip McDonald on board.

One quibble. It would have been good to have heard more from Songs Of Praise, AHC’s, mad and utterly beautiful 1990 breakthrough album.

Sherwood himself didn’t appear but the pre-show DJ set was an invigorating trawl through his famous archives.

If you thought dub had fallen out of fashion, well, then the joke’s On U.