Lee "Scratch" Perry was a Jamaican record producer,composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists,including Bob Marley and the Wailers,Junior Murvin,The Congos,Max Romeo,Adrian Sherwood,Beastie Boys,Ari Up,The Clash,The Orb,and many others.
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae,though it has developed to extend beyond that style. Generally,dub consists of remixes of existing recordings created by significantly manipulating the original,usually through the removal of vocal parts,emphasis of the rhythm section,the application of studio effects such as echo and reverb,and the occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works.
Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican ska,rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members,in 1963,were Bob Marley,Peter Tosh,and Bunny Wailer.
The Congos are a reggae vocal group from Jamaica which formed as the duo "Ashanti" Roy Johnson (tenor) and Cedric Myton (falsetto),later becoming a trio with the addition of Watty Burnett (baritone),and have been active on and off from the mid-1970s until the present day. They are best known for their Heart of the Congos album,recorded with Lee "Scratch" Perry.
The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter,after his song "I Am the Upsetter",a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd.
Heart of the Congos is a roots reggae album by The Congos,produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry at his Black Ark studio with a studio band including Boris Gardiner on bass and Ernest Ranglin on guitar. The album was released in 1977. It is noted as being one of Perry's masterpiece productions of the Black Ark era.
Return of the Super Ape is a reggae studio album produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry,credited to The Upsetters. The album was originally released in Jamaica in 1978 and was the last album by The Upsetters to be released before Perry closed down his Black Ark studio.
Revolution Dub is a studio album by Jamaican dub producer Lee Perry and his studio band The Upsetters,released in 1975 by Cactus. The album,which features nine pared down dubs,was the last in a line of releases that year in which Perry began exploring the possible studio techniques at his recently opened studio Black Ark in Kingston,Jamaica. In addition to making early use of a drum machine,the album is characterised by unpredictable drops in the beat,drastic stereo panning and samples of dialogue from television series,particularly British sitcoms,while Perry sings on the album in an eccentric falsetto and portrays different personas,including television characters from Kojak and Doctor on the Go.
Humanity is a reggae album released by The Royal Rasses featuring Prince Lincoln Thompson in 1979.
"Chase the Devil" is a reggae song,recorded in 1976 by Max Romeo,with the backing of Lee "Scratch" Perry's house band,The Upsetters.
Earl "Chinna" Smith,a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest,is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and as guitarist for Bob Marley &the Wailers,among others,and has recorded with many reggae artists,appearing on more than 500 albums.
Blackheart Man is the debut album by Bunny Wailer,originally released on 8 September 1976,in Jamaica on Solomonic Records and internationally on Island Records.
Linval Roy Carter,better known as Prince Jazzbo,was a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay and producer.
Jamaican E.T. is a reggae/dub album released by Lee "Scratch" Perry. The album was released February 5,2002 on the Sanctuary/Trojan label,and won the 2003 Grammy Award for 'Best Reggae Album'.
History,Mystery &Prophesy is a studio album by Jamaican record producer and singer Lee "Scratch" Perry,released on April 21,1984,by Island Records. The album was recorded at a time when Perry had had a long-standing grudge with Island Records,and features his trademark dub reggae sound mixed with synth-pop.
Subatomic Sound System,founded in 1999 by Emch and Noah Shachtman,is an American record label and collective hosting musicians,producers,DJs,and visual artists from a variety of backgrounds and traditions. In late 2008,Subatomic Sound System garnered international attention for a limited edition vinyl 12" featuring their collaboration with Vienna's Dubblestandart and dub inventor Lee "Scratch" Perry,releasing the first songs from Perry in the dubstep genre,one of the first recorded examples of a tangible connection between the popular UK based electronic genre that emerged in the early 2000s and the Jamaican dub from the 1970s where dubstep's origins were rooted and which had been primarily originated by Perry himself. Beginning in 2008,Subatomic Sound System started hosting weekly radio shows on 91.5fm,Radio New York,and webcasts on Brooklyn Radio. In 2011 Subatomic Sound System began performing as Lee "Scratch" Perry's backing band with a hybrid of electronics and live instruments. In 2013 they performed together at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and afterward became Perry's exclusive touring band in North America. In 2017,Subatomic Sound System released their first full-length album with Perry entitled 'Super Ape Returns To Conquer' which debuted No. 5 on the Billboard reggae chart and No. 2 on iTunes US reggae album chart and reached No. 1 on North America World music NACC charts.
Val Bennett was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician who began his career in the 1940s. He made a number of releases on the Island Records and Crab Records labels.
Reggae Greats:Lee "Scratch" Perry is a 1984 Island Records compilation album featuring the work of Lee "Scratch" Perry. It focuses mainly on his work as a producer/composer rather than a singer. Perry only sings on three of the songs. All of the tracks are from the period between 1976 and 1979,and were recorded at Perry's Black Ark studio. The album is generally considered a good introduction to Perry's Black Ark work,and is often chosen as the best single album by Perry,but with tracks drawn from Perry's popular late 1970s albums,it has also been described as "not essential" and containing "no surprises".
Arkology is a compilation album by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Released in 1997,the album collects tracks produced by Perry and recorded at the Black Ark studio.
Leo Graham was a Jamaican singer.
