Artist: Lee Scratch Perry: mp3 download Genre(s): Reggae Ethnic Dance Electronic Lee Scratch Perry's discography: Black Art (Single) Year: 2001 Tracks: 4 Battle of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator) Year: 2001 Tracks: 11 Techno Party Year: 2000 Tracks: 15 Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor Chapter Two Year: 2000 Tracks: 10 Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor Chapter One Year: 2000 Tracks: 9 Heart of the Dragon Year: 2000 Tracks: 12 Wizdom 1971-1975 Year: 1999 Tracks: 19 Excaliburman Year: 1999 Tracks: 9 Satan's Dub Year: 1998 Tracks: 12 Dub Fire Year: 1998 Tracks: 12 Shocks of Mighty 1969-74 Year: 1997 Tracks: 17 Arkology, Reel III Year: 1997 Tracks: 17 Arkology, Reel I Year: 1997 Tracks: 18 Arkology Reel 3 Year: 1997 Tracks: 17 Arkology Reel 2 Year: 1997 Tracks: 17 Arkology Reel 1 Year: 1997 Tracks: 18 Who Put the Voodoo 'pon Reggae Year: 1996 Tracks: 10 Experryments at the Grassroots of Dub Year: 1996 Tracks: 9 Presenting Dub Year: 1995 Tracks: 15 Experryments At The Grass Root Year: 1995 Tracks: 9 Black Ark Experryments Year: 1995 Tracks: 9 Guitar Boogie Dub Year: 1994 Tracks: 10 Black Ark in Dub Year: 1993 Tracks: 14 The Upsetter and the Beat Year: 1992 Tracks: 12 Chicken Scratch Year: 1991 Tracks: 12 Mystic Warrior and Mystic Warrior Dub Year: 1989 Tracks: 16 Scratch Attack Year: 1988 Tracks: 22 Reggae Greats Year: 1984 Tracks: 10 Revolution Dub Year: 1975 Tracks: 9 Musical Bones Year: 1975 Tracks: 15 Soul Fire Year: Tracks: 13 Some of the best Year: Tracks: 13 Arkology, Reel II Year: Tracks: 17 Some promise him a genius, others claim he's certifiably harebrained, a lunatic. Truth is, he's both, merely more than importantly, Lee Perry is a lofty figure in reggae -- a manufacturing business, mixer, and songwriter humankind Health Organization, along with King Tubby, helped form the sound of horse and made reggae music such a powerful component part of the pop euphony existence. Along with producing some of the to the highest degree influential acts of the Apostles (Bob Marley & the Wailers and the Congos to identify only two) in reggae history, Perry's approach to output and knight mix was breathtakingly modern and brazen -- no one else sounds like him -- and patch many call that King Tubby invented dub, in that location are just as many world Health Organization would argue that no one experimented with it or took it farther than did Lee Perry. Born in the rural Jamaican hamlet of St. Mary's in 1936, Perry began his phantasmagorical musical odyssey in the former '50s, working with ska man Prince Buster merchandising records for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Downbeat Sound System. Called "Little" Perry because of his diminutive stature (Perry stands 4'11"), he was presently producing and recording for Dodd at the centerfield of the Jamaican medicine industry, Studio One. After a falling forbidden with Dodd (throughout his vocation, Perry has a propensity to burn his bridges after he stopped up working with someone), Perry went to form at Wirl Records with Joe Gibbs. Perry and Gibbs never really power saw eye to heart on anything, and in 1968, Perry left to descriptor his own label, called Upsetter. Not surprisingly, Perry's number one release on Upsetter was a single entitled "People Funny Boy," which was a aim onrush upon Gibbs. What is important around the record is that, along with marketing super well in Jamaica, it was the number one Jamaican pop record to manipulation the loping, faineant, bass-driven beat that would presently become identified as the reggae "riddim" and signal the shift from the hyperkinetically offbeat ska to the pulsing, throbbing languor of "roots" reggae. From this stop through and through the 1970s, Perry released an astounding amount of money of exercise under his call and numerous, extremely creative pseudonyms: Jah Lion, Pipecock Jakxon, Super Ape, the Upsetter, and his most famous nom de plume, Scratch. Many of the singles released during this period were important Jamaican (and U.K.) hits, instrumental tracks like "The Return of Django," "Clint Eastwood," and "The Vampire," which cemented Perry's growth reputation as a major violence in reggae music. Becoming more and more than horrific in his pronouncements and personal optic aspect (when it comes to clothing, only Sun Ra canful hold a candle to Perry's thrift-store outfits), Perry and his remarkable house band, as well named the Upsetters, worked with precisely around every performer in Jamaica. It was in the former '70s subsequently on earshot some of King Tubby's early nickname experiments that Perry besides became concerned in this form of aural use of goods and services. He quickly released a mind-boggling number of dub releases and eventually, in a fit of creative independence, opened his have studio, Black Ark. It was at Black Ark that Perry recorded and produced some of the early, germinal Bob Marley tracks. Using the Upsetters rhythm incision of bassist Aston "Familyman" Barrett and his drummer buddy Carlton Barrett, Perry guided the Wailers through some of their finest moments, recording such powerful songs as "Duppy Conqueror" and "Little Axe." The good multiplication, however, were not long, especially after Perry, unbeknown to Marley and company, sold the tapes to Trojan Records and pocketed the john Cash. Island Records head Chris Blackwell cursorily stirred in and gestural the Wailers to an exclusive contract, departure Perry with virtually zip. Perry accused Blackwell (a white Englishman) of cultural imperialism and Marley of existence an accomplice. For days, Perry referred to Blackwell as a vampire, and accused Marley of having curried favor with politicians in order to make a fast dollar. These setbacks did not stem turn the tide of Perry releases, be they of new substantial or one of a apparently endless compendium of anthologies. Perry was besides expanding his range of influence, working with the Clash, world Health Organization were vast Perry fans, having covered the Perry-produced adaptation of Junior Murvin's classical "Constabulary and Thieves." Perry was brought in to produce some tracks for the Clash, merely the results were remixed more to the band's liking. All this hard process was wreaking havoc with Perry's already fragile mental state, leading to a crack-up. The stories of his mental instability were exacerbated by tales of massive centre abuse (despite his public stance against all drugs except sacramental marijuana), which reportedly included regular consumption of cocaine and LSD; one potentially apocryphal history level had Perry imbibition bottles of tape head-cleaning fluid. But these stories, as with much encompassing Perry, obscure fact and fable. One storey that was reliable was that Black Ark, and everything in it, burned to the ground. Perry claims bad wiring as the perpetrator, merely the more familiar and usually recognized story is that Perry burned the studio low in a fit of acid-inspired hydrophobia, convinced that Satan had made Black Ark his home. Whatever the casing, the internet site of Perry's superlative moments as a producer had been reduced to (and cadaver) a pile of rubble and ash. Soon afterwards the fire that consumed Black Ark, Perry, more and more fed up with the music business in Jamaica (which by all accounts is corruption personified), distinct to leave Jamaica. Scorn the considerable lows in his career, Perry remained busy and, so it seemed, sanely felicitous. Although he was less in demand as a producer, his solo work remained very firm, and his continuing influence could be felt up in the present-day nickname music of the Mad Professor (another quondam Perry protégé that Perry went on to treat with condescension) and some post-rave electronica music. Even the Beastie Boys gave Perry his props in a verse on their expiration Ominous Communication and later added him to the bill of performers at a concert for Tibetan freedom. The human being called Scratch lives in Switzerland and continues to cook up a psychedelic brew of music that, along with being in advance of its clip, will warp your head, in a just path, presumptuous that you're up to the challenge. In 1997, Island (the mark started by the vampire Chris Blackwell) released Arkology, a three-disc compiling of Perry recordings. A word or deuce around Perry's discography: it's massive, unmanageable, and although there ar mess of great records, there's nigh as much turd. The lack of timbre controller has slight to do with Perry, but quite with sleazebags nerve-wracking to rent cancelled his legacy. After King Tubby's mangle in 1989, his studio was pillaged, and many of Perry's tapes were stolen. Some of these recordings get shown up on ailing down, and expensive, anthologies. Releases on Trojan, Rounder's reggae subsidiary company label Heartbeat, and Island (and its subsidiary label Mango) ar by and large first-class and ar the best property to set forth building your RPLC214% assemblage. Smaller labels like Seven Leaves and the French Lagoon Records (which seems like a semi-legit moonshine label) ar hit-and-miss propositions, and those inclined to check out recordings on these labels ar bucked up to continue with circumspection. And avoid releases on the Rohit label, if but for their crappy production and loud, grade-Z publicity. Also, as with King Tubby recordings, purchasing a Perry handout way you power be buying a track record he produced, simply not needfully performs on. That aforesaid, felicitous hunting and hearing. |
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