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Perry performed at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. Perry is featured as the DJ on the dub and reggae radio station " The Blue Ark " in Grand Theft Auto V. The station includes a number of dubs by Perry and the Upsetters including "Disco Devil" and "Grumblin' Dub".
- “People Funny Boy”
- “Drugs and Poison”
- Bob Marley and The Wailers, “Duppy Conqueror”
- “Cow Thief Skank”
- “Super Ape”
- The Congos, “Fisherman”
- “City Too Hot”
- “Roast Fish and Cornbread”
- “Colt The Game”
- “Autobiography of The Upsetter”
Perry had made hits before 1968 — the first was “Chicken Scratch” (1965), which gave him his nickname. But the first record he made after leaving the Amalgamated label, run by Joe Gibbs, was also a public jab at his former employer (“Now that you reach the top/Now you turn big shot/All I’ve done for you/You no remember that”). The band he dubbed th...
The Upsetters made many Booker T. and the MG’s-style instrumental singles — the biggest was “Return of Django,” with its cowboy gait and tumbling horn line, which went Top Five in the U.K. This single B side, which also appeared on the Return of Django album, is the most indelible of the band’s reggae-soul grooves, with Adams’ curling organ line fl...
For many, the greatest recordings Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Livingstone made together as the Wailers were done with Perry, right before the trio signed to Island Records and went international. The Upsetters’ spring-loaded groove was the ideal setting for Marley’s mystical ghost story; his elliptical storytelling and Tosh and Livingstone’s ...
“The studio must be like a living thing,” Perry said in 1990. “The machine must be live and intelligent. Then I put my mind into the machine by sending it through the controls and the knobs.” If dub masters like Perry invented the remix, this bizarre tape-cut extravaganza may be the first-ever megamix: Perry stitches together a handful of his own g...
In 1973, Perry built Black Ark Studio in his backyard, cutting a long, dense string of masterworks there. He signed to Island Records as producer and artist alike in 1976, and his solo bow for the label, a dub masterwork complete with very mid-Seventies Marvel Comics-style cover art, was catnip to stoners worldwide. The title track of Super Ape — i...
Perry soon soured on his Island deal, in part because Chris Blackwell was nixing his work right and left — including, most puzzlingly, Heart of the Congos, one of roots reggae’s most gorgeous albums. The Congos — vocal duo Cedric Myrton and Roy Johnson — had an eerie sound together, and this inspired biblical retelling features their loveliest harm...
Eight-and-a-half minutes of pure delirium, this track’s slow-mo groove isn’t so much hot as humid — the bass line evokes a sidewalk melting from the accumulated sweat of pedestrians. Perry always loved percussion, and various hand drums (congas, most obviously) are scattered through the mix, echoed and phased and smeared while Scratch’s vocal seems...
The mooing sound familiar from “Cow Thief Skank” makes an appearance here, a wink to long-time fans — this, too, was a bizarre ride to the far side, with an abundance of near-empty space, particularly the sparse bass line, whose occasional flurries sound as if it’s liquefying. Its deceptively light tone was a contrast with the darkness to come. In ...
By 1991, Perry was a very different artist than he’d been in the Seventies. In 1989, he met his second wife, Mireille Ruegg, and would move with her to Switzerland, where his recording pace, always high, only increased. This digital dancehall track, produced by Niney the Observer, was both a reprise of one of his favorite on-mic roles, the radio DJ...
Adrian Sherwood, Perry’s great British disciple, worked with the Upsetter on 2019’s Rainford, and its finale rides a bouncy groove whose tonality constantly shifts, while Perry looks back with fondness: “My mama, Indian blood/My father was a freemason.… They shared a drink together/They were gonna make an ungodly being/Just look at me.” He also rep...
- Michaelangelo Matos
Sep 10, 2021 · Reggae artist Lee "Scratch" Perry, who died on Aug. 29, had an immeasurable impact on Jamaican music and its worldwide profile.
- Wayne Marshall
Aug 30, 2021 · Asked about the revolutionary rhythms and songs created at his Black Ark studios in Kingston, Jamaica, reggae producer, dub innovator and studio icon Lee “Scratch” Perry described a cosmic...
Jun 14, 2024 · Listen to music by Lee "Scratch" Perry on Apple Music. Find top songs and albums by Lee "Scratch" Perry including Dreadlocks In Moonlight, Soul Rebel and more.
Aug 30, 2021 · Perry was a hugely influential producer, and not just in his home genre, reggae, but in dance music, hip-hop and beyond. Perry died in Jamaica on Sunday at age 85.
