MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Lee "Scratch" Perry He’s reggae’s reigning mad genius, but you can hardly talk about modern music in general without name-checking dub maestro Lee “Scratch” Perry. The hugely influential Jamaican producer, performer and one-man circus sideshow not only helped take reggae global, his knob-twiddling dub techniques have been swiped by everyone from pop to hip-hop artists, as well. And while his antics are legendary – from allegedly drinking tape head-cleaning fluid while recording to burning down his legendary Black Ark studio while tripping on acid – many would argue that Perry’s been crazy like a fox during his much-discussed career. Born Rainford Hugh Perry in St. Marys, the man called “Scratch” got his start working with producer Coxsone Dodd at Studio One in the early 1960s. He fell out with Dodd – and later with producer Joe Gibbs – and subsequently set up his own label, Upsetter, in 1968; his session men, the Upsetters, helped usher in the reggae era by slowing down and toughening up their ska instrumentals under his direction. Scratch also worked with Bob Marley and the Wailers – prior to their international fame – producing material that some would argue is Marley’s best-ever. In 1974, Perry built his own Black Ark studio in Washington Gardens, and there he recorded some of the greatest songs of reggae’s golden age, including Max Romeo’s “War Ina Babylon” and Junior Murvin’s “Police and Thieves,” as well as the Congos’ classic “Heart of the Congos” album. Scratch also released plentiful dub experiments, which saw him pushing the sound envelope just as radically as dub pioneers like King Tubby, and offered a true picture of the whacked-out workings of his mind. But after the studio burned in 1979, Perry fled Jamaica. He made a couple of interesting albums in the ‘80s and early ‘90s with English dub disciple Adrian Sherwood, but wound up in Switzerland, where he married an heiress and surfaced only occasionally, sometimes in collaboration with production protégé Mad Professor. Then longtime fans the Beastie Boys invited him to perform at a 1997 Tibetian freedom concert, and he agreed to appear on the tribute “Dr. Lee, Ph.D” off their Hello Nasty album the following year, raising his profile substantially. In 2000, teamed once again with Mad Professor, Scratch looked to the future on Techno Party, a sometimes brilliant collection of electronica and dub.     Lee "Scratch" Perry My Name Is!!! WinMedia Reggae “Scratch” the surface of Dr. Lee’s tripped-out genius with this electro-dub enigma. Mad Professor keeps a lid on the nuttiness, but you can’t hold down reggae’s original mad prof!
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