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LEE SCRATCH PERRY IN THE 90s: Getting dub'n'reggae through time tuff

By the early 90s - a decade on from the death of Bob Marley - the consciousness reggae movement he headed was floundering internationally. In New Zealand, where reggae is one of the bloodlines, it was

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DubXanne: The Police in Dub (Echo Beach/Yellow Eye)

This is how I like my Police. Without Sting. As with that yelping guy in Yes and few others, I find Sting's voice very hard to take. Although I concede that when I consider their album sales (45 milli

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ERNEST RANGLIN INTERVIEWED (1999): Ska pioneer

What becomes a legend most? In the case of Ernest Ranglin, good humour and modesty. This legend of Jamaican singlehandedly created ska back in the Fifties; recorded the young Bob Marley; arranged Mill

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Dub Spencer and Trance Hill: Riding Strange Horses (Echo Beach/Yellow)

...I Fall in Love) and their neighbour in Zurich Lee Scratch Perry (Blackboard Jungle) for added disconcerting...

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THE DREAM GOES ON: Bob Marley's enduring influence, in jazz and elsewhere

Twenty years after the death of its high priest, reggae still informed the vocabulary of music. Reggae had so thoroughly infiltrated pop, rock, hip hop and electronica, we hardly noticed it any more.

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SLY DUNBAR INTERVIEWED (2003): Pull up to the drummer, baby

Silly question maybe, but you have to start by asking drummer Sly Dunbar -- one half of the legendary Sly'n'Robbie rhythm section alongside bassist Robbie Shakespeare -- what he's been up to lately. I

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Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost (1975)

In Ted Bafaloukos' '78 film Rockers -- a lightweight comedy but excellent quasi-doco about the world of Jamaican music with a stunning cast of reggae luminaries -- there are any number of remarkable s

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Delroy Wilson: Mash Up Illiteracy (1974)

...so positive. He did also deliver withering Lee Scratch Perry-penned attacks on Prince Buster in song during...

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Lee Scratch Perry: Heavy Rain (On U Sound through Border)

If the renegade Perry's Rainford album of earlier this year – produced by Adrian Sherwood – seemed to signal some final statement from the dub master then it was yet another piece of misdi

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LEE SCRATCH PERRY'S VISION OF PARADISE, a doco by VOLKER SCHANER (DVD)

...reggae producer and musical constructionist Lee Scratch Perry might well say the same. But Perry –...

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THE UPSETTER; THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LEE SCRATCH PERRY, a doco by ETHAN HIGBEE and ADAM BHALA LOUGH

...expect from the mad production/musical genius Lee Scratch Perry, a man who redefined the possibilities of...

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Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford (On U through Border)

...however you cut it. There is more on Lee Scratch Perry at Elsewhere here....

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BOB MARLEY FOR BEGINNERS (2012): Bob's business is big business

...of early singles of Trojan and produced by Lee Scratch Perry. After that things become easier. Burnin'...

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GUEST MUSICIAN MIKE HODGSON OF PITCH BLACK AND MISLED CONVOY reflects on 40 years of music and a special new release

...live the master tapes from his work with Lee Scratch Perry. I obviously jumped at the chance. In return...

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Lake/Landaeus/Osgood: Spirit (digital outlets)

...Mathias Landaeus and drummer Kresten Osgood (Lee Scratch Perry, Yusef Lateef etc) – recorded live in...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Darryn Paterson-Harkness

...on Can and Captain Beefheart!) I rated Lee Scratch Perry, Hendrix, The Residents, Sun Ra, Ornette...

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THE GREAT JB HI-FI VINYL MARKDOWN (2021): Darling, can I borrow your credit card?

...Ros. From Twisted Sister and The Oh Sees to Lee Scratch Perry and Neil Young. From !!! to Zappa, in fact. ....

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GUEST MUSICIAN STINKY JIM walks us through his new Spacial Awareness album

...a grin inducing intro, written around the time Lee Scratch Perry passed so I was submerged in his incredible...

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IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent releases

...Serge Gainsbourg (Requiem Pour Un Con), Lee Scratch Perry (Disco Devil) and James Brown (King Heroin)....

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Max Romeo: War Ina Babylon (1976)

...a killer album, War Ina Babylon, produced by Lee Scratch Perry at his Black Ark Studio. It was chock full of...

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African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga (On U-Sound/digital outlets)

...of early reggae artists like Prince Far I, Lee Scratch Perry and Nyabinghi chants. Always a trip and always...

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Max Romeo: Wet Dream (1969)

...Max Romeo has his War Ina Babylon (produced by Lee Scratch Perry) as an Essential Elsewhere album for its...

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10 MORE SOMEWHAT RARE REGGAE ALBUMS I'M PROUD TO OWN (2021): Off-beat and x-ray sounds

.... Jah Lion: Colombia Colly (1976) Produced by Lee Scratch Perry at his Black Ark Studios and released on...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2012: READERS' CHOICES

...This isn't Come On Eileen. The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry; The Orserver In The Star House. This is going...

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BILL LASWELL INTERVIEWED (1994): In the den of the alchemist

...Photographs of William Burroughs and Lee Scratch Perry, recording equipment, mobile phone, odd...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Hamilton of British Sea Power

...(And your most recent downloads include . . .) Lee Scratch Perry, Arkology,.. hoots mon One song, royalties for...

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10 RARE FREE JAZZ ALBUMS I'M PROUD TO OWN (2017): Abstract arts from the past

...sometimes just for his out-there persona (the Lee Scratch Perry of “free jazz”?) more than his...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011, READERS' CHOICES

...album, with a Dave Dobbyn reference thrown in.Lee Scratch Perry - Nu sound and version. Mr Perry remixed by... ...Albums . . . International Broadcaster – Lee Scratch Perry – On U soundDelaney Davidson – Bad...

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Big Walter and the Thunderbirds: Watusie Freeze Part 1 (1959)

...unexpected: Ray Cathode is here too, as is Lee Scratch Perry's Upsetters, the mad funk of Travis Wammack...

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SOUTHBOUND'S RECORD STORE DAY 2019: See you round, like a record . . .

...and Friends – Back To The Ark 4LPboxset LEE SCRATCH PERRY - Big Ben Rock (woodie Taylor Remix) VL...

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Pitch Black: Echoes of the Night; The Adrian Sherwood Remixes (digital outlets)

...of those voices you hear belongs to the great Lee Scratch Perry. These singles-length tracks might just be...

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GWEN STEFANI of NO DOUBT INTERVIEWED (2001): Style and substance

The fact is, Gwen Stefani of No Doubt looks even more gorgeous lounging casually on the couch opposite than she does in her carefully styled photo shoots. While her magazine image is often that of a d

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JAMDOWN, a film by EMMANUEL BONN (MVD DVD)

This unfocused and largely haphazard film -- part travel footage, part film of reggae artists, some political subtext hinted at -- dates from 1980 when French filmmaker Bonn took a camera to Jamaica a

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International Observer: Felt (Dubmission)

The first thing to note about this new album by producer/dubmeister Tom Bailey is that there are 12 tracks. No noodling around or nodding off going on here, Bailey doesn't let any groove outstay its w

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Ziggy Marley: Wild and Free (Tuff Gong)

After a faltering start with the Melody Makers, Ziggy (now 42) uncoupled his music from overly familiar reggae rhythms and incorporated African sounds, hooked up with rap artists, kept a political age

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JUDY MOWATT INTERVIEWED (1990): The black queen arises

Judy Mowatt wears her unofficial title “the queen of reggae" easily. A striking figure of regal bearing, she holds her head high, and, as a member of The Twelve Tribes of Israel, talks as e

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BURNING SPEAR INTERVIEWED (2000): Still tending his crop

Burning Spear lets go a deep, resonant laugh which starts as a chuckle then becomes increasingly full-throated. Savour that moment, it's the only break in his gravitas during this friendly, respectful

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Bunny Wailer: Amagideon/Armagedon (1976)

As Bob Marley was advancing a more light-filled, if still serious, face of Rastafarianism into the world, it fell to deep roots groups like Culture, the great Burning Spear and Bob's old bandmate in t

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Dub Colossus: A Town Called Addis (Real World/Southbound)

Bridging dub, world music, an ethnomusicology project and with a smattering of jazz, this project by UK musician/producer/remixer Nick Page who is Dubulah, aka Dub Colossus (and co-founder of the grou

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DAMIAN MARLEY INTERVIEWED (2006): Maintaining the family standard

The most common complaint from those who have stardom thrust upon them -- the tabloid coverage and paparazzi, the private chef serving you rather than some kid on minimum wage -- is that nothing prepa

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BOB MARLEY; RASTAMAN VIBRATION RECONSIDERED: The legacy is music and the message

The bassist with Hamilton reggae band Katchafire, Ara Adams-Tamatea, said it: "You go to parties now and they are still playing the same '70s Bob albums 20 and 30 years later. Why is that? Becaus

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The Maytals: Disco Reggae (1977)

You could almost understand Kay Starr singing Rock and Roll Waltz as the waters around her rose in the Fifties. Her style was being swamped by the likes of rockabilly and rock'n'roll, so she was proba

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Managers: The Grove St Tapes (Hoi)

While it's hardly a tabloid heading -- "Ska band in reggae shock!" -- it is something of a surprise to hear Auckland's long-running and popular live act shift from upbeat ska to downbeat reg

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The Heptones: Sweet Talking (Studio One)

Produced by the legendary Clement Dodd and fronted by the sweet voice of Leroy Sibbles, the Heptones were one of the great Jamaican vocal trios who brought in soulful harmonies borrowed from 50s bands

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Willi Williams: Right Time (year unknown, mid 70s?)

Reggae singer/writer Willi Williams is best known as the man who gave the world Armagideon Time which the Clash covered (and which appears on the Tougher Than Tough collection) -- and many other deep

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Byron Lee and the Dragonaires: Elizabethan Reggae (1969)

Long before the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra of the late Eighties/early Nineties, Jamaican musicians were appropriating classical music and turning it around over ska and reggae rhythms. The provenan

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Dub Asylum: Ba Ba Boom! EP (www.dubasylum.co.nz)

If I've been tardy getting to this terrific EP of beats, hip-hop meets reggae culture, and much more it's that I have been so busy backloading the archives. But let it be said that in downtime from th

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Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live Forever (Universal)

Some albums are accorded greater cachet because of the circumstances of their creation. Does anyone really think George Harrison would have won a Grammy for his instrumental Marwa Blues if he had been

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The Skatalites: Anthology (Primo/Southbound)

This 35-track double disc pulls together essential Skatalite material alongside work that appeared under the names of some the group's members (Rolando Alphonso, Baba Brooks, Don Drummond, Tommy McCoo

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