Lee Scratch Perry

Entertainment News Aug 31, 2021

Lee 'Scratch' Perry, reggae and dub wizard, dies at 85

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the wildly influential Jamaican singer and producer who pushed the boundaries of reggae and shepherded dub, died Sunday. He was 85 years old.

Music Oct 27, 2006

Dub pioneer Lee Perry talks God, ganja and Japanese gadgets

by Daniel Robson

Musical resumes don't get much more impressive than Lee "Scratch" Perry's, the Jamaican maverick credited with inventing both dub and reggae. Now 70, Perry was a talent scout for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's famed Studio One in the late 1950s and early '60s; he pioneered sampling ...

Music Oct 27, 2006

On-U Sound from way out

by Jeff Hammond

At most live gigs, all eyes are on the band while the mixing desk is tucked out of sight with some guy in a T-shirt standing behind it simply making sure each instrument comes out at the right level. But indicating how far our perception ...

Music Sep 22, 2002

The man's on FAAAY-YA!

by Tom Bojko

"It was only four tracks on the machine," Jamaican music legend Lee "Scratch" Perry once said of an early mixing board, "but I was picking up 20 from the extraterrestrial squad." Last Sunday at the Tokyo club Yellow, the fit 68-year-old Perry burst onto the ...