Super Ape album cover
Super Ape

The Upsetters , Lee "Scratch" Perry

1976
Island Records

Dub was just coming into its own as a reggae subgenre in 1976, but by this point producer Lee “Scratch” Perry was already using it as the foundation for his own utterly unique (not to say certifiably insane) musical vision. Operating from his tiny Black Ark studio and using rudimentary equipment, he created sounds that no other producer had before – or has since. On Super Ape, you hear what may be the high point of his sound-mixing creativity: wet, swampy reverb; bottomless echo; weird sound effects – the elements are all here, and against all odds it succeeds magnificently.

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