Lee Scratch Perry's Fambily

[Bricktop]

[Hortical]

In his early producing days, he was one of the music's pioneers. He had a bitter breakup with the Wailers, who claimed he sold the rights to their music without the groups permission to some unscrupulous record labels.

[Islandman]

He was a pioneer not only of reggae music, but he is also considered one of the pioneers of what is today called the "remix".

He is a strange one though, i read an interview where he said he should have been born a white man, and things like that. Not to mention that he sold out the Wailers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version.

Modern remixing had its roots in the dance hall culture of late-1960s/early-1970s Jamaica. The fluid evolution of music that encompassed ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub was embraced by local mixing wizards who deconstructed and rebuilt tracks to suit the tastes of their audience. Producers and engineers like Ruddy Redwood, King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry popularized stripped-down instrumental mixes (which they called "versions") of reggae tunes. At first they simply dropped the vocal tracks, but soon more sophisticated effects were created, dropping separate instrumental tracks in and out of the mix, isolating and repeating hooks, and adding various effects like echo, reverberation and delay.