Lee "Scratch" Perry is a remix pioneer. [1/1] Long before Beastie Boys & Weird Al, Scratch [1936 - ] was appropriating, adapting, combining & improving early reggae music in his Black Ark Studio with audio techniques that were unheard of at the time.

"Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks."

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