The Best Of Lee "Scratch" Perry (2016)

`Lee "Scratch" Perry is less a performer than a producer, mixer, dub master, and musical auteur, and whether he is crazy as a loon or crazy as a fox will be debated endlessly by Perry buffs. ´If you have good music, you have good magic.” Perry has a way with words. These words in particular, spoken to The Guardian on his 80th birthday, summarize well the kind of accessible mysticism that the reggae icon and dub wizard has wielded over his 50-plus-year career. If you’ve listened to a reggae album, a dubplate, even much of the vast world of electronic music in the past 40-50 years, you’ve heard music that’s been touched, influenced or shaped in some way by Perry. Whether in his early innovations on some of dub’s earliest recordings, or through his production work for the likes of Bob Marley, Max Romeo, Junior Murvin or The Congos, Lee Perry changed the shape of both Jamaican music and popular music at large.´ (diverse bronnen)