While no doubt a completely essential artist and a key figure in all things dub and reggae, the amount of compilations, repackagings, and collections in 's discography can be absolutely staggering and often spotty quality-wise. Linux packet generator. Is a somewhat more focused collection, honing in closely on 14 stylistically diverse tracks from the period right before opened up his own studio, and was still recording in various other Jamaican studios. This incredibly productive time period is also when was experimenting with the early dub techniques that would result in 1973's genre-defining, often credited as the first stereo dub album and certainly one of the most colorful and strange dub sets ever pressed to wax. There are some reflections of the mentality that spawned here, with the deep dub rhythms and roving stereo echoes of 'Roots Rock Dub' or 'Perry In Dub.' Unhinged blurts of noisy sound effects and clattering percussion show up from time to time as well, foreshadowing the step into the deep end would later take with mooing cow sound effects and other studio madness on classic productions like. There's also ample air time given on to 's more jump-up ska or organ-heavy, roots-leaning productions, with tunes like 'Good Will Dub' characterized by 's wanton studio experimenting, omitting crucial elements of the song at random and boiling down the remaining rhythm and vocal tracks into something unpredictable even by his wild man standards. All told, the compilation is a solid, if sometimes scattered, picture of a particular era in 's remarkably prolific work flow.

The first fully-fledged Lee “Scratch” Perry dub album, and one of a handful of records vying for the title of “First Dub LP,” the album was initially issued in small quantities in Jamaica on the Upsetter label as a 14-song album mixed with channel separation, like an Esquivel record, with the drum and bass largely in the left speaker. Best known by his nickname Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Born on Mar 20, 1936 in St. Mary's, Jamaica. First called 'Little' Perry, in reference to his height of 4'11' (1.5m), he is a major founder of Reggae and Dub.

Anyone looking for a deeper exposure to the intimacies of 's studio process will find these tracks fascinating, though more casual listeners might miss some of the subtler production weirdness that's lurking in almost every corner.

ARTIST: Various. Produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry 1976 - 1979 TITLE: Arkology RELEASE: July 15, 1997 LABEL: Island Jamaica FORMAT: FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec 'Purportedly the definitive Lee 'Scratch' Perry compilation, the three-CD set Arkology is loaded with good intentions and is carefully constructed, but with a back catalog like Perry's -- where it's nearly impossible to find out what's what -- definitive in this case is a dream. Still, the compilers have done a fine job of providing an overview of Perry's career that makes sense musically, historically, and culturally.