Dubtember 16 - Can’t Scratch nah Better Dub

 

Perry needs no introduction here or anywhere music is loved. The true Upsetter. 

Here are a couple as varied as the man himself. 

The first one is just what the name states, a collection of rare cuts from Scratch from the Black Aek days.

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Cutting Razor: Rare Cuts from the Black Ark,
Heartbeat Records, 2003.
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Cutting Razor (alternate mix) - Junior Byles & the Versatiles
Staring - Time Unlimited
Let's Fall in Love - Junior Murvin    
What a Sin - Lee Perry
Sufferer's Time - The Heptone’s    
One Step Forward - Max Romeo    
Righteous Judgment - The Upsetters    
Black Candle - Leo Graham    
Big Tongue Buster (alternate mix)- Leo Graham    
Come Along - The Bluebells    
Yama Khy (alternate take)- U Roy    
Land of Love - Sons of Light    
Feelings (alternate take) - Sharon Isaacs
Mister Craven - Junior Murvin    
Walk the Streets - Rajah Ruffin    
4 & 20 Dreadlocks - Evon Jones 
Judgment - Time Unlimited

 

 

 

This next one is a 21st Century offering with Perry's vocal improvisation matched with British multi-instumentalist musician Steve Marshall's songwriting, all instrumentation, & production. 

 

Lee "Scratch" Perry - The End of an American Dream, Megaware Records MEGW 0242, 2007.

Disarm
Are You Ready?
The End of an American Dream
One God Rain
So Be It
I Will Be There
I am the God of Fire
The Lord's Prayer
I Am New Yorker
Teddy Bear
Hallo Jamaica
Shazam
Memories
Uooba Skooba
Cats Bats Rats
Disco Cats

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

And Lee Scratch Perry...

And... February

Every February I try to have a theme that I carry through the entire month. It began with Black History Month (fuck Trump!!!) & has included Fems of February, Trip-hop February, Synth-pop February, well you get the idea.

This month I am featuring music from an artist that I hold in the highest esteem. Founder & head of Ariwa Studios, producer Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, the one & only Mad Professor is that man. I have shared his music here more than any other artist (except for the stealth Muslimgauze links) & with the addition of this month, that record will go unchallenged.

Mad Professor has worked with fellow artist around the world, a truly eclectic bunch of collabs. So this month each day will be Mad Professor & somebody new...

 

Starting off the month is the one artist Mad Professor has collaborated with the most often, the two having released more than a dozen albums & a bunch of singles together. This is their first joint. Two mad men in Dub.

 

Lee Perry - Meets the Mad Professor in Dub Chapter One, Angella Records ANG008, 1987.
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Side 1 -
Two Mad Man in Dub
World Peace
Blood of the Dragon
Space Dub
Power Dub

Side 2 -
Noah's Ark
Recornation
The Other Side of Midnight
Mark of the Beast
Hold Yu Corner

 

 

 

Here we go,
NØ

Dub September - 12th

Lee "Scratch" Perry - One Drop / Judgement in a Babylon, Lion of Judah LPD001, 1981.

Side a -
One Drop
Side b -
Judgement in a Babylon

Enjoy,
NØ

For the Journey Home

Reuploaded by request 03/22/2026 

 

Playing with Adrian

Lee "Scratch" Perry - The Mighty Upsetter, On-U Sound – ONUCD 1001, 2008.
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Exercising (backing vocals – Gopika & Nadaka)
International Broadcaster (featuring – L.S.K. & Roots Manuva)
Kilimanjaro    
Rockhead    
Lucy Charm    
Political Confusion (backing vocals – Denise Sherwood)
Yellow Tongue (lead & backing vocals – Samia Farah)
Lee's Garden    
Everything Start from Scratch
God Smiled    
Speak the Truth (operatic & Skenga vocals – Samia Farah) 

 

Playing with himself in his Secret Laboratory

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Must Be Free, Megawave Records MEGW0452, 2016.

Psycho Dread    
Rat Race (backing vocals – Karienne Scott)
House of Sin    
Isabel    
Jungle Tongue    
No Evil    
No Sorrow    
On Nigeria    
Strip Off    
Too Much is Too Much    
Therapist    
Must Be Free    

bonus track    
House of Sin (remix) 

 

Doing it Live

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Sun is Shining (live), Secret Records SECCD019, 2010.

Return of Django
Sick & Tired
Sun is Shining
To Be a Lover
Have Some Mercy
One Drop
Crazy Baldhead
Jah Live
God Smiled
Curley Locks
War ina Babylon
Exodus
        
bonus track    
Return of Django (studio version)

Onward to Zion, Jack Lightning,
NØ

The Best of Both Worlds?

This is a re-dub version of the Bullwackie/Perry release Satan Kicked the Bucket recorded in 1988 at Bullwackie's studio in New Jersey ("Ooh La La Dub" was recorded at Perry's resurrected Black Ark studio in Kingston). Having largely given up production work by then, Scratch concentrated on performing & singing in his own unique stream-of-consciousness style over Bullwackie's dub-influenced, more electronic tunes. Satan Kicked the Bucket is a fairly mundane release for both Bullwackie & Perry (compared to Bullwackies releases from the early 80s or Perry’s From the Secret Laboratory with Adrian Sherwood two years later).

In Satan’s Dub is a much better version. It features the Chosen Brothers & has a deeper, darker, funkier vibe with plenty of Perry’s surreal verbal excursions (rough vocals accompanied by grunts, squawks, assorted ranting & raving). Wackies All Stars created a fine groove & Bullwackie let it run more than he manipulated the sound, producing a work surprisingly minimalist in its approach. This re-dub plays to all the highlight of the original without its glaring faults.

Lee "Scratch" Perry Meets Bullwackie ‎– In Satan's Dub,
Reachout International Records RUSCD 8241, 1998.
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Tracklist –

Satan Dub

Come Home Dub

Ooh La La Dub

Upful Dub Fashion

President Dub

Dub Skeem

Strange Dub

Bog Walk Skanking

Undercover Dub

Stop Stop Dub

Moving in Dub

Dub Master

Lee gaan to bed,
NØ

I'm Trippin' on LSP Right Now

I couldn’t wait any longer to post up my week-end Dub mix. This mix features Lee Perry. (aka Scratch, the Upsetter, the Super-Ape, Pipecock Jackxon, the Firmament Computer, Inspector Gadget).

I just got my tickets to the Dub Champions Festival with Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System: 40th Anniversary of Super Ape, Thursday, September 3, 2015 in San Francisco. I'm really psyched (though not so trim).

With “People Funny Boy”, Perry used what may be the first sampling (a baby crying to goad his former boss, Joe Gibbs) & created the style that would become reggae. Along with King Tubby, he was one of the instigators of Dub. He was probably the most prolific producer of all. Perry’s style consisted of improvising his cuts on the fly, whirling like a dervish behind the mixing board, blowing ganja smoke directly onto the tape reels. He would drink tape head cleaner when he ran out of Dragon Stout. By the late 70s Perry was seeing UFOs, kicking out any dreadlocks from Black Ark, & covering the walls with deranged scatological prophecies. In 1979, during a bout of severely eccentric behavior, Perry supposedly trashed & burned his studio & may have wound up briefly in a mental institution.

Perry has given up the demon Alcohol & the Jah ganga (he’s 79 years of age) & lives in Switzerland with his wife Mireille & a couple kids.

He is still recording (two tracks here are from 2014) & performing (Lee Perry & the White Belly Rats, Lee Perry & Dub Is A Weapon, Lee Perry & Dubblestandart; Lee Perry & Subatomic Sound System).

Currently there are two feature length movies about his life & work: Volker Schaner's Vision of Paradise & The Upsetter by filmmakers Ethan Higbee & Adam Bhala Lough.

But enough about LSP. If you’re here now, you already know. I’m just rambling.

LSP - Friday Delight mix

Tracklist –

Super Ape from The Upsetters – Super Ape

Creation Dub, pt. 1 from Lee Perry & the Upsetters – Ape-ology

People Funny Boy from Lee King Perry single

Dub Organizer from The Upsetters 14 Dub – Blackboard Jungle

Dub Revolution, pt 1 from Lee Perry & the Upsetters – Arkology CD1

In These Times Dub from Arkology CD2

Chrome Optimism (with David Lynch) from Nu School of Planet Dub

Creation Dub, pt. 2 (see pt 1)

I Do Voodoo (with Gudrun) from Nu School of Planet Dub

Zion Blood – from The Upsetters – Super Ape

Revelation Dub from The Upsetters – Arkology CD1

Groovy Dub from Lee Perry – Megatron Dub 2

Psycha & Trim from The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape

Creation Dub, pt. 3 (see pt 1)

Return of the Super Ape from The Upsetters – Return of the Super Ape

I & I Brukout,

NØ