Lee Scratch Perry - Arkology (1997)

I'm about to do something quite special, although I hope that everything that I post is in some way special. It's special because it is a unique document about Lee Scratch Perry. Lee Perry used to have a recording studio called The Black Ark, established in 1973, where he founded dub. Bob Marley and a shitload of other reggae artists recorded some of their music over there, but Perry was at its best when he was reworking these pieces, and that's what dub is about. In 1979, after a tough time for Perry, he took a magic marker, scribbled the walls full of unreadable doodlings, and burned The Black Ark down to the ground. All the Upsetters records were made there, Junior Byles' stuff, you name it.

On this 3-CD collection, all the best stuff that was created inside The Black Ark, a place that didn't have the best equipment available, but that still created some of the most sonically daring and innovative sounds in electronic music. Have a shitload of fun with this! It's all tagged the way it should be by the way, so just throw it into iTunes and listen away.

arkology part 1
arkology part 2
arkology part 3
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