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The Upsetters
Lee Perry's house band from 1968-1972, featuring the Barrett brothers (Aston "Family Man" and Carlton) and other session musicians who laid the rhythmic foundation for dub. They recorded the instrumental tracks that Perry would later transform through his Black Ark mixing techniques, creating albums like Super Ape that showcased the studio-as-instrument approach.
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Super Ape
1976
Lee Perry's 1976 Black Ark masterpiece showcasing his studio-as-instrument approach with dense, hallucinogenic production. The album captured Perry's four-track bouncing technique at its peak, with tape hiss becoming texture and unconventional sounds—tapping on the mixing desk, rattling chains, bird sounds—woven into the fabric of the tracks.