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King Scratch - Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive

Lee Scratch Perry

2022 · Reggae

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King Scratch - Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive by Lee Scratch Perry

King Scratch - Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive is a Reggae album by Lee Scratch Perry, originally released in 2022. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.

About

For those uninitiated into the world of reggae and dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry, <i>King Scratch</i> is as good an introduction as you’ll find. Often framed as an eccentric or, worse, a kind of idiot savant, Perry didn’t just make some of the more unusual-sounding reggae of the ’60s and ’70s—he helped evolve Jamaican pop from its foundations as dance music into something more like art. As a producer, he was both precise and extremely stoned (Bunny & Ricky’s “Bushweed Corntrash,” Junior Murvin’s “Police and Thieves”); as a performer, he was both a cutup and a mystic (“Soul Fire,” “I Am a Madman”). And if you think any of this means his music was less elementally funky than his more pedestrian peers’, it wasn’t.

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Tracklist

  1. 1People Funny Boy2:36
  2. 2Tighten Up2:42
  3. 3Return of Django2:32
  4. 4Shocks of Mighty2:49
  5. 5Place Called Africa2:42
  6. 6All Africans (Don't Cross the Nation) [7" Mix]2:56
  7. 7Beat Down Babylon2:35
  8. 8Words of My Mouth3:35
  9. 9Bucky Skank3:51
  10. 10Jungle Lion (7" Mix)3:26
  11. 11Hurt so Good (7" Mix)3:06
  12. 12Curley Locks3:01
  13. 13Bushweed Corntrash3:25
  14. 14Stay Dread2:11
  15. 15Three Blind Mice2:56
  16. 16Do It Baby (Nice and Easy) [7" Mix]3:23
  17. 17Natty Pass Through Rome4:54
  18. 18One Step Forward / Ital Corner (12" Mix)6:48
  19. 19Sufferer's Time3:03
  20. 20Police and Thief (Police and Thieves) [12" Mix]6:07
  21. 21Roast Fish and Corn Bread (Jamaican Mix)3:37
  22. 22Sipple Out Deh (War in Babylon) [Jamaican Mix]3:38
  23. 23Fire Fe the Vatican (7" Mix)3:35
  24. 24Rise and Shine2:50
  25. 25Chase the Devil / Disco Devil (with The Full Experience)5:16
  26. 26Voodooism3:29
  27. 27Open the Gate (7" Mix)4:05
  28. 28Roots Train (7" Mix)3:34
  29. 29Soul Fire (Jamaican Mix)3:54
  30. 30Cross Over (12" Mix)6:57
  31. 31At the Feast (Of the Passover)3:40
  32. 32Free Up the Prisoners (7" Mix)3:52
  33. 33Sons of Slaves (7" Mix)3:10
  34. 34Big Neck Policeman3:38
  35. 35Neckodeemus (Nicodemus) [7" Mix]3:39
  36. 36Bafflin' Smoke Signal (7" Mix)3:31
  37. 37One Drop7:01
  38. 38I Am a Madman (7" Mix)4:27
  39. 39Exodus (7" Mix)3:38
  40. 40Jamaican E.T.5:40

Sound DNA

  • Reggae
  • Roots Reggae
  • warm
  • hypnotic
  • psychedelic

Album notes

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Packaging: 2xCD digisleeve - issued in a cardboard tri-fold (6-panel) wallet crescent with spine (reverse-board matte finish, medium spine with text) (openings are at either side of the inner spine and there is a booklet tunnel pocket on the middle panel - CD 1 left panel, CD 2 right panel). 12-page stapled booklet insert. Rectangle black cover hype sticker.
(From cover hype sticker on front shrinkwrap):
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Credits

The people behind it.

Production & Engineering

  • Lee PerryPRODUCER [ALL RECORDINGS PRODUCED BY]

Songwriting

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