Happy Birthday Lee 'Scratch' Perry

"...Since the dawn of recorded music in Jamaica, the man known as Rainford Hugh Lee Perry has been a wellspring of innovation. His influence is evident throughout pre-1980s Jamaican music: as a singer, songwriter, talent scout, dub mixer, producer, and more, his direct musical contribution is enormous. Furthermore, his musical ideas have inspired not only his contemporaries, but musicians to this day, even in genres outside of reggae. With an artist as important as Perry, it is natural to want to document his life's work; unfortunately, the attempt to catalogue his entire musical output is not only a daunting task, but most likely an impossible one." - Upsetters Riddim Shower.

"...I see the studio must be like a living thing, a life itself. The machine must be live and intelligent. Then I put my mind into the machine and the machine perform reality. Invisible thought waves - you put them into the machine by sending them through the controls and the knobs or you jack it into the jack panel. The jack panel is the brain itself, so you got to patch up the brain and make the brain a living man, that the brain can take what you sending into it and live." - Lee Perry at Jahsonic.