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Lee "Scratch" Perry: Time Boom or De Devil Dead (On-U)

Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 23 June 1987

History. It started as a stripping-down process concocted to provide Jamaican reggae with skanky instrumentals over which crooners might croon and toasters might toast.

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