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Limited 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP pressing. This classic album from 1973 saw it’s creator, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry exploring synths and starting to develop his Black Ark sound – the enigmatic producer was at the time in the process of building his famous studio and honing his ideas about dub as a musical form. The LP opens with the eerie Kentucky Skank, Perry’s ode to KFC, complete with frying chicken sounds, spliced between winding tapes, a ghostly trumpet, and futuristic moog synthesizer, overdubbed at London’s Chalk Farm studios. U Roy’s Double Six and I Roy’s High Fashion and Hail Stones illustrate just how strong The Upsetter’s deejay material had become, while versions of the Chi-Lites’ We Are Neighbors, Sam & Dave’s Soul Man and a re-working of Al Green’s Love and Happiness (retitled Jungle Lion) all betray the funky soul influence that was increasingly shaping his work.
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