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Home » RCRD SELECTOR » EXCLUSIVE STREAM: Lee "Scratch" Perry - Pum Pum

EXCLUSIVE STREAM: Lee "Scratch" Perry - Pum Pum

Posted 7/22/2008 10:44 AM by David Bevan

Tags: Dub, Reggae

I don't know about you, but there's no price I wouldn't pay to take an hour-long tour of the botanical gardens in Lee "Scratch" Perry's brain. Because as many glimpses as his music gives us, I'd really like to see how gnarly the world looks through those heavy eyeballs you see in the photo above. Now in his 70s, the dub pioneer is about to release a new, Andrew W.K. co-produced full-length (out 8/19 on Narnack) and because many different cosmos aligned recently, RCRD LBL has the pleasure of premiering the very first single: "Pum Pum." If I told you that the track might be as they say, NFSW, you could probably venture a fairly accurate guess as to what the all too elusive "Pum Pum" might be. You've probably even got all kinds of personal experience chasing after it or guarding it at all costs. No clue, none of my beeswax -- I just really wish I would have heard this song YEARS ago.

Come back to the ye olde RCRD LBL in 48 hours and you'll be blessed not with any large quantity of pum pum (wrong on many levels, though we still apologize), but with something slightly less worthwhile depending on your priorities: a conversation with Andrew W.K. all about his adventures with Lee in the studio and elsewhere.

EXCLUSIVE STREAM: Lee "Scratch" Perry - Pum Pum

This rules. So ready for

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 12:08.

This rules. So ready for this album.

David...great to see RCRD

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 15:56.

David...great to see RCRD LBL promoting Lee Perry. Truly one of the living legends that deserves to be held in extremely high regard for the effect his productions had on rocksteady, classic roots reggae, dub and later genres such as trance, jungle, dubstep etc.

For those RCRD LBL readers who dig this type of abstract modern dub work, I'd also recommend Scratch's co-productions with the Mad Professor on the Ariwa label. For those interested in checking some Scratch's earlier master works, check for Upsetter produced albums like The Quest, Cloak & Dagger, Super Ape, and Megaton Dub.

Also check for "Heart of the Congos," an epic Congos album that is considered to be the pinnacle of Scratch's productions while recording at the Black Ark.

@Michael_Irie

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