Lee “Scratch” Perry, born Rainford Hugh – who reportedly died in Noel Holmes hospital in Western Jamaica on Sunday, August 29th – was a visionary that shook up the musical order by jamming tape machines, slogging silverware, packing samples, and layering effects onto tracks that would bleed into hip-hop, r&b, and punk.

GECIN and NW from Parisian record label Sample Delivery drop us a Jamaica special mix that blend gems from different musical periods of the country of sound systems. Well before delivering house music via their […]