
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Lee Scratch Perry was a Jamaican reggae producer and songwriter. He released albums including Lee Perry the Upsetter Presents Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread and Return of the Super Ape with The Upsetters. Perry also released Jamaican E.T., which earned him the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. He is known for popular songs such as Dreadlocks In Moonlight, Curly Locks, and Soul Rebel. Perry was instrumental in pioneering the sound of dub music and became a super-producer, working with artists such as Bob Marley & the Wailers and Junior Murvin. Perry passed away in 2021.
Latest Release
- JUN 5, 2026 Spatial, No Problem.

The Jamaican prankster-shaman’s last séance. To hear Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars describe it, the three-day session for Spatial, No Problem.—the dub prankster-shaman Lee Perry’s last project before his death in 2021—was typically atypical. There was a lot of chanting, a lot of wandering around, suitcases full of knickknacks, and pages full of cryptic phrases, fish soup, papaya, and laughter. Perry reportedly didn’t want it to be a reggae album, and it isn’t. Instead, it’s basically the kind of misfit electropop party hodgepodge Mouse on Mars has been refining since the late ’90s, with Perry unspooling his chatty stream of consciousness on top, channeling Neu-style motorik (“Rockcurry”), Ethio-jazz (“Spatialee”), and macabre New Orleans brass-band music (“State of Emergency”). There’s no center here, no song, but moods? Loose, funny, endless.
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About
- FROM
- Kendal, Jamaica
- BORN
- March 20, 1936
- GENRE
- Reggae