Main Stage - Live at Rototom Sunsplash, Spain

Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Upsetter, Jamaica

Much has been written about this iconoclastic riddim maverick, whose career has been as colorful and varied as Perry's wardrobe. Initially causing widespread chaos at Coxone Dodd's sound, and then Joe Gibbs' sound through the 60's, Lee Perry found his feet with his label Upsetter and set about delivering a defining reggae template to the world. In the 70's Perry explored his own production vision even further with his Black Ark studio, and alongside other producers like King Tubby, Keith Hudson, and Errol Thompson, pioneered a new dub sound. Little could Perry have predicted the impact his limited 300 pressing Blackboard Jungle Dub LP would have, going on to inspire practically every strain of musical variation since, from hip hop to jungle, dubstep to techno, post-punk to house. Perry's legacy just gets bigger and bigger, and even now in his seventies, he is still recording and touring, recently teaming up again with Adrian Sherwood for The Mighty Upsetter LP. Step to this, his live set at Rototom Soundsplash 2011.