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Lee Scratch Perry at his Black Ark Studio

Posted by | September 25, 2009

In ‘More Brilliant than the Sun’ Kodwo Eshun calls Dub the ‘MythScience of the Mixing Desk’ and recalls Perry describing the Black Ark Studio as a space craft: ‘The drum controls the heartbeat and the bass holds the space. I dub from inner to outer space. The sound that I get out of the Black Ark Studio, I don’t really get it out of no other studio. It was like a space craft. You could hear space in the tracks.’ Read more