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Product Description For the first time 15 vital recordings from 1970 to 1979 are gathered in one essential collection. Featured are two groundbreaking collaborations with The Wailers - "Duppy Conqueror" and "Small Axe" - the hugely popular "Curly Locks" by Junior Byles, and defining moments from the Black Ark period like Junior Murvins "Police & Thieves" (later covered by the Clash), Max Romeos "War in a Babylon," and "Neckodeemus" and "Congoman" by The Congos, Perrys crowning achievement. Perry has influenced everyone from The Clash to the Beastie Boys to the entire Trip-Hop nation. Genius? Madman? Buy this disc and decide. Amazon.com Ultimate Collection may be more aptly titled "Essential Collection" as it provides a definitive overview of the career of this notoriously peculiar Jamaican producer and artist. Lee "Scratch" Perry got his start in the legendary Studio One before making his musical mark on the greatest groups of 1970s Jamaica. This collection spans the length of the producer's fertile career, starting in the late 1960s with the molding of the then vocal group the into a reggae group with "Small Axe" and "Duppy Conquerer" before concluding with an extended mix of "Roast Fish and Corn Bread" from Perry's own repertoire of originals. The album is doused in the magical concoctions the eccentric "Ape" stirred up in his legendary Black Ark studio: listeners bear witness to the launching of 's career with "War ina Babylon," the dub fruits of collaborations with ("Vibrate On"), and snippets of the prolific relationship with unknown vocal duo the Congos. With a mixed grab bag of historically important songs from the experimental dub master, Ultimate Collection is an essential starter CD for those interested in the mad genius that was Lee "Scratch" Perry. --Karen K. Hugg
