"Ring the Alarm" — Tenor Saw

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Tenor Saw on the Stalag rhythm, 1985 — the biggest voice of the digital dancehall's first year on one of the most enduring rhythms the music has. The hook has been sampled and answered constantly, and the record stands as the standard demonstration of what a singer could do over a spare computerised track. Tenor Saw died in 1988, in his early twenties.