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Super Ape — Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters

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Super Ape, recorded at Black Ark in 1976, pushed dub into a fully psychedelic, effects-drenched idiom and is routinely ranked among the greatest dub albums ever made.

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Discogs; Rough Guide to Reggae; MusicBrainz.

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Story · ProbableThe dub album as its own art form

By the mid-1970s, stripping a reggae master down to drum, bass and echo had stopped being a B-side trick and become an album statement in its own right.

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