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Tempo

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Digital riddim from King Tubby's Firehouse camp, named for Anthony Red Rose's "Tempo" (1985). Arriving in the first wave after Sleng Teng, it proved the digital turn was a movement rather than a one-off, and its dark, minimal pulse kept being recut into the 1990s.

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dancehall discographies; Tubby production histories.

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Anthony Rose - Tempo (Jamaica, 1985)

YOUTUBE · rights discovery only · archive source

Community-archived upload of the original 1985 Waterhouse recording; discovery-only embed.

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Story · ProbableWaterhouse digital: the mic men after Sleng Teng

When King Jammy's went digital in 1985, a wave of deejays rode the new Waterhouse computer sound into the dancehall mainstream.

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