ENTITY · RIDDIM

Tempo

Well supported

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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Type: riddim →
Era: Dancehall and the digital turn →
Confidence: Well supported

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Audio

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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In stories

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.