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How Rastafari belief and Nyabinghi rhythm gave roots reggae its voice.

The selector went from an anonymous pair of hands on the turntable to the named star of the dance.

A handful of Jamaican rhythm tracks are so familiar that a single drum fill or bassline note identifies them across fifty years and three generations of dancehall.

In Jamaica the mixing desk became an instrument, and the men behind it — King Tubby, Errol Thompson, Scientist, Lee Perry — became performers in their own right.