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Pat Kelly is mainly known for the haunting singing voice that powered dozens of hit songs, and nearly had him signed to The Beatles' Apple label. And Stanley 'Barnabas' Bryan is also a deejay, percussionist and drummer, who played on big tunes for Sugar Minott, Junior Reid and Tenor Saw. Both fell under the spell of King Tubby's seismic experiments with dub music in the early 1970's, Pat Kelly as an engineer at Tubby's own studio in Waterhouse, and Barnabas at the larger Channel One Studio, run by Jo Jo and Ernest Hoo Kim. Whereas most Channel One dub mixes sound very different from those mixed at King Tubby's, it is much harder to distinguish some dubs mixed by Barnabas, as he also introduced a filtering effect in imitation of the famous hi-pass filter, or 'squawky', at King Tubby's. 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Their importance to the music’s development can never be overstated but, apart from a handful of notable exceptions, there remains a remarkable absence of any biographies of reggae’s artists, musicians and record producers. “In a career that has lasted for over forty years Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee has faithfully met the needs of his audience for music that accurately reflected their concerns and, in the process, enjoyed huge hits and provided work for dozens of singers, musicians and studio technicians. His contribution to the story of Jamaican music has been as great, if not greater, than that of many, more celebrated, men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack 1. Music Field - Roy Shirley 1967 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack 2. My Conversation - Slim Smith \u0026amp; The Uniques 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack 3. The Russians Are Coming - Val Bennett 1968 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack 4. Wet Dream - Max Romeo 1968 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack 5. 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