Reggae goes digital with the release of Under Mi Sleng Teng

February 1985: Number 40 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicNew technology has always driven new styles of music, and while authorship of the "sleng teng" rhythm has been disputed, it seems likely that it was Wayne Smith himself who found the sound as a built-in pattern on a Casio MT-40 home keyboard. The rhythm was apparently an attempt to re-create Eddie Cochran's Somethin' Else.Subsequently, producer King Jammy added a clap to it, and thus the rhythm – ...

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