Wednesday - 10/14/20 (#053)

Lee was a popular record plugger prior to becoming a recording engineer. These two roles helped him to become the successful producer that he was.

Lee was instrumental in producing early dub music, working with his friend and dub pioneer King Tubby in the early 1970s. Lee and Tubby were experimenting with new production techniques which Lee described as "implements of sound."[8] Working with equipment that today would be considered primitive and limiting, they produced tracks that consisted of mostly the rhythm parts mixed with distorted or altered versions of a song. *

In 2008 Lee was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Jamaican government in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican music. *2

On October 6, 2020 Lee passed away due to respiratory failure.

*Replicant: On Dub" by David Toop; Chapter 51, Pages 355–356.

*2 - Burrell, Ian (2014) "Jamaican music producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee: Rewinding a career that never missed a beat", The Independent, 11 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014

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