Lee Perry’s time at WIRL Records, later to be renamed Dynamic Sounds Studios, was a very productive time in his career. A run of great singles and the shaping of a new sound, the beginning of what we know today as Reggae. Lee Perry his entry into the music business at the ageof 16. Moving up to Kingston Town and working around various Sound Systems, before finding employment at Coxonne Dodd’s Studio One set up, in the late 50’s early 1960’s.
Another important relationship for Perry, his first recordings with Bob Marley came in the form of the Wailers, also providing backing, alongside the Soulettes who featured Rita Marley Bunny Lee would play a major part in lee Perry's career around this time and they were very close, often sharing sessions and rhythms. Ironically it would be Bunny Lee that took over Perry's roll at WIRL and become responsible for the labels products in years to come. Clifford Rae who give control to Bunny for a lot of the WIRL product and even gave him his shop 101 Orange Street. So here we have a collection of music born out of a time spent at WIRL Records and providing an important chapter in Lee Perry's career and indeed to the story of Reggae itself.