The Casio Casiotone MT40 was released in 1981. Four years later it would change reggae music forever. Looking at the Casio Casiotone MT40, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an unremarkable ...

Singer and Dancehall Reggae pioneer Wayne Smith, who ushered in a new wave of digital beats in the genre, is dead at 48. Credited with creating the still popular “Under mi Sleng Teng” riddim, or ...

“Under Mi Sleng Teng,” by Jamaican singer Wayne Smith, is one of the milestones in the history of Jamaican popular music. Written by Smith and his friend Noel Davey, the pioneering dancehall classic ...

Three years after Bob Marley’s death in 1981, the roots-reggae sound he led to international acceptance was still popular in Jamaica. However, it was under pressure from an emerging genre called ...

A new reissue marks the 40th anniversary of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” considered one of dancehall’s first digital songs and, with over 500 versions, among the most recycled. By Patricia Meschino In 1984, ...

TOKYO (AP) — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the 1985 ...

In 1980, a young woman who loved Jamaican music and graduated from music college with a thesis on reggae joined Casio Computer as a developer. The very first instrument she worked on helped usher in a ...

Sleng Teng, the rhythm that transformed dancehall-reggae, turns 40 this year. Lloyd “King Jammy” James, who produced the computerised beat and hit single of the same name, plans to celebrate the ...

On the night of 23 February 1985, a soundclash to end them all was in full swing on a big lawn off Waltham Park Road in Kingston, Jamaica. Black Scorpio sound system’s Jah Screw kicked off the event ...

A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the 1985 reggae hit ...

TOKYO, Japan — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a bouncy rhythm from a portable electronic keyboard that’s the brainchild of a Japanese woman. The pattern that resonates in the ...