I love when Jamaican retell a story. “So dare is a man name sunny, who go a broad and meet a guy name front-foot, who was the second cousin to big Wayne who is half cousin to black Mike. That is Sheryl second room mate in college…..” six hours later “and that is who I got the name Juky!”

Amazing, after over 36 years, that riddim still sting. What helped blow it up was the famous Rodigan/Barry G clash in Spanish Town which then aired live on Capital Radio.

I see an interview about that Casio keyboard sound maker, a Japanese woman. All these things make the music world interesting 😊

As a DB fan I can say with certainty that DB would have been delighted and bemused that his song influenced reggae in this way. DB was always an advocate for the black community and our music, he was fearless when he took on MTV regarding their lack of black artists and challenged them head on, he supported his Godson who is mixed race and his Godson's mother, a black woman and kept them from hardship after Marc Bolan died suddenly. I have a lot of love and respect for David Bowie as both a man and an artist.

🎉🎉😂 memories love it ,sleng teng riddim , still a timeless riddim

Whaaaat. Mind blown . One of my favourite Bowie tunes too.

That is flippin amazing. Being a lifelong Bowie fan and reggae fan i can see the similarity. Much love!

RIP WAYNE SMITH

What an informative and well produced explainer video! Stumbled onto this video from another about the Casio that started it all. Looking forward to checking out more of your content.

Wow. I had that keyboard when I was a teen, and used to spend hours playing around with that rock preset. I didn’t have the creativity to turn it into an actual song. This story is amazing.

And so it go. The first time I heard Under mi Sleng Teng and Pumpkin Belly there was no going back. The bass and rhythm I was hooked.

What unlikely confluence of cultures and influences! I come here from 300 gec whose latest "most wanted person in the United States" uses this riff to amazing effect.

Wow, what a story! Great job! Peace.

Very interesting, my favorites were buddy bye and pumpkin belly. I first heard riddim on a mixed cassette from Jamaica and I was hooked first time listening.

カシオの開発者、奥田さんの卒業論文のテーマはレゲエでした。デビットボーイの音楽の原点もレゲエ。2人は、レゲエで繋がっていたのですね。

Can't believe I only just caught this one. Another quality film Thank you Lotek.

This is really beautiful and classic. Thank you for putting it up ❤️

These reggae videos are absolutely super keep them coming bet they take off big time very soon

Thanks for this, wow, I knew only about King Jammy on this

Heard 'Under Me Sleng Teng' a couple of nights ago at a Dancehall event after a many years...the crowed went absolutely nuts!! This riddim is still one of the best and definitely not forgotten! So glad to have stumbled on this video....thank you soo much!...its give us inspiration to create something similar...watch out!!

That's some real quality content. Good Job 👈

Excellent mini doc !

It took him a week to find the demo tune😂 absolutely wicked sound though 🙌🙌🙌

Long before stumbling across this video, I already came to the conclusion that "Sleng Teng" was the GREATEST most "Ridden" Riddim of all time. (just didn't know it was at that magnitude 450+)

And when they started playing Reggae on a calculator it was officially over.

Loved this! Can't get enough of reggae history

Top video production, a great ability to explain the history and a magnificent script. I dont have words for explain my feelins now. Thanks, thanks, thanks!

hello thank for sharing this. I prefer Dancehall music over traditional Reggae so its nice to see where the it came from!

the last 3-4 minutes are really fascinating

OMG, I always thought Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols was the originator.. Doh! Great video, thanks.

Hace poco conseguí ese teclado no sabía que tenía historia wujuu!!!

Great video. Thank--you!

thought King Tubby sent the Mad Professor to New York to investigate electronic instruments and Under Mi fat Ting was the track that started Digital Reggae . Don't know where I got this from it might have been in the blurb on the reissue album Firehouse King Tubby in a Digital Era . Thank you very much for the time and effort put in to making this excellent documentary .

Love it man👍

Great people think alike so they say

I wanted to do something like this... This is amazing!!!!

Excellent vid, cheers bud 👍

So the Bowie "Hang On to Yourself" not ONLY inspired one of the biggest reggae beats of all time - but helped birthed the sound of punk rock, since the Ramones borrowed the riff for "I Don't Want to Go Down to the Basement" on their first album.

Well done.

Thanx for sharing! Anyone that wants to hear that keyboard used to the max, listen to Prince Jammy's dub lp of Wayne Smith's "sleng teng" lp

Buddy Bye #1 🔥🕺

Great influence!

First thing that came to mind for me was Caress Me Down by Sublime.

Hiroko Okuda, a Japanese Casio employee in 1980 was behind the creation of the Casio machine that had the presets that made the sleng teng riddim

WOW that's really interesting

Bowie did do a couple of reggae-esque songs. The most notable was Yassassin which has been described as "Turkish Reggae", combining the rhythms of the Caribbean with the melodies of the middle east. He did have a hit the following year with a song that started out in a reggae style...Ashes To Ashes, however the song evolved in the studio to the version that was released, but Bowie's initial intention was for it to be a reggae song.

That "Hang On to Yourself" riff was also used by the Ramones in their song "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement".

Wicked content

Really dope. Thank you

Best video on YT

This is tuff!!!!!

Well, Bowie did release one reggae-esque track, Yassassin (from Lodger), though infused with heavy Turkish/Berlin influences...

Facebook now called meta sent me here because they used the sleng teng riddim in their new ad

thoroughly interesting

I have subscribed

La verdadera creadora es la japonesa Okuda Hiroko trabajadora y desarrolladora en la empresa casio, fue un ritmo que implemento en los teclados casiotone

Actually prior to Sleng Teng he created a riddim called Computer Rule which is considered the precursor to Sleng Teng. Both were produced in 1985. Computer Rule was early and Sleng Teng later in the year. So I wouldn’t say David Bowie inspired it. I would say the creation of Computer Rule started the newest trend.

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Wow never knew it was David Bowie wow

Back n those days the casio had prerecorded melodies on them I had a Casio

Wow!!!

The Bowie 1986 quote is probably answering a question about the 'Tonight' album, which features some reggae grooves, mainly on the title track.

I really enjoyed this do much ...it ended too abruptly ..shouldda finished a little ' smmooovvvah ...

2 live Crew "Reggae Joint".

Great video! Would love to know more about the interview Okuda gave in the 90s about this. Any more info on that source?

Sounds like the intro bass line for that sublime song caress me down

Damn I had this exact idea of vid planned for my channel, you beat me to it ha

Always thought it was stalag rhythm name after stalag 17 movie tenor sew was amazing

Eddie Cochran meets Bowie meets Pistols (Anarchy in The UK), throw in Sigue Sigue Sputnik and there you go. There ain't no sound like the Sleng Teng Blues. 😝😝😝

This proves that no one ethnicity owns musical beats

Just the other day I was reading a report on "sensi addict" by Horace Ferguson being the very first digital tune, of course not that it became influential as sleng teng but a good piece of information indeed. Check release dates.

I think Ed Cochran's Summertime Blues is the song which inspired Sleng Teng

big tune! ;)

So to be fair, only the rhythm pattern chord-wise is similar to "Hang on to yourself". Sleng Teng is 1- - -1 - 4 3, whereas Bowie's song is 1 - - - 1 - 5 4. Bowie's chord progression is typical of 3-chord rock'n'roll, meanwhile Sleng Teng riddim is closer to the punk era, compare with the chord progressions in God save the queen and Anarchy in the U.K. by Sex Pistols which are both similar, and God save.. has the same bend-feel when playing the root chord as heard in most early rocknroll songs btw! Additionally, many other rock songs deliver same rhythm pattern, e.g. Ramones' "Loudmouth" in the parts before the verses. Sweet uses the pattern too, and it's really a common effect to accentuate the last two quarter notes in second bar as a round-up heard this way. So I'm not going along with the myth, but it's fun to discuss :-)

BESIDES THE TAXI RIDDIM SLENG TENG IS TOP 5 RIDDIMS OF ALL TIME R.I.P TO THE LEGEND TENOR SAW & BUGGER MINOT AND REGGAE MUSIC DIDN'T NEED DAVID BOWIE TO INSPIRE ANYTHING... Bob Marley DID THAT

@traxploitation What version of 'This is Reggae Music ' is featured at the end of this video? I really like it, but it sounds different from Zap Pow's original. Great video, incidentally.

Craaaaazy

Wayne slengteng smith documentary of slengteng soon be here

David Bowie sounds a bit confused at the end (7.35) It went from Ska to "Rock Steady" to Reggae. Blue Beat was a British record label...

So this also inspired Sublimes caress me down?

Anybody a clue on what the audio track is at the very last 5 seconds of this video?

sounds quite similar to david bowie. but I'm not hearing the resemblance to eddie cochran. can somebody explain please? maybe my ears are dumb

Surely, if Ronson mimicked Cochrane, then Cochrane should be credited as "indirectly inspiring digital reggae?"

Bluebeat is Ska. Bluebeat was just the English name for Ska. Ask a Jamaican what is bluebeat and they won't have a clue.

,..FACT : DAVID BOWIE IS FROM "BRIXTON",.. LONDON U.K ...A MECCA OF REGGAE.

For my money, the riddim sounds like it was influenced a lot by Cat Stevens' "Was Dog a Doughtnut" from 1977: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9-dhs2rlrC6YKs.html Probably not, but when you think about how many electronic pop records existed with a digital arrangement anything close to Sleng Teng, this is about as close as it gets. BTW, I did a basement remix of Shabba Ranks "Trailer Load" vocals against "Was Dog a Doughnut" and you can certainly see how well it works conceptually as Dance Hall in the spirit of what Sleng Teng initiated.

Buddy bye

Get flat Bloodfire Posse first digital

That’s a lot of words for I used a preset

The thruth must be told that's all I am saying mr James took all da credits that's not right come mek we reason

Cool History they left out a key part though. The riddim all the way down to the drums is almost entirely the Japanese woman's design. She designed the riddim that way to pay tribute to reggae's rolling bassline. Amazing stuff

oh , the casiotone riddim was already made, they just used the keyboard sound as is programmed by a japanese lady

No. It was a japanese programmer of casiotone mt.

King Jammy revolutionize dancehall not Wayne Smith. King jammy was the last they brought the song to.

Nah I don't agree with the Bowie bit

Most copied reggae song is Real Rock not Sleng Teng

What if it was blitzkrieg bop, but the last two notes of the first 2 repeating riffs are switched??

Okuda Hiroko is who you really want to be thanking!!!