A mash-up before mash-ups were invented, this finds the great/bonkers Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, taking two classic reggae tunes, pulling them apart and putting them back together.

A dub of a dub, if you like. Or a musical version of the Japanese art kitsungi.

What makes it madder is that he had a hand in both the tunes in the first place, so he’s effectively cannibalising his own work. Perry takes each individual component of the song and pulls it apart before reassembling them one piece at a time, using random snippets of lyrics and sounds, adding effects (mostly reverb and echo) to complement the deep bass groove.

Then he rants over the top of it all, rambling on about slavery, chucking in some exuberant girl singers who sound remarkably like Marley’s I-Threes to boost the chorus.

The tunes in question are Max Romeo’s Chase The Devil, from his classic 1976 album War Ina Babylon, and another version with different lyrics called Croaking Lizard, with a toast by Prince Jazzbo, that appeared on the Super Ape album released in the same year by Perry’s house band, The Upsetters.

Ravers will remember the Romeo version reappearing as the core sample in The Prodigy’s 1992 hit Out Of Space. It’s also been covered by Madness and sampled by Dreadzone.

And it sounds just right on a sunny summer’s day.