Upsetter Records

Upsetter Records was a Jamaican record label established by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1968. Perry also opened the Upsetter Record Shop, where he sold the records he produced. During the 1950s and 1960s, Lee "Scratch" Perry worked first for Studio One by Coxsone Dodd and then for Amalgamated Records by Joe Gibbs. You bring personal and financial disagreements, left the latter, and in 1968 formed his own label as a selling point for the music he produced and for his own albums. The label was called Upsetter Records, and the house band The Upsetters. "The Upsetter" was Perry's nickname since his 1968 single "I Am The Upsetter," a form of musical critique by his former boss, Coxsone Dodd.

Upsetter Records signed a distribution deal with the English label Trojan Records, and achieved its first success with the 1969 album Perry and The Upsetters 1969 Return of Django, which became a hit in Britain. The label began publishing productions of most of Jamaica's leading musicians, including The Wailers as well as early sessions of Bob Marley and the Wailers.

In 1973, The Wailers left the label and signed with Island Records. Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his brother Carlton Barrett left The Upsetters and were part of the band Wailers Band, support band of The Wailers, and later part of Bob Marley and the Wailers. same year his mythical studio Black Ark Studios, center during that time of the creativity reggae and dub.

Upsetter Records continued to release albums during the 1970s until in 1981 Perry completely burned down their studio.

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