Master Class: Cleveland ‘Clevie’ Browne (JA) - The Godfather of Riddim

Clevie Browne

Moderator: Dennis de Groot (Founder, Okay, Sounds Great)

Masterclass on the Jamaican foundation of electronic music. By crucial pioneer Cleveland ‘Clevie’ Browne, from the legendary duo Steely & Clevie, who introduced the drum machine into reggae music and played a crucial role in the transition from analogue to digital ‘riddims’ in Jamaican music, working with everyone from Bob Marley to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, from Shabba Ranks to Elephant Man, and from Sean Paul to Mr. Vegas, and with his riddims laying the foundation for music genres and influences that are still elemental to electronic music today, like dancehall (with the 1987 ‘Punnany’ riddim) and the now world dominating sound of reggaeton (with the 1989 ‘Fishmarket’ riddim). A unique master class on the foundation and evolution of electronic music production by the godfather of riddim himself.