TOKYO — 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.
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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 by Wayne Smith, Under Mi Sleng Teng, came from the Casiotone MT-40, which went on sale in 1981. It was the first product Hiroko Okuda worked on after joining the Tokyo-based company behind G-Shock watches.
“It’s really like my first child, and the child turned out so well it’s outright moving,” said Okuda, honored as “the mother of Sleng Teng” among hard-core reggae aficionados.
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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 reggae hit by Wayne Smith, “Under Mi Sleng Teng," came from Casiotone MT-40, which went on sale in 1981, the first product Hiroko Okuda worked on after joining the Tokyo-based company behind G-Shock watches.