Melting Pot Riddim – Unknown Label

Melting Pot Riddim comes from 1969 and is credited here to Lee Scratch Perry, with the Unknown Label tag attached to this cut of the early Upsetter era. The lineup keeps it tight and memorable: Blue Mink’s Melting Pot, The Heaters’ version of Melting Pot, and The Upsetters’ Kinky Mood. It catches Perry in that late-’60s moment when he was turning cover songs and studio band grooves into something more distinctly Jamaican, with the instrumental cut adding a rougher, dub-rooted edge beside the vocal versions.