In the late ‘70s, reggae fan Okuda Hiroko wrote the Casio MT-40 synth presets that would soon become the “Sleng Teng” riddim.

Bob Marley made his only trip to Japan. Okuda went to see several performances. Soon after the concerts, her eye was caught by an advertisement posted on campus by Casio, which was looking to hire graduates from music colleges for the first time.

↩︎ nippon.com

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