Upsetter Records

Upsetter Records may refer to:

Upsetter Records (Jamaican record label)

Upsetter Records was a Jamaican record label set up by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1968. Perry also opened the Upsetter Record Shop where he sold the records he produced.

Lee "Scratch" Perry worked for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One record label and later for Joe Gibbs's Amalgamated Records through the 1950s and 1960s. Amid personal and financial disagreements, he left, and in 1968 he formed his own label as an outlet for music he produced and his own recordings. The label was named Upsetter Records, and the house band was The Upsetters. "The Upsetter" was Perry's nickname after his 1968 single "I Am The Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd.

Upsetter Records signed a distribution deal with the U.K. based Trojan Records, and had its first success with Perry and The Upsetters' 1969 album Return of Django, which became a hit in the U.K. The label proceeded to release productions by many major Jamaican performers, including The Wailers and early sessions of Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Upsetter Records (American record label)

Upsetter Records was a Los Angeles, California-based record label founded in 1978 by the influential punk artist Chris Desjardins, best known as Chris D.

Named in tribute to Lee "Scratch" Perry and the dub reggae, popular with the early punks, this small short-lived company was almost completely dedicated to produce part of the early discography of The Flesh Eaters, the punk rock band fronted by Desjardins.

The only exception in the label's catalog is the seminal Tooth and Nail compilation released in 1979, an album full of outstanding early Californian punk rock from The Controllers, Middle Class, Germs, U.X.A., Negative Trend, and of course, The Flesh Eaters.

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