Nachoes!: Dub - Music’s Greatest Experiment

Dub: Music’s Greatest Experiment traces how a radical Jamaican experiment in sound escaped the studio and quietly became the language of popular music - from Lee “Scratch” Perry’s lo-fi experiments and Jamaican sound-system culture to punk, hip-hop and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska - transforming how music is produced, remixed and heard.

Episodes

From Lee “Scratch” Perry’s experiments in Jamaica to Bruce Springsteen recording Nebraska in his bedroom, how lo-fi turned the limitations and imperfections of recording into an aesthetic of its own.
How Lee “Scratch” Perry pushed recording technology to its limits, using distortion, echo and lo-fi experimentation to create entirely new possibilities for recorded sound.
What exactly is dub? A journey into the strange, spacious sound of dub and the studio experimentation that transformed Jamaican music and helped reshape dancehall.
From Jamaican sound-system culture to DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx, tracing the lineage that makes dub essential to understanding the birth of hip-hop.
With Jeremy Allen White transforming into Bruce Springsteen for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025), a look at the true story behind Nebraska - the lo-fi masterpiece at the centre of the film - and how its homemade sound became one of the most influential recording aesthetics in popular music.