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  "slug": "tenor-saw",
  "name": "Tenor Saw",
  "description": "Tenor Saw appears 2 times in our Dancehall and The Eighties lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/tenor-saw/",
  "appearanceCount": 2,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1985,
    "last": 1985
  },
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    "rank": 3,
    "list": "Dancehall"
  },
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      "name": "Dancehall",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "the-eighties",
      "name": "The Eighties",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/",
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      "trackKey": "tenor-saw--ring-the-alarm",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/tenor-saw--ring-the-alarm/",
      "title": "Ring the Alarm",
      "year": 1985,
      "label": "Techniques",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The Stalag riddim's definitive vocal, cut by a nineteen-year-old who was dead within three years. Urgency is easy to fake and impossible to manufacture, and this is the real thing.",
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        }
      ],
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          "exact": false
        },
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      },
      "rank": 3,
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        "slug": "dancehall",
        "name": "Dancehall",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "trackKey": "tenor-saw--ring-the-alarm",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/tenor-saw--ring-the-alarm/",
      "title": "Ring the Alarm",
      "year": 1985,
      "label": "Techniques",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Winston Riley's own Kingston label, a rhythm reused for the next thirty years, and no multinational anywhere near it. Jamaica had been running the model this whole list describes since long before the decade started.",
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        }
      ],
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