Meet Okuda Hiroko: The Japanese Programmer Who Helped To Create Dancehall’s Pioneering ‘Sleng Teng’ Riddim
Okuda Hiroko, the Japanese woman who caught Reggaemylitis and created the Casio preset beat that gave rise to the legendary Sleng Teng riddim, believes that it was almost inevitable that the piece of music she composed almost 40 years ago would be embraced by Jamaicans.