Sleng Teng
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"Sleng Teng" is a riddim that was influential in Jamaican music and beyond. It was one of the first computerized riddims and the result of work by Noel Davey, Ian "Wayne" Smith, and Lloyd "King Jammy"
Wayne Smith Under Me Sleng Teng
Okuda Hiroko
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Okuda Hiroko is a Japanese inventor and musicologist. At the start of her career in 1980, she composed the rhythm and bass preset backing tracks included in Casio's electronic keyboards. These include
Sleng Teng
…refers to a cannabis cigarette and also a slim attractive woman. The preset was composed in 1980 by a then newly-hired music engineer at Casio named Okuda Hiroko. She was assigned to create several of the MT-40 consumer keyboard's presets, among them a "rock" rhythm. Okuda had been hired fresh out of music school…
Casio's 1981 Casiotone MT-40, the first electronic keyboard to include Okuda's backing tracks.