Wayne Smith's early musical styles and lyrical meditations are consciously educated in, and grounded in an earlier Roots Reggae awareness, but slowed down in the spacious dancehall style of the time, backed by Earl "Chinna" Smith's High Times Players, Roots Radics, and with Scientist and King Tubby at the controls.

The change to digital was to have long term effects in music, namely in its significant influence on Ragga and the creation of Jungle Music, Rave and drum and bass, and Smith's 1985 recording of "(Under Mi) Sleng teng", is generally regarded as the beginning of Ragga style reggae.

The rhythm was a preset pattern programmed into the Casio MT-40 by Okuda Hiroko who was still in her first year with the company after producing one of Japan's first master's theses on reggae.

[2][4][5] Although there are a number of conflicting stories about how it was first found, the commonly accepted view is that Wayne Smith and Noel Davy discovered it.

[1] He worked as well with several record producers from New York, Jamaica and Europe, such as Heartical Sound and Evidence Music.