Techno, Detroit techno, dub music, ska music, Afro beats - you know, no songs like the last, really.
The singer's fortunes waned in the 1970s until a British ska revival briefly resuscitated Dekker's career.
Dekker headed to England, where the self-proclaimed King of Ska was received like royalty.
What I learned in school was how to play a ska rhythm on a keyboard.
Dr Bernie Fanaroff, the SKA South Africa project director, expressed his delight at the news.
The SKA's members include the UK, Netherlands, Italy, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
SKA's elements will allow it to detect not only faint things, but small ones too.
Penate also acknowledges the influence of ska and other Jamaican music on his sound.
British ska band Madness are to headline the third night with Paloma Faith closing the festival in July.
The SKA will use about 110 megawatts when up and running, so power bills will be a significant expense.
SKA's combination of greater sensitivity and stronger resolution will show them things they have been unable to see before.
Both consortia had constructed precursor telescopes that could be integrated into the SKA itself, and each bid had its advantages.
She sees the SKA as a way to broaden the country's scientific base and diversify its current white, male-dominated complexion.
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The SKA will join the hunt for gravitational waves ripples in the structure of space predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Playing jangly rock with frantic intensity and lusty vocals, White Rabbits' members draw inspiration from disparate sources like calypso and ska along the way.
SKA's proponents are talking of scattering its sub-telescopes over an area of 1m square kilometres, which would create an effective diameter of about 1, 000km.
SKA. By mapping the signal's variations across the sky, astronomers might be able to determine the extent of clustering of matter in the universe's earliest days.
The Los Angeles-born-and-bred band Fishbone, which delivered a bracing combination of rock, funk, punk, and ska, was one of the brightest lights of late-eighties alternative rock.
This punk bar is a major testing ground for local bands, and a great place to enjoy live rock, punk and ska music, as well as cheap drinks.
The singer will appear alongside ska band Toots and the Maytals in the last of six Island Life concerts scheduled to take place at London's Shepherds Bush Empire.
SKA, however, would be able to detect the leakage into space from a standard terrestrial television transmitter at a range of half a dozen light years or so.
If MeerKAT succeeds, it might help persuade sceptical governments to cough up for the SKA. It will also enhance South Africa's chances of hosting this much larger project.
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Attractions include the all-new acoustic cabaret (featuring punk bingo with Max Splodge and an acoustic guitar performance by Hazel O'Connor) and a ska and street punk theme on Saturday with The Beat and Roddie Radiation from The Specials.
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