Ansel Collins, whose 'Double Barrel' was a huge hit for producer, Winston Riley. - Contributed

How did the song 'Double Barrel' come about?

In 1972 U-Roy was swinging at the same time I was producing. I did a tune name Double Barrel that was number one on the British Charts. Ansel Collins bring me a riddim, a riddim for a long long time.

I dress it up, re-arrange certain things, write a tune towards it and put di tune out. U-Roy was a popular star at the time and I bring in Dave Barker, we did the tune Double Barrel. It hit the British charts and was number one for like three months.

Then we leave here in '75 and did a world tour. It was a great experience, but there's tings I would do if I had known how to do it.

You are forever associated with the Stalag rhythm. How did this rhythm come about and who played on it?

It came from a movie. Boy, that was a great ting when a call di men dem up to do di recording, when that tune came up and I gave them di idea is from what I hear from the movie and put something else in it.

The person who mek dat tune into a big tune was King Tubbys ... and den I did several versions, I did a tune on it call Ring Di Alarm wid Tenor Saw.

During dat period wid dat tune coming up and playing at a dance it just escalate and start get big big. How it become so big a guy name Murray from Profile call me for the tune, he paid me $1500 to lease and play for round three months.

I gave the man di tune and di tune gone big and start mek all $4000-$5000, den it step up.

Yuh have Run DMC, R Kelly involve in it, yuh have Born Jamaica, Teddy Riley involve and it sell millions. Dat is my fortune and will always be my fortune.

You produced Echo's '12 Inches of Pleasure' and 'Ranking Slackness'. Is the deejay business slacker now than it was in the early 1980s, or is it that more attention is being paid to it?

It depends on what yuh say and how people look on it. It's slacker now than before.

You do a series of tunes it don't hit di people dem as sumting slack like how these guys doing it now.

Dem doing it very raw and yuh don't continue doing dis ting; yuh do it a likkle while and then stop.- KH

Tenor Saw's 'Ring The Alarm' was a huge hit on Winston Riley's Stalag rhythm. - File