Lee “Scratch” Perry Moodmat
An officially licensed screen printed portrait of dub producer Lee “Scratch” Perry in neon coral, olive and teal on black. Die cut on twelve inches of recycled rubber, run of 150.
The Print
The Upsetter, Printed in Six Colors
It is built like a gig poster rather than like a painting, and that is the right call for the subject. The portrait is reduced to flat blocks of neon coral, olive green and teal sitting straight on black, no blending anywhere, with the whites of the eyes left as the brightest thing on the mat. He is wearing the peaked captain style cap, the beard is drawn as a solid mass rather than as hair, and the eyes are wide and pointed dead ahead. Screen printing rewards exactly this kind of reduction: fewer colors, harder edges, more presence.
The frame around him is stranger than the portrait is. Two tall yellow green tentacle forms rise up either side of the head and curl inward at the top, and they are not decoration sitting behind him. They are the outer silhouette, so the die follows them and the finished mat is a portrait held inside a pair of tentacles. Above his head a red flame burns under a hand lettered banner reading UPSETTER FIRE RESCUE SQUAD, which is a reference to his own studio and to the fire that ended it. The composition is doing a lot at once and it holds together because the color count stays low.
Lee “Scratch” Perry was a Jamaican producer who effectively invented dub, and he died in 2021. This print exists with the involvement of Stubborn Records, whose founder King Django is credited alongside the artist, and the mat carries an Officially Licensed Product mark and a label copyright line on it. That matters here more than it would anywhere else in the catalog. This is not somebody’s tribute drawing sold quietly. It is a licensed piece of music merchandise that happens to be twelve inches of recycled rubber.
A Licensed Collaboration
Combat_Xion13 with Stubborn Records
Combat_Xion13 is the artist credit on the maker’s page, which is a working handle rather than a legal name and is left exactly as published. Stubborn Records sits on the other side of the collaboration, with label founder King Django credited by the maker alongside the artist, and the label’s copyright line is printed on the mat. Nothing beyond those credits is claimed about any of them.
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On Video
See It In Hand
Photos only get you so far. This is the actual piece, shot in our hands, so you can see the scale, the finish and how it behaves in real light before you buy it.
Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
A Run of One Hundred Fifty, and a Two Per Customer Cap
One hundred fifty is the whole production for this design. No hand inked number is on the piece, so the run size is what we quote and we are not going to invent a position inside it. Worth knowing: the maker put a two per customer limit on this design on their own site, which is not something they do to a print nobody is chasing. Licensed collaborations are also the hardest kind to reprint, because the license has to still be there. We have one.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, tentacle silhouette, irregular outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, six color, flat on black | |
| UV | Yes. Reactive under a 365nm or 395nm blacklight, per the maker’s own blacklight photo |
| Artist | Combat_Xion13 |
| Licensing | Officially Licensed Product, Stubborn Records copyright line printed on the mat |
| Edition | Run of 150, not individually numbered |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
UV Needs a Blacklight
Reactive ink is not glow in the dark. It will not charge up and shine on its own in a dark room. It needs a 365nm or 395nm lamp pointed at it. One thing worth being straight about: the maker’s written description calls this a six color print and does not mention reactive ink at all. The UV claim here rests on their own blacklight product photograph, which is good evidence and is not the same as a spec sheet.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The cut follows the tentacle forms and the banner rather than boxing the art in, so the outline has tall thin sections either side and a ragged top. The listed twelve inches is the widest point rather than a uniform footprint, and the tentacle tips are the thinnest rubber on the piece. Measure your space if it is tight and set your rig over the middle.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
One of these is on our shelf and neither image on this page is a picture of it. Both are manufacturer product shots, including the blacklight one, so read them as an accurate look at the print rather than at the exact sheet. Reclaimed rubber shifts in base speckle from mat to mat. Our own photos are on the list.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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