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Sly & Robbie
12+ albums
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about
Sly & Robbie may well be the most prolific recording artists ever. One staggering estimate is that they have played on or produced some 200,000 songs. Sly & Robbie are reggae's longest lasting production team. The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar (nicknamed Sly after Sly Stone, one of his favorite musicians) and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene. Before joining forces, Sly was drumming for the Skin Flesh and Bones band and Robbie was the bass player for the Aggrovators. They also used to play in clubs (Sly at Tit for Tat and Robbie at Evil People), and used to check each other out. They found out that they had the same ideas about music in general (both are huge fans of Motown, Philly Sound and Country & Western, in addition to Jamaican legendary labels Studio One and Treasure Isle), and Reggae production in particular. They first worked together for the newly created Channel One label and studio, operated by the Hoo Kim brothers. They changed the face of Reggae several times: in 1976, they introduced a harder beat called "Rockers", which quickly replaced the then prevalent "One drop" style, then introduced the "rub a dub" sound in the early 1980s. Sly and Robbie were important in developing the trend towards computer assisted music and programmming in the mid 1980s. Also in the early 1990s they introduced a novel sound with the hits "Bam Bam" and "M
top songs
albums
Riddim: The Best of Sly & Robbie in Dub 1978-1985
Strip to the Bone
Sly & Robbie Dub
Make 'Em Move/Taxi Style - An Introduction to
Sly & Robbie Present Taxi
Underwater Dub
Crucial Reggae
Blackwood Dub
King Tubby's Dance Hall Dub
Unmetered Taxi
Nordub (feat. Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay)
Dub Rocker's Delight