Jamaica's hit music factories... Top 5 recording studios.

JAMAICA has produced many a hit studio especially during the 1970s when reggae was taking off overseas. Here are five of those studios:

Dynamic Sounds: Was hot property in the early 1970s. This is where Paul Simon recorded his 1971 hit song Mother and Child Reunion, and the Rolling Stones cut their 1973 album, Goat Head Soup. Eric Clapton did sessions for his 1975 album, One in Every Crowd at the Kingston studio..

From left) Robbie Shakespeare,
Dylan Murray, Sly Dunbar
and Nelly Furtado pose outside
Anchor Recording Studio in
Kingston, Jamaica.
(PHOTO: OACCESSJAMAICA.COM)

 

Channel One: Thirty-odd years ago, everyone wanted to do sessions at 'Channel', which was officially opened by the Hoo Kim brothers in 1973. The API console was cutting-edge for the time and house band, The Revolutionaries, made full use of it. The Mighty Diamonds' I Need a Roof, Leroy Smart's Ballistic Affair and Woman is Like a Shadow by the Meditations were done at Channel One in the mid-1970s. Later, Sly and Robbie, who were part of The Revolutionaries, produced many of the songs for their Taxi label there. These included the Tamlins' Baltimore and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by Black Uhuru. Read more: