A couple more audiophile CD releases from the original master tapes: The Aggrovators - Dubbing It Studio 1 Style Delroy Washington - Rasta Jacob Miller - Who Say Jah No Dread (The Classic Augustus Pablo Sessions) Kiddus I - Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980 Sergeant Pepper - Judgement Day Tradition - ...Tell Your Friends About Dub. +1 [actually, its the whole Tradition Original Albums Master Collection series released by Octave Labs] Willi Williams - Messenger Man And here's some more modern stuff: African Head Charge - Drumming Is A Language 1990 - 2011 Bob Marley - Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub) Inna De Yard - The Soul Of Jamaica Ras Michael - Live By The Spirit Phazz-a-delic]
Reggae in the 70's and 80's was mixed by truly great engineers. They were much more sophisticated that most rock engineers. They had to work with much less advanced equipment and had to compensate by being excellent. Their instrument separation was second to none, despite recording often on 4 or 8 tracks In addition, they created so many sonic innovations. Listen to Aswad's New Chapter of Dub (engineered by Godwin Logie, who also mixed Gregory Isaacs' Night Nurse and King Sunny Ade, among many others ) or Black Uhuru Chill Out (engineered by Steven Stanley, who also did Grace Jones and Tom Tom Club), or Rico's Man From Wareika (engineered by Karl Pitterson, who also did Steel Pulse). And of course the wonderful Errol Brown (Bob Marley Uprising) and the legendary King Tubby, his disciples Scientists and Prince Jammy's, the list goes on and on... Those were the days
Some recent titles I discovered recently: The Loving Paupers - Lines + Lines in Dub The Drastics - Chicago Massive (double disc) Soul Jazz Records [Various] - Harmony, Melody & Style (Lovers Rock In The UK 1975-1992) (double disc) George Faith - To Be A Lover (aka “Super Eight”) Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking (maybe mentioned before, but worth rementioning…it’s great)
I could - but basically I joined this forum to discuss music, not sound quality. You may say why then am I interested in this thread at all, and you would have a point, but I am interested in what others have to say about sound quality of reggae albums, because there seems a big variation in this, and I think this is noticeable on almost any system. Well, maybe not on a tinny little transistor radio.
I care for the music in the first place but I never hesitated to list my gear in my profile. I don’t understand what the problem is with showing what you got. I believe listing it is good for other members so they might imagine and/or understand what ones system is about. There’s no elitist thinking around this just pure information IMHO. I respect people with budget gear as much as people with ultra high end dream gear. We all do have amazing moments sitting down listening to music in front of our respectively sound systems, right? Yeah reggae music do sound amazing when it’s produced all through the chain in the best possible way. The different albums mentioned in the thread are great examples, I’m lucky enough to own a lot of them and I do agree that they in some cases sound really amazing.
I’d like to especially thank the our reggae gurus @Dubmart , @99thfloor and @Guillaume Bougard for educating me and probably other members as well about the magic thing about discovering reggae music. This thread as well as the Crucial Reggae thread are amazing and educational if you want to dig deeper in to the reggae domain. Keep up the good work guys!
Rhythm and sound w/ the artists. The deep side of of reggae under a modern expression. Cut at Dubplates &Mastering, it sounds so great... And deeper than deep, See Mi Y'a, always by Rhythm and sound
This rule, man... No comment... But HEAVY suspension marks will likely let you know what I mean. One can perfectly speak about SQ without having to list their equipment. Mine nowadays is more often than not my iphone with airpods and that doesnt prevent me from knowing what sounds good or bad, especially in Reggae music! Robbie Shakespeare listened to stuff on a small blue tooth speaker and could tell you what was OK or not. All of that means that one and all should not censor themselves and should express their opinion freely
It's not my rules, Guillaume and I was just answering a question. I've been able to tell good sounding albums on my first cheapo turntable as a teenager and later on many of those featured Robbie on bass.
Just add a Crosley and 4 quarters as your stylus through a blue tooth speaker. That'll satisfy the rules. Lol
Stevie Wonder used to test his albums on a cheap cassette player not on a high end deluxe stereo because he know 99% of his customers didnt have a super expensive top of the line sound system