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Studios that built the sound

Federal, Studio One, Treasure Isle, Channel One, Black Ark — the rooms where the music was invented.

45 records · grows as the archive grows

studio · Well supportedA-Class / Fashion Records Studio (Clapham Junction)

Chris Lane's 'A-Class' dub-cutting facility, upgraded in 1982 into a four-track studio in the basement of the Dub Vendor shop at Clapham Junction by Fashion Records (John MacGillivray and Lane); a primarily dubplate-cutting-turned-recording room pivotal to UK MC/lovers-rock culture (Smiley Culture, Papa Face, Macka B) (Wikipedia 'Fashion Records'; United Reggae interview; Wikipedia 'Dub Vendor').

studio · ProbableAnchor Recording Studio

Anchor Recording Studio is tied to Gussie Clarke's Music Works/Anchor production infrastructure, a late-1980s and 1990s environment associated with cleaner digital production, international reggae releases and dancehall's shift toward more tightly managed studio systems.

studio · ProbableAquarius Studio

A Jamaican recording studio associated with the reggae era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

studio · Well supportedAriwa Sounds

Mad Professor-associated London studio/label important to UK dub, lovers rock and digital dub.

studio · ProbableArrows Recording Studio

Arrows Recording Studio appears across dancehall and dubplate-era discographies as a Kingston voicing and recording room, part of the practical studio network selectors and producers used for specials, versions and fast-moving single releases.

studio · Well supportedBerry Street Studio (Clerkenwell)

Central-London recording studio established 1970 in Clerkenwell; in the 1980s it was run by British reggae producer Dennis Bovell and became a key room for British and Jamaican dub and reggae, used by Adrian Sherwood for Singers & Players and Dub Syndicate (Wikipedia 'Berry Street Studio'; Discogs 'Berry Street Studio').

studio · ProbableBig Ship Recording Studio

Recording studio and production base associated with the McGregor family, where Stephen 'Di Genius' McGregor built the digital dancehall riddims that defined the late 2000s.

studio · ProbableBig Yard

A Jamaican recording studio associated with the global era. Starter record pending editorial verification.

studio · Well supportedBlack Ark

Lee Perry's studio, famed for its distinctive dub-drenched productions.

studio · ProbableBlack Scorpio Studio

Studio opened in the early 1980s on Molynes Road in the Drewsland area of Kingston by sound-system operator Maurice 'Jack Scorpio' Johnson, recording Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Frankie Paul, Beenie Man and many dancehall acts (Wikipedia 'Black Scorpio'; Backayard Magazine; Jamaica Gleaner).

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