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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').

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.

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

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

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.

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').

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.

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

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

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).

Producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee, who long worked out of others' rooms and King Tubby's, set up his own studio at Retirement Crescent, Cross Roads, in the early-to-mid 1970s (working with engineer Errol Thompson); the building later became the Bunny 'Striker' Lee Museum and Recording Studio (enkismusicrecords.com biography; bunnyleemuseum.com; VisitJamaica listing).

Cell Block Studio appears in 1990s and 2000s dancehall credits as one of the voicing rooms feeding Jamaica's rapid riddim-and-single economy, especially the studio work that sits behind sound tapes, specials and street hits.

Independent UK roots/dub studio and label run by producer Dougie Wardrop, who began cutting his own dub on a 4-track in 1989 after emerging from Jah Shaka's London sessions; home to Centry, Bush Chemists and other dub projects (dubwisefestival.com; Reggaepedia; Wikipedia 'The Bush Chemists').

Studio and label founded in 1988 by Robert 'Bobby Digital' Dixon, a King Jammy's apprentice; his modest Kingston production house became a leading digital-dancehall hit factory for Shabba Ranks, Super Cat, Cocoa Tea, Garnett Silk and Sizzla (Wikipedia 'Bobby Digital'; VP Records; Remezcla obituary).

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