MAN RECORDINGS INSPIRATION SERIES #19 : SLY + ROBBIE
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Sly + Robbie are the rhyhtm back bone of Jamaican music and if you consider that they supposedly played on more than 200.000 (yes, that´s two hundred thousand) tracks, from original JA Rockers style recordings with the Mighty Diamonds to the Compass Point studios where they recorded with Tom Tom Club and Grace Jones, it´s evident that rhythm is where Sly + Robbie are playing bass and drums. One of their most exciting solo-works however was the “Stripped Down To The Bone” album on Island Records, released in 1999, produced by Howie B (who was to the 90s what Dave “Switch” Taylor is to the 00s). From this album “Superthruster” was taken, still a sizzling hot tune with a Manga inspired video. Lazer shooting cyborg Jamaicans – err, isnt there a current project that is using similar images?
