Sly & Robbie Vs Roots Radics (ft Toots & The Maytals) - To You
Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote
Grace Jones - Use Me
Sly & Robbie Vs Roots Radics (ft Horace Andy)
Sly & Robbie - Billie Jean
Sly & Robbie, Beenie Man, Luciano - Crazy Baldheads
Michael Rose + Sly & Robbie - Monkey Business
No Doubt (ft Lady Shaw) - Underneath It All
Sly & Robbie - Freedom
Sly & Robbie (Ft Nils Petter Molværm, Elvind Aarset, & Vladislav Delay) - Strange Bright Crowd
Ini Kamoze - World A Music
Sly & Robbie (ft Beenie Man and the Taxi Gang) - Foundation
Sly Dunbar - River Niger
Sly & Robbie - Superthruster
Sly & Robbie are more than just a rhythm section; they're two of the most important musicians in the reggae genre and beyond, and may well be the most prolific recording artists ever. One estimate is that they have played on or produced around 200,000 songs in their extensive career.
Starting out in the heyday of roots reggae, drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians.
Their productions were fresh and their riddims iconic, with many innovations such as Sly being the first drummer to fused the Syndrum and drum machines with live drums long before it was common in reggae.
They helped to transform Jamaican music into the globe-conquering phenomenon it is today, playing on countless albums and even founding their own record label Taxi records (one of Reggae's most iconic). As the leaders of Taxi Records, they produced countless hits and whole albums, shaping the sound of so many reggae legends including including Black Uhuru, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Beenie Man, Shaggy, Buju Banton, Peter Tosh, Junior Delgado, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailing Souls, Maxi Priest, Roots Radics, and many more.
In addition to being kingpins of the reggae scene, they were also the go-to producers and rhythm section bringing the groove for international stars of other genres such as the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, No Doubt, Carlos Santana, Bob Dylan, Grace Jones, Sting, Michael Franti, Joe Cocker, Sinéad O’Connor, and many more, through the 80's and beyond.