# Oustandingly Produced/Mastered Reggae Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Music\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628 "2019-01-27T11:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pukkita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pukkita](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pukkita)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/1 "2019-01-27T11:31:20Z")
I would create a single thread as sadly I could count those with my fingers (17000 songs library). > **[Gondwana (4) - Resiliente](https://www.discogs.com/es/Gondwana-Resiliente/release/3263627)** > > Label: Leader Music Chile - LM 575697 • Format: CD Album • Country: Chile • Genre: Reggae • Style: Roots Reggae 1.- Gondwana - Resiliente The most impressive so far. Same or better dynamics as Random Access Memories, impressive 3D soundstage, tons of finesse in its production & mix. Gondwana is a Chilean Reggae band dating back to 1987. Always loved this album, but it was yesterday after fixing my DDDAC 1543mkII -\> Darkvoice -\> HD6XX when I was blasted with a hugely wide soundstage and all the finesse, details, 3D effects… A gem. Will be testing any DACs with it. Organic, engaging, but really polished sound. > **[Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love: The Very Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers](https://www.discogs.com/es/Bob-Marley-The-Wailers-One-Love-The-Very-Best-Of-Bob-Marley-The-Wailers/release/6454277)** > > Label: Island Records - 314 542 855-2,UTV Records - 314 542 855-2,Tuff Gong - 314 542 855-2 • Format: CD Compilation, Remastered • Country: US • Genre: Reggae • Style: Reggae, Dub, Downtempo 2.- Bob Marley’s One Love comes next. ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/2 "2019-01-28T02:50:54Z")
Thank you @pukkita for starting this thread. I’ll have to go back through my memories and albums. Recently, I have been listening to Alpha Blondy, who fuses Jamaica, New York, Paris, and his native Ivory Coast. I’ve not gone through all of his albums, but I should point out > **[Alpha Blondy - Jah Victory](https://www.discogs.com/Alpha-Blondy-Jah-Victory/release/1183382)** > > Label: Mediacom - MED 0307 • Format: CD Album • Country: France • Genre: Reggae • Style: Roots Reggae Which is done with a light, almost spare hand. I particularly like the use of African drums, Derbuka, Djembe, and Bendir, and the French Bagpipes (on the cover of Wish You Were Here). Percussion is masterful on track 4, _Ne Tirez Pas Sur l’Ambulance_ Although my affinity to Reggae comes by way of Latin Invasion and Calypso that my parents used to play when I was a child, the album that started me listening to modern Reggae was > **[Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston](https://www.discogs.com/Toots-The-Maytals-Funky-Kingston/master/65695)** > > Country: UK • Genre: Reggae • Style: Reggae, Rocksteady A 1973 album that I bought after reading a Stereo Review writeup that praised not only the writing but the sonic quality. It does hold up. ---
**Author:** ![pukkita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pukkita](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pukkita)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/3 "2019-01-30T15:46:23Z")
> **[Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind](https://www.discogs.com/Ben-Harper-Fight-For-Your-Mind/release/7871811)** > > Label: Virgin - 7243 8 40620 2 6,Virgin - CDVUS 93 • Format: CD Album • Country: Australia • Genre: Rock • Style: Alternative Rock One of my favourite albums across all genres, love production, mix… the percussion and strings, and both artists & recording engineers job is outstanding. Not single-genre on this album, closest to reggae (as per the thread) being “Excuse Me Mr.” and relatedly “Burn One Down”. Got to have a listen to a 24/192 Vinil-rip and definitely gear used were tuned, a pro job. Original Redbook is really good. This album is my reference, to instantly spot if a given gear chain is brighter to my ears than should be for me to stand it, and where it puts the bar regarding dynamics and pace. On tracks like _Fight for Your Mind_ hi-hat, cymbals, even the snare attack, will instantly tell… should be just riiight on the spot, without losing detail or “bite”, nor getting harsh; neither “losing” focus on big transients, i.e. when toms and kick overlay on cymbal hits. _Excuse Me Mr._ is equally useful to “gauge” gear: the rim/hi-hat fill that leads the intro should be as equally well detailed, without ever sounding aggressive the slightest, same goes with the overhead crashes. This song is a great showoff of nicely recorded and produced percussion instruments and effects, with incredibly good taste in solo spacing: lots of really good uncluttered passages to easily analyze instruments in isolation & compare plus more _overlapped_ or busy parts, which will tell us how good in dynamics the chain is, and what are its pace _qualities_. Drums in this album sound outstanding. Bass work too. Usually subtly blended in the low end, but keeping plucking/slide detail, never “one-note”. A good system should **shine** through this album, which looks like Gold to Me. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/4 "2019-02-16T04:07:52Z")
Listened to one of my old favorites. The music is, as it should be, outstanding. ROON has a nice write up, but I bought the CD when it came out, and Roon was just matching my own rip of it. I should probably re-rip it, but I see that they have come out with a 2010 remix, Dubber Side, so I will listen to that first. > **[Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side Of The Moon](https://www.discogs.com/Easy-Star-All-Stars-Dub-Side-Of-The-Moon/release/238558)** > > Label: Easy Star Records - ES-1012 • Format: CD Album • Country: US • Genre: Reggae • Style: Dub And I note that they have treated some other material I will have to explore like Radiodread, Lonely Hearts Dub Band, and Thrillah ---
**Author:** ![pennstac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.headphones.com/pennstac/32/381_2.png) [@pennstac](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pennstac)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/5 "2019-02-17T15:58:58Z")
Listened to the remake, Dubber Side of the Moon. I think it’s better, but it is different. The Lunatic track is very catchy, halfway through, I realized it’s also a very good headphone evaluation track. > **[Dubber Side of the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubber_Side_of_the_Moon)** > > Dubber Side of the Moon is the second dub reggae tribute to the Pink Floyd album, The Dark Side of the Moon, by New York-based band Easy Star All-Stars. The album features bass-heavy dub remixes by prominent dub producers of its predecessor, Easy Star Records' 2003 release Dub Side of the Moon. Dubber Side of the Moon debuted at #2 on the Billboard Reggae charts. > "Great effort. Great remixes. Great album." > \- Music News > "This second re-imagining rightly uses its predecessor as a launch pad w... ---
**Author:** ![pukkita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pukkita](https://forum.headphones.com/u/pukkita)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/oustandingly-produced-mastered-reggae-albums/2628/6 "2019-02-18T17:57:25Z")
Keep it going! Love Reggae (and Pink Floyd!) … listening to Dub Side… “Evaluating” HE-560v3 I just received 😄