Sly & Robbie, and The Taxi Gang

Theirs was the ultimate musical marriage, a partnership that, once formed, re-engineered the very landscape of not just Jamaican music, but the entire world's. Such hyperbole is oftentimes rolled out by publicity machines whenever two musical talents come together, but in the case of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, it truly was an earth-shattering union. Their rhythms were the driving force behind innumerable songs, remixes, versions, and dubs. As a production team, they were the equivalent of a creative storm, the cutting edge of modern dub, ragga, and danc...