Taxi (label jamaïcain)
Apparence
(Redirigé depuis Taxi Records)
Taxi Records
Fondation | Années 1970 |
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Fondateur | Sly |
Statut | Actif |
Genre | Reggae, dub, raggamuffin, dancehall |
Pays d'origine | Jamaïque |
Taxi Records, ou simplement Taxi, est un label discographique jamaïcain de reggae.
Histoire
[modifier | modifier le code]Taxi est fondé à la fin des années 1970 en tant que label discographique solo de Sly du groupe Sly and Robbie[1]. Tous les artistes et groupes de reggae des années 1970 sont produits par le label : Gregory Isaacs, The Wailing Souls, Dennis Brown, Junior Delgado, Sugar Minott.
En 2019, le label sort sa compilation Reggae Masterpieces[2].
Discographie
[modifier | modifier le code]Albums studio
[modifier | modifier le code]- Bobby Thomas & Errol Francis - Cocaine Cocaine
- Sly Dunbar - Top Rank
- Althea & Donna - Mr Bassie
- Bobby Thomas & Errol Francis - Dope Addict
- Black Uhuru - Sun Is Shining
- Althea & Donna - A Who Say
- Bobby Annet Stennet - Nigger Whitie
- Althea & Donna - Dance & Shake Your Tamborine
1979 : Sly Dunbar and Various Artists - Simple Sly Man (Gorgon/Taxi)
- Side Walk Doctor
- War Of The Gods
- Depth Charge
- Mickey Mouse
- Battle Of The Titans
1979 : Sly Dunbar - Sly, Wicked and Slick (Vigin/Taxi)
- Rasta Fiesta
- Sesame
- Bluesy Baby 2
- Senegal Market Place
- Mr Music
- Queen Of The Minstrels
- Dirty Harry
- Oriental Taxi
1979 : Black Uhuru - Showcase (D-Roy/Black Rose/Taxi)
- Leaving To Zion
- General Penitentiary
- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
- Abortion
- Natural Reggae Beat
- Plastic Smile
1980 : Sly and Robbie - Gamblers Choice
- Poker face
- Pin Ball Machine
- Deck Of Cards
- Coon Can
- Drunken Master
- Parapinto
- Bone Dice
- Stapper Lee Rap
1980 : Sly & Robbie - Presents The Sixties, Seventies, Eighties Vol. II (These Precious Times)
- Love You
- Born To Love You
- My Conversation
- Hot Milk
- Queen Majesty
- Traveling Man
- Armagidon
- High Version
- Make You Love Me
- Keep That Night
- Fatty Fatty
1980 : Sly and Robbie - Taxi Productions Presents The Sound of the 80's
- Baltimore
- Laying Beside You
- Love & Devotion
- Give Me Your Love
- Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner
- Sitting & Watching
- Merry Go Round
- Mr. Music
- Queen Of The Minstrel
- Fort Augustus
1980 : Sojie - Rebel Soldier
- Alert
- Stand Down
- Ration
- Ayatollah
- Fire Call
- Charge
- Retreat
- Reveille
- Detention
- Rebel Soldier
1980 : The Pearls - The War
- Chanting Music
- Girl Name Charm
- Duke Street
- You Can't Put The Blame On Me
- She Waah Fi Dance With Me
- Serious Time
- Nuh Follow Bad Company
- Any Weh Di Niceness Deh
- The War
- One In A Million
- Soon Forward
- You'll Never Know
- Motherless Children
- Slave Driver
- Mistake
- Going Downtown
- I'm Coming Home *
1981 : Sly & Robbie - The Sixties + Seventies + Eighties = Taxi (Island/Taxi)
- You Don't Care
- Bum Ball
- Only Sixteen
- You Have Caught Me
- Rain From The Sky
- When I Fall In Love
- Conquer Me
- Swing Easy
- Soul Serenade
- Who Done It
- Stampede
- I Should Have Known Better
- Watermelon Man
- El Pussy Cat Ska
- Slippin Into Darkness
- Gonna Love You
- Battle Of Jericho
- Inner City Blues
- If You Want It
- River Niger
- Hot Youre Hot
- Unmetered Taxi
- Happiness
- World Is Africa
- Push Push
- There Is Fire
- No Loafing (Sit And Wonder)
- Sinsemilla
- Endurance
- Vampire
- Sinsemilla (Discomix)
- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Discomix)
- Ion Storm
- Youth
- Big Spliff
- Boof´n´baff´n´biff
- Puffed Out
- Android Rebellion
- Apocalypse
- Back Breaker
- Sodom
- Slaughter
- Cool Off
- Destination Unknown
- Fire And Brimstone
1983 : Linval Thompson - Ease Up (Taxi)
- Ease Up
- Ready For My Loving
- Abortion Abortion
- Ghetto Youths
- Cream Of My Crop
- Guiltiness On Their Mind
- Long Time She No See Me
- Raggamuffin Girl
- Baby Father
- Settle With Me
- Babylon, Babylon
- I Want It All
- Jump For Jah
- Call The Police
- Taxi For Me
- England Be Nice
- Live A Little Love
- Revolution Part One
- Have You Ever
- Hold On To What You Got - Version
- Sitting And Watching
- Revolution Part Two
- Can't Keep A Good Man Down
- All Over The World
1986 : Sly and Robbie - Sting
- Face A
- Maxi Taxi
- Stone Wall
- Sting
- Out Law Jose Wales
- Face B
- Peter Gun
- Land Of Rhythm
- Pumping Iron
- Twilight Zone
- Roxanne
- Herbman Hustling
- Don't Know Why I Love You
- Love Of Jah
- Rub A Dub Sound
- Devils Pickney
- Save Your Love For Me
- Ain't Nobody Move Me
- Tarzan
- Rambo
- Girls Pet
- Crying Time
- Stop The Rumour
- Computerize
- Love
- Long Rider
- Dennis Brown - Revolution Pt. 1
- Home T Four - Love Is Where You Find It
- Sugar Minott - Save Your Loving For Me
- Half Pint - Night Life Lady
- Ruddy Thomas - Long Last Love
- Sly & Robbie - Stone Wall
1986 : VA - Sound of Taxi Vol. 2
- Face A
- Desperate Lover
- Mama
- She Gone
- I Don't Like
- Cost Of Living
- Face B
- Level The Vibes
- When One Gone
- Come Alive
- Night Life Lady
1987 : VA - Taxi Connection Live In London !!!!
- Face A
- Sly and Robbie - Red Hot (4:50)
- Sly & Robbie - When You're Hot You're Hot (5:39)
- Ini Kamoze - Trouble You A Trouble Me (5:16)
- Ini Kamoze - Call The Police (6:30)
- Face B
Sly and Robbie - Club Play
Face A
- Triplet
- Taxi Connection
- Tarzan (Vocals: Yellowman)
- Sting (Vocals: Robbie Lyn)
Face B
- Herbman Hustling (Vocals: Sugar Minott)
- Rub A Dub Sound (Vocals: Sugar Minott)
- Revolution (Vocals: Dennis Brown)
- Revolution Pt. II (Vocals: Dennis Brown)
Compilations
[modifier | modifier le code]2005 : Sly and Robbie's Taxi Sound (Marking 30 Years of Taxi Records) (Auralux Recordings)
- Disque 1 Face A
- Devil's Pickney (4:15) - Sugar Minott
- World-A-Music (4:06) - Ini Kamoze
- Rub A Dub (4:29) - Sugar Minott
- My Woman's Love (3:27) - Jimmy Riley
- Disque 1 Face B
- Billie Jean (4:57) - Shinehead, The Taxi Gang
- Heart Made Of Stone (5:06) - The Viceroys
- Let Him Go (3:05) - Black Uhuru
- Fort Augustus (3:05) - Junior Delgado
- Drunken Master (3:30) - General Echo
- Disque 2 Face A
- Revolution (Extended Mix) (6:26) Dennis Brown
- Motherless Children (5:59) Gregory Isaacs
- Going Down Town (5:15) Gregory Isaacs
- Disque 2 Face B
- Baltimore (Extended Mix) (8:25) - The Tamlins
- Smiling Faces Sometime (Extended Mix) (8:35) - The Tamlins
- Dennis Brown - Sitting And Watching
- - Revolution
- - Revolution Part 2
- - Revolution Part 3
- - Have You Ever
- - Hold On To What You Got
- - Rub A Dub
- Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward
- - Tune In
- - What A Feeling
- - Mistake
- - Never Know
- - Going Downtown
- - Slave Driver
- Sugar Minott - Herbman Hustling
- - Devil Pickney
- - Tune In
- Sugar Minott & Bounty Killer - Tune In
- Sugar Minott - Going In Circles
- - Fools Fall In Love
2005 : The Sixties Seventies Eighties Vol. II These Precious Times
Notes et références
[modifier | modifier le code]- (en) Dominic Bell, « Sly and Robbie: 40 Year Taxi Ride », (consulté le ).
- « Reggae Masterpieces - A Taxi Records Anthology Vol.1 », sur reggae.fr, (consulté le ).