Bob Marley – Rastaman Vibration (Abbey Road HSM) (1976/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:19 minutes | 757 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Records

“ABBEY ROAD’S world-renowned engineers have been cutting grooves into discs since the studios first opened their doors in 1931. This record was pressed from a master cut using a precision technique known as half-speed mastering. The procedure requires the source master and the cutting lathe to run at half speed on a specially adapted Neumann VMS-80 lathe.

This rare and specialised technique transforms difficult to cut highend frequencies into relatively easy to cut mid-range frequencies. The result is a cut with excellent high frequency response and very solid and stable stereo images. In short, half-speed mastering produces a master of the highest quality that enables the pressing plant to produce a superlative record.”
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Bob Marley – Natty Dread (Abbey Road HSM) (1974/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:51 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Records

“ABBEY ROAD’S world-renowned engineers have been cutting grooves into discs since the studios first opened their doors in 1931. This record was pressed from a master cut using a precision technique known as half-speed mastering. The procedure requires the source master and the cutting lathe to run at half speed on a specially adapted Neumann VMS-80 lathe.

This rare and specialised technique transforms difficult to cut highend frequencies into relatively easy to cut mid-range frequencies. The result is a cut with excellent high frequency response and very solid and stable stereo images. In short, half-speed mastering produces a master of the highest quality that enables the pressing plant to produce a superlative record.”
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – The Capitol Session ’73 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 733 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Studios

In October 1973 Bob Marley and the Wailers gave an intimate performance at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Whilst they performed and recorded twelve classic songs, from the sidelines producer Denny Cordell captured the event on camera.

The footage lay unseen for decades and was long considered lost, until a freelance researcher, sent to archive all things Marley, found a few frames. Intrigued, for over 20 years the trail to track down more of the film led him through storage units and record company archives from New York and London to San Diego until, finally, enough of the precious fragments were assembled. Now, painstakingly restored and edited, the Capitol Session ’73 is ready for release and arguably the finest audio-visual recording of Bob Marley and the Wailers in existence.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Live! (Deluxe Edition 2016) (1975/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:13:18 minutes | 5,68 GB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Tuff Gong

Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1975 Live! album is to be reissued as deluxe package featuring the complete sets from both July ’75 shows at the London Lyceum. Both Lyceum gigs were recorded by The Rolling Stones mobile studio and the original album, as issued, featured just seven tracks from the second concert. Now the Deluxe edition set of Bob Marley & The Wailers – Live! features 22 tracks, with 14 of them previously unreleased.
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Bob Marley – Live At The Rainbow, 4th June 1977 [Remastered] (1978/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:41 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

At the time, Bob Marley and the Wailers, already huge in the UK, were on tour in support of the locally produced Exodus. While the show starts off with the slow-burning “Trenchtown Rock” (1973’s African Herbsman), Marley’s performance grows increasingly incendiary until, by the time they get to the climactic closer, “Exodus,” it looks as he’s in another world entirely.

The turning point is an extended version of “Crazy Baldhead” (1976’s Rastaman Vibration), in which Marley seemingly enters a trance, performing primarily with eyes closed.
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Bob Marley – Kaya (1978/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:08 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)

Kaya is the 1978 masterpiece by the reggae legend. This irresistible classic features all of Marley’s exhilarating spirituality. With The Wailers, the album includes the classic cuts “Is This Love,” “Sun Is Shining,” “Time Will Tell,” “Satisfy My Soul” and “Smile Jamaica.” The album is a pop-rock masterwork.
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