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Federal Recording Studio

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Ken Khouri's studio on Marcus Garvey Drive, the first purpose-built recording facility in Jamaica and the room where the local record industry effectively began in the 1950s. Federal pressed and recorded across mento, ska and reggae, trained a generation of engineers, and was later bought by Bob Marley and became Tuff Gong.

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Vintage Voices | The formation of Jamaica's recording industry

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Ska was made by trained musicians working in a real industry: a Catholic school band room, hotel dance floors, a purpose-built pressing plant and a government keen to export a national sound.

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