Don’t Sweat the Techniques

Behind the Shades, the Techniques, and countless other reggae acts, there was Winston Riley

One of the true survivors of Jamaica’s notoriously cutthroat music scene, Winston Riley has been a consistently forceful element of that island’s music production sphere for more than forty years. Although he was one of the producers who helped give birth to reggae in the late 1960s, he remained untroubled by the dramatic changes that swept Jamaican music during the computerization phase of the mid-1980s, and continued to be an important production force in the years that followed. He has remained involved in Kingston’s general musical landscape and although his record shop and recording studio were recently destroyed by fire, Riley is rebuilding the premises and expanding the space to include an on-site music museum.

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