Their first recording as the Techniques was No One (Like You Do), cut for The Real Jamaican Ska compilation album in 1964. When known as the Victors the youngsters learnt instruments to add to their obvious vocal talents, in effect presenting one of the first “complete” Jamaican groups that could sing, play and write their own material. Being a local boy he got his start early, forming a band with fellow Kingston High School pupils Franklyn White, Frederick Waite and Keith (soon to be Slim) Smith. He started the band and oversaw an almost complete line up change over the years, but he still kept the various aggregations at the forefront of the Kingston music scene in the 1960s. The pivotal figure in the Techniques’ story was one Winston Delano Riley.
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