A Reggae label; part of the Trojan group. The first two-thirds of Techniques issues were Winston Riley productions; indeed the label took its name from that of Riley's own label in Jamaica. It put out around thirty singles during the period 1970-74, and enjoyed two unexpected Top Ten successes with Dave & Ansil Collins's, 'Double Barrel' (TE-901; 1970) and 'Monkey Spanner' (TE-914; 1971), the first of which went to No.1 in the charts. The label design remained the same throughout, but the text 'Made in England' appeared on records from the 11th of June 1971 onwards (2), starting with TE-914. For the most part pressing is likely to have to have been done by Orlake, who were responsible for manufacturing most of Trojan's subsidiary-label records.
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