First Class Rock Steady

17 North Parade captures reggae’s structural precision through First Class Rock Steady, a compilation anchored in the genre’s most disciplined era. The label’s curation emphasizes the skeleton-key simplicity of rock steady—offbeat guitar, walking bass, and crisp snare work—before it evolved into reggae proper. This is foundational Caribbean music stripped to its essentials, essential listening for anyone tracing electronic music’s polyrhythmic roots.