Version City is an American reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 record label and recording studio.

Since its inception in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 1997 by local ska veteran King Django

King Django

Jeff Baker, better known as King Django, is a New Brunswick, NJ-based ska musician. He was the leader of Skinnerbox and Stubborn All-Stars....

, it has changed its location to its current home in New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. Version City has been the creative outlet of many of Django's productions, especially those backed by the loose line-up that make up the house band, the Version City Rockers. This ensemble usually includes musicians involved in the New York scene such as "Agent" Jay Nugent

Jay Nugent

Jayson Nugent is a guitarist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaican music genres....

 and Vic Ruggiero

Vic Ruggiero

Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in many ska bands, such as The Slackers, Stubborn All-Stars, SKAndalous All Stars, Crazy Baldhead and The Silencers...

 of The Slackers

The Slackers

The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz...

, Eddie Ocampo

Eddie Ocampo

Eddie Ocampo is an drummer of the Third Wave Ska movement. He performed in several bands, such as The Insteps, Stubborn All-Stars, Dave Hillyard Rocksteady 7, the Jammyland All Stars, the Fandanglers, and many more Ska and Version City related bands...

, and Ira Heaps of the Jammyland

Jammyland

Jammyland Records is an independent music retailer in New York City. It was opened in 1993 at its location on 60 E 3rd Street in Manhattan, by owner Ira Heaps. The store specializes in Jamaican music, specifically the ska, rocksteady and reggae genres of the 60s and 70s recorded on vinyl, though ...

All-Stars. Since August 2006, Version City parties have been held at the Knitting Factory in New York City, on the first Saturday of every month. These events usually showcase the work of at least one Version City artist, as well as touring bands involved in Jamaican music.