Feb 7, 2010
Montreal: Shackleton & Razor Rekta
20 February 2010: Shackleton, Razor Rekta, Bus, Mr. Bump and Komodo v. Hosta. Visuals by Pink Rubber Laby and Tind. The Komodo Dubs series is kicking off 2010 with a killer line-up!!!!
Jan 10, 2010
Rebuilding
Hold tight. We were hacked. Many posts are offline for now.
Also on the way:
» 2-part director’s cut of Dusk and Blackdown’s Woofah interview
» New audio section with rare mixes, live sets and radio rips
» Return of the UKG archive with new scans
» Early North American flyer gallery
Jan 10, 2010
Download: Mak10 NYE Montreal
Aug 24, 2008
Interview: Roska
Climate change: Recent stirrings in the UK underground jolt Riddim.ca back to life… Kicking off our open-ended investigation of London’s rapidly mutating house scene, we sit down for an email exchange with Roska. With a foot in broken beat and shades of grime, his new EP Climate Change maintains a healthy balance between houseful sensuousness and rugged riddimic experimentation. It’s also getting caned by DJs from Marcus Nasty to kode9. Get to know Roska…
Dec 4, 2007
Forward Sounds 2008
“And you’ll never hear music like this again”
- MC GQ (AWOL tape, 1993)
Originally posted at Deeptime blog
It’s time to revive ‘Forward Sound,’ though maybe in the plural. Circa 2003 that was the open-ended term that used to describe what eventually became dubstep, along with a tangle of threads that split off or got left behind. Just like house first meant “what they play at the Warehouse,” it was a reference to the club night itself, the only place where you could hear as yet unnamed new mutations of the garage machine, whether in the form of Ghost, Landslide, Menta, kode9, Plasticman, Hatcha, Slimzee, etc, etc. And of course it was hardly a ’sound’ at all. Virtually every artist operating under that banner was a sound unto themselves and the Forward style could only ever be a snapshot of those trajectories out of UK garage that happened to be coinciding on a given Thursday night or in narrow bands of pirate ether.
Jan 28, 2007
Autonomic Interview at Tranquera.org
Spurred by the launch of the Hyperdub archive at Riddim.ca, Brazilian dubstep boss Bruno Belluomini got in touch, recently, with a few questions for a short feature at Tranquera.org. Since the site is all in Portuguese (I don’t remember writing in Portguese, but anyway) I thought I’d print the English version here.
Jan 3, 2007
FWD: For immediate release
Riddim.ca Acquires Hyperdub.com 2step Archive
OTTAWA, ON, January 3, 2007 – Riddim.ca (TSX: RDM) announces a strategic content-sharing alliance with South London-based Hyperdub.com (FTSE: HDB). The 1.2 Mb acquisition makes Riddim.ca the official unhome of the original Hyperdub.com 2step Garage archive which had been unavailable to consumers since the 2005 restructuring of Hyperdub’s online presence.
Oct 9, 2006
Blinding Lights of Fiction: Kode9 & Space Ape
As far as I can see, science fiction has lost that sense of the new, because its vision has materialised around us. We take it for granted. The future envisaged by science fiction is now our past, and the result is it’s probably come to a natural end. That doesn’t mean that one can’t continue writing it: one just has to move into a different terrain. – JG at Ballardian
Mar 5, 2006
Identify: D1
D1’s first impression on the dubstep scene was a massive one – the explosive “Crack Bong,” featured on Tempa All Stars v.2 and the core of a Loefah remix that helped define dubstep in 2005. Since then he’s moved to the centre of the scene, getting the Youngsta seal of approval and scoring an exclusive record deal with Tempa. At just 18 years old, he’s already a music veteran – classically trained and surrounded by his dad’s studio gear since he was little. Riddim.ca caught up with D1 just after the release of his most recent single.
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Feb 7, 2006
Who is Joe Nice?
The master of the 410 formula, the CEO of Coldness, the Baron of Beats, Bass and Boom, Mr. Minus Degree. The leader in the North American quest to preach the dubstep gospel to the masses, he’s played the legendary DMZ night in London, had Jammer and Skepta going buckwild over his plates. Despite his good fortune and acclaim coming from all corners, he’s still as humble as it comes. Kuma checks in with the man himself.
