Caballo over at Generation Bass posted this free album of cumbia / dancehall mashups from Mykol Orthodox which is all pretty awesome but I picked up on this tune particularly, featuring yet another incarnation of that bassline from the Computa Riddim which I posted a while ago. The bassline odessey continues!

Mykol Orthodox - Ghetto Living Rmx (Burru Banton)

Well, it's not really of the week, since it's been a while since the last Riddim of the Week. In fact this is going to be the last one for now, so I'm going back in time a few years to one of my all time favourite riddims: Birchill's Limbo Riddim!

Birchill - Limbo Riddim. (sorry, vinyl rip using a fairly sub standard turntable...)

First heard this at St Pauls Carnival a few years ago when we turned a corner to be blasted by Elephant Man's voicing (also called Limbo) over this crazy futuristic insistent beat, and it's one of the tunes that's been in my head ever since.

Been quiet on here from me in the last couple of weeks, all sorts of Real Life things occuring, but here's something awesome to make up for it... I covered Opa Novy God's awesome free album Original Goods a little while back, well here's the first of a couple of remixes I'm doing for them, on a carnivalesque balkan house tip with a little dancehall shuffle thrown in too...

Rumba (andykisaragi remix 1.1) by andykisaragi

This weeks riddim of the week (well ok since I missed last week, riddim of the fortnight) from Massive B contains one of the most classic basslines in history...

Massive B - 210 Computa Riddim

Don't know where that bassline came from originally but it's been reused approximatley a squillion times, always to devastating effect... here's a couple of examples that spring to mind:

heavy heavy roots: kenny knots / bush chemists - good sensimiella

classic classic rave: SL2 - Way in my Brain

There's some good pop music around at the moment! Well there always is really, among the endless churning out of tripe (which I think is probably necessary to turn up the gems) but there's at least two tracks around at the moment which are totally rockin, the first being Tinie Tempah's Pass Out which I correctly predicted would be huuuuuge (at this point I'm retiring from the chart predicitons business with a 100% success rate). The second is Rude Boy by Rihanna - I've never been a fan of her previous stuff but that hook is just pure wickedness. Seems like everyone and his dog has done a remix (my dog is in the studio right now) - here's a little selection:

Heavy dancehall / reggaeton grind: Rihanna & Agent Sasco - Rude Boy Remix (usershare link). I think Agent Sasco replies "like a bus" to Rihanna's "is you big enough?" - that's pretty big

Bleepy IDMesque dancehall: Rihanna - Rude Boy - Murlo Remix (via Palms Out

More after the jump...

I know its only a few days since the last Riddim of the Week, but I don't think I'm going to top this before the week is out.

Crazy minimal, hypnotic, and slightly unhinged, I just listened to ten voicings of this in a row and am now feeling slightly disconnected from reality...

Here's the riddim Ward 21 - Cosa Nostra Riddim

And possibly my favourite voicing, suitably mental Mr Lexx - Dem a Pree

Another Leftside related riddim of the week! Last week I posted Gran Faada's 'Party Hard', well I've come across the riddim, and it's my favourite riddim of this week - hence: riddim of the week! a fascinating insight into my though processes, no?

Leftside - Hot It Up riddim

This week's riddim of the week comes from Leftside:

Leftside - Official Riddim / Welcome to JA

Mainly as an excuse to post some other Leftside stuff, cos I'm loving him at the moment...

Leftside & Esco - Wine Up Pon Her containing the timeless piece of advice which rest assured I will be passing onto my grandchildren: 'if yuh see a hot gyal jus wine up pon her'

Gran Faada - Party Hard in which Leftside's elderly alter ego invites you to 'fling way yuh pride!'

This weeks riddim comes courtesy of Da Grynch and it's a real simple, old skool, relentless, squelchy roots steppa.

Da Grynch - Come Down Riddim

Here's a vocal for your delectation also:

Tippa Irie - Tippa Pon De Mic

(Image robbed from Brenda Howell cos I thought it was kinda cool. Sorry Brenda - but here's a link back to you!)

Here's a new remix from me... it's kind of a work in progress, but everything I do at the moment is kind of a work in progress, due to my convoluted mastering process involving listening on various headphones then burning to CD and listening on a car stereo...

SAOTV - A Bruised Reed (andykisaragi remix 0.2)  by  andykisaragi