riddims

-- a post on one of my favorite hang-outs...

I don't know how many of you on here are fanatics about tracking riddims, but I find it compelling to say the least. I really wish there was a good place that had that info available. reggae-riddims.com is OK, and often points out things I didn't know, but there's so many gaps. I was working on Yabby U's stuff this weekend and there were only like two albums showing up there. I'd like to put my stuff up online somehow sometime soon, I just need to invest the time into getting the code together and get down to it.

This weekend I worked on a couple different artists/producers... Glen Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Dr Alimantado, Yabby U, Michael Prophet, Augustus Pablo, and a couple more. Been working on Pablo today and managed to track riddims for about 500 of the 600 songs I have credited to him.

Its a bit mind blowing when you start digging into this stuff. There's so many links I'm not even perceptive enough to get, I mean, you have to have a riddim in your head already to be able to hear it and recognize it. Sometime you get lucky, but most times it is reliant on you remembering the tune. That means there's always gonna be a learning process...

That's my thought for the day...