"Rhythmic danger in overdrive… Rootical rally-cry uproar." - Simon
Reynolds (Rip it Up and Start Again, Generation Ecstasy)
on DJ Ripley
Ripley has caused total dance mayhem in spaces like a re-purposed
public lavatory underneath a street in East London, a former
commercial fishing ship off the cost of Rostock, an (initially)
laid-back lounge in Oakland California, a half-squatted office space
in downtown Riga, the basement of an Indian restaurant in Bristol, as
well as warehouses and clubs in most places you'd think and some you
wouldn't. Her wreckstep raggaphonics spill over and rumble under into
dubdownbreak sound experiments and bounce back into nastybeast beats.
Genres dismantled and reanimated include: jungle, dancehall, dubstep,
bhangra, hiphop, baltimore club music, tamil pop, breakcore, glitch
and dub.
Ripley's fierce intellect and raw energy spark new uprisings and
unseat preconceptions in the company of artists like Hrvatski, Forest
Green, Kid606, Blevin Blectum, Dizzee Rascal, Kaffe Matthews, Bong-Ra,
Criterion, The Bug, Neotropic, Drop The Lime, Dj Sheen and Dr. Israel.
In the world of letters, Ripley also examines global property systems
through the lens of law and history, shouting out Scientist's lawsuit
against Greensleeves and dissecting the RIAA's raid on Mondo Kim's,
while Grooves magazine cautioned listeners to miss her Ich Bin Defekt
mix on Death$ucker Records "at their own risk." Ripley wants everyone
to dance.
Discography:
Ich Bin Defekt (mix CD) - Death$ucker Records
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