Dave Kelly meets riddim culture in the courthouse

Ripley on a troubling recent development in JA music.. No, not autotune mania, but legal action against people re-versioning riddims.

Wayneandwax provides further detail in two further blogposts: here and here.

There have been rumours of this sort of thing happening before – back in July 2000, Coxsone Dodd was said to be considering legal action against some tunes being pressed at Dynamic which used classic Studio One riddims.