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Riddim, a sub-genre of Dubstep (not to be confused with Riddim Jamaican pronunciation of Rhythm) is one of the most popular Dubstep sub-genres of the past years.

Riddim, which was originally named "Wonky Dubstep" came from a leak of Trollphace songs on the internet which were tagged as Riddim and the name stuck.

Over the past couple years Riddim's popularity has exploded with the likes of Virtual Riot, Monxx, Badklatt, 12th Planet, Chibs, Excision, and others have jumped on the bandwagon and started producing riddim.

Riddim's sound is very distinct. With usually one bass sound designed using Virtual Studio Technology (VST). In most cases Serum made by Xfer Records, and Massive made by Native Instruments are used to make Riddim basses. Riddim is extremely simplistic mostly, usually there is a 27 bar or less introduction, old movie samples, video game samples, a bass sound that is heavily modulated, synth stabs in some cases, and the infamous Kick snare pattern. The infamous kick snare pattern consist of one kick drum sample and then the kick and snare combined. (This pattern can vary, but this is the most used pattern) And this pattern repeats throughout the song.

Along with many artists jumping on the bandwagon of riddim, many festivals are jumping on the hype of Dubstep and Riddim. Excision's festivals Basscanyon and Lost Lands are the first Dubstep focused event. As well as Excision creating festivals many other festivals are opening up the gates to Dubstep. With Monstercat hosting a stage with many dubstep artist at the mostly house festival Tomorrowlnad in Belgium. And other parent companies of festivals (in this case Insomniac Events) has started letting BassRush sponsor stages for dubstep in the past years and continues to do it in the coming years. https://www.reddit.com/r/EDM/comments/6yhldk/question_what_is_riddim_where_did_it_come_from/