Riddim: Appreciating Foreign Music

The Pop
Benga & Coki - Night

The Filth
Skream - Oskilatah

When you listen to new music, it helps to have a location in mind. For example, when listening to rap music where do you think of? Don't say the suburbs.

Right, Brooklyn.

How about classical music?

Vienna, sure.

Country music?

Nashville.

So when I started listening to dubstep music, it was clear I had nowhere to place it. The dubstep I knew came from Baltimore. Baltimore is dirty. But dubstep, as you may have heard above from Skream, is filthy. Last week I found my dubstep spot. It's London. It's the London tube. It's busy, it's cramped, it's wet. I love it.

Dubstep?

London.