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Sadly, our<\/a> ol’ group blog, Riddim Meth0d<\/a> (actually, named after<\/em> the article<\/a>), has fallen into disuse and disrepair, w\/ 400,000 unmoderated comments and countless foreign phishing outposts that have long slipped past the outmoded filters — not to mention, no new posts for almost 2 years now. I myself last posted there back in May 2007. I suppose I stopped in part because of a certain lack of collective drive, but also because I had enough — any and all, really — that I wanted to say here. (It was always hard to decide what should go there, as opposed to and\/or cross-posted here.) <\/p>\n For a time, though, back in 2005-06, I was approaching Riddim Meth0d as its own special space for sharing what I’ve called musically-expressed ideas about music<\/a> — things that I felt were especially consistent with our Mission Statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n music leads us into the world. <\/p>\n music connects us with each other. <\/p>\n music speaks volumes about who we are and where we’re at. <\/p>\n +++ <\/p>\n we speak with music as well as words. <\/p>\n we are beat-matching, beat-mashing, and beat-fashioning people. <\/p>\n we dub history, version worlds, retrace tributaries, spin stories. <\/p>\n we see music as performance, riddim as method. <\/p>\n we are media restructurists.<\/p>\n we like to share. <\/p>\n -the riddim methodists<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mostly, I was posting what we might think of as “pedagogical mashups” — juxtapositions of tracks that seemed to signify on each other in interesting, even instructive, ways. I think many of them have held up over the years, and so, while we wait for Riddim Meth0d to receive the museum treatment (probably relocating, embalmed & phishy-free, to one of our own sites), in the meantime, just for my own records (and perhaps for some who missed the posts the first time around), I’m going to be reposting a bunch of my favorite contributions to the site right here at W&W. Just a headsup–<\/p>\n