Rithma was born in quiet a place, almost ‘storybook hippy’ if you will, to a rock singer and a Superman. But all stories begin with a twist and nobody holds onto paradise for too long. Or do they?
Listening to Little Feat and Swan Lake,the infant (etienne stehelin) would spend long days taking apart electronics and running through the creek after pollywogs.
But there came a time when Etienne freaked out about the onslaught of civilization on his beautiful land. He monkeywrenched several bulldozers, rendering them unuseable, set fires, pasted anti-establishment billboards, and joined a liberation-front army.
None of that really had any effect other than mildly irritate people and never quite hit the source, Etienne changed his name to Steve, hid himself as an auto mechanic for awhile, a welder, a carpenter and a rock & roll man, and soon went to high school in the haze of weed and skater-kids. Oh the social rollercoaster of public school in Southern California, leads one to question oneself and especially question the values of others…like, who am i with?… the jocks, the stoners, or the metalheads?
And just for a moment, after breaking up with the rock band, there was a window, a rift in time, right before the ‘real’ rave scene got ushered into alcohol funded nightclubs, where the young Rithma was born.
Acid House and “PLUR” A real family of people our own age who actually treated each other with love??? He’s in. And this music is like nothing he’s heard before, save for the best dreams EVER.
And using skills he learned earlier from jamming out as a youth on his Mammas analog synths and four track, combined with the his technical savvy and the twisted inner mind of a “born again human”, he decided to start being good to people and making music.
Long is the story of Rithma making his way through the scene, releasing records and the journey to San Francisco, etc etc etc up until the present time, with nearly 30 vinyl releases under his belt, when he’s finishing off his second full length album for Om, building a live show with the wonderful vocalist Monica Brooke, and loving every minute of this roller-coaster existence in the dance scene. Believe and the family will find you…
Releases from Rithma on Intelligent Audio:
IA1 : Deep/Tech House |
IA2 : Nu-Jazz, Lounge, Downtempo, Afrobeat… |
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Forces of Nature album going out on promo next week!
Forces Of Nature are back with a bang on Intelligent Audio with a brilliant new album. There’s 11 tracks and we are just pricing up and debating pressing up an album sampler to vinyl. Stay tuned for samples, and a tracklisting … ...
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Clare Large DJing deep tech house music at Nation in Toronto. This was a pretty fun gig and it was something to do with Most Wanted Entertainment – Ronnie Ferzst and my then friend Nicole… Main room headliners here were massive – people like Donald Glaude, Luke Solomon etc, and music in the main room tended to be more progressive house, or tech house, depending who was playing. It’s mad how much the scene has changed even in a few years since then, this was one of my first tours to Canada and it was really good fun! ...
read moreDeep Tech House Music | DJ Clare Large at Nation, Toronto
Clare Large playing deep and tech house music at Nation Nightclub, Toronto. This was a pretty fun gig, in the backroom, and I got to experiment with a bunch of music that I might not otherwise have played, since I was a lot more about techno back then! There’s this cool friend of mine, Brad, who used to drive about an hour or so from Guelph into Toronto to go to big raves back in the day, and I dragged him out to this and my other good friend Robin It’s amazing to think that I didn’t hardly use the internet back then, and...
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These are another couple of shots taken of DJ Clare Large DJing techno and tech house at the Purple Room at Revolution Nightclub, Cambridge, near Toronto, Canada. This was my first tour in Canada, and the Four 01 Recordings banner in the background was from a label ran by a guy called Mattlok. It seemed to release lots of looped disco stuff with some pretty big remixers like Joeski. No idea what Mattlok is doing now so if you read this Matt – get in touch!! This was a fantastic little space with a really up for it crowd and it was a...
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Clare Large plays all kinds of music and she really loves techno and tech house. She has been completely inspired by DJs like Eddie Richards, Billy Nasty, Terry Francis, Craig Richards and going to clubs like Atomic Jam, The End and Fabric She does play lots of other styles of music too though, chill out, nu jazz, broken beat, breaks… and is constantly being inspired by other DJs and producers! Clare has toured around Canada and the USA a lot DJing at all kinds of parties. This one was a great club called Revolution, in the...
read moreDeep Tech House Music | Trademark Jack O Diamonds
This is the first ever release on Intelligent Audio 2... we had so much awesome deep house and tech house to release, we were amazed the artists had a TON of chill out music, nu jazz, afrobeat and all sorts of other eclectic music too...
read moreDeep Tech House Music | Trademark – Elevator
The first ever release on Intelligent Audio is by Trademark - a couple of prolific, super talented, versatile and just awesome producers, Anthony Reeves and Mark Angus. This was pressed to vinyl which you can buy on our Intelligent Audio Discogs sales page or on Juno in the UK
read moreForces of Nature album ready and about to go out on promo…
Forces of Nature have done a fantastic new album that's a mix of deep and tech house, chill out music, jazzy elements, and lush deep underground electronica.
As I write this I'm still waiting for the artwork so stay tuned for that too.
