Rhibosome

Rhibosome

The Rhibosome story began back in 1998 when two members began playing in a street theatre percussion group called Whak. Later that year they toured to festivals in Canada, Singapore, Darwin and Melbourne.

Dave McKinney reminisces "We had a machine each, like a bike, sorta like a Sulo bin filled with wheelchair batteries and a chassis bolted to the back. It had wheels on the front and back, and you could steer the whole thing with a joystick. It had loads of percussion instruments and foam and stuff."

Once back from overseas the duo commenced their next project, writing a live electronic soundscape for urban circus company Bizircus. These songs soon morphed into a live set.

Rhibosome have supported Coldcut, Rae & Christian, Faze Action, Norman Jay, Resin Dogs, Endorphin, Ashley Beedle, Jose Padilla, Adam Freeland, The Wiseguys, Freestylers, Aphrodite, Ben Harper, Scratch Perverts. They also became one of the stalwarts of the Fremantle scene, regularly performing under their main name, but also as the Big Ear DJs at popular venues in the port city.

Rhibosome also performed at many of the bigger dance festivals, including Vibes on a Summer's Day, Gatecrasher, Science Fiction, Delirious, Sonik 2000, Ministry of Sound.

On stage, Rhibosome were three guys surrounded by a stack of samplers, drumkit, turntables, effects units and an arsenal of percussion with each band member moving freely between instruments and machines. All played fully live with no sequencing or Dat machines. Once you added their live sound engineer, who mixed it all with extra effects and filtering, you got a band that was very exciting live and very electronic.

Despite having gone separate ways in 2004 Rhibosome still made waves with their debut album in the UK. Their self titled album Rhibosome having been released in Australia 2002, was released in the UK in 2005 through the label Freestyle.

Since the band split up Dave McKinney has been keeping busy releasing under the name Flow Dynamics and Soul Harmonics, with the Flow Dynamics single "Live In The Mix" recently reaching number 22 in the UK Dance Singles Charts. McKinney has recently toured through UK, Europe, and Australia.

Members

The Rhibosome collective was made up of:

• Dave McKinney
• Clayton Chipper
• Andrew Selmes
• George Nikoloudis (live sound engineer)

Discography

• "Impulse" (single) - Offworld Sounds
• Rhibosome (selftitled LP) - Hydrofunk (2002)
• "Get Ready" (single) - Hydrofunk Records (2002)

Links

• Official website
• Dave McKinney's new Flow Dynamics project website