Evil Eyes Riddim – Various Artists

Starpoint Productions’ Evil Eyes Riddim came out of that Barbados-Trinidad dancehall circuit where a single cut can turn into a whole running session, and this one leans hard into the modern, strip-it-down side of the style. The notes only list two featured voices here, Style on “Groove On” and Virus on “Weird, ” but the wider riddim has been tied to a much bigger circle of cuts, with multiple versions circulating around the same backbone. That’s the useful detail: this wasn’t treated as a one-off beat, but as a platform track that could carry different artists and edits. C-Juh, the producer behind Starpoint, has been associated with the riddim’s larger rollout and with a home-studio output that moved quickly through the regional dancehall scene. The release is tagged to 2005, and the tracklist runs Style – “Groove On” and Virus – “Weird. ”