From Rivera's Groove Box #243: Jason Grove - Mastercut 4

Little is known about this mysterious producer, some say he is from Detroit, some rumours tell that he is an under thirty something Parisian, or even a Rumenian producer, but that is all debatable until the producer decides to come out for real. What is certain is that his music is fresh and cool, a throwback to the old school New York deep garage house sound.

From Rivera's Groove Box #242: World Nation - Got Me Burning Up

There are two things what make my heart pound in a sweet rhythm - my significant other and NY style deep garage house grooves. This one is from 'Brutal Bill' Marquez, who is a profilic producer from the early 90s New York house scene with many other aliases and classic tracks to choose from.

From Rivera's Groove Box #241: DJ Soch - Unknown

Fine deep house grooves with some real nice vocals on top. DJ Soch belongs to the new wave of outsider sounding lo-fi house producers from Italy among with DJ Octopus, Nas1, Lucretio, Marieu, Die Roh, Fabio Monesi, Steve Murphy, Sagats & Madi Grein. These guys know how to keep things fresh and funky. 

From Rivera's Groove Box #240: Unit Moebius - Beat That Perculator

Here's Unit Moebius own take of the ghetto house sound of Chicago. It's raw and minimal - just like the tracks which it was inspired from. It features the samples of three well known Chicago house ghetto classics: Johnny Dangerous 'Problem No. 13'; Cajmere 'Percolator'; MDIII 'The Pressure Cooker'.

From Rivera's Groove Box #239: Route 8 - I Dream About Acid

Proper acid house track incorporating a sample loop of the classic 'Fantasy Girl' by Pierre's Pfantasy Club. Route 8 is a producer known for his analogue sounding techno music from Hungary. His works have been featured prominently on the lo-fi leaning label Lobster Theremin.

From Rivera's Groove Box #238: DJ Deeon & DJ Funk - Pony (Deeon's Mix)

You just gotta love the simplicity ghetto house music offers. It's loud, minimal and done with basic equipment. Some may even call these stripped downed house tracks too simple. But it totally works. DJ Funk and Deeon are among the best-known names in the ghetto house scene, and 'Pony' is probably the funkiest offering from their overly massive discography.

From Rivera's Groove Box #237: Rimbaudian - Drop It On 'Em

Now that the once strictly underground sub-genre of house music has emerged to more broader audience that it was once intended for, with producers like DJ Seinfeld, Ross From Friends, Mall Grab or DJ Boring gaining millions of views of their tracks on Youtube, the lo-fi dance music scene has been the subject of some backlash by the trendy blogs and news media webzines like Thump or Factmag. Accused of being overly too aesthetic, lack of original ideas, silly gimmicks, ironic and almost parodying attitude to the scene, some have called the sub-genre as a spoof of house music.

But that talk is all nonsense. Rubbish. The truth is that some of the very best underground dance music anthems of recent years have stemmed from the lo-fi scene. Like this track from Rimbaudian, which incidentally is a DJ Seinfeld alias. It's beautiful, and the fan video goes along with it perfectly. Totally mesmerizing.

From Rivera's Groove Box #236: Victor Simonelli Presents N.Y.'s Finest - Do You Feel Me

Here's a proper house track which still feels so fresh like it was done just yesterday. This classic, considered by some house music enthusiasts as one of the best ever, never gets old. It certainly is among the most memorable garage deep house tracks, and probably the best track produced by the New Yorkian prolific DJ and producer Victor Simonelli. Sampling the vocals from Zhana's 'Sanctuary Of Love' which is an early 90s rave track, but Victor Simonelli's track makes it all sound much deeper and smoother in a deep house key. The bass, melody, and piano riff is also sampled, or possibly replayed from the 1982 Salsoul disco cut 'Moment Of My Life' by Inner Life. But it's all put together very classy and fine sounding. This track was played virtually anywhere in '93 where there was house music heard.