From Rivera's Groove Box #389: Highrise - Swings & Roundabouts SNR001 A1

Excellent UK 4x4 garage vibes from jungle producer Dwarde. Stripped down minimal keyboard patterns, deep lush pads and skippy beats with a swing. And that booming in a subtle way sub-bass!

From Rivera's Groove Box #388: Ian Pooley - Cold Wait

'Cold Wait' is an overlooked 90s deep house classic, one of Pooley's finest works. Lush pads and sensuous vocals carry the track for the whole nine trippy minutes. He opened up his 1998 Essential Mix with this track - what a great intro to a DJ set! Forget the remixes, they don't bring much to the table, even though Kevin Saunderson, Attaboy and Bicep are heavyweight names in dance music. This just shows how amazing and untouchable the original mix is.

From Rivera's Groove Box #387: Big Pharma - Danca Com El Diablo

This really sounds like Joey Youngman. Or Bosco & Terell, Count Funkula, Frequent Flyers, Mario Fabriani, Spyro Pappadopoulos, The Girth, White Collar Criminals... but we can't be 100% sure, because a lot of producers have tried to copy his unique sound over the years and Joey Youngman has always been secretive about his aliases and likes to keep it mysterious. Some mysticity can be a good thing, when it comes to music. What is certain, is that this tune is banging! 

From Rivera's Groove Box #386: Servo Unique - Swing It

Jeff Mills 1993 one-release tech-house project. The vinyl release has not been repressed and it has become quite rare. Features legendary synth stabs, a pounding TR-909 kick together with some percussions from the Roland TR-727 (the latin drum kit version of the TR-707). Simple, minimal yet very effective.

From Rivera's Groove Box #385: Ordinary People - Baby You Make My Heart Sing

Sought after UK garage classic from 1997. Timeless deep house sounds with lush keys, passionate vocals and skippy beats to make your feet move. Makes me feel soft and fuzzy all up inside.

From Rivera's Groove Box #384: White Gloss - Backup Plan B

"Deconstructed club", or "post-club" - they're umbrella terms from the always hip music magazines like Resident Advisor or Fact to describe any sort of new dance music which is hard to put into a certain genre. Old-timers jokingly refer to the sound of post-club "it's just breaks", although the sound has very often a certain edge of pretentiousness and IDM leaning side, which can be off-putting sometimes. Identified by aggressive, frantic, post-industrial sound design featuring metallic or staccato sounds such as samples of glass smashing, gunshots, random vocal shouts, rave stabs etc, deconstructed club aims for an excessive, apocalyptic-sounding soundscape, with constant rhythmic switch-ups and atonality. It's a sound which allows its creators to experiment in a lot of unorthodox ways. Trancey mid-90s synth riffs, 150 to 200BPM gabber beats, grime claps, jittery footwork, momentary atmospheric breathers, pop mashups - everything goes. Because of the nervousness of the sound, it definitely isn't for everyone and requires a certain degree of open mindedness. There's a microscene of post-club music rising in Estonia, with artists like White Gloss, Bible Club, Köster, Myspace01, the mysterious hardcore techno projects Boys Mit Uns and Hetero Holocaust. Their DIY leisuring casualness in making music and organizing events is very welcoming. White Gloss recently debuted his debut EP on Estonian underground label Internet Cafe, collaborating with handcraft-cassette manufacturer Trash Can Dance, who made a limited run of tapes. I think it's fitting to call it one of the prime examples of current status of domestic post-club sounds.