From Rivera's Groove Box #169: 10cc - I'm Not In Love

You know, the thing with this song is that it ain't just a simple soft rock love song. It's actually a very well and precisely produced musical composition. And that's why I like it. Don't really care about the lyrics or message of the song. Using tape loops, Fender rhodes, electric guitar, and electronic drums synthesized with the Moog synthesizer, with a very Beach Boys 'Smiley Smile' feeling. The making of this song demonstrated here: 'Im Not In Love' making of documentary

From Rivera's Groove Box #168: Mystic Jungle - Mystic Beast

What a great track from an even greater mini-album: 'Terror From The Deep'. Lo-fi and flat sounding deep and dark techno. Loads of acid flavored tracks. Altogether six very different styled tracks, but all with that grimy cassette-mastered feel. But it's on vinyl! Let the vampire mermaids attack and devour or flesh.

From Rivera's Groove Box #167: The Other People Place - Sorrow & A Cup Of Joe

What a great track from Detroit. Done by one half of the now legendary underground Detroit electro duo Drexciya. Heard this in a party recently. Had to go and ask the DJ what was he playing, because I didn't know the tune. He only replied me 'Detroit', stoned as he was. But I managed to find this track somehow! 

From Rivera's Groove Box #166: Legowelt - Institute Of The Overmind

I had a terrible morning today. Nothing went as I planned and hoped will turn out. So I just started listening to music. There's something in this track which just cheered me up a bit. I think it's because this track is just so well produced. Really, Legowelt has been putting other house and techno producers to shame since the the 1990s. You can watch the video of making this track here: How To Make A Legowelt Track

From Rivera's Groove Box #165: Mall Grab - Can't (Get U Outta My Mind)

Yeah, that's an Alicia Keys sample. Great lo-fi grooves from Mall Grab. This is a good example how you can create an atmosphere in a track with overdrive and distortion. 

From Rivera's Groove Box #164: Tanel's Hot House Trax - 2√231 Mad Rave Houz

Mad Rave Houz To Rock Your Body!

From Rivera's Groove Box #163: Hüpnosaurus - Always In 'N' Out

Some great lo-fi garage house grooves, with an outsider feeling. Rescued from some 1990's tapes of an underground Estonian techno and electronic music production group, Hüpnosaurus. Released by the amazing Ukranian label Wicked Bass recordings.

From Rivera's Groove Box #162: Tuff Sherm & Patch Free - Party Scraps

What a lovely and strange, almost weird sounding groove for deep house. They're describing this kind of out of this world sounding house and techno grooves as 'outsider house', or as DJ Haus calls it - 'oddball house'. Tuff Sherm and Patch Free are no newcomers to the scene, they have records out on prolific Mariana-trench-deep-underground labels like The Trilogy Tapes and Opal Tapes. There is also coming out a brand new record under the Hot Haus label, which is going to be super awesome. As long as there will be house and techno music which dares to sound interesting and different, I'll have faith into this electronic dance music thingy. 

From Rivera's Groove Box #161: Steve Poindexter - Street Fighter

An old, but unreleased track from the Chicago house legend and underground hero. Released on Delroy Edwards label LA Club Resource. Hypnotizing minimal synthesizer grooves with jacking drum machine beats, all accompanied by lovely tape hiss. I'm getting so used with tape hiss in the lo-fi underground house and techno scene, that I'm mostly disappointed when I don't hear hiss or distortion in a club track anymore. That super clean and polished digital sound is not for me anymore. I guess I'm in the deep underground zone now, super deep, like in the Mariana trench part of underground scene now.

From Rivera's Groove Box #160: Tissu - Unmanned Vehicle

There aren't many house records nowadays which make me say 'wow'. Very deep analogue house track, with a techno feeling. Lush aquatic pads with driving hats. Every sound is put to its place with mathematical precision. An afterthought - it's crazy how many times we listen to the same 909 or 707 drums in house music, but they still sound fresh in every different track. It's like DNA, same pieces, but an alternate outcome, albeit with a familiar warm feeling.