From Rivera's Groove Box #204: Aldo & Felipe - Burning Up

'Keep the fire burning... keep the fire burning... keep it burning HOT HOT HOT'. Real nice disco house we got here. It used to be the biggest style of house music for a while, but now it's pretty much an underground theme, because sampling disco tracks and getting away with it is pretty risky business. But in the underground, you can get totally away with it, most of the times. You see, the trick is to sample some real obscure music. If you go and sample Sade for example, you can get trouble like the underground house label 'Stamp' had when they were ordered to cancel their represses of unlicensed Sade remixes.

From Rivera's Groove Box #203: Macintosh Plus - 花の専門店

Ah, Vaporwave - internet's very own musical genre, but for some reason very few of my friends have heard about it. If it's done in the right way, it sounds amazing, but so much bad sounding tracks are out there. Vektroid/Macintosh Plus is one of the biggest names in this genre of experimental 'plunderphonics'. This track is one of the best from the almost cult status album 'Floral Shoppe'. The skipping sound effect is done in a very nice stylish way, it doesn't sound too weird, and it's showing that there is beauty in music that sounds 'broken' and lo-fi.

From Rivera's Groove Box #202: Guised - Doubt

I love these rough sounding deep house jams with a funky edge. This track by Guised is really simple, but sometimes it takes forever to find something good to sample and make it work well. Kinda has a Detroit vibe going on, reminding me of Kyle Hall's 'Measure 2 Measure'.

From Rivera's Groove Box #201: Larry Heard Presents Mr .White - You Rock Me

Larry Heard is a musical genius, no doubt about it. He is a true musician, he approaches his music in a different way than most house producers. He's been in the house music scene ever after the beginning, and he made one of the most famous house tracks ever 'Can You Feel It?'. He knows how to make music, which makes you feel alive, and it's exciting to listen. Usually, when house music is done by real musicians, it sounds kinda predictable, like it is the case in so many late 90s and early 2000s house records. But this is not the case for 'You Rock Me' - this groovy as hell song doesn't even sound like a house track, it's something more. It's rocking house!

From Rivera's Groove Box #200: Trackman Lafonte & Bonquiqui - Believe In Something

Do you believe? I want to believe. Believe in something. This projects is a collaboration between Legowelt and his former girlfriend Xosar. Their own brand of 'pacific house' which is a mellow lo-fi mixture of deep house. I'm not sure about their relationship, but if they've parted their ways, are they still gonna do some music together, every now and then, at least? Hope so.

From Rivera's Groove Box #199: Minimal Vision - Magic Staircase

The Italians do many things good: food, fast cars, beautiful architecture, fashion, they are good at cursing, good tasting coffee... and deep house music! 'Magic Staircase' is a classic early 90s house track from Rome, it sounds and feels like taking a journey with a magical staircase through the skies straight up to space - this is how proper deep house should sound!

From Rivera's Groove Box #198: The Pilotwings - Cavernes Magiques

I feel that The Pilotwings made the ultimate Legowelt sounding track, I guess they tried the Legowelt promoted Ganzfeld experiment and channeled their mindvibes to the Hague and Danny Wolfers directly. Well done, The Pilotwings.

From Rivera's Groove Box #197: Huerco S - Untitled

Hard to believe, but I didn't like this track at first listen. The reason? I felt the track sounded too horny. Haha. Tip: try to listen to this while watching old videos of people surfing, with the volume muted. Because that's what this track reminds me when listening - surfing on waves, windy somber weather, huge foamy waves, being one with the moving water and forgetting the world...

From Rivera's Groove Box #196: Legowelt - Sark Island Acid

No one does it like Legowelt. Well there are some producers who try to sound like him, but the way Legowelt (aka Danny Wolfers) makes his music is very unique - he has that magic touch between him and the machines he uses to make music. A true wizard of sound. He also has many secret ways to enrich his sound, one which is known is that he records his music on tape to give it extra deepness and warmness. 

'Smooth tape sound relaxes the mind'

From Rivera's Groove Box #195: Moodcut - Late Night Ham (Moon B Rework)

It's mechno. Get it? Melancholic techno, haha :)