From Rivera's Groove Box #214: Andras & Oscar - Looking Back (Zanzibar Chanel Remix)

Zanzibar Chanel feel like great guys to hang out with. Their remix of 'Looking Back' sounds more sincere in my opinion. The original is sugar sweet listener friendly deep house, something to make the girls go 'woooooooooo I love this song, the singer is so cute'. But this is the real deal.

From Rivera's Groove Box #213: Traxxxsters - Da Way U Work

Straight up from the 90s Daft Punk deejay record bag, this ghetto house classic is just banging. Daft Punk really used the track well in their Essential Mix, which may be totally the best house mix ever put together. The track comes from the Chicago ghetto house label 'Underground Construction' which strangely is not that known as the ever world famous Dance Mania Records.

From Rivera's Groove Box #212: Al Zanders - Let Me Be Lonely

You all may heard and seen the amazing video (done by OOUKFunkyOO) for 'Long Gone'. This track also needs a video like this! I really like what Al Zanders is doing - his tracks are deep and he has his own touch. Really comparable with guys like Max Graef & Leon Vynehall. Another good addition to the steady growing row of exciting fresh outsider house producers.

From Rivera's Groove Box #211: SZCH - Untitled B

It's crazy how a simple techno beat and editing skills can make an already timeless 80s disco classic even more better suited for the dancefloor! Tell me how it feels. Does it feel for you like it feels for me, yeah?

From Rivera's Groove Box #210: Fred Wackenhut - Orianna Twilight

So I was listening to the Legowelt latest Dekmantel mix while sleeping. Suddenly I was dreaming that I was in this empty supermarket, in the music store, and I was holding a CD in my hand. I didn't have to put the disc into a record player, because the music just started playing - it was surrounding me and I was drenched in heavenly lush electric piano chords. And then I looked on the cover, to see who's behind the music. The CD was a Steven Seagal blues album. Then I woke up...

From Rivera's Groove Box #209: MTS & RDTH - White Boy, A Mexican & An Engineer

From all the acid classics out there, bet you haven't heard this one before - this is one of my favorite bargain bin finds. The track has that classic late 80s Chicago acid house vibe, but it's really minimal. It comes from a sub-label of Trax and it also has that legendary 'Trax Quality Sound' by which I mean it sounds like playing a sandpaper under the record player needle... but lo-fi dance music is still very hot at the moment, so it's great to have records like this in your collection.

From Rivera's Groove Box #208: Stratton - The Joint

I like this a lot. The track, it's video and the limited vinyl release all come from very dedicated lo-fi dance music enthusiasts! It's true underground music. But why do we lo-fi? The simple answer is that the lo-fi scene just rebels against the polished cleanliness of other contemporary electronic music genres. Because overproduced music just doesn't sound 'natural' anymore.

From Rivera's Groove Box #207: Radical Rob - Monkey Wah (Instrumental)

Such a funky piano classic house cut from the legendary dance music label R & S Records. The label was very influential in the 90s when it helped to develop the now familiar techno rave sound - hoovers, mad synth lines, acid, breakbeat, pianos, balearic, thumping bassdrums. Strangely enough, this is Radical Rob's only release, although one member of this duo - Peter Smith - did other rave acts, with Dub Collective and The Hypnotist being most acknowledged. Feel it. 

From Rivera's Groove Box #206: Elec Pt. 1 - Last Night

What happened to Andreas Gehm was very unfortunate - he died in pains and he was suffering from undisclosed health problems, all the doctors could do for him was prescribing strong opioid painkillers. He made many Facebook posts where he was mentioning feeling really worse and he felt like he was dying. It was horrible to read. But his legacy is very strong, he had an outstanding discography output with many releases and many aliases on well known underground dance music labels like Solar One, Bunker, Mathematics, Chiwax. Electro and acid music suited him best. 'Last Night' was his final post, he just wrote 'yes. Goodybe'. But I will not say goodbye to his music, because that will stay on the acid dancefloors until the end of rave days.

From Rivera's Groove Box #205: After Hours - Feel It (The Salso Mix)

Let me put it straight - this track has been on a continuous play in my mind for two days straight. This is a true deep house classic from 1991, co-produced by Roger Sanchez, who seems to have lost his groove nowadays (what happened?). This track represents the rising NY deep house sound of the 90s the best. The jacking warehouse sound was getting tired by then, and this supersmooth sound took over the classy dance clubs of NY. The harder house sounds didn't go anywhere, they were still pretty big in the filthiest underground dance dens and in the European acid house raves.