kolmapäev, 28. jaanuar 2015

From Rivera's Groove Box #135: Sound Waves - I Wanna Feel The Music



So many times I almost forget how much I love this track. Then it springs into my mind without a warning. This really is the template for the mid 90s deep house music. It came out in 1991 on Strictly Rhythm, you know, back when that label actually meant something (nowadays it seems they have lost that magic touch). Probably the best thing that label has put out!

laupäev, 17. jaanuar 2015

From Rivera's Groove Box #134: Merelinnud - Shout-out To Greg And Leon



This is a really nice deep house track! You can download it here:
Kena sügav house muusika rada, allalaadida saab siit:
https://soundcloud.com/danielrivera/merelinnud-shout-out-to-greg-and-leon

laupäev, 10. jaanuar 2015

My Choice Of 2014 Best House Tracks

2014 offered plenty of good house tracks. There were deep tracks, there were banging harder tracks, a touch of funky tracks, and some borderline experimental sounds. There were many re-releases and reissues, which is always nice. Classic and old-school house sounds were very popular. Overall, it was a good year for house music. I would like to hear as much good tracks in 2015! Here is my top 30 picks:

1. Gianni Amoroso - I Don't Feel Your Love (3 Channels Remix)
2. Nail - Sweet Feet
3. DJ Octopus - Going To The Lake With carlos
4. DJ Haus - Hey Now Wait A Minute
5. P.O.L Style & Vin Sol & Matrixxman - Power Top
6. Gerry Read - Been A Lot Of Places, Seen A Lot Of Faces
7. Quarion - Sunday Night
8. Casino Times - AWD
9. Andreas Saag - In The Box
10. Leon Vynehall - This Is The Place
11. Sade - Love Is Stronger (Vin Sol & Matrixxman Remix)
12. Lucretio - Denying
13. Ajukaja & Andrevski - Rare Birds
14. Willie Burns - Washed Hands
15. Huxley - I Want You (Youandewan Version)
16. Huerco S. - A Verdigris Reader
17. Helena Hauff - The Purely Painful Confrontation of Opposites
18. Tanl Mtslu - In My Garage
19. Beato - Untitled A2 Russian Torrent Verions
20. Floating Points - Nectarines
21. Theo Parrish - Footwork
22. Legowelt - Experiental Awakening
23. Terekke - Untitled A1 L.I.E.S.
24. Deetroit - The Underground Understands
25. Nas1 - Dallas Vertical Call
26. D'Marc Cantu - The Lights Brighter
27. Rezzett - Zootie
28. Neuronphase - Dissapointed
29. NGLY - 5674
30. Nail - Together

From Rivera's Groove Box #133: Beato - Untitled



Russian Torrent Versions is a sublabel of L.I.E.S. - the most loved techno and house label of recent years by the underground dance scene. Some of the releases are very good, and some are your average bangers. This one by Greg Beato is a very cool stripped down old school flava house track. Sounds like a unreleased instrumental deep house track from the early 90s. Why the label is named Russian Torrent Versions is a funny story and I'm not sure if it's the truth or just a myth - because the L.I.E.S. catalogue was uploaded to a popular russian torrent site called 'Funkysouls', the guys behind L.I.E.S. label uploaded some 'alternative versions' of forthcoming tracks to the site. A little later they caught Nina Kraviz playing these 'russian torrent versions' of the tracks! Maybe this is just a crazy made up backround story, I'm not totally sure! I'm not liking the harder techno tracks which are being released on the label, but this track by Beato is a winner. Super simple and effective.

Russian Torrent Versions on ühe viimaste aastate palavamalt armastatud house ja techno plaadifirma L.I.E.S. võsuke. Mõned väljaanded sellelt plaadifirmalt on tõelised võitjad ning mõned on nii ja naa. See Greg Beato instrumentaalne house lugu on väga äge enda minimaalse kulgemisega ja vanakooli mõjutustega. Miks on plaadifirmal just selline kentsakas nimi nagu 'Vene Torrenti Versioonid' on üks naljakas ja sama veider lugu nagu plaadifirma nimigi. Kuna L.I.E.S. plaadifirma kataloog oli üleslaaditud vene torrentite foorumisse 'Funkysouls', mõtlesid plaadifirma taga olevad inimesed teha tünga ja panna ülesse sinna samasse avaldamata lood, kuid teistmoodi versioonidena - teine ülesehitus, viletsam kvaliteet. Mõnda aega hiljem avastati, et Nina Kraviz mngib neid 'Vene Torrentite Versioone' enda DJ settides! Võib-olla on see müüt, ma ei ole kindel. 

laupäev, 3. jaanuar 2015

From Rivera's Groove Box #132: Popol Vuh - Affenstunde


Lately I've been interested in modular synthesizers, their history and the sounds these wonderful machines create. Though I'll probably never own one in real life (because how expensive they are), I'm still fascinated by them. I have seen musicians perform live on modular synthesizers, and the sounds truly feel alive and natural. They sound natural because they are analog, and all sounds from the nature surrounding us are analog. Even if they produce cosmic out of this earth sound, it still sounds natural and good, not alienating and strange. Modular synthesizer music started to appear on records in the early seventies, before that they were used rarely and only in experimental music compositions. Critics didn't like these new electronic sounds at first, in fact they thought these sounds were a travesty - unnatural sounds! But there were some brave and adventurous musicians out there, who mastered these new music sounds and techniques and created new musical soundscapes.  Like Florian Fricke and his group Popol Vuh for example - their 1970 record 'Affenstunde' is a pioneering piece of ambient cosmic space drone music. It's one of the earliest Krautrock records to sound so strange and out of this world. Soon after this record came out, lot of other german Krautrock groups came out with similar experimental electronic music records (Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Faust, Harmonia). I really like these strange electronic sounds. To me, they sound very soothing and relaxing.

Krautrock, kosmische musik, hea kraam, kuulake kurat ja avardage enda mõistust hea muusikaga! Eriti hea laadida enda mp3 pleierisse ja kuulata magamaminemisel. Lend läbi kosmose alaku!