From Rivera's Groove Box #141: Delroy Edwards - 4 Club Use Only

I sleeped on this at first when it came out, and when I stumbled on this finally, it didn't move me at all at first. I have records like Virgo 'Release Yourself' and the classic stuff of Mr. Fingers, also a lot of Dance Mania and the rough basement sound of Chicago. So it didn't really impress me much on the first listen. But then it grew on me with every listen. Maybe I forced myself to like this release. It's super simple in it's sound, but then again it's also a very honest no bullshit or filler type of record. For die hard underground people, like the title says '4 Club Use Only'. But not in those fancy glimmering glamour clubs with bottle service where everyone is wearing fashion clothes and Gucci handbags. Rough dark clubs which resemble abandoned warehouses, basements and nobody asks for a dress code.

From Rivera's Groove Box #140: Floating Points - Nectarines

Everyone is raving how the latest Floating Points 'Nuit Sonores' is the best thing ever, but I really don't care for that track. To me, it's the second track of the release - 'Nectarines' - the better one. It's a fact that Floating Points made 'Nuit Sonores' very hastily just before a gig, so basically it's just an extended jam strecthed to a full track. But 'Nectarines' is a very beautiful track, it's simple, but it works. It's the way the vocals are played around like a real instrument what makes it stand out. I hope Floating Points keeps on creating electronic music what is superior to everything else out there and doesn't lose his groove!

From Rivera's Groove Box #139: Willie Burns - Windows Down

Willie Burns is a great electronic music producer who has come to the spotlight in recent years. Some of his works are very noisy experiments in sound, but then there are beautiful tracks like 'Windows Down'. I think this track is his best work to date. As someone who has made music myself, I feel it's one of those moments when you create something and all of the elements of the track just work together so nicely. I love the melancholic feeling the track gives with it's carefully placed synthesizer play. Great official video from the Creme Organization too, a very good and caring label for underground artists. I hope to see more tracks like this from Willie Burns.

Here's a great article about him: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1967

From Rivera's Groove Box #138: Miltiades - d0.5u

Miltiades is like really really deep. Analogue drums, soft sounding pads, subtle ambience, light synths. It sounds really simple, but as a producer it's actually pretty hard to find similar soothing sounds, unless you are a total music freak, and know how to make music like this. 

From Rivera's Groove Box #137: West Coast Swingaz - Get Tha Funk

A while back I made a ghetto house track. I wanted to make a track sounding exactly like the classic Dance Mania sounds. I think I got it really good! The main push to create a track like this was the Boiler Room mix of Low Jack. He played a really cool ghetto track with obscene pornographic lyrics, which I still don't know who's behind that track. The track featured a really groovy low tom pattern, which I tried to re-create in my track. I'm not a fan of obscene lyrics, so I used the acapella of 95 North's 'The Request'. To sum it up - a pure house groove tribute to good underground house music!

From Rivera's Groove Box #136: Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

'Stakker Humanoid' was one of the first acid house tracks to storm the charts back in 1998. It's an rave classic, and influenced many other future rave tracks to come. Humanoid was a short liven project, the duo split when the record just got big, and one of the members, Brian Dougans, went on to form The Future Sound Of London. The speech synthesis samples come from the classic arcade game 'Berzerk' - 'humanoid - intruder alert!'. Classic stuff.