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.

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.