Browse by Artist: STARR, RIVA

Artist:	STARR, RIVA
Title:	Bubble EP
Label:	DIRTYBIRD
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DBIRD 014EP

"Riva Starr is new on the house scene after a successful career as top breaks artist, Madox. His first house release came out earlier this year on Jesse Rose's Frontroom Recordings and he has also teamed up on remixes for John Acquaviva. The Bubble EP is a collection of floppy, gurgling bass, heavy-stacked drums and slow-cooked barbeque funk. The A-side 'WTF' is already featured on Claude VonStoke's new At The Controls mix compilation. The B-side 'Bubble' sounds like Mr. Oizo went to an old-school rave, and the B2 track, 'BaddassBass' is all about hard drums and scary synth riffs that develop into full-on freakishness."

Artist:	STARR, RIVA
Title:	War Drums
Label:	KINDISCH (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	KD 016EP

"In less than one year, Riva Starr has become one of the most talked-about house artists, thanks to a string of blinding releases that started with the 'Thizzle'/'China Gum' 12" for Jesse Rose's Frontroom Recordings. He followed this up with the Bubble and La Conga EPs for Claude Vonstroke's Dirtybird label, the latter reaching the top ten in the Beatport tech house chart and top fifteen in the global chart. 'War Drums' opens the tribal theme of this 12"; a slower tempo affair that's (literally) all in the beats, with drums not only iterating the rhythm but also the meandering, unsettling melody -- Riva Starr makes drums sing! 'War Drums' is aimed squarely at its murkier but no less intoxicating underbelly. B1 'Maria (Dub)' isn't so much a track as a stampede, driven by thumping tribal percussion mingled with Latin-sounding vocal, piano and woodwind loops. Riva whips up disparate sonic elements up into explosion after explosion of ecstatic carnival color, releasing the tension with devastating bass drops and an assured sense of house dynamics. It's back overground for B2, 'La Gatta,' a track characterized by a bass line that positively attacks the listener and commands you to dance."

Artist:	STARR, RIVA
Title:	Squash
Label:	MADE TO PLAY (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MTP 016EP

"The Riva Starr is shining brightly and dazzling all who feel the force of his tracks. 'Squash' and 'Snatch' may sound like a racket sport and a crude term for a ladies private parts but they are in fact the titles of the next two club smashes on Made to Play. His style fits the label like a tight pair of Speedo's on a well hung swimmer and the result is two massive tracks that make you feel like you've gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson in a tumble drier on Crystal Meth, in a good way of course. With mass support and airplay from Les Dennis, Elvis, God and Satan this E.P is kicking up a right fuss in every bar, club and knocking shop from the North Pole to the Bolivian jungle and back."

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