Hitting with persian flare is Riva Starr with this delicious house number.  Riva Starr is a relative new comer on the house scene but has been building up a large following in the last two years.

Riva Starr – I  Was Drunk

Lyrics are quite fun, check them here:

Yesterday I was drunk
With some chicks in night club
I don’t remember who came back with me

And tonight I will drink
With some chicks in the club
I’m not sure I want uh lalala

For more hilarity, watch this video for I was Drunk:

Last.fm bio:

“He’s got a golden future ahead of him” – IDJ.

Every once in a while a new producer just smashes their way through into the bigtime. That’s what’s happening with Riva Starr’s sneak-in-and-blow-the-place-up approach. An act whose influence comes from blogs, wild afterparties, music that works for the kids as well as the cool ubercoolische europeans, Riva seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed – but in reality he’s been working his arse off for years.

Riva Starr plunders the best in tech house and beeping, burping synth lines to create a dirty, messy dancefloor affair. His first appearance on Jesse Rose’s ubercool Frontroom label with the Thizzle EP led to a release on Claude Vonstroke’s pivotal Dirtybird label with the WTF?! EP – described by IDJ as “essential – 5/5”. Then there were two releases in quick succession on Southern Fried – a remix of Armand van Helden’s smash J’Taime, and his own EP, Scratch’n’Itch, which had raves from a stupidly wide variety of DJs…

And the gigs have kept apace. Just in the last months there’s been a China tour, Glastonbury, Glade and Fusion Festivals, two slots at the Winter Music Conference – the Dirtybird party and a huge Lot49 event – an Australian and US tour on the pipeline and definitely more to come…
A single mix offered to the influential Discobelle blog was downloaded TWELVE THOUSAND times, and a sneaky download of a DJ edit of La Conga, his followup single on Dirtybird, lead to that single going top 5 on Beatport through pure word of mouth – no ads, a secret release with no press, and it had gone top 10 in the tech-house chart before Beatport decided maybe the track should have some advertising…

As the Scatterblog review of Riva’s career says … “It’s not like he has a big trademark bassline, or some sort of analog synth style (although he does have some mad analog synths), instead he incorporates a range of different sounds. It seems like the main thing that ties each song together is just that each one has an awesome hook of some kind. Music is all about having a cool sounding something these days, it’s not about ripping out some big guitar solo, or having a really musically sound piece (how many songs are based around three notes these days, but sound fresh as), Riva Starr is easily on top of all that…”

What’s next? A follow-up on Southern Fried with a Derrick Carter rmx. A new sampleadelic track Maria on Get Physical’s Kindisch records that is already doing damages worldwide reaching the top 10 on the Beatport house chart, a new single on Jesse Rose’MADE TO PLAY…
Collaborations with London’s underground scene. A few remixes due out during the summer (check out his remix for Exploited rec with the featuring of the 2 dupstep mcs Jammer&Frisco!). And a new label, Snatch! – for the stripped-back musical types who aren’t ashamed to get their rave on…

http://www.myspace.com/rivastarr

Hot track from Mike Monday.  Mike Monday is on a mission to release a new single once a week for 10 weeks.   Robot Go Disco is the week 2 give-away.  All tracks are free for download till  September 20th 2010.   This track has a fun party/prince vibe to it.   All Mike asks for return is your email address and perhaps an old tip in the jar, paypal style.

Mike Monday – Robot Go Disco

This track from Bot’ Ox has grown on me since my initial listening.  It starts with a metronome and builds to the misty melancholic voice of Anna Jean.   The music is drenched in a synthetic veneer and  pulsates to an 8-bit drum machine.

Bot’ Ox – Blue Steel (ft. Anna Jean)

This remix is pure disco magic.   Midnight Magic is a group from Brooklyn, New York and includes member from Hercules & Love Affair: Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley  and Carter Yasutake.  See this previous post on Hercules & Love Affair for more info on them.  Jacques Renault took this already soothing disco track and speed up the tempo a bit and added more ambient disco flare to make this track really sizzle.  I love how in the chorus we almost get to that Andy Gibb style vocal with the line,
“Baby don’t, Baby don’t, Baby don’t…”

Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)

Hercules & Love Affair – Blind

Quite possibly one of the best Basement Jaxx tracks of all time.  When this hit back in 2001, I was in such awe of them.  They had just landed on the scene with Remedy in 1999 and then to come out with such a stellar sophomore album impressed the hell out of me.

Basement Jaxx – Romeo

Happy friday!  Going back to 2001 when this bomb dropped…

And for those that have not heard this track before, think Daft Punk style house.

Room 5 – Make Luv

Make me happy music here folks.  For those that follow this blog know I have a soft spot for 80′s synth pop and in particular anything related to depeche mode.  Though in this post, it’s a matter of 1 degree removed, as in Vince Clark founding member left the band to create Yazoo and later Erasure.   Andy Bell (front man and singer for Erasure) has just released his new solo effort called, “Non-Stop”.  See, it’s related : P

Anyhoo, here are two remixes that have the “sweet spot” for me.   The first is by “Hey Champ” and they take Andy’s album cut and infused some polished disco dust on it.  I actually prefer this remix over the album version.

Andy Bell – Call On Me (Hey Champ Remix)

The second is the winner, and rightly fully so, of the recent remix contest Andy had for his track, “Say What You Want”.  This remix was created by a Ste Ashworth.  I have no idea who Ste is, but I sure as hell loved how he framed Andy’s voice in an Erasure-esque backing track.  Love it!

Andy Bell – Say What You Want (Joy Joy Mix)