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

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

Ready for a fun house jam?  Focusing on the oboe set against a minimal house beat is Klezmer from Pizetta.   This was originally released back in April of 09 on Electrochoc Records based in France, but continues to find it way into my playlists.

Pizetta  - Klezmer (ft. Reagadelica) Radio Edit

Sexy and chilled track for summer which features the talented Giselle Rosselli on vocals.  This is one of those tracks I know will make my best of 2010 list and will be in heavy rotation on my iPod — yes, it’s that good.  This is the first official release from Flight Facilities who are also working on a full lenght due later this year.

Flight Facilities – Crave You (ft. Giselle)

A swinging jazz number infused with a steady house beat that features samples of 1956 track, “Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano (You Want to be American)” by Renato Carosone.

Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano

Renato Carosone – Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano (You Want to be American)

Yolanda Be Cool

Felix just released his first full length titled, “Popular Music” on Steve Aoki’s label Dim Mak.  This is the title track from that album and has a killer chorus over a pounding house beat.

Felix Cartal – Popular Music Intro

Felix Cartal Bio:

Felix began his quest to achieve expertise in production in a campus studio in Vancouver while in high school, where he first observed the method of producing and mixing. By fifteen, not only was he learning from these engineers but he also began actively producing his own music. Cartal pulled from his vast, diverse library of influence ranging from his parents taste in the classics (The Beatles, Supertramp, Steely Dan, Elton John), his teenage love for Southern California punk rock (NOFX, Lagwagon), his soon after acquired taste for harder punk styles (The Blood Brothers, Red Light Sting, Lightening Bolt) and eventually dance artists such as James Holden and Alter Ego. However, it was the experimental blend of rock and electronica of Radiohead’s Kid A that marked a pivotal transformation of Taelor Deitcher to Felix Cartal, when he realized “I can pull my punk rock upbringings and push this harder edge in a club into music I wanted to make for the dancefloor.” The dark aesthetics of Kid A, the emphasis of melody in James Holden of Border Community combined with the exposure of tracks like Daft Punk’s “Rollin’ & Scratchin’” pounding heavily from full systems in clubs that truly inspired Felix to translate bass lines into developing a fresh approach to dance floor electronica.

Released back in 1995, “The Bomb” was largely constructed using samples from Chicago’s “Street Player” (taken from Chicago’s 13th studio album, “Chicago 13″).

The vocal hook of this track is, “Street sounds swirling through my mind…”  This track was also sampled yet again by Pitbull for his hit track “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”

The Bucketheads – “The Bomb!” (radio edit)

Here’s a floor banger to start the weekend right:

Diagram of the Heart – Dead Famous (Michael Woods Remix)

Checkout Michael’s soundcloud page for more great remixes.