RIVA STARR Vinyl & CDs

Review: British disco/house veteran Riva Starr's 'Keep Me On The Dancefloor' first appeared in single form, foreshadowing Starr's new album of the same name and which you now hear before you. A full, groove-cut expression of the act of living the night, this ascendant orchestra-disco corpus features heavy apparitions from fellow discoursers Harry Stone, Biishop, Chromeo and Nic Hanson, shoulder-to-shoulder genii in the field. With sparkling, danceable rhythms and beautifully clear vocals at its core, the record twines themes of emotional connection and the irresistible pull of the floor, and its many mixes ('Mo' House', 'Mo' Tech', you name em) add extra chilli spice to an already zesty total mix.

Review: Summer may still be some way off, but it's a fair bet that Riva Starr's latest single on his own Snatch Raw imprint will feature prominent in festival sets and at open-air dances. In its EP-opening 'extended vinyl mix' form, 'Vicino O Mare' is a chunky, disco-fied house jam rich in rubbery bass guitar, warming Rhodes riffs, reverb-laden male vocal samples, swirling synths and just the right amount of disco-house style filter trickery. Fittingly, disco-house veterans Shapeshifters deliver the first remix, cannily adding hands-aloft piano stabs to the Californian producer's infectious disco-house groove. Louie Vega takes over on the flip, first delivering a joyous, samba-soaked Latin house 'extended mix' before stripping his rework back to the heavy tribal drums on the excellent 'dub remix vinyl edit'.