Super hard beach bodies, 24 hour pool parties, fast cars and the world’s best DJ’s, it can only be one place... South beach, Miami and the Winter Music Conference 2010.
It’s that time of year again where all you hear is ‘Are you going to Miami?’, with DJs talking about their big tunes, punters booking their breaks and record companies shouting about their ‘ultimate’ events.
If you have never been you may have wondered what all the fuss was about, those who have experienced will be well aware that it is a week of insanity, comparable to a whole season of Ibiza squashed into 5 short days. It’s all about hot bodies, pool parties, and dancing until dawn, al fresco.
If you are a dance music lover, this is as essential as its gets. The WMC has been responsible for breaking the world’s best loved dance tracks consistently every year. Every DJ has his own personal tune that he knows will destroy the dance floor, tunes that will inevitably make up your summer soundtrack. It’s these new tunes that make up the essence of Miami.
Defected Records endeavours to give you a heads up on all these records in advance. Every year they scour playlists, interrogate DJs and get the best recommendations possible. The result is Defected In The House Miami 10, the sound of the Winter Music Conference as seen by the world’s best producers.
This year the honour of mixing the compilation has gone to an artist that is currently one of the hottest properties in dance music. His fans include Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Joris Voorn and Claude Von Stroke and he is famous for his bouncy, energetic and main room sound, his mixes and productions are full of humour, insane instruments, trombones, horns and pounding infectious beats. This really is the DJ du jour; we proudly present Riva Starr.
Check out his own insane production and opener of CD2, ‘I Was Drunk’, a signature Riva Starr production. Catchy, humorous, with a vibe that makes you want to dance, borrowing a gypsy style sound and clocking up an impressive quarter of a million views on YouTube.
It’s not just his own productions that attract attention, his remix of Reboot’s Enjoy Music is highly infectious and his eagerly anticipated remix Dennis Ferrer ‘Hey Hey’ possibly this year’s most talked about house record has the makings of a stone-cold classic.
Both CD’s of his mix are vibrant and punchy, with highlights that include tracks from The Crookers, Sidney Sampson, Joris Voorne, Michel Cleis, DJ Gregory, Dennis Ferrer and Timo Maas.
This is the sound of Miami brought to you in advance from the worlds freshest dance producers....check out the tracklist right here:
CD1
1. Arthur Baker featuring Nona Hendrix & Ladonna ‘Tear Down The Walls’ (Riva Starr Dub)
Da Mongoloids ‘Spark Da Meth’ (Accapella)
2. Crookers featuring Roisin Murphy ‘Royal T’ (Riva Starr Dub)
3. Joris Voorn ‘Sweep The Floor’
Hardrive ‘Deep Inside’ (Accapella)
4. Markus Homm, Mihai Popoviciu, Jay Bliss ‘Bis Co’
MD X-Spress ‘God Made Me Phunky’ (Accapella)
Dennis Ferrer featuring Daniele ‘Church Lady’ (Thommy Davis & DJ Spen Bom Bom Bom Tool)
5. Sandy Huner ‘Rare Tap’ (2000 and One Cut)
Johnny Corporate ‘Sunday Shoutin’’ (Accapella)
6. Reboot ‘Enjoy Music’ (Riva Starr Dub)
7. Shlomi Aber & Kenny Larkin ‘Sketches’ (Shlomi Aber Version)
Gel Abril ‘Spells of Yoruba’ (Accapella)
8. Dennis Ferrer ‘Hey Hey’ (Riva Starr Paradise Garage Remix)
9. DJ Madskillz ‘Surface’
10. Lake & Lys ‘La Tromba’ (Riva Starr Remix)
11. Ramon Tapia ‘This Groove’ (Original Mix)
12. 2000 and One ‘Spanish Fly’
13. Logic ‘The Final Frontier’ (The Groove)
Logic ‘The Warning’ (Accapella)
CD2
1. Riva Starr featuring Nôze ‘I Was Drunk’ (Original Mix)
Dennis Ferrer ‘Sinfonia Della Notte’ (Accapella)
2. DJ Gregory & Sidney Samson featuring Dama s ‘Dama s Salon’ (MastikSoul Remix)3. Michel Cleis featuring Totó La Momposina ‘La Mezcla’ (Riva Starr Mojito Remix)
4. Ronald Christoph ‘Underground Limbo’
5 Basti Grub ‘El Gitarrro’ (M.in Remix)
6. River Ocean featuring India ‘Love & Happiness (Yemaya Y Ochùn)’ (Michel Cleis ‘Floreo’ Remix)
7. Riva Starr ‘Maria’ (Dub)
8. Steve Angello & AN21 ‘Valodja’
9. Thomas Schumacher ‘Yara’
10. Steve Angello ‘La Candela Viva’
11. Die Vögel ‘Blaue Moschee’
12. Dennis Ferrer ‘Sinfonia Della Notte’ (Gel Abril Remix)
13. Rodriguez Jr. ‘Piña Colada’
14. Reboot ‘El Loco’
15. SiS ‘Nu Wim De Wa’
16. Nick Curly ‘Pujante’
Timo Maas & Santos featuring The African Children’s Choir ‘Mutant Africa’
Ceballos & DJ Chus ‘Afrika’ (Afrikapella)
Defected In The House Miami '10 Riva Starr is out 8th March.
