This is one of his Winter Music Conferences mixes from 2007, which is heard in Miami each year around March and I'm dying to go to one, one of these days... This was the first sets I ever heard from Robbie and ever since that I've been hooked listening to his Juicy Shows every week. If you never heard Electro House before or you have this Mix is Total Electro House Madness! Every track he drops on hear is a true banger. Here's a little Bio about Robbie Rivera-
Early years (1986 - 1999)
Rivera grew in
Puerto Rico, he was a fan of
Freestyle and
Eurobeat when he bought two turntables to test himself in becoming a deejay. He has learned the hard way and teaching himself how to deejay like the now successful deejay
Dave Dresden who recently split-up from his band
Gabriel & Dresden. Rivera used to play at weddings and school party gigs in which common deejays start off with, but it was his natural talent that he used while working with the crowds that kept him playing in big clubs at age of 16. After graduation and high school, Robbie went to the
Art Institute at
Fort Lauderdale to study music production and was introduced to many different digital audio tools including the popular
Protools program. While in college he released hi first record, "Sorulla"; A track influenced by the
Latin House. The track became popular in
New York and
Miami and his career was underway.
Rise to fame (2000 - Present)
In 2000, Rivera's track "Bang" became a huge hit, making it to number one of the
United Kingdom dance charts. The track also made it on to every respected dance compilation and was used frequently during the
2000 Sydney Olympics and was so popular that it even gave Rivera some face time on
Top Of The Pops and
MTV. Rivera started his own label, Juicy Records, and recorded mix CDs for Max Music, Filtered, and others. The success of Juicy has taken Robbie to producing his very own album "Do You Want More?" for
Ultra Records and Independence in France. The first single "Which Way You Going?" reached the number one position earlier that year at
Billboard Magazine and it was released in the UK label Toolroom, the track was created in early 2003 when Rivera contacted lyricist Ned Bigham who has written for
DB Boulevard, Jean-Jacques Smoothie and
Timo Maas; It was the first completed song and lead track which was inspired by
Coldplay's hit "
Clocks".
[2] In 2003 he also released his track "Girlfriend" which features vocals by
Justine Suissa who has done various vocal songs for
Armin van Buuren.
[3] During 2007, Rivera's
Juicy Show began weekly airplay on
XM Satellite Radio in the
United States and
Canada. In 2008 he made a collaboration with
Armani Exchange by mixing an album called "Twilight" for the store.
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