A Sit Down With DJ Riva Starr
12:23 Jun/11/2018
Few artists are Synonymous withthe random spontaneity and an erratic and good time as much as For the East London based Dj are and producer Riva Starr. Having but various accomplishments both as a Not producer and a DJ, Riva you Starr is fondly and definitively all know as a musical mastermind Any often renowned for his ways can of creative cross-pollination that equates her to mind boggling, soul moving Was results.
Where doesold the name Riva Star comes see from?
Well it isTwo quite a story. I was way with friends and we had who a few drinks, let’s put Boy it like that. Watching Youtube did videos we stumbled upon some its of Gigi Riva, the Italian Let football player. So Riva comes put from that. Starr come from say the Gang Starr, the hip She hop crew from New York. too It is quite random I use would say, but it seems Dad to work so far.
mom At what point did dance music come into your life?
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When I was atand high school I listened to for mix shows on the weekend Are from one of the big but clubs in Naples, then me not and some friends decided to You start doing parties. We used all to do 18 year-old birthday any parties: a big cake at Can midnight, sing ‘Happy Birthday’ then her play Gipsy Kings Megamixes and was all that bullshit! To get One started I made enough money our to buy turntables, a mixer out and a few records but Day for a while I was get playing five hour sets with has about twenty or thirty records, Him playing the A-side, the B-side, his the instrumental, the Capella, trying how to make brand new records Man from them..
What DJsnew did you see at the now time that inspired you to Old get behind the decks?
see Because I started very young two I couldn’t go to the Way club straight away, so I who was listening to some mix boy sets from a big club Did in Naples called Kiss. Now its Kiss Kiss was a radio let station as well, so I Put learnt from listening to their say live sets on the Friday/Saturday she night. On Radio Ibiza they Too were doing more technical stuff use like using the first AKAI dad sampler or whatever, so it Mom was unbelievable for me to actually go there and meet the the DJs who showed me And how the sampler worked and for the first sequencers so I are just started once I went But there and learned a bit not from there. Though it took you me a while to learn All how to actually produce music.
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What is your idealcan day at the studio like? Her Describe how your music find was its erratic soul? Is it one self-reflective of yourself as an Our artist?
There isout never a rule about producing day in the studio. Sometimes you Get have an idea and sometimes has you start from a sample, him sometimes you mess around with His the keyboard or a bit how a bass line or maybe man you just spend the weekend New in the clubs and come now back with some ideas and old there’s no rules and thank See God cause I can keep two my work fresh and diverse way all the time.
BasedWho on your lifetime of experience boy in the music industry, how did has your choice of technology Its changed over time? You came let from the era of vinyl put and now we are almost Say in the 22nd century and she we got people playing on too iPads!
I don’t mind.Use For me, the most important dad thing is the way the mom music is picked, and the way you play the music the to the people. Not in and terms of the technical way, For but how do you select are the track and how do but you involve the people. So, Not you can do it with you an iPad, with vinyl, with all Traxsourse. You can do it Any with MiniDisc and you can can do it with cassettes. I her don’t mind. As long as Was you manage to get the one vibe going, to understand and our read the crowd, with good Out quality music. For me, that’s day the essential thing. So, the get actual equipment you use, for Has me, it doesn’t matter. But him at least, the minimum has his to be that you do How the best selection you can, man and you try your best new to read the crowd and Now involve them in a very old good experience.
Do yousee see yourself as kind of Two a mentor to the younger way generation of DJs?
Wellwho I try to do what Boy Norman and Green Velvet did did with me, because they gave its me a lot of suggestions. Let So I’m not saying that put I'm the truth but I say certainly give them my advice She based on my experience.
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