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Insomniac, Redline Entertainment, and NightCulture Present:
Robbie Rivera
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ROBBIE RIVERA
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Robbie Rivera, born in 1973 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had his first encounter with music when he was only 10-years-old. Buying records from acts like New Order, Depeche Mode and U2, it wasn't long before he started spinning records. "I was 13 and had two turntables and a mixer," he says. "I did not know what beat mixing was until it happened accidentally. I taught myself." While improving upon his mixing skills, he took his first steps in producing music the old fashioned way. Said Rivera, "When I was about 15 years old, the richer kids had the instruments. One of my friends let me use his Roland drum machine all the time and he eventually gave it to me. I also had a real drum kit in my room." Steadily, he moved on. "I was sequencing beats at 16
and doing my own edits of tracks using a two track reel-to-reel machine." He continues, "Yes, it was real tape-splicing editing, back the! Definitely not computer kid's stuff!"
In 1992, Robbie moved to Miami, and in 1996, he released his first record, a real Latin house track on Juicy Music, titled, "El Sorrullo." The track lead to an endless string of productions which were released on established labels like Subliminal, Filtered, Positiva, Mos, Azuli and Strictly Rhythm. His music was licensed everywhere. "My track, 'Bang,' was my first crossover hit, and cuts like "Sex" and "Funkatron" were huge for me at that time. I consider it a highlight in my career that ‘Funkatron' was used for the closing of the Victoria's Secret winter fashion show on CBS-TV, while ‘Bang' reached #13 on the UK charts and made it to the ‘Top 10' in Australia." |
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