Riva Starr is a name that should be very familiar to anyone with an interest in the current house music sound. Having shot to the top after a string of head turning releases and remixes on some of the most talked about labels, Riva Starr couldn’t be hotter right now with Claude VonSTroke and Jess Rose as two of his biggest fans.

This budding producer from Naples has a love of reinventing any music that inspires him, and this is why he coined the the term “Snatch!” as a way of describing his bootleg remix style of snatching/pick pocketing other music styles for his own. It’s also a play on words with the type of folk/Balkan/rock music he draws inspiration from, often carrying that gypsy spirit.

His first two releases for Claude’s ‘Dirtybird’ and Jesse’s ‘Front Room’ in 2007, were followed with another two for them in 2008 as well as two more for Fatboy Slim’s famous ‘Southern Fried Records’ and a 12” on ‘Kindisch’ - the more techy sub-label of the brilliant ‘Get Physical’ label in Berlin. As well as remixing the likes of The Gossip, Derrick Carter, KC Flight and Fatboy Slim, he runs a busy DJing schedule and is ready to turn it on in Australia once again at Creamfields 2010.