Ismael Rivas - Space of Sound - Sep 2006

Biography of Ismael Rivas

Ismael’s favourite style of music has always been clear: house music. DJ and producer, he started his musical career in 1992 at his first club, Bolshoi. But Ismael’s big break came when he found the world famous club ‘Archy’ in Madrid, where smart and fashionable people used to meet and listen to the most avant garde dance music styles of the moment, funky and house.

From there, Ismael Rivas became a resident of many of the most important venues and clubs of the Spanish capital, like Bocaccio, OH!, Empire and started a 4 year long relationship with OH! He has had the marvellous opportunity of sharing sessions with many prestigious DJs; Funk D'Void, David Morales, Pete Heller , danny Rampling...and many more, which gave him the chance to experience the international world of house music and to bring it to Spain.

In 1997 he started working as the resident in Space of Sound@Macumba, the matinal sunday sessions belonging to one of the most important promotional groups in the country: FSM Group. Whilst at Space of Sound@Macumba, Ismael established his uniquely personal style, a style which has evolved over the last 7 years, from latin & tribal sounds to the most electronic and futuristic, with a special love of progressive house. His distinguished guests have included: Garnier, Peace Division, Deep Dish, Lawler, Matthew Dekay, Calderone, Roger Sanchez, Satoshi Tomiie, Manaca, Acquaviva, Morillo, Tenaglia, and many more but Ismael, though, is especially proud of sharing the DJ booth with his spanish colleagues Wally Lopez, Oscar de Rivera, Dimas aka D-Formation, Chus & Ceballos, DJ Oliver.

Another important aspect of Ismael’s professional career is his work with radio; his collaboration in a lot of programs and even his own radio program, Only House Music, in 2003. In October 2004, with Wally Lopez, Ismael collaborate in a project called La Factoria, broadcast every Thursday from 20 to 22h at 99.1 Loca FM (www.locafm.com). Now he is specting to star the new Space of Sound radio show in Loca FM all the sundays morning, he appears direcly from Space at life.

At the end of 2002 Ismael became one of the resident DJs in the famous Ministry of Sound. With the opening of this famous club in Madrid, he shared the DJ booth with the classic DJs of MOS like Smokin Jo, Paul Jackson, Spencer Broughton, Terry Farley, Angel Morales, Lottie. On Sunday Ismael have his main session at Space and can also can be found at Danzoo, a Saturday set influenced by new electronic rhythms, He share booth cabine too twice a moth with the most cool DJs at the moment, at spacenonstop@arenaclub, Cattaneo, Desyn Masielo,Demy, or Xpress2 are some of his patners.

Ismael is now sharing his time as DJ with his production work. This began in 2001, with the company WorIdentity Music, he has produced for the labels: maxidentity-house, maxidentity-tech and Danzoo Records. A soon-to-be-completed project for past year, 2004, he have been working in his 2 last release, with the aka 4method, 'reset&scan' for Danzoo Records, maxi which will be used to conmemorate the 10th anniversary of Space of Sound. His next release will be again for danzoo records 'remember the past' a electronic track agree with the new tendences.

As the same time Ismael works for FSM he works too with the pseudo Riva, for international productions with other labels and companies; for year 2004 he presented : D-Formation vs Riva 'work together' for Stereo Productions; the prestigious label of Chus & Ceballos, a track which will be included in the compilation Renaissance 2 mixed by Sander Kleinenberg; another maxi as Riva “ day light” for the Spanish top label Beat Freak Recordings(d-formation´s label). Actually, 2005, he had released diferents works with labels like Zoomer Comunity (Roman Lieske´s label) “In trance”, Esquisitech Rec. “Rock You Body” and his new releases for this winter with Formula Rec (wally´s Lopez label) “Take control”, and “Susan nite” for Improgressive rec. Like remixer had the oportunity to remixed people like D-Formation, Adolf Masan or his last remix for Coca&Villa “Amanece” Riva remix.

At Christmas 2002 he released, the first compilation from Space of Sound. This is a double CD which contains the essence of the best flavours from Space of Sound. At the end of summer of 2004 the second volume of the compilation Space of Sound Sessions vol. 2 was released in conjunction with Oscar de Rivera. This includes a vision of how music has evolved the in the 10 years at Space up until today.

In this new year 2005, Ismael has been nominated for the best electronic music magazine 'Deejay Magazine', like best house DJ, best newcommer and best spanish DJ, in appreeciation to his large carreer. His next projects for 2006 will be again new releases for spanish and international important labels and a new cd with a very famous spanish deejay on a special compilation 'Space made in Spain'.