Think about how often you go on holiday and return with the sounds that have been filling the dance floors, while you have been spending time on a Mediterranean island, bopping until the wee hours and seldom seeing daylight unless it has a dark blue-grey tint. Having just listened intently to the latest offering from DJ/Producer supremo, Robbie Rivera, I reckon you scarcely need to visit the world’s largest dance club, ‘Privilege’, because this double-CD is a roll-call of the best dance acts that have slipped and sashayed through his playful fingertips for the past few months.

Containing tracks from Dean Newton, Joachim Garraud, Kevin Maroda and DMS12, this is a cornucopia of some of the classiest and most glamorous of the current house music trends. Naturally, whether you have already visited or simply want to experience for the first time the weekly Juicy Ibiza gigs, to which thousands of clubbers agglomerate, you would be sure to hear Robbie’s customary house residents, who seem to gather around him like bees to the honey-pot.

Kaskade, Inpetto, Vandalism and Stonebridge, while not featuring on these discs are all present in spirit and Rivera’s portfolio of starry excellence includes popular favourites like Kylie, Moloko, Bob Sinclair (yes, even him!), Sinead O’Connor, Santana and Basement Jaxx, so much of an influence is his style and presence. This guy gets about a bit and it is his international reputation that has done such wonders to his career. He is smart and he knows it, which is why he can control these sounds with such slick guile, mixing an explosive concoction of electro-funk, dirty pop and edgy house into a hugely enjoyable infusion of sounds that is wondrously familiar and yet vibrantly new in its energy. Download, plug-in, roll out the blanket on the back lawn and get down and dirty to the sounds of Ibiza, without indulging in an air-fare.