5 Magazine Reviews Rissa Garcia's Upcoming Release Love is Blind

5 Magazine Review’s Rissa Garcia’s upcoming EP on her imprint, NightChild Records.

Love Is Blind: Rissa Garcia & NightChild drop 3 classic NYC tracks

Rissa Garcia was born to do this.

The New York City DJ, producer, label owner and all-around househead from Day 2 has lit up dancefloors, as a DJ and now as a producer with releases on labels including Plastik People, Fresh Meat, Pogo House and LW. Many of these have been remixes; the best of her original productions have appeared on her NightChild Records, of particular note was the 2023 Hazy Dreams EP.

You don't really know what's coming with a Rissa Garcia record, except that the drums will be crisp and springy and it's going to be useful for any working DJ who has an urgent need to make people sweat out their sorrows.

What people see of you is everything that touched your heart up until today, and Rissa's music belies an unpaid but for that reason spiritually pure apprenticeship learning the mechanics of house music and the scene around it from some of the architects. Love Is Blind is all of it, thrown into a cauldron and fired until the impurities burn off three tracks of club-ready house and garage with a Jersey accent.

The title track for Love Is Blind bounces out of the speakers like its mounted-on springs simple but hooky chords that light up like dash-mounted LEDs, backed with razor sharp percussion. The vocal clips are sparse and for that reason effective. Drums, chords, samples, a few filters and effects but by and large that's all you really need if you know what you're doing and Rissa does.

Artist: Rissa Garcia
Release: Love is Blind
Label: NightChild Records
Release Date: 6.7.24 Traxsource Exclusive // Worldwide 7.5.24

Credits

Produced by: Rissa Garcia for NightChild Records

Mixed by: Carlos Ruiz/Ruiz Audio Engineering

Mastered by: Rob Small/Rob Small Mastering

Links:

Website: https://rissagarcia.com/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/rissagarcianyc/

IG: http://instagram.com/rissancr

SC:  http://soundcloud.com/rissa

RA: https://ra.co/dj/rissagarcia

5 Magazine Mix: Rise 001 Rissa Garcia

5 Mag launches a new mix series today, with a set from our friend Rissa Garcia.

RISE is a weekly mix series, posted every Monday and featuring DJs from all genres that we cover. Not too long ago, 5 Mag used to do another weekly mix series debuting every Monday, and it seemed like it set things off in a good way – a good start to the work week and something to get you through. Words like “uplifting” and “motivating” mean different things to different people, but we hope the music brings something positive to you.

Rissa Garcia was one of those original 5 Mag Monday DJs, and is someone whose career and love of music has continued to shine. Based in NYC, Rissa is the Dancing Room Only resident DJ, a producer and founder of NightChild Records. She’s shared the decks with legends Danny Tenaglia, Danny Krivit, Todd Terry, Tony Humphries, Chez Damier and Ultra Nate; she’ll be playing with several more at the “LGNDS” event this December 17 2022 with Boris, Kenny Dope, Mark Knight and Oscar G.