Riviera F is an electropop band created in London

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, United Kingdom

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. The band consists of Alexa Marlen and Kairo Sin. Other members included Taylor Sloane, Nikki Paris, Logan Sky,Yves Cecil and Etienne LeBeau (AKA LA shoe designer Jerome Chouinard-Rousseau). They were known as Riviera up until 2003, then changed the name to Riviera F. To date they have had two releases. In 2004 the International Lover EP, (a 5 track EP of which the title track was produced by Duran Duran

Duran Duran

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's Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes

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) was released on Pop Cult and Tape Modern (Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...

's label) which had previously released Dark Circles by The Devils

The Devils (band)

The Devils is the name of an English electronic pop band, formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.The first incarnation of Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist, John Taylor on guitar and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist and bassist...

. 2004 also saw the release of their US single "Now We've Got Europe" on Kinetik Media.

The International Lover video, directed by Matt Amato(member of the Los Angeles

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 based artist and directors collaborative 'The Masses') and starring Hollywood film star Billy Zane

Billy Zane

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, was featured in Hollywood’s Resfest

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  film festival.

The band played their first ever gig on the BBC

BBC

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’s Radio 1 John Peel

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 Sessions. They have played and DJed alongside artists such as Hot Chip

Hot Chip

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, Ladytron

Ladytron

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, Vive la Fête

Vive la Fête

Vive la Fête is a music duo from Ghent formed in 1997 by lovers Danny Mommens and Els Pynoo .-Biography:...

, Client (band)

Client (band)

Client are an English electronic musical group from London. They are most popular in Germany where they have had limited commercial success...

, Ellen Allien

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, Annie (Norwegian singer) and Yelle

Yelle

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, as well as at Kick the Trash festival in Madrid

Madrid

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 and the House Of Love Festival in Helsinki

Helsinki

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, and have toured extensively in the UK and Europe

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. The band has been featured in magazines such as Dazed & Confused

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 and The Independent on Sunday, which described "Tracks such as "International Lover", "Kiss No.38" ("in the back of a limousine", indeed) and "Now We've Got Europe" display an acute appreciation of continental romance and ageless glamour".

Riviera F's debut album Another City Another Plan was released in 2010 on their own record label Germ Free.

Albums

• Another City Another Plan - Germ Free (2010)

1. "Hell On The Way"
2. "Girls & Money"
3. "Posing For The Cameras"
4. "Pick Up star"
5. "Dance To The Beat"
6. "Echo Beach"
7. "Dance Alone"
8. "Lya Taboo"
9. "Take You Down"
10. "The Last Time"

EPs

• International Lover - Pop Cult/Tape Modern (2004)

1. "International Lover"
2. "Information"
3. "Nothing"
4. "Girls and Money"
5. "Another Crash and Burn"

Singles

• Now We've Got Europe - Kinetik Media (2004)

1. "Now We've Got Europe"
2. "Information"
3. "Now We've Got Europe (Blue Mix)"

Compilations

• This Is Hardcore - God Made Me Hardcore (2002)

1. "International Lover"
   • Robopop Volume I - Lucky Pierre Recordings (2003)
2. "Information"
   • Snakebite City Eleven - Bluefire Records (2004)
3. "Lya Taboo"
4. Pick Up Star"
   • Miami Resistance Vol. 1 - Kinetik Media (2005)
5. "Girls & Money"
   • Dream Boyz - DD Fan Club (2006)
6. "International Lover"

Collaborations

• Five Minute Love - Feria Music, Ojoparlante (2008)

1. "When The Rain Begins To Fall"