Music, projects, experiments

Chasing the feeling of a sound that transports you somewhere else—back to forgotten moments, familiar places, and memories you didn't know you still had.

House music, edits, and experiments shaped by memory, curiosity, and the strange comfort of familiar sounds.

Riley Love performing on stage.

Practice

Riley, Love Life.

Life is difficult. We are obsessed with proving we are living it correctly. We compare ourselves to other people, chase perfection, and convince ourselves that everyone else has figured something out that we have not.

But life is not something to perfect. It is something to practice.

I have struggled with mental health for much of my life, and music has often been the thing that helps me find my way back. Not because it fixes everything, but because it gives me somewhere to put things.

The medicine has always been creation. It is music. It is creativity. It is curiosity. It is making something from nothing. It is sharing a part of yourself and discovering that someone else sees themselves in it too.

Life can be beautiful. It can also be painful, confusing, lonely, unfair, and messy. Most of the time it is all of those things at once.

Selected Work

About

Riley Love is a producer and DJ based in San Francisco. Inspired by old records, forgotten samples, and sounds that live somewhere between nostalgia and discovery, she creates house music built on groove, personality, and the thrill of hearing something that feels familiar without knowing exactly why.

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Portrait of Riley Love at the decks.