The Upload II.

Recorded live at The Junkyard, Lighting in a Bottle 2025. 
@thedolab

Miko Franconi @ Lightning in a Bottle 2025 (Junkyard)

Producer Gavin Hardkiss delivers a DJ mixtape of 16 songs  written and produced for the Inheritance project.

Inheritance tracks life growing up in South Africa through the '90s Hardkiss San Francisco era to his current multi-genre tastes. The project is a Basquiat-like collage of sounds inherited along the way. Voices heard as a boy through the second floor bedroom window in Johannesburg. Sounds accumulated in dusty warehouses throughout America in the '90s. Collaborations with Nigerian performer Bisi, Kenyan singer Lucinda Karrey, snippets of conversation from Johannesburg and Oakland, alongside Instagram audio grabs. All of it glued and twisted together over a 5 year period in his studio in San Rafael California.


Inheritance will be released as a DJ mixtape on Soundcloud and Youtube.  All the individual songs are available for streaming and purchasing at your favorite digital destination.

Gavin Hardkiss has long been a DJs who skirts genres and always surprises with his hybrid styles and rich textures that fuse modern and classic electronic music influences. Whether you’re into Amapiano, Afrohouse, minimal tech, highlife or breaks, there’s something here for you.  

All track available at www.hardkiss.org

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Inheritance Mixtape by Gavin Hardkiss

For the past two years, I’ve curated playlists of my favorite UK Garage and related genres, discovering fresh sounds that inspired me to create Nova. I wanted a seamless mix of these tracks to enjoy without skipping around throughout Spotify, and I believe mixed music has a unique power to captivate.
 
Nova took a year to complete and is the most work I’ve ever put into a mix. Many tracks lacked DJ-friendly intros and outros, but recent AI advancements allowed me to break them into stems, remix, and edit them for the intentional transitions featured in this mix.

Thank you for listening.

Tracklist:

Body Ocean | Back To Me
Snackbox | Don't You Know
Snackbox | Won't You
MPH | My Mind
Cesco | Flump
Halogenix | Keeping You Close (Cesco Remix)
Yolanda Be Cool | Tremble (MPH Remix)
Pola & Bryson | Falling 4 U (MPH Remix)
Biicla | Y Are
Interplanetary Criminal | The Valley
Interplanetary Criminal | Slow Burner
Sammy Virji & Interplanetary Criminal | Damager
Charlie Shell | HITZ 4 THE HOOD
MPH | One Sixty
MPH | Raw
Hamdi | Counting (Sammy Virji Remix)
Sammy Virji & Skepta | Cops & Robbers
33 Below | Blinded
Lockerz | Gone
Lockerz | Make Believe

Gene Lee - Nova

Patricio full set from The Junkyard at Lightning in a Bottle 2025

Patricio @ Lightning in a Bottle 2025

I sure hope you enjoy my second set from Camp Dayfunk 2025 as much as I enjoyed playing it!   If you do, please give it a like and consider re-posting it on Soundcloud - it just takes a second and is the most helpful way to share cool music to new people!

Camp Dayfunk is a Minneapolis-based campout in just its second year, taking place 2 hours East in the Wisconsin Woods - and I enjoyed its quality, intimacy, and cute little camp touches immensely.  Both this event and this set are very special to me <3

Before anything, let's talk about the Mix Cover.  I got great pictures from my first set and none from this 2nd, and it's fine.  Because I got something better than a picture - I got a Danceflooor Badge!  

It was one of the greatest honors of my DJ career to earn one of only 8 Dance Floor badges given out at this event  - not for my 4 hours of playing music where I dance some but maintain focus on the mixing - but for my many more hours of representation on the dancefloor as a dancer, which is where this all started for me... and honestly has stayed.  

I fricken love dancing and absolutely think it makes me a better DJ to study and appreciate music from both sides of the decks. I don't dance to everything and also want to give props where props are due - the music at this event was rock solid, and receiving the dance badge has as much to do with the quality of the other DJs playing as it does my dance stamina.  Fun fact, the most I ever danced was at @mingameslaby in Japan in 2007 ;)

Okay, about the music and vision for this set!  My first set at the event, the night before, was previously posted to the event's Soundcloud (@user-467880110) and I had a full dancefloor and lots of energy coming back at me - a Dj's dream.

This, my second set, Saturday 4-6pm, was a bit different.  It's daytime, there's a beach, and @djdanmusic, @Dj-Mes, and Mazi aka @audiosoulproject are playing B2B2B on that stage.  Right at the same time as my set at the Pavilion stage!  First thing that comes to my mind after I realize they are simultaneous - wtf am I going to do?

Contrast is the answer.  If people want it funky, they're gonna want to be down at the other stage.  I mean I wanted to be there too lol.  And who the heck wants the 2 stages to sound the same anyway, that's silly.  So I leaned into this contrast theme for my set.  Someone told me that I may have confused people a little lol.  I said 'good!'  

I'm really glad I had the opportunity to play the night before, because that was my more funky set - though my interpretation is a bit different from most.  I also won some hearts there, which created more interest than there would have been I think.

So anyway, this set was a challenge - a friendly challenge to myself to play a 2 hour set that was a bit out of the box without losing people, that would serve as a worthy contrast to that devastating funk of Dan, Mes and Mazi.  
 
I would guess overall people there probably liked my first set a tad more - but for me this one was hands-down the winner.  Partly because it was a full 2 hours of new music. Partly because my cup was already full since  I had nailed my set the night before and even got extended an extra hour -  the best hour.  And partly because I had experienced some challenge locking the XDJ the night before, but was effortlessly near flawless on Saturday. I felt zero pressure to do anything but be myself, and play what I felt at that time <3

In general, I favor very full tracks that envelope you with sound.  Besides contrast, the theme for this set is laid back and expansive.  There's funkiness, sure, there are some peaks and valleys energetically, but not at all like the night set.  Overall, it's a smooth ride through deep house with some vocals, minimal house and even a touch of techno, all  around 124bpm. 

Thanks for reading to the end!  I Hope you enjoy the music, and perhaps this background too!


Contrast - Ben Annand Live July 19, 2025 at Camp Dayfunk in the Wisconsin Woods

Here's the recording of my live set from FRC 2025 this year on Friday night! Was really really feeling the love in this one and had a lot of fun playing on Bruce from JK's sound system! What a weekend filled with hard work, good silly, great tunes and good people. 

Special thanks to jdn / Station Point for helping with a quick master <3

And of course my love Bessie for the photo!

WithLove

FRC 2025 Deep Friday

Decoded Magazine presents Simon Shackleton with his exclusive - CHPTR 002 mix

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Live cheesy-ass Disco House set at Abbott Square, Santa Cruz. August 2025

Live: August 2025 Abbott Square SCDJ Sessions

Compression Session - Burning Man 2025 - Kristin Lush

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b2b with John Summit from 0:45-1:15

tracklist coming soon. 

when you're done, listen to my bff David Hohme's sunrise stomper below 
https://soundcloud.com/hohme/david-hohme-bubbles-bass-burning-man-2025

BURNING MAN 2025 SUNRISE SET

Le Moustachu

Petit Biscuit & Møme - Gravitation

We will be putting out a series of mixes of sporadic mixes from STFD co-founder @LiemJay. The first is titled 'Accidental Recording' simply because it was never intended to be recorded for any use but we really enjoyed the outcome :)

This mix goes through some of our current favourite disco-influenced tracks and underground house gems featuring the likes of Gerd Janson, Detroit Swindle, Kiko Navarro, Karizma + lots more!

Hope you enjoy x

1. Fouk - Aldo Raine
2. O'Flynn -Tru Dancin
3. Detroit Swindle - Can't Hold It
4. Outbox - Denim Dreams (Jacques Renault Edit)
5. Klubbhuset - Omedelbar Kärlek
6. Tuff City Kids Feat Shan - Cole Rabies Beats
7. Karizma - Work It Out
8. Gerd Janson & Shan - Surrender
9. Doc Daneeka - Save Me
10. Ralphi Rosario & Linda Clifford - Wanna Give It Up (Jamie 3:26 Disco Party Version)
11. Detroit Swindle - Just Not Wanna
12. Unit 2 - Sunshine (Kink Remix)
13. San Proper - Whaddayaknow (The Proper Vocal Version)
14. Kiko Navarro - Camon Yo! (Rework)
15. Cristophe - Caravanaramabar

Liem Jay - Accidental Recording

Edit we made with @gringoinstrumentals. Enjoy !

Other similar tracks you might enjoy:
- El Lago -> https://soundcloud.com/hogumusic/el-lago
- El Silencio de los Fusiles -> https://soundcloud.com/hogumusic/el-silencio-de-los-fusiles

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Dilermando Reis - Milonga del Ayer (Gus & Gringo edit)

here's a new remix with my dear friend https://soundcloud.com/b_l_t, i hope you will enjoy it 💖

Newjack (BLT. x Lanea Remix) - Single

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Justice - Newjack (BLT. x Lanea Remix)

Hawke - Stand Still / Sing It (edit)

Grabbing psychedelic electronic dance music by the heart since 1991. Timeless.

Home to classics by God Within, Hawke, Little Wing and Rabbit In The Moon and recent remixes by Sabo, Oona Dahl, Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada, Joe Miller & Jamie Stevens, Lee Reynolds and label boss Gavin Hardkiss.

Established in 1991 in San Francisco by Gavin, Scott & Robbie Hardkiss with a string of vinyl releases that are now available digitally at www.hardkiss.org.

Hawke - Stand Still / Sing It (edit)

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