Two decades after anchoring the Hardkiss album Delusions of Grandeur with the iconic song Three Nudes in A Purple Garden, Hawke releases the second single from The Dark Art of Light Work and gently ties the bow on a generations worth of Hardkiss music. 

The Dark Art of Light Work flawlessly weaves between genres and you can hear the esoteric and contemplative influence as well as the dancefloor action. Also, the African rhythm and global instrumentation that has been a foundation of the Hawke sound. After all, Gavin grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his African roots are interwoven with his Californian optimism.

Bells of San Anselmo embodies a full sound with traditional Indian Sarod and vocals by Paige Sergent inside a flying machine that flies at slower than the speed of sound. 

Hardkiss Music brought in smooth operator Nick Warren with Nicolas Rada to provide a flawless excursion with drawn out moments of dainty delight. 

The Gavin Hardkiss remix takes the song back into old school Hardkiss territory with a breakbeat feel and ethereal gated female vocals.

More at www.hardkiss.org

Dark Art of Light Work

Hawke - Bells of San Anselmo (Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada Remix)

Tracklist:
1, Voices In My Head (DJ Harvey Edit)
2, Jungle Fever (Original Mix)
3, Sun Odyssey (VIP Drum Mix)
5, Bring Back The Funk, Kreature
6, Haiti (Original Mix), Frederick Stone
8, The Sun (Original Mix), Chus & Ceballos, Dennis Cruz"
9, Cape Coast, &ME
10, Matawa, Nhii
12, Miombo (Original), Laroz
13, Miombo (Sam Shure Cowbell Dub)
14, Sun My Sweet Sun (Konstantin Sibold Afro Tech Mix), Red Axes
15, Body Drum, Urulu
16, Love Harmonic - Carl Craig 'soundscape' remix, Mirko Loko
20, Jungle Fever (Original Mix), Aantigen
23, Funiki, Foodman, "4/8/21, 12:31 PM"
26, Dreaming Of You, Karim Sahraoui
29, Uthando (Cee ElAssaad Voodoo Remix), Stones & Bones
30, Matawa, Nhii,
31, Deeper Soul -, (H-N) Osunlade And Kemit Sources -Ancestral Song
38, Breathing Underwater (DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix), Hiatus Kaiyote
41, [ELSVREC029] A2. Late Night Dubbing
45, Gavin Hardkiss
47, Glue, Bicep

Warrior Stance +++ Gavin Hardkiss DJ Mix +++ June 2021

Hawke - Ping Pong I Love U (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)

1. One Dove - White Love (Scott Hardkiss's Psychic Masturbation Edit)FFRR
2. Hawke - Melody In My Heart (Joe Miller & Jamie Stevens Remix) HARDKISS MUSIC | https://solo.to/hawke
3. God Within - Raincry ( Spiritual Thirst) HARDKISS MUSIC
4. Hawke - Ping Pong (I LOVE YOU) (Gavin Hardkiss Remix) UNRELEASED
5. Hawke - Bells of San Anselmo (Gavin Hardkiss Remix) HARDKISS MUSIC | https://ffm.to/hawkebells
6. Bicep - Glue NINJA TUNE

Lolz ... we have t-shirts of the artwork here: www.hardkiss.org/product-page/t-shirt-hardkiss-boys-1

Something special this way comes! 

This 30min DJ mix was played on Steve Parry's The Warehouse show in Liverpool this past week. 

It's a nugget of Hardkiss joy.

It joins the dots that began in San Francisco 30 years ago - Raincry to Bells of San Anselmo plus new edits and unreleased remixes.

This mix is a primer into the Hardkiss sound for those young guns who are finding breaks for the first time, and a refresher for those that have us emblazoned in their heart and tattooed on their skin.

30 minute Gavin Hardkiss DJ Mix for Steve Parry

God Within - Raincry (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)

God Within - Raincry (Rabbit in the Moon's Ascension Mix)

More Music

God Within - Raincry (SABO Remix)

God Within - Raincry (Öona Dahl Clairaudient Remix)

God Within - Raincry (Öona Dahl Spiral Tribe Remix)

Produced by Gavin Hardkiss, the original version of Contradiction has been to hell and back over the past 6 years so we decided to release the remixes first.

Vocalist Paige Michele Sargent also makes music as The Deepness. Her new album The Vision is available here: linktr.ee/the.deepness

Steve Cobby of Fila Brazillia stepped in with a Balearic remix and Gavin Hardkiss does his best Aviici impersonation on the other remix.

Proceeds from sales of Digital First Edition NFTs at Sound.xyz will go to Peace Direct, an international charity dedicated to stopping violence.

SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/N1z1Q
Sound.xyz: www.sound.xyz/gavinhardkiss/cont…iction-bootleg-mix
Hardkiss Website: www.hardkiss.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hardkissmusic

Contradiction (Bootleg Mix)

This event was quite astonishing, unique and amazing. Held in a cathedral in San Francisco pimped out by St Joseph's Art Foundation, I got to DJ from the pulpit. I ain't Christian but I always admired the architecture, acoustics and grandeur of a church.  

Chicago DJ Justin Reid, Mason Bates and their crew at Mercury Soul invited me to play.

Mason is a Grammy award-winning American composer and the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has also been in residence with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the California Symphony.

Mason scored a live 20 piece brass ensemble to perform a debut of my song After The Storm after which I got to DJ for an hour.  During this time, I took the liberty of diving into symphonic electronic sounds, disco and African vibes.  

It's a colossal love fusion +++

Gavin Hardkiss @ Mercury Soul 4/7/23 Live Mix

Early support from Joris Voorn, Issac, Alex Neri, Freedo Mosho, Michel De Hey, Maceo Plex, Tini Tun, Nick Muir, Gene Farris, Marco Carola, Randal Jones, Underspreche, and Carl Craig

Advance promo of collaboration between veteran DJ/producer Gavin Hardkiss aka Hawke and 23 year old newcomer Colin Rist.

Info

The Chauffeur (Original Remix)

Produced by Gavin Hardkiss, the original version of Contradiction has been to hell and back over the past 6 years so we decided to release the remixes first.

Vocalist Paige Michele Sargent also makes music as The Deepness. Her new album The Vision is available here: https://linktr.ee/the.deepness

Steve Cobby of Fila Brazillia stepped in with a Balearic remix and Gavin Hardkiss does his best Aviici impersonation on the other remix.

Proceeds from sales of Digital First Edition NFTs at Sound.xyz will go to Peace Direct, an international charity dedicated to stopping violence. 

SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/N1z1Q
Sound.xyz: https://www.sound.xyz/gavinhardkiss/contradiction-bootleg-mix
Hardkiss Website: https://www.hardkiss.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardkissmusic

Contradiction (Steve Cobby Remix)

The Chauffeur (Breakbeat Remix)

Gavin & Araceli Yoga DJ Mix Jan 2024

Champagne Beat Boogie (Vocal Mix)

This song tore up dancefloors in '90s and is a piece of perfection produced by Scott Hardkiss.  Get it with other gems here: http://www.hardkissmusic.com/#!shop/c1isz

1. Elton Joan Rocket Man (Scott Hardkiss Remix)

Sandals - Feet (Scott Hardkiss' Wrong Side Of Town)

exclusively available at: www.pledgemusic.com/hardkiss

Between 1991 and 1995, Hardkiss Music released seven 12" vinyl singles.  The album Delusions of Grandeur, featuring the best of those cuts, was released in 1995.

Delusions was released on vinyl, cassette and CD and quickly sold out and became out of print classic.  Many fans credit Delusions of Grandeur as the album that turned them onto electronic music, EDM or whatever you prefer to call it.

Now, thanks to the support of our fans, we're making the album available for digital download for the first time.

We'd like to thank the entire Hardkiss and Hallucination families for endless support and inspiration.  

And with pride, we hand over our Delusions of Grandeur to you.

02. Raincry (Spiritual Thirst)

Between 1991 and 1995, Hardkiss Music released seven 12" vinyl singles.  The album Delusions of Grandeur, featuring the best of those cuts, was released in 1995.

Delusions was released on vinyl, cassette and CD and quickly sold out and became out of print classic.  Many fans credit Delusions of Grandeur as the album that turned them onto electronic music, EDM or whatever you prefer to call it.

Now, thanks to the support of our fans, we're making the album available for digital download for the first time.

We'd like to thank the entire Hardkiss and Hallucination families for endless support and inspiration.  

And with pride, we hand over our Delusions of Grandeur to you.

01. Out Of Body Experience (Original)

www.hardkiss.org

Between 1991 and 1995, Hardkiss Music released seven 12" vinyl singles.  The album Delusions of Grandeur, featuring the best of those cuts, was released in 1995.

Delusions was released on vinyl, cassette and CD and quickly sold out and became out of print classic.  Many fans credit Delusions of Grandeur as the album that turned them onto electronic music, EDM or whatever you prefer to call it.

Now, thanks to the support of our fans, we're making the album available for digital download for the first time.

We'd like to thank the entire Hardkiss and Hallucination families for endless support and inspiration.  

And with pride, we hand over our Delusions of Grandeur to you.

04. The Phoenix (Throw Your Guns Edit)

05. Drugs Are Dangerous (Drugs Are Dangerous)

exclusively available at: www.hardkiss.org

Between 1991 and 1995, Hardkiss Music released seven 12" vinyl singles.  The album Delusions of Grandeur, featuring the best of those cuts, was released in 1995.

Delusions was released on vinyl, cassette and CD and quickly sold out and became out of print classic.  Many fans credit Delusions of Grandeur as the album that turned them onto electronic music, EDM or whatever you prefer to call it.

Now, thanks to the support of our fans, we're making the album available for digital download for the first time.

We'd like to thank the entire Hardkiss and Hallucination families for endless support and inspiration.  

And with pride, we hand over our Delusions of Grandeur to you.

03. Daylight (Dreamerdreamsalone)

06. Out Of Body Experience (Burning Spear)

Vinyl

God Within - The Phoenix (Riverandrain)

10. 3 Nudes Having Sax On Acid

Robbie Hardkiss - Everything Is Changing

We're giving away this song for the next month.  Second Noble Truth will be released on a new Gavin Hardkiss EP in January 2016.

More at:  https://www.facebook.com/gavinhardkiss/

And there's a trippy video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKBYeJu6lmw


Gavin Hardkiss - Second Noble Truth

“It’s a rare and dangerous sensation to cup an atomic bomb in your hands.” - Terry Matthew 

Originally released on vinyl only, these three tracks were B-sides of singles that appeared on the 1995 classic Hardkiss double album Delusions of Grandeur. If Delusions … was the bomb, then these three moody remixes are some radioactive fallout from that initial blast of electronic dance music creativity. 

“Raincry” by God Within was Scott Hardkiss’ breakthrough single. It began with a tribal chant sample in a small garage in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. Within the year, that chant was being dropped by DJs all around the world. This mix has a slower burn than the A-side, but all the epic emotion and drama. 

“3 Moods in a Gurple Parden” is Robbie Hardkiss’ remix of Gavin Hardkiss’ first single as Hawke. Here, the unique tech / break / house meditation “3 Nudes in a Purple Garden” gets funked up with latin percussion and a stomping bass line added to the ethereal melodies of the original. 

“Steal From The Rich” is also a Robbie remix. This one is a slowed down, funked up reworking of God Within’s “The Phoenix.” Recorded in Nottingham at DIY Studios, this DC Go-Go inspired mix is quite the departure from the big, banging mixes on the original single by Rabbit in the Moon and Scott Hardkiss.

Raincry (Submerged) - God Within

We're thrilled to make this happen.! Scott Hardkiss's Crucial Introspection gets a digital release for the first time.

Infinitely Gentle Blows (Infinite Aural Hallucination Remix)

ThrillHammer is a collaborative project inadvertently created by the late Anthony "Bubbles" Torres. After the tragic murder of Bubbles, Coltorious approached DJ/Producer Duserock about collaborating on a track that he and Bubbles were writing. This spawned the single "Bohemian Berlin Disco."

A San Francisco anthem in the making, there are remixes from a cross section of local dance music producers. The Original version by Colton and Ryan lunges forward with fury. Video and audio collagist Dtek offers up the delightful Shoplifters Remix. Gavin Hardkiss and Ryan dub out the Shoplifters version. Gavin then takes an acid direction with his late night excursion. Manny Alfarez (Monarch and The Great Northern) and Phil Rene Collis (Bachelors of Science) spawn the Sleight of Hands Remix.  

Draw your own conclusions from the song’s lyrics, but there’s certainly enough to entertain the new, the old and the fabulous from the Castro, the Tenderloin and the Marina.

Fondly remembered, Bubbles left skid marks and scandals everywhere he visited. His Facebook videos from Berlin, London, Santa Fe and festivals and nightclubs in California are testimony to his unabandoned quest for freedom. His music lives on in this release on Hardkiss Music.

Bohemian Berlin Disco (Gavin Hardkiss Defender of Androgyny Remix)

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.

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