Name: Chicago Moving Pt 1 by Lee Reynolds
Duration: 1 h 57 min 52 s
Description: I did this mix to celebrate my recent move to Chicago and my much anticipated show at Spybar, Friday Sept 29.

You're a legend!  Thank you for bringing your soul to the music and party!  You uplift us all, and it is a great gift.

Live @ Desert Hearts Records vs Desert Hearts Black, Superior Ingredients, Brooklyn, NY

Mikey Lion - Live @ Superior Ingredients, Brooklyn 2023

WATCH THE FULL SET AND SEE TRACKLIST ON MY YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Oh_IDzkC0

So happy to release my set from Desert Hearts Los Angeles 2023, filmed May 6th at The Torch at The LA Coliseum. 

My new track House 'Til Infinity is out now on Desert Hearts Records:
https://desertheartsrecords.fanlink.t...

MIKEY LION TOUR DATES 2023:
5/27 - Vancouver, Canada, - The Vault
5/28 - San Francisco, CA - The Great Northern Block Party
5/29 - Seattle, WA - Monkey Loft
6/3 - Las Vegas, NV - Discopussy
6/18 - Sacramento, CA - Block Party
6/22 - Raleigh, NC - Alchemy
6/23 - Charlotte, NC - The Music Yard
6/24 - Manhattan, NY - Musica
7/15 - Austin, TX - The Concourse Project
7/22 - Phoenix, AZ - Walter Studios

www.mikeylion.com

TRACKLIST

Mikey Lion - Live @ Desert Hearts Los Angeles 2023

Gene Farris LIVE at CLUB SPACE MIAMI 7.17.23

GENE FARRIS LIVE AT CLUB SPACE 7.17.23.mp3

Recorded live from at Halcyon San Francisco March 25 2023

Christian Martin @ Halcyon SF 03/25/2023

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Kevin Knapp is a force to be reckoned with, a musical heavyweight known for his jackin’ house style and lifelong penchant for standout vocals.

With releases on Cuttin Headz, Repopulate Mars, Crosstown Rebels, Desert Hearts Records, Hot Creations, Dirtybird, and now his own Plump Recordings, the Texas-bred, Berlin-based DJ taps into a range of early musical influences, from indie rock and golden-era hip hop to tech and minimal house, to create his gritty signature sound.

He turned heads in 2012, proclaiming ‘My Beat Will Control You’ with Audiojack, and his 2013 cut with Hot Creations A&R, Richy Ahmed ‘ TheDrums’ is still owning dance floors. In 2019, ‘Call Me’ with Hannah Wants garnered huge support from the likes of Jamie Jones and a remix from Carl Cox, and his follow-up EP ‘Heads Up’ (Etiquette) reached number one on the Beatport Tech House Hype Chart.

In 2020, Knapp launched his label Plump Recordings with fiance and Detroit native, Jessica “Hutch” Hutcheson as a way to uplift all bodies, people of all genders, all sexual orientations, all races, and all nationalities. The label combines the flavors of Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, and NYC, and the duo have curated quite an eclectic sound for the project. After several solo releases and a release with Hutch in 2020 on Plump, Knapp had multiple successful releases in 2021.

“It’s somewhere between Chicago House, Bass House, slowed down, more heavily produced Ghetto Tech, and shuffley Tech House”, says Kevin. “It’s gritty with a dose of cheekiness…uplifting while militant, raw and empowering, a place of refuge for everyone who has ever felt unseen or excluded, no matter gender, color, or creed.”

After several releases with Hutch on his own label in 2020, Knapp had multiple successful releases in 2021. He returned to collaborate with Audiojack for ‘Under Your Skin’ (Crosstown Rebels), and released ‘Backstroke’ feat. Baby Luck / Miss Me (Repopulate Mars) and his EP ‘Footprints’ with Toman Remix (Cuttin Headz).

He’s played some of the world’s most renowned festivals and dance floors including Sonar, Miami Music Week, Desert Hearts Festival, Dirtybird Campout, Paradise at DC-10, Get Lost, CRSSD, Fabric, Kater Blau, Elrow, and Sankeys. Whether it’s an intimate underground club or a huge festival stage, Knapp loves connecting with people and constantly pushes to break the boundaries between DJ and spectator.

“I love rocking dance floors,” says Knapp. “It’s the only moment in life where I don’t feel some level of constraint and I love it for that.”

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SIX AM Guest Mix: Kevin Knapp

I did this mix to celebrate my recent move to Chicago and my much anticipated show at Spybar, Friday Sept 29.

Chicago Moving pt 1

Chicago Moving Pt 1

With VNSSA's rabbit-chasing anthem "One Pill" out now on Dirtybird, we get an exclusive listen to her peak time set from the Dirtybird Players Tour stop at Club Space in Miami. As always, VNSSA holds nothing back and delivers heater after heater after heater.

Dirtybird Radio 410 - VNSSA

Davide Squillace and Matthias have just released their new tune "Fourth Hour" on Dirtybird Records and to celebrate, they're teaming up for a back 2 back set on Dirtybird Radio. Hear some favorite selections and crowdmovers from these two mainstays of the Ibiza scene.

Dirtybird Radio 411 - Matthias Tanzmann B2b Davide Squillace

Double double toil and trouble! Your haunted host Victoria Rawlins cooks up another eerie episode of Dirtybird Radio -- this time joined by the father of our frightening flock, Claude VonStroke! Join us as he celebrates his spooky new single, "The Creeps" with a set full of terrifying tracks and infernal ID's.

Dirtybird Radio 414 - Claude VonStroke

This was such a special party...

TRACKLIST:
1. Destructo - You Only Die Once ft Snoop Dogg (Mikey Lion Remix)
2. Daniel Steinberg - Our House
3. Di Chiara Brothers - Ace of Space
4. Mikey Lion, Cut Snake - ID??? (unreleased)
5. Hector Couto - Fat Cut
6. Jamie Jones - Lose My Mind (Eats Everything Remix)
7. Kristin Velvet - Burning Woman
8. Artwork - Let Go Of This Acid
9. Kevin Knapp - Raw Cuts (unreleased)
10. Mikey Lion - ID???
11. Worthy, Eats Everything - Tric Trac
12. Cityburn - Unleashed
13. Mason Maynard - You (Mikey Lion Edit)
14. Salute & Sammy Virji - Peach VIP
15. Mikey Lion - Song 4 Finn (coming in January on Desert Hearts Records)
16. deadmau5 - Not Exactly vs Chuck Roberts - In The Beginning (There was Jack) (Mikey Lion Edit)

Mikey Lion - Under A Bridge In Los Angeles

Exclusive Mix from Lee Reynolds! Courtesy of Uriah G Presents. Lee, along with Mikey Lion, Porky, and Marbs will be at Invy Nightclub in downtown Indianapolis for a Desert Hearts takeover on January 20th! Read our full feature for all the info @  https://graveyardradio.net/2024/01/07/lee-reynolds-gives-exclusive-mix-to-graveyard-radio-in-wake-desert-hearts-takeover-at-invy/

Graveyard Radio Exclusive Mix

Lee Reynolds Exclusive Mix - Courtesy Of Uriah G Presents...

Just as rave culture was making its first waves in the UK in 1988, a mad English kid named Lee Reynolds rode his BMX bike across the Atlantic to Los Angeles, carrying with him dreams of big air and sunny skies. He was as wild then as he is now, it’s just that on two wheels, Reynolds’ lack of abandon resulted in broken bones, not broken beats. In 1992, he limped off the ramp one last time and soon found himself lost to electronic psychedelia, and thusly one of the West Coast’s finest DJs began his path to the Desert Hearts movement and the hysteria he now conjures with every performance. 

Now, a quarter century later, Reynolds has a lifetime’s worth of experience bringing the weird and the wonderful to the dancefloor. He earned his chops up and down the West Coast in the dance scene’s dustier institutions––Moontribe, Moonshake, LiB––That’s where he developed his endlessly wide palate, penchant for mysticism, and an understanding that a dance party should be a spiritual experience. 

“When I DJ, I want people to feel ecstatic, in a zone, in the moment, like the only thing that matters is the dance,” he says. “I don’t want to play music that people can dance to, I want to play music that makes people dance. I want it to sound like aliens are about to land on the dancefloor.”

In 2011, It was an encounter with a plucky bunch of San Diegans barely out of their teens that was the calling Lee Reynolds had spent his whole life working towards. Alongside Mikey Lion, Deep Jesus, Marbs, and Porkchop, Reynolds formed Desert Hearts and the rest is history in motion. Over the past three years of bi-annual renegade ragers and relentless touring, “Papa” Lee Reynolds has developed into the patriarch of the fastest growing and most visible cultural movement in all of stateside dance music.

“My real role in Desert Hearts is more on a spiritual level, making sure we spread a positive message and do the right thing,” says Reynolds. Wise words, maybe, but behind the decks, Reynolds is a maniacal presence as he channels his past lives, tastes, adventures, and perspectives into a dancefloor magic that captures you upon first beat and does not release: House, techno, acid, and breaks, they’re all conjured up in a plume of purple haze and that little mad bastard is at the center of it all. 

Dance music now is so often about fast rises and immediate gratification, but Lee Reynolds’ story is a reminder that some beats taste better when slowly fried over the course of 25 years. “I’ve been obsessed with this shit forever and I’ve always believed the madness was coming,” says Reynolds. Well, the madness has commenced, and it seems like it’s here for good––and Lee Reynolds is conducting the score.
- Jemayel Khäwåja

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