Lee Reynolds In The Vortex

Happy New Years everyone! It’s been a minute since I’ve last released a live recording, and couldn’t be more excited to share my set from our Desert Hearts New Years Day Rave. Coming straight from our Denver NYE party right into our 14 hour party in our hometown was quite the way to ring in 2022! Hope you enjoy as much as I did.. Cheers & much love! Porks <3

PORKY LIVE @ DH NYD RAVE 22'

Tech House goodness live at Dead Ringer Analog Bar for the Rabbit Hole 3.0. 

Sometimes there's a season, a reason, or a lifetime to cut audio and upload a recording. The feeling of accomplishment is unparalleled! This was a great night. Enjoy!

Live at Dead Ringer Analog Bar, Rabbit Hole 3.0 [Part 1]

Had a blast playing at this legendary halloween jammy jam with these awesome silly billies. 
The downloadable version will be here shortly. Please follow, share, the link to all my shit is Solo.to/MikeyHighJinks

The Collings HallowJam 2022.WAV

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1. Paul Woolford - Erotic Discourse
2. Lubelski - Synth City
3. Renato Cohen - Suddenly Funk
4. Mr. G - G’s Riddem
5. Phil Kieran - Poly Rhythmica
6. Sobek - Anthem of a Man
7. Lubelski - Vowels
8. ID - ID
9. Metro Area - Miura
10. Compute - Effin
11. Retro/Grade - Moda
12. Sigrid - Sucker Punch (Four Tet Remix)
13. KOKO - Waiting For Zennit
14. Junktion - Mustard 
15. MEEN - Fruit Of Tulum (Wyatt Marshall Remix)
16. Occibel
17. Krystal Klear - Piano Banana
18. Lubelski - Sometimes Why
19. Sworn Virgins - Slide Little Monster Slide
20. Lubelski - Why Do You Do The Things You Do (Mary Droppinz Treatment)
21. ID- ID
22. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
23. Sylvan Paul - Fuck The Pain Away

Live @ Lightning In A Bottle 2022

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Bumpy Nuggets: Live @ Immersejawn 2023 - PEXIT Stage - Sat Night

It's always an honour to play at this life-changing event, Harvest Festival. I still get goosebumps thinking about how wonderful it was.

This year I was blessed to share this stage (aka Wiggle 6) with my good friends and Wiggly fam who crushed it all night - Nuni, Luis F and Tyler Hill.

Big Thanks to the energy filled full house of Harvesters who stayed until the very last track ;) 

Tracklist:

(coming soon...)

Barroness @ Harvest Festival 2023 / Crystal 6 Closing Set

It’s Wednesday afternoon, peak time at the Pink Mammoth camp, and the dancefloor is packed with lively faces. These are the faces of lovers, of dancers, of those celebrating the very best of life and music. They are lead by none other than the beat and infectious vibes of the ‘living party’ himself, Desert Hearts resident Kevin Anderson. 

Enjoy our sixth mix from Pink Mammoth at Burning Man 2014!

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Kevin Anderson - Pink Mammoth - Burning Man 2014

♫ Label Showcase ♫:
http://www.deephouseamsterdam.com/london/label-showcase-20-desert-hearts

^tracklist available at the link^

Desert Hearts Records is a tribute to House, Techno, & Love. What started as an intimate renegade gathering in the Mojave Desert has since blossomed into a movement that celebrates love, life, and music.

With multiple Desert Hearts Festivals year round and one-off City Hearts events popping up around the nation, it's easy to see why Desert Hearts was dubbed by Thump Magazine as "The West Coast's Fastest Growing Party Squad." The idea is to spread love through music towards a better way of life. The belief is in a society where acceptance, creativity and passions flourish. The goal is to provide a safe haven away from Babylon for people to connect with nature, be themselves, and do what makes them happy. This is what Desert Hearts is all about. House, Techno, & Love... We are all Desert Hearts.

So, with that, we continue our series highlighting our favourite labels from around the world. Today, we thought we would catch up with Desert Hearts records boss, Mikey Lion to get the scoop on all things Desert Hearts. Also, at the end of this article you will find an exclusive full length mix from Mikey giving an idea of how Roundabout Sounds is meant to be heard.

https://soundcloud.com/desert-hearts-records

♫ LABEL SHOWCASE ♫

LS20 | Desert Hearts Records | Mikey Lion

@justin-martin-music on the Beatport Stage at Movement Detroit 2011.

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Justin Martin - Movement Detroit 2011

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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