Feeling Affection (also 1/2 of Michael Baaay on Desert Hearts Black) is the brainchild of Frank Stevens focusing on the deeper and lofi side of experimental electronic music. You can expect multiple genres to be played in an FA set varying from house, breaks, electro, techno, to UKG.

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Bookings/Agency: info@billycaso.de

Music producer and collector Billy Caso has spent the last 13 years in Berlin building his path as an eclectic and open-genre artist through fields of electronica, psychedelic jazz, hip hop, modular synths and collage style mixes & beat-tapes.

Billy founded Pastiche, what started as a listening event in Berlin, and now turned hi-fi listening venue, record shop and café in Berlin. 

Billy has performed live tours worldwide, hosted various shows on NTS Radio, Worldwide FM, Dublab and Rinse FM. Also known for his two cult-followed mix series 'The Barefoot Adventures' and 'Home Comforts'. Through his explorative blend of genre-mashing productions, mind-bending collage-style sets, beat-tapes and musical features with the likes of Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Brandon Coleman, Fly Anakin and Nailah Hunter to name a few. After a four year wait, Billy's long awaited debut album ‘Planet Earth’ is complete and will be released soon.

24.03.2024 - KNOWN STUDIO - LOS ANGELES
24.04.2024 - SCENARIO 808 - LOS ANGELES
27.07.2024 - FUSION FESTIVAL - GERMANY
31.08.2024 - GARBICZ FESTIVAL - POLAND
10.09.2022 - BERLIN, GERMANY
17.09.2022 - OSLO, NORWAY
24.09.2022 - TUNIS, TUNISIA
02.10.2022 - DUBLAB RADIO - LOS ANGELES
09.11.2022 - GOLDFISH - LOS ANGELES
12.11.2022 - REVIVE - LOS ANGELES
20.01.2023 - MONTEZUMA - PARIS
21.01.2023 - KIOSK RADIO - BRUSSELS
21.01.2023 - FUNKE - GHENT
02.03.2023 - PASTICHE - BERLIN
21.05.2023 - PASTICHE - BERLIN

Bookings/Agency: info@billycaso.de
Explore: www.billycaso.com

SIDE PROJECTS:

🌐 PASTICHE INTERNATIONAL (Record Label)
🌎 THE BAREFOOT ADVENTURES (Radio Show)
🏯 HOME COMFORTS (Mix Series)

PAST TOURS
02.09.20 - warsaw / poland
21.03.20 - munich / germany
29.02.20 - kater blau / berlin
22.02.20 - bucht / berlin
15.02.20 - karlsruhe / germany
08.02.20 - supra / mexico city
07.02.20 - tierra bomba fundraiser / mexico city
27.12.20 - parola negra porto / portugal
14.12.20 - wonderfruit festival / thailand
06.12.20 - i never talk to mirrors / berlin
02.12.20 - nomade / tulum / mexico
01.12.20 - be tulum / tulum / mexico
​30.11.19 - supra mexico city
21.09.19 - paris - france
02.09.19 - scorpios - mykonos
16.08.19 - ms dockville - hamburg
28.07.19 - detect classic festival - de
27.07.19 - habitat festival - de
21.07.19 - melt festival! - de
20.07.19 - ketonien - cologne
20.07.19 - am bach - luzern - switzerland
18.07.19 - budapest - hungary
14.07.19 - sonido tropico - berlin
31.12.18 - london - england
22.12.18 - ritter butzke - berlin
14.12.18 - wonderfruit festival - thailand
28.11.18 - athens - greece
23.11.18 - munich - de
16.11.18 - paris - france
26.08.18 - istanbul - turkey
24.08.18 - moyn moyn festival
23.08.18 - cesme - turkey
19.08.18 - bucht der traumer festival
16.08.18 - ibiza - spain
15.08.18 - wao festival - italy
10.08.18 - kantine am berghain
26.07.18 - ibiza - spain
22.07.18 - kater blau - berlin
20.07.18 - paris - france
27.06.18 - fusion festival
24.06.18 - nomade - berlin
15.06.18 - stereo kitchen - beirut
07.06.18 - raices - ibiza
02.06.18 - castello festival - poland
12.05.18 - vienna - austria
01.05.18 - sisyphos - berlin
30.04.18 - so&so - leipzig
10.03.18 - ramschakl 3 year anniversary - berlin
09.03.18 - bern - switzerland
03.03.18 - frankfurt - germany
09.02.18 - tal der verwirrung
03.02.18 - kaschemme - basel
27.01.18 - bahnwarter thiel - munich
19.01.18 - istanbul - turkey
11.01.18 - voodoo bar - tel aviv - israel
10.01.18 - sputnik bar - tel aviv - israel
01.01.18 - so&so - leipzig
31.12.17 - kater blau - berlin
08.12.17 - copenhagen - denmark
04.11.17 - kauz - switzerland
03.11.17 - sisyphos
30.10.17 - tal der verwirrung - kater blau
18.10.17 - minimuzikhol - istanbul - turkey
13.10.17 - moloch - hamburg
12-16.17 - goulash disko festival - croatia
09.09.17 - ramschakl - mensch meier
09.09.17 - voll schon - rummels bucht
02.09.17 - chill out festival - cesme - turkey
18.08.17 - mykonos - greece
13.08.17 - oewerall festival
11.08.17 - wilden renate - berlin
03.08.17 - garbicz festival
30.07.17 - sisyphos - berlin
29.07.17 - moloch - hamburg
23.07.17 - woomoon ibiza
22.07.17 - mykonos - greece
15.07.17 - midsummer nights dream - russia
09.07.12 - odonien - cologne
08.07.17 - kometa festival - latvia
02.07.17 - grrr mit brrr - kater blau
30.06.17 - noname festival - belgium
16.06.17 - ritter butzke - berlin
04.06.17 - Basel - Switzerland
28.05.17 - sisyphos - berlin
13.05.17 - lexy blub - zurich
12.05.17 - hafenklang - hamburg
06.05.17 - heidelberg
01.05.17 - kater blau
28.04.17 - hive club - zurich
23.04.17 - anomalie opening- berlin
22.04.17 - wilden renate - berlin
15.04.17 - bahnwärter thiel - munich
14.04.17 - munich
08.04.17 - amsterdam
31.03.17 - rummels bucht - berlin
25.03.17 - dresden - germany
19.03.17 - sisyphos - berlin
17.02.17 - pucon - chile
13.02.17 - osorno - chile
08.02.17 - festival nomade - chile
05.02.17 - valparaiso - chile
04.02.17 - sonido tropico - brazil
27.01.17 - cesta acida - brazil
14.01.17 - blum - brazil

Born and raised in Southern California, Marbs was shaped by a deep love of music, art, and counterculture. His journey into electronic music began in high school and crystallized after two pivotal sets—Lee Burridge at Lovefest and Plastikman live—which inspired the deep, hypnotic sound he’s known for today.

As a founding member of Desert Hearts, Marbs has been instrumental in shaping the brand’s identity—on and off the dancefloor. While widely recognized for his DJ sets and moody, driving productions, he’s also the behind-the-scenes architect of the Desert Hearts Festival. As the festival’s director, he oversees everything from logistics and production to creative direction and curation, helping evolve a grassroots gathering of 200 people into one of the world’s most iconic boutique festivals.

To expand the brand’s sonic range, he launched Desert Hearts Black, a sub-label and event series focused on deep, melodic techno. As a producer, Marbs has delivered multiple chart-topping releases, including the Torus EP (#1 on Beatport), Clean Slate Glow, and The Devil’s Love.

Equal parts artist, visionary, and builder, Marbs remains the backbone of Desert Hearts—embodying its ethos of House, Techno, and Love with relentless creativity and heart.

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

Choose Hellth is a music producer and sound designer living in Austin Texas. He has worked as a sound designer and composer for video games for the last few decades and produces and performs dance music.

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Bookings ~ Americas and Australia: jon@liaisonartists.com
Management: t.gould@deserthearts.us
PR: mfrieser@infamouspr.com

Part mythical desert harlequin, part modern soul conductor, Mikey Lion is more than a DJ––He’s a freak of nature and an energy controller. The San Diego-native has earned a dusty mystique over the past few years as the center of the Desert Hearts movement and as a house and techno provocateur with a stage presence that suggests he will ride this wave all the way to the top. If there's one thing Mikey does well, it's get the party started.

Lion, real name Michael Leon, has brought the mothafuckin' ruckus to the stages of Lightning in a Bottle, the dustiest storms at Burning Man, and The Do LaB at Coachella, earning nods from Claude VonStroke, Jamie Jones, and Green Velvet in the process. In doing so, Lion and his signature top hat have developed a boisterous voice in the House & Techno scene with strong tribal, hip-hop, and psychedelic elements.

But it all started with Wu-Tang and Daft Punk. Lion first found his way behind the decks as a thirteen year old kid, scratching underground hip-hop records religiously after school. At Coachella as a seventeen year old, he witnessed that legendary Daft Punk performance on the same night he tasted his first dose of psychedelics. The show had such a monumental impact on him, he gave up Hip-Hop and became a House DJ the very next day.

After honing his craft with weekly marathon DJ sessions at Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Mikey was introduced to Burner culture at Lightning in a Bottle, 2011. It was at his first Burning Man in 2011 that he found a community calling and merged forces with his brother Porkchop, life long friends Marbs & Deep Jesus, and the inimitable Lee Reynolds to form The Desert Hearts Crew.

In November 2012, Desert Hearts began as a seedy, 200-person renegade gathering deep in the Mojave Desert. The intrepid crew barely survived a set of extreme weather conditions and unfortunate circumstances, but that first party sparked a fire. The entire point of that first Desert Hearts was to create as much love as humanly possible, and now that same gathering has evolved into the darling of the West Coast house and techno scene. The Bi-annual festival is capped at 3500 attendees in order to create the best possible vibe. Built upon beautiful people getting as weird as possible to deep and trippy house and techno, Desert Hearts has already achieved iconic status in the North American Festival Scene. 

Desert Hearts has given rise to a family of thousands and it's safe to call it a bonafide movement of love. And while Desert Hearts Records launched in 2014 as a totally-free record label, pushes the sonic aesthetic of the scene, the crew’s busy international calendar of bookings has the DH message spreading far and wide. At the center of it all is Mikey Lion, the dusty prince of desert hearts, a beacon of weird far and wide, and one of this generation’s most compelling agents of love.

DEMOS: https://tstack.app/desert-hearts-records

Desert Hearts is a tribute to House, Techno, & Love. 

What started as a renegade gathering in the Mojave has blossomed into a movement celebrating love, life, and music. With the annual Desert Hearts Festival holding down the roots of the movement while the DH Crew circles the globe, Desert Hearts Records provides the soundtrack as our family spreads as much love and positive energy as humanly possible. House, Techno, & Love... We Are All Desert Hearts.

Label run by @mikeylion
Management - matt@slntmachine.com

Introducing our new sub-label, Desert Hearts Black. Remaining true to the values of our Desert Hearts Family and born from the minds of Marbs & Evan Casey, our new imprint aims to add another dimension of musicality to our ever-expanding movement of love. Focusing on heavier sounds, musical exploration, and the depths of late nights and early mornings, Desert Hearts Black has been set in motion to project the endless internal journey onto all of those willing to dig deeper. House, TECHNO, & Love… We Are All Desert Hearts.

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