The B Side of our very first release on Desert Hearts Records has Mikey Lion & Jonjo Williams telling a story through the eyes of one of the world's biggest superstars, the one and only James Brown. Sampled from one of the most classic and hilarious on-air interviews in history, it's safe to say we've all been on his level at some point in our lives. This song is a tribute to James Brown and a reminder that no matter what problems you have in life, a positive outlook and a great sense of humor will get you through just about anything. It's time to bring back the fun in the funk. We Are All Desert Hearts.

Here's me dropping The Defendant @ Coachella 2014:
youtu.be/8Oj2VfMGAuI?t=2m19s

Mikey Lion & Jonjo Williams - The Defendant (Original Mix) - OUT NOW!!

Claude VonStroke - The Creeps (Mike Kerrigan VIP Remix)

Dance With Me

Dance With Me (Avilo Remix)

Justin Martin's What To Do is proud to welcome Baby Weight to the family with her sweet & refreshing Lavender Lemonade EP- three tracks of freshly squeezed sonic bliss sure to quench & revive.
The title track Lavender Lemonade is a heavenly groover neatly loaded with a dancing bass line, angelic organ riffs.. and even a diced up Amen break! Claire George's vocals shimmer brightly on top of Baby Weight's sonic nimbus perfectly- a match made in heaven!

Pay Your Dues featuring D.C. cohort Bagel is an optimistic saga with its uplifting progression earning its way into your heart (and our Rekordbox crates).
Ascending synths of all shapes and sizes unite and soar, propelled by air-tight drums and a complimentary acid line to bring things home. We all want to leave a mark in this world, but Baby Weight & Bagel left a crater with this epoch.

Rounding out this package is the summery & nonchalant U Got My Power with it plucky bass line, full bodied synth swells and skittering hi-hats-although the real sweet treat is the effortless Liquid DnB switch up.

This is Lavender Lemonade... drink up sis!

Lavender Lemonade EP

Baby Weight - U Got My Power

linguere

This October, Quack Squawk Honk is excited to release a brand-new remix EP featuring two of Gina Turners irresistible tracks, Flowers and How I Do. These songs, already captivating in their original form, are brought to new life through remixes by AMPRS&ND, Casmalia, Emuh, Rodney Dinkles, and Sonrizas.
https://quacksquawkhonk.komi.io/

How I Do (Sonrizas Remix)

Tracks made by Ciszak. 

RELEASE DATE: 2015-07-06
LABELS: 303Lovers
CATALOG: 303L1527

Grab you copy on Beatport: https://pro.beatport.com/track/ready-original-mix/6755236

Ciszak - Ready (Original Mix)[303Lovers] OUT!

Buy on Bandcamp

Mike Send - Can't Tell It All (Original)

♥ Desert Hearts Records Boss ♥
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.