Can’t wait to see you in NY in April 🔥

your Slay Bay set was brilliant this year

I just played my favorite set of 2021 last weekend in Toronto at Coda. What a way to finish off the year. UPH Collective throws a hell of a party and I got to play for 3 hours to a packed house. I don't get to play enough extended sets these days, but when I do I always make the most of them. I was on Cloud 9 after I finished this set and I'm stoked I get to share it with you. Enjoy!

~Mikey

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Mikey Lion - Live @ Coda, Toronto 2021

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'

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

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TRACKLIST

Mikey Lion - Live @ Desert Hearts Los Angeles 2023

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

Two good old boys playing tunes and having fun <3
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Lee Reynolds+Subrhythm - Chicago Afterhours

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6JSyQiHPpW0

What's up Desert Hearts Family,

I'm so excited to release my set from Desert Hearts Festival 2024. This fest marked the 12th year of Desert Hearts and the dawn of a new era at our home in Flagstaff, AZ. It's been a rocky and uncertain 5 years for us since losing our venue during the pandemic, but DHF 2024 was the great reset button as we threw, in my opinion, the best and most special festival we've ever thrown. The vibe and the magic were untouchable. I might be biased, but I've always said I'd put Desert Hearts Fest up against any party in the world, and for four days, I believe we achieved that. What's scary to think about is how much better next year is going to be now that we've got our bearings under us at the new venue...

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my set recorded during sunset on Saturday, July 6th at Desert Hearts Festival 2024. Dig in and let me know which tracks you're feelin'!

We got loads more sets from the fest dropping weekly and many of them with video recordings on our Desert Hearts YouTube.

Tracklist:
1. Francesca Lombardo - Sofiel
2. Nate Chapman - The Morning
3. Daniel Steinberg - Losing You
4. Sammy Virji - Sinking Sailor
5. Mikey Lion - Punk Rockin' (coming soon)
6. Life On Planets - Bow Wow
7. Ben Rau - Lemme Talk To Ya
8. Mikey Lion - Your Bad Self
9. Dot N Life - To The Moon And Back 
10. Sidney Charles - Space Bass
11. Jizz - Moov To The Music (coming soon on DHR)
12. James View - Party Time
13. Cut Snake, Mikey Lion - Yogi's On A Thursday
14. ANIMATE - Pull Up
15. Goosey - Bodyshake
16. Kolter - Always Talking Shit
17. Daniel Steinberg - Our House
18. Frivolous Jackson - Acid Jacksident
19. Ben Kim - Raw Frequency
20. Lil Yachty - Saint Laurent (The Martinez Brothers Remix)
21. Sammy Virji - Moonlight
22. Milton Jackson - Crash (Lovebirds Remix)
23. DJ T. - City Life (Maceo Plex Remix)
24. Mikey Lion - Breathe ft Sarah Kristina (coming soon)
25. Hamdi - Counting (Sammy Virji Remix)
26. Azari & III - Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Remix)
27. Sammy Virji - If U Need It
28. Mikey Lion - Song 4 Finn
29. Florence and the Jones
30. deadmau5 vs Chuck Roberts - Not Exactly
31. Hard Drive - Deep Inside

Watch on Youtube

Live @ Desert Hearts 2024 - Mikey Lion - 140

Eyyyo! What's good Desert Hearts Fam?

I'm so hyped to release my sunrise set from Desert Hearts Festival 2024. (Click here for the livestream version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8tUgiKC0nk) 

This, as many know, was a pivotal & important year for our community. We moved our flagship festival to Playa Ponderosa near Flagstaff... and we finally found our new home. This year was something special & arguably the best DH to date. The energy was so palpable. After losing the Los Coyotes Venue, we had been searching for somewhere that fit our vision for 5 years. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to feel at home again. 

I haven't played Sunrise at DH in a very very long time & I had the honors of manning the controls for the very first Sunrise at our new venue. As a little bonus I included 30min of my surprise B2B set with Rinzen at the end. 

Enough of my rambling, thanks everyone who was there with me that magical morning, and to those of you who weren't ~ I genuinely hope I see you out there next year. Sending all the love to you. We Are All Desert Hearts!!!

Enjoy <3

Track List:

0:00 - In For the Kill x DH x Flight Fm - (Marbs Mashup Edit)
4:20 - Andreas Henneberg - Desert Hearts
7:25 - Paco Osuna - Beat Heat
11:45 - Ron Costa - Seriously
14:35  - Eddy M - Look at the Sky
17:50 - Claude VonStroke, Walker & Royce - Enthusiasm
21:40 -  Popof - Skylighter (Andres Campo Remix)
25:27 - Uwe Thoma - Big Boss Killer Track
28:30 - Waltervelt, Tyler Hill - Groove Collector
31:00 - Justin Martin, Goldie - Kemistry (Justin Martin Remake)
35:00 - John Monkman - Entropy
38:15 - QRTR - Snowflake (Justin Martin Remix)
42:40 - Prospa - If You Want My Loving
46:20 - Martin Ikin, Joshwa - Take Me
49:50 - Tchailyn - Miss It All
53:00 - Nobe, Margaryan - Long Awaited
55:00 - Robag Wruhme - Calma Calma
1:00:30 - Crazibiza - Fresh (House of Prayers Poolside Edit)
1:04:20 - Goosey - Can U Feel It
1:08:30 - Renato Cohen - Good Times
1:12:10 - Luke Garcia, Colossio, Matthew James - Let Go (Musumeci Drum Mix) 
1:14:45 - John Monkman - Talking Head
1:18:15 - Arude - Your Move
1:23:00 - John Monkman - Maya (Extended Mix)
1:27:30 - ACME - Hung On
1:28:40 - The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams
1:32:00 - Surprise B2B With Rinzen
1:33:15 -  Rinzen - Track ID
1:38:30 - Jon Carter, Betty Steeles - Mighty Horses
1:43:00 - Rinzen - Track ID
1:44:10 - Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (DJ Tool)
1:44:58 - Rinzen - Track ID
1:48:15 - Mind Against - Love Seeking
1:52:45 - Rinzen - Track ID
1:56:10 - Martin Eyerer, Boot Slap - No Way Out
2:00:20 - Rinzen - Track ID

Live @ Desert Hearts 2024 - Marbs - Sunrise Set - 141

Mary Droppinz is the only person that's allowed to play bass music at Desert Hearts Festival ;) 

Mary is Desert Hearts Family through and through. She used to run our social media marketing back in the day while simultaneously attending music production school. Now she's blowing tf up and there's no one prouder than us. Her set at Desert Hearts fused house and dubby bass, and it was such a vibe. We hope you love this set as much as we love Mary.

Watch on YouTube

Live @ Desert Hearts 2024 - Mary Droppinz - 145

Justin Jay is currently on tour: www.justinjaymusic.com

Tracklist:
0:00 - Dene Antony - Enjoy Detroit
1:30 - Claude Vonstroke - Barrump
6:15 - Dakar Carvalho - Woobly w. Breach - Let's Get Hot
9:30 - Justin Jay - You Give Me Butterflies
14:30 - Paul Simon - Diamonds (Âme Private Edit)
20:30 - Kolsch - Zig w. Scuba - Adrenaline
26:30 - Massimiliano Pagliara - Sensation 9 (Marco & Orpheo Remix) w. Waka Flocka Flame - Grove St. Party
32:00 - Maceo Plex - Conjure Dreams
36:30 - Kill Frenzy - H.O.U.S.E.
40:00 - Claude Vonstroke - Make A Cake
44:00 - D4L - Laffy Taffy (Justin Jay Edit)
48:30 - Chemical Surf & Illusionize - Bass
54:00 - Justin Jay Feat. Josh Taylor - Karma
59:30 - Dubtribe Sound System - Equitoreal
64:15 - Madioko N Rafika - Ellelli (Kalabrese Remix)
1:09:00 - Norken, Deer - Remember That Feeling
1:11:45 - Deniz Kurtel feat. Jada - The L Word (Guy Gerber's Countryside Remix)
1:15:15 - Code 718 - Equinox (Henrik Schwarz Remix - Dixon Edit)
1:20:00 - Scott Grooves - Movin' On
1:23:30 - JV - Edit Channel XXX
1:26:30 - Joe Smooth - Promised Land
1:29:45 - Ulf Bonde - Brother Piña
1:33:30 - Super Flu & Andhim - Scuzzlebutt
1:38:30 - Matthew Styles - Hot
1:41:30 - Daft Punk - Revolution 909
1:44:15 - DJ Sneak - Keep Groovin (Ian Pooley Mix)
1:48:00 - Markus Homm, Mihai Popoviciu, Jay Bliss - Bis Co
1:51:00 - Nic Fanciulli - Work the Week
1:53:45 - Jodeci - Freek' N You (MK Dub)
1:57:00 - Dale Howard - Thinkin
1:59:30 - Audion, Tiga x Ron Costa - Gez Dancing (Eats Reebeef)
2:02:30 - Eats Everything - Vertigo w. MTD & Dutty Dan - Stranded
2:05:45 - Billon Feat. Maxine Ashley - Special (Glimpse Remix)
2:09:30 - Justin Martin - Molokini w. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
2:14:00 - Formally Unknown - Tribalz
2:17:30 - Pete Graham & Lorenzo - Marina Gasolina (808 Refix)
2:20:30 - Justin Jay - Cheese
2:24:15 - Justin Jay Feat. Josh Taylor - What Do You Want

Photo by Randon Vannucchi

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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.

Mikey Lion - Live @ Desert Hearts Los Angeles 2023

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