Available on Beatport Now:
www.beatport.com/release/drum-formulas/1422272

Drum Formulas is the highly anticipated debut solo EP from the Desert Hearts Records Boss himself, Mikey Lion. After celebrating our highly acclaimed 2 Year Anniversary Festival in November, it's once again time we share our message of House, Techno, & Love with the rest of the world via our record label. Laced with elements of underground hip hop galore, this 3 track EP pays homage to Mikey's musical roots as a young turntablist.

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Mikey Lion - Playa Dreams

Justin Martin's What To Do is truly gassed to welcome the burgeoning & bright talent NOZU to the family with his irresistible groove-bomb "Free".

With NOZU manning all stations (production, vocals AND guitar...) "Free" has everything you'll need to get the party hopping- a bumpin' bass line, jackin' drums, and darting guitar licks get laced with ultra suave vocals, confirming that NOZU is a certified jack of all trades.  

Catch the groove and lock-in with Dallas' hidden gem, NOZU!

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NOZU -Free

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MDB (Christian Martin Edit)

Continuing the joy of Vol.1, What To Do is elated to present Vol. 2 of MNTRA’s 'Hey, How Are You?' Remixes!

Label founder Justin Martin ignites this pack with a dazzling rework of Passive Goodbyes followed by rising stars & label family:
Animate, JOIA, TCHiLT, Baby Weight, Dunbar and dernis, the kid.

Hey, How Are You? Remixes Vol. 2

Passive Goodbyes (Justin Martin Remix)

Little Simz - Gorilla (nice guy flip) [free dl]

I Was the Wolf

Move with the Pack (Original Mix)

Blending field recordings from the bustling streets of Cartagena, Colombia with textures rooted in his own Korean heritage, Nozu delivers a 140 BPM burner that defies genre. What started as a shared sample evolved into one of his most personal and energetic tracks to date.

From open-air chaos to introspective grit, this one’s a journey—and we couldn’t be happier for it to be released on AUF Records as our inaugural single off of our Lost & Found compilation. Cheers!

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NOZU - Cartagena

Nerds (Justin Martin Remix)

AZRO — SUNLOOP— SIX DAY LOOP
Minimal house. Repetitive grooves.
Late nights. No drops, just movement.

For dancers, selectors, and after-hours heads. 🔁💿
Out now.

#AZRO #SixDayLoop #MinimalHouse #MinimalTechno #UndergroundTechno

SUNLOOP V - AZRO

Pedro Clapp
, 
Giuliano Rodrigues
, 
Wellfox
, 
Thomas Young (PL)
, 
David Garner
, 
Substak
, 
Mapplec
, 
Y.A.F
, 
Persh
, 
Sekret Vero
, 
Et Dobbelbord
, 
dubwve
, 
Anders Northwell
, 
DUBGIU
, 
Victor Lopez
, 
Alexander Siva
, 
Dj Guilherme Amaral
, 
Olejan Production
, 
DJCHEMIE
, 
DJ Soma
, 
Gambusia

De Blusinha Amarela

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/track/66NAcU2mHLSaXJUe9Pbf2i?si=8be1398f88b04acb

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♥ 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.