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The Hardkiss album 1991 is out now.
iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1991/id849242880
Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/1991/1251377

30 SECOND CLIPS OF EACH ALBUM TRACK MIXED TOGETHER HERE...

01. Revolution (Hardkiss Brothers Mix)
02. Retroactivefuturisticpsychedelicfunkbump
03. It's Right (Hawke Mix)
04. Don't Worry
05. Flowers Blooming/Glow of Love
06. Forever Forever
07. Cameras Are Watching
08. Feeling Scott Through Romanthony
09. Broken Hearts
10. Revolution (Original)

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Hardkiss - 1991 (Album Preview)

The Hardkiss album 1991 is out now.
iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1991/id849242880
Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/1991/1251377

Back in 90’s San Francisco; Scott, Gavin and Robbie Hardkiss helped pioneer the American EDM/Rave scene with their club nights, warehouse parties and groundbreaking record label. They forged a new direction for dance music with a string of vinyl releases culminating in the seminal compilation, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR. 

DELUSIONS made the Billboard dance charts, went to #1 on the Rolling Stone alternative album chart and launched the international DJ/production careers of the Hardkiss brothers.

Reunited in the Bay Area three years ago, Gavin and Robbie have produced a new album that stands tall in the often repetitive world of electronic dance music. Named for the year the Hardkiss collective was formed, 1991 references the sounds and sentiments of their early rave days while exploring new musical directions.  

Hardkiss - Flowers Blooming | Glow Of Love (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Taken from the forthcoming sampler "Sounds of the Spirit Wrestlers EP" due out on vinyl early June 2014 thro Juno

http://www.juno.co.uk/search/?q%5Ball%5D%5B%5D=spirit+wrestlers

Gallery Sounds - 3 Minutes Squared

Jericho Park - Acid Love

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Not sure how it's happened, but i've ended up with a load of releases coming out this month. Here is ANOTHER one - my debut 'Why Don't You' EP on Material.

You can get the digital by clicking the 'Buy' icon above, or this link here: http://www.beatport.com/release/why-dont-you-ep/1221335

and the vinyl here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dale-howard-why-dont-you-ep/525135-01/

Why Don't You EP [Material] Vinyl + Digital OUT NOW!

Marc Pollen - Risky Life

Charlotte The Baroness & Cle Acklin (SoundProof Records) combined each of their unique takes on dance music and had fun in the studio producing this original track. House Grooving and Acid Weaving, "The Call" will make the Booty Move. Due to "technical difficulties" the track was never released. So after many requests, it is now available for a free download.  Enjoy. 
UPDATE: New mix in the pipeline. 
For more sounds from Cle check out his SC page: https://soundcloud.com/cle-acklin

The Call (Charlotte the Baroness & Cle Acklin)

A tag-team mix by Charlotte The Baroness and I.S.L.E.S.  (CD made in 2005)

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***** GAVIN HARDKISS PLAYED THIS MIX ON HIS SHOW ON RADIO VALENCIA SAN FRANCISICO ON SATURDAY NIGHT - THANKS GAVIN, IT' A REAL HONOUR ********  http://lovewonanother.com/wordpress

It was 1993 and I'd been d'j'ing since the late 80's but was tiring of the predictability and lack of imagination in a lot of what was commonly labelled 'dance music'.....

And then I discovered the Hardkiss label.....

When I heard 'The Trip' by Ultraviolet Catastrophe, I was truly blown away by what i heard, it was an amalgam of electro, acid house, breakbeat and, to me, very psychedelic. Music for your feet AND your head. Plus, the sleeve art was out of this world, you could sit and study the sleeve while listening to the music, like a proper record.

Hawkes '3 Nudes In A Purple Garden' followed, cosmic spaced-out disco with a killer sax line on the '3 Nudes Have Sax On Acid' mix by Scott Hardkiss but NOTHING prepared me for the first God Within release 'Raincry' [possibly the best dance record ever made] - it started off with a sample of the sea sounds and The Who's 'Love Reign On Me' vocal from the 'Quadrophenia' soundtrack - that was enough for me, I was hooked and what followed was an breakbeat driven widescreen epic tune that still sounds as devastatingly beautiful as it did 20 years ago, trance-like but not trance in the euro-synth pop use of the term.

The second God Within release 'The Phoenix' was another epic track, complete with a guitar riff lifted from E.L.O's 'Out Of The Blue' album, Even now I defy anyone to stand still when that tune is played. So many other great tracks have come from Hardkiss since then, and some truly inspired remixes by Scott, Robbie and Gavin. Hardkiss music really spoke to me and it still does, 20 years later. It's so much more than just 'dance music' it's clear that the hardkiss crew were [and still are] music fans with wide ranging taste and dangerous record collections.

Anyone who samples The Who and E.L.O. and does it so well will always get my vote.

I put this mix together today as a tribute to Scott Hardkiss who died suddenly 2 days ago. The mix starts with Scott's splendid production work on Dean and Britta's cover of the Nico tune 'I'll Keep It With Mine' before moving into territory more typical of the Hardkiss sound.

R.i.p. Scott, we'll miss you xxx.

Steve Griffiths aka Derek Random aka The Flow Mechanik aka Rafa LaRocka.

Track List...

01 Dean and Britta - I'll Keep it With Mine [Scott Hardkiss Electric Mix]

02 God Within - Daylight

03 God Within - The Phoenix [Someday My Plane Will Crash]

04 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize [Scott Hardkiss Floating In Space Mix]

05 QBurns Abstract Message - Balearic Chainsaw [Scott Hardkiss Dub]

06 Hawke - 3 Nudes Having Sax On Acid [Scott Hardkiss Mix]

07 The Veda Rays - All Your Pretty Fates [Scott Hardkiss Remix QBurns Abstract edit]

08 Scott Hardkiss - Beat Freak [Dub]

09 One Dove - White Love [Scott Hardkiss Psychic Masturbation Mix]

10 Alter)Ring - Infinitely Gentle Blows [Scott Hardkiss Aural Hallucination Mix]

11 Scott Hardkiss - Come On [Vocal and Dub Mix combined]

12 God Within - Raincry

Recorded live using Traktor and M-Audio DJ controller unit.

No vinyl was harmed is the making of this recording.

Great Scott! - Tribute To Scott Hardkiss Mix by Derek Random aka Steve Griffiths - Radio Valencia SF

Derek Marin & Idiot Savant - Swept Away Siesta Records

Derek Random is the alter-ego of me, Steve 'Griffo' Griffiths from Birmingham, UK - I'm also known as Rafa LaRocka, The Flow Mechanik and Wolf Hackmine.

I started dj'ing in the late 80's and was resident at Bonkers in Birmingham in '89 [the only weekly house/techno/hip hop in Birmingham at that time.

I dj'd for the Raymondo's parties which eventually became the global glam clubbing behemoth that is now Miss Moneypennys. 

I dj'd in Tenerife in '89 and Turkey in '90 and then went on to be resident at the short lived Dance Factory in Birmingham . 

I was resident dj for 'Splosh Soundsystem' throughout the 90's in the midlands which had regular link ups with D.I.Y. and Smokescreen. 

In the late 90's I formed 'Freak Da Funk' with 'Hippy Chris' which specialised in parties in unconventional venues such as beaches, snooker halls and sheds in fields in Cambridgeshire.

I now live in Andalucia and still work on my own music under the aliases The Flow Mechanik, Derek Random, Rafa LaRocka and others.

The personal high point of my dj'ing life is Gavin Hardkiss using my Scott Hardkiss tribute mix during his Valencia Radio 'In My Boom' show during his Scott Hardkiss tribute.


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Great Scott! - Tribute To Scott Hardkiss Mix by Derek Random aka Steve Griffiths - Radio Valencia SF

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