Inheritance tracks life growing up in South Africa through the '90s Hardkiss San Francisco era to his current multi-genre tastes. The project is a Basquiat-like collage of sounds inherited along the way. Sounds heard as a boy through the second floor bedroom window in Johannesburg. Sounds heard in dusty warehouses throughout America in the '90s. Snippets of conversation with people through the years alongside Instagram grabs.

Inheritance will be cascaded as several EPs culminating in the release of the album.

Produced by Gavin Hardkiss

www.hardkiss.org

Afro Tamba Tamba

Sawa Sawa Hey feat. Bisi

Some new grooves to slide you into the new year...

Willie Mays (NYE/NYD '24)

Hello again... it sure has been a while!  I spend a number of days sick at home -- decided to get into a mix (helps for my long daily commutes too).  I definitely worked hard to find some new jams to unleash to the wild.  I hope I was able to reign in some of the chaos and add some order and flow to this new crop of tracks.  Cheerio and away we go!   Your in mischief and music.  -Sean, DJ Seven :)

Track Listing and major props to all of these artists:

1. DJ Garth and Anthony Mansfield "Pancho's Revenge"
2. Elephant Traquilizer "Daisy (Felix Dickenson Mix)"
3. Bross "Faith"
4. Ben Kim and LP Giobbi "Need Somebody to Love"
5. Nora En Pure "Come With Me"
6. House Players, Maxim and Matte "All Night"
7. Ivory "Hold Your Breath"
8. Dosem "Unjetlag"
9. LP Giobbi "Time Expands"
10. WAR "Low Rider (Kyle Watson)"
11. Kenny Summit "Dirty Lowdown" (Boz Skaggs edit)
12. Kenny Summit "Pharoah of King Street" (Gerry Rafferty edit)
13. Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind (Ivory's On the Run Edit)"
14. Dire Straits "Six Blade Knife (Nick Monaco Edit)"
15. Folamour "La Pierre et La Sable"
16. &Me + Black Coffee "The Rapture III"
17.  Ivory "Leftovers"
18. Circulation "Turquoise (Weekend World Remix)"
19. The Police "Roxanne (Blondish Remix)"
20. Olivier Giaciamotto "Lovin Berlin"
21. Tranquil Elephantizer "TRISHA (Felix's Live Drum Italo Monster)"
22. Sebastien Leger, ORBIT, Parra For Cuva "Pinie"
23. Miraj "Neculda (Acker Dub)"
24. Davis "Watu (Luca Bachetti Endless Remix)"
25. Oliver Koletzski "Bells of Kakariko"
26. Ugur Soygur "The Secret Buddha (Soledrifter Dub)"
27. Salif Keita "Madan (Exotic Disco Dub)"
28. Animal Trainer "Dragon Games"
29. Local Singles and Sam Blacky "Hotsteppa" (Ini Kamoze re-make)
30. Ben Böhmer "Rust"

Summer Vibes '24

Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 2 was an immersive audio installation that provided visitors with a chance to experience exceptional high-fidelity music playback on HIS completely custom built soundsystem.  He invited operators who are noted record collectors, from the Bay & beyond. Including myself, Beck, Mark Ronson, Wonway Posibul, Tommy Guerrero, “Cool” Chris Veltri, Dan Gentile, Prince Language, Vinnie Esparza, TJ Gorton & more. https://www.sfmoma.org/devon-turnbull-listening-room-schedule/
-FRIPP & ENO “WIND ON WATER/EVENING STAR" Soaring.
-RAYMOND RICHARDS “MESCAL SHAKES”  
-THE KLF (EXCERPT FROM) "CHILL OUT” LP. Ambient pranksters.
-THE BOOKS W/JOSE GONZALEZ “CELLO SONG” Nick Drake tune.
-NICO “THESE DAYS” Jackson Browne song.
-EDDIE CHACON “MY MIND IS OUT OF IT’S MIND” 
-ALDOUS HARDING “THE BARRELL” Perfect.
-MOMUS “THE CHARM OF INNOCENCE” Momus (the Greek God of Sarcasm) Wicked.
-PANDA BEAR “COMFY IN NAUTICA” Great Lp.
-ARCHIE SHEPP GROUP “SONG FOR MOZAMBIQUE (A SEA OF FACES)” “there is a beautiful sound that is heard, it begins with an African word” Powerful. One of Shepp’s best.
-CODONA “MUMAKATA" Kalimba vibe ritual. On the iconic ECM label.
-THE USER  "-^^-%^%^%” From “Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers no. 2” for 21 Dot Matrix Printers.
-MY FIELD RECORDING  OF BRIAN ENO’S “MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS 1/1” 1980, I drove up to the “NEW MUSIC AMERICA FESTIVAL” in Minneapolis. My Tape Recorder in tow. Brian Eno had just released “Music For Airports” The Festival was piping it into the Bus Stops at the Nicolett Bus Mall, downtown (as well as at the Airport!). (Recording from a now well worn Cassette.)
-THE DECEMBERISTS “ON THE BUS MALL” A favorite LP of this century. 
-SEEFEEL “CHARLOTTE’S MOUTH” Got back into Shoegaze music during covid. Dubby, monolithic. 
-MILDLIFE “RARE AIR” MILDLIFE with one of their otherworldly, space anthems. 
-SLOWDIVE “STAR ROVING” Broke up in the early 90’s reformed in the ’00’s.  Better than ever..
-KING CRIMSON “FORMENTERA LADY/SAILOR’S TALE” One of the first things I thought of when I secured the session. A poetic,and dexterous journey.
-MASSIVE ATTACK “SAFE FROM HARM” Bristol’s finest. One of my top 90’s tracks.
-SOCCER96 W-ALABASTER DEPLUME “I WAS GONNA FIGHT FASCISM” A top track of the last set of years. Snarky vocal from Alabaster Deplume. Stakes are high. Donate, Call, Text, And VOTE like your life depends on it, because, it does. 
-GRAY W-GLENN O’BRIEN “WILLE MAYS, BOOM FOR REAL" Basqiat’s group from the *80’s”. Archival recording. Not sure if it has much to do with the great baseball player Willie Mays, but, it  is a fever dream of a track.
-RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK W-BETTY NEALS “THEME FOR THE EULIPIONS” Perfect, with The Poetry of Betty Neals & soaring Sax worth of the one of a kind Rahsaan Roland Kirk. “…if there were no Sun, there would be this Song…” This is all the light you need!
-YUSUF DAYES “BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC”. Title track of the recent LP. New UK Jazz Drummer Yusuf Dayes with a track of Bop bliss.
-ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO W-FONTELLA BASS “THEME DE YOYO” The 3rd “must play” track. Fontella Bass’ dark, sexual lyrics, one of the best bands of  the 70s The Funk/the Jazz/theSoul & the OUTNESS!
-UKOKOS & JABCO EDIT “KEEP RISING ALL NIGHT LONG” A boisterous, jovial Medley of Keni Burke’s “Rising to the Top” & Mary Jane Girls “All Night Long”!
-ARIEL KALMA JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA “TEN HOUR WAVE” One of the best albums of this year, from the unique “International Anthem” label.  Rythmic, trance positive.
-ROBERT ASHLEY  “THE BACKYARD” The 4th “must play” of the session. Member of the collection of 60’s artists “Fluxus”, Robert Ashley from the LP “Private Parts” With tabla, etc. from “Blue” Gene Tyranny.  Entrancing, calming, baffling, yum.  (The record has been played a lot so a bit “crunchy” at the end.)
-LAURIE ANDERSON “DIEGO (TIME TO GO)” Early piece about a security guard at the NYMOMA snapping people out of the “art trances” at closing time. Love Laurie.

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LISTENING ROOM 7 - 30 - 2024 (STUDIO RECORDING)

Back out on the Patio. Knee deep in a lovely eclectic Vinyl set. Then 2 hours in, the rain came. I presevered, eventually on 1 tt. 

QUARTETO NOVO “ALGODAO"
24 KARAT BLACK “SKELETON COAST”
YELLOWTAIL W-MARK MURPHY “SEASONS IN MY MIND” (RICHARD E REMIX W- JAKE TELFORD)
ADDICT AMEBA “POR NOSTALGIA”
SKELETONS “POSTIVE FORCE”
ROY AYERS “THE THIRD EYE” (GATOR BOOTS MIX)
OLIVER DOLLAR & ADMIN (FT. APROPOS) 'BEFORE YOU"
ALTON MILLER “SUPER HERO”
NICOLA CONTE “UMOJA” (JOAQUIN’S RHYTHM DUB)
SABU MARTINEZ “HOTEL ALYSSA” (DANNY KRIVIT EDIT)
LOLOMAN “LUMINA” (BLACK TRUFFLE EDITS)
CHEZ DAMIER/CAMILLE/NICO LAHS  “SUNNY”
RAH BAND “MESSAGE FROM THE STARS” (LONG WAVE MIX)
MAGIC SOURCE “VOODOO RAY” (A GUY CALLED GERALD)
CARMEL 3000 “SUPER RAPIDO” (SIRS CUT)
DAVID LYNCH “GHOST” (WOLF & LAMB EDIT)
BOD DYLAN “KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVENS DOOR” (BAD REPUTATION EDIT)
CINDY LEE “DIAMOND JUBILEE”
PULP “PENCIL SKIRT/COMMON PEOPLE”
JESUS & MARY CHAIN  “APRIL SKIES” (EXTENDED)
NICK LOWE “CRUEL TO BE KIND”
THE SMITHS “BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN” (DEMO VERSION)
THE GO-BETWEENS “RIGHT HERE”
[[THUNDER STORM]]
SPOON “THE FITTED SHIRT”
THE CHARLATANS “WEIRDO”
THE THREE JOHNS “SOLD DOWN THE RIVER” (EXTENDED)
BENEDIKT FREY “SHE’S LOST CONTROL” (JOY DIVISION)
SAD LOVERS & GIANTS “IMAGINATION”
OWEN PALLETT “THE GREAT ELSEWHERE”         

Jupiter, Berkeley,Ca.      3/2025

GENRES ARE FOR JUXTAPOSITION:Rain On The Decks Edition

Fifteen years ago today. 11/27/2010
A decade in the new century Ithanks to blasthaus prods. I opened for Bonobo a number of times after  Simon had heard me DJ at a SF Restaurant one night. This the set from the  the first one at Mezzanine in SF. This one was a worldly/funky/jazzy affair to a packed house before the Live Band. Enjoy.

BRIAN ENO W/LEO ABRAHAMS  “BONE JUMP”
HOLGER CZUKAY “PERSIAN LOVE”
NICKODEMUS  “2 SIPS & MAGIC” (SECOND SKY & THOMAS BLONDET REMIX)
AHMED FAKROUN “SOLEIL SOLEIL” 
LITTLE BIG BEE “CITY COUNTRY CITY” (FRANCK ROGER MIX) (WAR)
MIM SULEIMAN “NYULI”
SLEEP WALKER “BROTHERHOOD” (MARC MAC'S DIRTY JAZZ MIX)
THE SILHOUTTES “FONKY FIRST”
GARY BARTZ “DR. FOLLOW’S DANCE”
SOIL & PIMP SESSIONS “A.I.E.” (TUGG EDIT)
BRASSROOTS “GOOD LIFE” (INNER CITY)


DJ TOM THUMP OPENING SET FOR BONOBO LIVE 11/27/2010

Original version is on the soundtrack of the 1995 film "Dead Man"

Enjoy

Neil Young - Dead Man Theme (Ole Smokey Edit)

Alien Sunshine ExtendedMix December 26 2019

Original version with English vocals appears on his 1979 album 

"Home Made Ice Cream". 

Original version with French Canadian vocals appears on his 1979 album 

"Blue Country" 

Enjoy

Joe Dassin - Home Made Ice Cream (Ole Smokey's Inst Edit)

DJ Tom Thump has been moving dance floors, bringing smiles for a few exhuberant years now. Originally  from Detroit, with a stop in Los Angeles and now San Francisco, his immersion and knowledge of the world of dance music (and good music in general), combined with his skills DJing, allow the musical language of each style to speak clearly and powerfully. 

Formally manager and buyer at the world renowned Groove Merchant Records, San Francisco. Most recently sponsored by SOL REPUBLIC Headphones (solrepublic.com)
Tom is currently Co-Producing with DJ BMG (EctoMorph, Detroit) the FUNKADELIC REMIX PROJECT for Westbound Records. Featuring mixes/edits and covers from Tom Thump, Carl Craig, Claude Young, Marcellis Pittman, Moodymann, The Dirtbombs, Recloose, Alton Miller, Mike Banks, BMG, and others...

Touring the world Tom has also played gigs in London, Berlin, Budapest, Basel, Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, New York, Denver, Auckland, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Tom has played alongside Gilles Peterson, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Mark Farina, Thievery Corporation, Fat Freddy's Drop, Nickodemus, Morrissey, Jamiroquai, Femi Kuti, Tricky, Morcheeba, The Original Meters, Roy Ayers, Gang of Four, George Clinton, Boozoo Bajou, Bonobo, Herbert, 4Hero and many more.

He has Programmed/Sequenced and Mixed six commercially released Compilations on Cosmic Flux (SF) and Kinkysweet Records(LA),and has released a remix of San Francisco Producer/Artist Romanowski with DJ U9lift,also, producing a booty moving remix of Funkadelic's "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" with DJ Smash (Blue Note Records).
In this time, Tom has also hosted and played at some of San Francisco's
biggest, and best club nights, such as, Release, Budonkadonk!, Twice as Nice, Mushroom Jazz and Loose Joints!. Often boundary pushing, always satisfying.

CD Releases:
Panatone:Warm -Cosmic Flux Musiq
Midnight Soul 1 -Kinkysweet Records
Midnight Soul 3 -Kinkysweet Records
Loft Party:Sydney -Kinkysweet Records
Frequent Flyer: Havana -Kinkysweet Records
Also A+R on After Dark:New York Revisited and After Dark:Chicago Revisited

Events and Venues:
FACEBOOK Event 12/11 SF City Hall
SF MOMA Openings and Corporate Sponsored Events
THE PEPSI FESTIVAL Budapest, Hungary
RED BULL DAYLIGHT FESTIVAL Auckland, NZ
THE JAZZ CAFE, London
GOOGLE Event, Lake Tahoe
"NightLife" at the Academy of Sciences
ORACLE, Christmas Party on Treasure Island
Icer Air Event, AT&T Park
YELP Pool Party, San Jose
KPMG Christmas Party, The Four Seasons
PIXAR Car Toons Wrap Party, Sausalito
iNDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC Star Trek Wrap Party
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
ABC Sitcom, In House DJ plus Wrap Party, Burbank
Dennis Kucinich Benefit, St Marys College
Start SOMA Openings, Hotel des Artes
APPLE Apps Event
The W Hotel
The Clift Hotel
Armani Exchange Event
Miss Sixty/Energie Event
Art Openings 111 Minna Street Gallery
Blinkx Private Event
J Date Event
Puma Store Event
Zip Car Event
SONY Event
Oatv Event
RAPTR Private Event
Wedding Ceremonies and Receptions, San Francisco to Carmel to Napa
Indian Wedding Receptions and Sangeets.

Talented International Artists Tom's Played Alongside:
De La Soul,
Jamie Lidell,
The Meters,
Morcheeba,
Jurassic 5,
Ladytron,
Tricky,
Kruder & Dorfmeister,
Fat Freddy's Drop,
Natural Self,
Bonobo,
P Funk Allstars,
Morrissey,
SantoGold,
Nickodemus,
Kraak n Smaak,
Legba's Light (Miles Davis All Star Band),
Thievery Corporation,
Social Distortion,
Jazzanova,
Wagonchrist (Luke Vibert),
Roy Ayers,
United Future Organisation,
Norman Jay,
Miguel "Migs",
Charles Webster,
Femi Kuti,
Gavin Smith (Mr. Bongo/Disorient Records),
Truby Trio,
Koop,
John Beltran,
DJ Smash,
Madrid de los Austrias,
Dennis Ferrer,
Nicola Conte,
Turntables on the Hudson,
Desmond Williams,
Lamb,
Alton Miller,
Nu Spirit Helsinki,
Kaskade
and Gilles Peterson,
and many others.
All Styles & Smiles...

DJ TOM THUMP OPENING SET FOR BONOBO LIVE 11/27/2010

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