Kishibashi is one of my favorite artists right now. Watched him perform at the American Music Hall this Winter and was floored by the comprehensive manner in which he looped and mixed live sounds. He creates an otherworldly tapestry using vocals, violin and efx.
Freddy Mercury is one of my heroes. Giorgio Moroder is one of my heroes too. They made a song for the movie Metropolis called “Love Kills.” The 12″ that I play needed a reworking for my DJ sets so here is what I came up with.
In 1984, I saw Queen live in South Africa in Sun City. Queen got a bad rap for playing in Apartheid era South Africa. Sanctions and world opinion made it politically incorrect to have anything to do with us. The band responded to the critics by stating that they were playing music for fans in the country, and they also stressed that the concerts were played before integrated audiences.
I was 16 at the time, and together with friends took a bus from Johannesburg to Sun City to see the concert.
It was mind-blowing. Not many acts made it to South Africa, so this was a once in a lifetime opportunity. After the show, a couple of my friends were arrested for underage gambling and were taken to a holding pen beneath the concert arena. We scrambled to find them and the waited around while the authorities scared the shit out of them (and me too) with threats. In a next door cell, you could hear a man getting the shit beat out of him. All they did with us was call my pal Damon’s mom to relate our shenanigans. Then they escorted us to the return bus telling us that we were not welcome back to Sun City.
That night smelled of danger.
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In this tribute to Scott Hardkiss, I’m telling stories and playing music that Scott and I listened to on our cross country drive to San Francisco in 1991 to meet up with Robbie and start Hardkiss. You’ll hear Orbital, Sueno Latino, Primal Scream, Galaxy 500, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure and Prince.
The show also features an amazing DJ mix of Scott’s music by Steve ‘Griffo’ Griffiths. If you want to get a comprehensive sampling of Scott’s original production and remixes then you must listen to this!
Enjoy the ride +++
(Apologies in advance for getting all the dates mixed up but I’m on the wrong side of town and time is going nowhere.)
Here’s the Podcast.
TRACKLIST
Orbital – Belfast
Sueno Latino – Sueno Latino
Primal Scream – I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have
Galaxie 500 – Blue Thunder (W/Sax)
My Bloody Valentine – Slow
The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
Great Scott DJ Mix by Steve ‘Griffo’ Griffiths – from Birmingham, UK
1 Dean and Britta – I’ll Keep it With Mine [Scott Hardkiss Electric Mix]
2 God Within – Daylight
3 God Within – The Phoenix [Someday My Plane Will Crash]
4 The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize [Scott Hardkiss Floating In Space Mix]
5 QBurns Abstract Message – Balearic Chainsaw [Scott Hardkiss Dub]
6 Hawke – 3 Nudes Having Sax On Acid [Scott Hardkiss Mix]
7 The Veda Rays – All Your Pretty Fates [Scott Hardkiss - QBurns Abstract edit]
8 Scott Hardkiss – Beat Freak [Dub]
9 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
Prince – Cindy C.
Prince – Superfunkycalifragisexy
Prince – Sometimes It Snows In April
Thank God for the music. When we don’t have words, we’ve always got the music. Thanks Scott for teaching me how to DJ.
THE HARDEST KISS
The kiss of life
The kiss of death
The hardest kiss
Is the kiss goodbye?
Unanswered questions
Frozen moments
You’ll know
You’ll know
The hardest kiss
The longest kiss
The deepest kiss
The everlasting kiss
How did is come to this?
It came so soon
The kiss of death has come for you
And you’ll know
You’ll know
The hardest kiss is the last kiss
It will ring forever
Like the church bells on your wedding day
And you’ll know
The hardest kiss
The longest kiss
The deepest kiss
The everlasting kiss
Hello …. goodbye
Hello …. goodbye
Would you know the sound of the beating heart
Of the one you love?
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I can’t stop listening to this song from the Hawke album +++
Written with Ray Matthews in San Diego, it’s connecting with me now more than when we first made it.
Thanks Ray +++
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This one has been sitting around for a year. Time to break it loose.
Question: Can you eat it? Can you drink it?
Answer: Neither. The best way to take this one is to smoke it.
I’ve been doing a lot of research into the history of the Opium trade for a novel I’m writing. Fascinating stuff which you’ll have to read about in the book. Here’s a short extract:
“There are those who might say that opium smoking is a science. I would vouch too say that it’s more a magic art of alchemy. The spirit of eternity distilled into a wisp. A secret flurry of clouded air passed down over centuries.
There’s no faking this. Skills with a bong are useless here. It gets warm and cozy and I don’t wanna move much. Enter the void.
Words in books and letters in words in the libraries of my mind dissolve.”
Everybody is a DJ these days. But behind the DJ, there is often a very talented musician who spent endless hours in bedroom, basement or professional recording studios crafting a sound of their own. If they’re not crafting a sound of there own, then they’re playing other people’s music, which is OK too, but lets not forget the producers who made those songs that made the DJ.
When I started In My Boom last year, it was my intention to highlight new San Francisco dance music. Long gone are the days of walking into the local record store and asking the guy behind the counter, “Hey, what’s new from San Francisco?” Struggling for a resource to find new local sounds and producers, I started a radio show featuring guest 60 minute mixes where the producer gets to present his/her sound.
So here is a list with links to some of my guests from the last year. Please check out their music and, if you’re feeling it, get in touch with them and tell them.
You can catch In My Boom on Saturday nights at 8pm online at RadioValencia.fm and on the dial in the Mission SF at 97.9FM. This is pirate radio so the signal is always on the move.
Local Guest Producers on In My Boom:
Hawke
PillowTalk
Stian Rasmussen/Rerunner/JoNuts
Daniel Lippencott/Drunken Monkey
Swallow Key
Amit Shoham
Dave Aju
Eric Sharp
Laron A Swan
Never Knows
Tal M Klein
Majitope
The Beat Broker
El Brett Treble
Hopscotch
Garth Hound
Blue Soul
Casey Nefcy
Adam Warped
Spesh
Darkhorse
Voltaire records
Balinda Butchers
Brzil
Been nice all year. Time to get naughty.
We had so much fun with this mix on New Year’s Eve and I received emails from Mexico and England where they were jamming to it too. We were at a house party in the trees in Occidental CA. Close friends and family bringing in 2013 with tarot cards and tequila.
Happy new year everybody +++
Tracklist
DJ Defkline & Red Polo Vs. Dustin Hulton- Flat Toes Kill Frenzy – Go To The Mo feat. Sacha Robotti
Kill Frenzy – Booty Clap (Original Mix)
Decks & Sex feat BR – Fuegissimo (OG Mix)
Ed Orable ft. Spoek- Dance No More (Monkey Safari Remix)
Proxy – Din Dah
Patrice Baumel- Pong (Original Mix)
Humpty Dance (Rory Lyons Ladies Only Remix)
break machine-street dance (jean claude gavri re-edit)
nynfus corporation-arabic ghetto groove
basement freaks – don’t you wanna party
CMC & Silenta feat. Penny – Funky town (Slynk remix)
Wiley – I’m Skanking (The 2 Bears Remix)
Mighty Dub Katz – Just Another Groove (Tocadisco remix)
Tigerskin Feat. The LazarusMan – Bubble Dress
Amine Edge & Dance – Going To Heaven With The Goodie
Zombie Disco Squad – Be Down
MR BIRD – Talk Of The Town (Chatty mix)
All Good Funk Alliance – Mr Hipnoid (Fort Knox Five Remix)
Dirty Dubsters – Shotgun Funk
Arcadion – Graveyard Shift
Deekline & Dustin Hulton feat. Sporty-O & Nikki Carabello – The Weekend (Original Mix)
DJ Defkline & Red Polo Vs. Dustin Hulton- Cars that Go Boom
Fort Knox Five- Shift (Deekline & Dustin Hulton Instrumental Remix)
Slynk vs Ed Solo- I Wish
Calvin Harris – You Used To Hold Me (Dustin Hulton Breaks edit)
Bingo Players & Chocolate Puma – Touch Me (Bart B More Remix) Azari & III- – Manic (original mix)
Moody – Freeki Mutha F cker (Catz ‘n Dogz Edit)
Ahmet Sisman – Irresistable Blaze (Gavin Hardkiss Edit)
John Digweed asked me to record a DJ set for his Transition’s radio show. I put a mix together that spans the 20 years that I’ve been making music. From Hawke’s ‘Pacific Coastal Highway” released in 1993 to “Glow of Love/Flower’s Blooming” which will be released in 2013. Also some rare remixes and other unreleased songs.
“Glow of Love/Flower’s Blooming” is one of the new songs produced by Robbie Hardkiss and myself. We’ve been working on a new album with the working title “1991″ for the last two years. Plenty of nostalgic sounds for the veteran Hardkiss fans as well as some funky surprises.
Yes …. Noice! has facilitated the release of Grand Jete, an atmospheric dance track that I recorded in 2010. The idea came from watching the film Black Swan and wondering what an alternative soundtrack would have sounded like.
We reached out to the multi-talented Alland Byallo for a clubby remix and then I settled in to record a Curious Yellow remix inspired by a recent Andrew Weatherall DJ mix.
The artwork, which hangs in my daughter’s room, was created by the multi-talented Robert Ogden.
You can get it at Beatport.
GRAND JETE on Noice featuring remixes by Alland Byallo
NEWS: You can now purchase my catalog directly from here.
RADIO: In My Boom on Radio Valencia SF Saturdays 8-10pm
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