I had the pleasure of featuring Dave Aju on a recent installment of In My Boom, my Saturday night show on Radio Valencia.
The idea behind the show is that there is a massive pool of local producers in the Bay Area making superb homebrewed sounds but how would you find out about them and their sounds?
Well I’ve been playing Dave’s records for a while not knowing that he is based in San Francisco. When I met him, he quickly whipped up a super personal 1 hour mix of his tunes including cuts from his incredible new album “Heirlooms.”
I’m super excited to announce that I have a new radio show and it starts this weekend – In My Boom.
On Saturday nights, from 8-10pm, I’ll be playing local Bay Area dance music and electronica on pirate Radio Valencia 89.7FM. You can also catch it streaming at RadioValencia.com. Shows will also be archived.
The idea behind the show is that there is a massive pool of local producers making superb homebrewed sounds but how would you find out about it? I wager that there is great music being made on every block in San Francisco and I want to expose it.
So I’m handing over an hour of each show to a different local music maker so that they can show us what they got.
If you’re making beats or you have a neighbor or friend who is creating sounds in their bedroom, garage or studio, please send them my way. I want to play their music on my show.
Here’s the Podcast for the first show which featured my own music:
Tracklist
1. Gavin Hardkiss & Josi – Tequila Barhoppin (Re-Edit)
2. Gavin Hardkiss & Josi – Kiss My Ass
3. Gavin Hardkiss & Josi – The Owl & The Pussycat
4. Hawke – Inside Job (Tal M Klein Remix)
5. Everything Is Happening (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix)
6. Gavin Hardkiss – Cocoboom (Jphlip Remix)
7. Yousour N’Dour – Wake Up (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)
8. Gavin Hatrkiss – Mundo Via Afrika (House Mix)
9. Rebel Crew – Tantra (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)
10. Karsh Kale – Turnpike (Gavin Hardkiss Remix)
11. Gavin Hardkiss – Kola Kola
12. Gavin Hardkiss & Skyler Mic – Linsay Lohan (video diary mix)
13. Rebel Crew – Solido (G Hardkiss Remix)
14. Real Tuesday Weld – Bathtime with Homeboys (Hawke Remix)
15. Hawke – Lovebug
16. Hawke – Fung
17. Hawke – The Hardest Kiss (10 minute vocal medley)
18. Gavin Hardkiss – Necrotone
19. Rebel Crew Remix (Gavin Hardkiss)
20. Hawke – My Mom Is Your Dad
Correggio was one of the foremost painters in Italy 500 years ago. Rich patrons paid him to decorate their walls and ceilings with amazing stuff like this. He was responsible for some of the most sensuous works of the 16th century. His masterpieces are on display at museums like the Louvre, the Prado and the Hermitage, and in Cathedrals in Italy.
Guys like this pushed the human creative envelope to the edge using pencils and paint.
500 hundred year from now, I wonder where they’ll display the art of our times?
Tracklist
1.Via Afrika – Cape of Good Hope
2. Project Sandro – Blazer
3. Tigerskin – Eyewitness
4. Leland Williams – For Lovers Lost
5. Douglas Greed – Oh My
6. Marcin Czubala – Just Away
7. Tigerskin – Matters of the Heart
8. Art Department – We Call Love
9. Mr Duke (Original)
10. Kadebostan – Salome
11. Luca Bacchetti – Tango (Eduardo Castillo Voodoo Remix)
12. Sean Roman – Sarah’s Song (Original Mix)
13. Robosonic – The Sweetness (J. PHLIP Remix)
14. Mejia & Miguel Puente – After Midnight In Your Bed (Original Mix)
15. Guti & Dubshape – Emotional Sunshine
16. Alvaro Ernesto – Deep For You (Cates & dpL Remix)
17. Jin Choi – Half Baked (Maceo Plex Deep Remix)
18. M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Adultnapper – 201 (Jona Remix)
19. Ola – She Is Quiet
20. DiscoTech vs Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place (Gigamesh / DiscoTech Remix)
21. Tufan Demir – Back to fine (Ambient Version Digital only)
December is always a bittersweet time of the year. A lot to be grateful for and a lot to remember.
The loss of our sister Tania several years ago echoes strongest this week. We celebrate her life and ours. Christopher Hitchens moves on to green pastures and Vanity Fair will never be as interesting. Paul Ribera is on a celestial bus to a higher place. We miss you dearly!
I wrote the song The Hardest Kiss before I knew loss. Nowadays this song, always a challenging listen, bring back strong emotions that connect with those no longer with us. Rest in peace. See you in the next word where we’ll have a good time.
Originally released as one of the dance remixes from Love Won Another, this, new 320kbps remastered version, is the final nail in the coffin of this song. Guitars by Michael Lovesky and vocal performance by Kenon Chen.
The end of the year is upon us and we have a lot to be thankful for. Another loop around the sun with family and friends and music and images and soccer and other bits and pieces of fun and games.
Our lives intertwine through the chaos.
This past weekend I found myself within the same day sitting in the waiting room in intensive care while my dad had spinal fusion surgery and then celebrating my birthday with Robbie Hardkiss, loads of friends and family and 100 golden balloons at Project One.
Within 24 hours, I was celebrating my friends Ryan and Joel’s impromptu dawn wedding on the 17th tee of the Half Moon Bay Golf Club.
Next day I was putting my 14 year old cat Luna to sleep while my Dad was creeping out of a morphine induced haze.
Thankfully, Dad is on the road to recovery.
While I was waiting in the hospital during his 6 hour surgery, I made this remix of a song with lyrics and vocals by Jonas Rasmussen & music by Stian Rasmussen.
Here’s the soundtrack to an epic weekend with old friends flying in and out to join the festivities. Super fun times!!
One thing I love about this musical moment in time is that there are amazing producers around the globe editing/re-rubbing/remixing/updating/genre-shifting classics of old so that they fit into our new groove. Much credit to the original producers of many of these songs, however, some of the newer versions sound better than the original. I love how we keep re-writing history and re-inventing the past!!
Tracklist
1.Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Greg Wilson Edit)
2. Sister S – Living Ecstasy (Norinton remix)
3. Royalty – Heat Ray
4. Phreek Plus One – Back To Fatback
5. Sex Judas feat. Ricky – Everything Changes (Tim Paris Mind Power Edit)
6. HARVEY pres. LOCUSSOLUS – Next to you
7. Rayko – I Got Your Number (Rayko Dragon Soul Edit)
8. Chateau Flight Ft. Marie Daulne – Superflight (Maurice Fulton Remix)
9. Rampi & Miss Bee – Feel It Burn (Ray Mang Remix)
10. Dusty Springfield – Baby Blue (Horse Meat Disco Edit)
11. Nickodemus – Conmigo (E’s E Remix)
12. Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love (Senor Coconut Mix)
13. Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place
14. Deep & Disco – Without Love (Deep & Disco Re-Edit)
15. Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee – Flip Da Beat
16. B-Team – Make That Move (B-Team Edit)
17. Voices Of Black – 17 Greenleaf In The Heart (Beatriz Edit)
18. Change – Glow of Love (leroc sportif edit)
19. Rainbow Arabia – Without You (Version)
20. Boney M – Ma Baker (Rub n Tug edit)
21. The Velvet Underground – Rock & Roll (Gigamesh Edit)
22. The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil [Fatboy Slim Full Length Remix]
23. Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane (Mojo Filter Re-Love)
24. Bob Dylan – Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) (Mark Ronson Re-Version)
25. Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgetting (SMQ Re-Edit)
26. William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got (Secret Button Bureau Gangster Lean Edit)
27. Hawke – Everything Is Happening (Atnarko Remix)
All night recording sessions at Hyde Street Studios in the Tenderloin were plenty. We were all falling over each other to get time in this studio. Stationary Tornado was born there and found a home on the first Hawke album “Namaquadisco.”
Released on vinyl in 1998 with a confusion of remixes as ‘Erections from Namaquadisco Vol 3‘, DJs were not sure whether to play the record at 33 or 45 rpms. This original techno-acid version was not made for the couch. With muddled vocals by Laron aka Swan, the track slid snake-like from one dimension to another, as if caught up in ‘the eye of the storm.’
I always loved the sounds and the composition on this one, and last week I punched it up a notch with T-racks so that I could make a solid digital version for DJs.
One of my favorite artists from the '90s has a fantastic new song. Get it! Don't regret it!
The new Frivolous album Meteorology is where I wanna be this winter. 
Bibio re-purposed for the California dancefloor by Dirtybird cohorts. Lovely!
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