By gavin hardkiss on August 23, 2010
When George Harrison died on my birthday in 2001, I decided to create a version of My Sweet Lord in honor of my favorite Beatle.
The remix has an extended spoken word intro in which George tries to convince John and Yoko that he has a few songs he’d like to do. John and Paul [...]
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By gavin hardkiss on August 10, 2010
The mighty Dirtybird crew are the featured label on the Noice radio show this month. I thought I’d dig deeper into the dirty funk crate for the tracks on my mix.
For those who have been asleep under a rock, the Dirtybird DJs are also some of the funkiest producers on the planet – JPhlip, [...]
Posted in breaks, DJ Mix, house, music
By gavin hardkiss on May 25, 2010
Posted in breaks, video
By gavin hardkiss on February 26, 2010
That two headed camel!! I loved the way that CD cover looked when we were designing it in 1996. This DJ mix came out of nowhere with its fresh take on breakbeats, adding a trippy ethnic perspective with rare global tracks mixed with the fresh sounds of new-comers Fatboy Slim and Soulstice. Breakbeats [...]
Posted in breaks, DJ Mix
By gavin hardkiss on January 5, 2010
I’ve been fishing around for some strange and interesting sounds to use on a forthcoming official mix CD which will be released this summer and I came across this piece of interesting fruit.
An amazing groove that has peculiar parts that I can play over and over again. Honest to God, I chipped my tooth [...]
Posted in breaks, music
By gavin hardkiss on November 18, 2009
Bang Bang are a self-described “live electronic outfit” based in Cape Town, South Africa. Four members make up Bang Bang: Reuben John on vocals; Matt Prehn on decks, keys, and effects; Matthew Loots on the guitars; and Sterra Lucas on percussion. Their forte is writing and performing deep, disco house as well as forays [...]
Posted in breaks, dance, music
By gavin hardkiss on November 12, 2009
Last century, Freaky Chakra and Hawke spent one evening in the studio in the Lower Haight in San Francisco. We worked on a remix for local Dub band Dub Addxx. A remix album was slotted to be released on Sunburn Records but it never saw the light of day.
Dom and I had a good time [...]
Posted in breaks, music, unreleased
By gavin hardkiss on June 18, 2009
In anticipation of posting tracks from the new album “+++”, I though that I would post the first song that I ever made, which was released on vinyl in 1992 on the first Hardkiss Music release.
“I Feel It” was created in a shoe box apartment in the Lower Haight with Frank Genius. The Lower [...]
Posted in breaks, chill, dance
By gavin hardkiss on June 5, 2009
This was a brilliant A&R move by the guys at Astralwerks. Put Gavin, Robbie and Scott Hardkiss in a studio with Kool Keith and lets see what happens. Kinda like when Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper collaborated on the First Cylindric Crono-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain in 1973.
I went to Toys-R-Us and [...]
Posted in breaks, hip hop, music
By gavin hardkiss on April 8, 2009
When Namaquadisco came out in 1997, people didn’t know what hit em!! The album was a mis-match of styles and ideas that made it unique in it’s day. Al little Chicago/French house, some detailed techno, popping breaks, indie-rock-dub with spanish lyrics, a cover of the nursery rhyme “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and other [...]
Posted in breaks, chill, music
Rolling Stones classic reworked in a way that Mick would love. Well done!! You can find out more here. 
An eye for an eye! Scott Hardkiss and Q-Burn trade mixes on this fantastic single from the album "Technicolor Dreamer." You can find out more here. 
Q-Burn's Abstract Message has a song called "Chainsaw" which doesn't sound like one. Pleasant mid-tempo balaeric vibes all round. Check out his blog here
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