Bio

“i make music …. i buy music …. i play music …. i steal music …. i eat music …. and sometimes music feeds me” – Gavin Hardkiss

Gavin Hardkiss aka Hawke is a DJ/producer/song writer who likes  pony rides, trips to the moon, castenettes, pirouettes, baby sharks and birds of prey.

Gavin started producing music when he moved to San Francisco to start the eponymous record label Hardkiss Music in 1991.. Managing the Hardkiss label in the early ’90s, he helped foster a new psychedelic dance sound with releases of his own creation as well as releases from Rabbit-in-the-Moon, God Within, Little Wing, T Tauri and Symbiosis.

Throughout the ’90s, he traveled relentlessly around the Americas and Europe with his cohorts Robbie and Scott Hardkiss, DJing a hybrid soundtrack of music people had never heard before.  A pioneer of the early US rave scene and an innovative producer, he continued releasing singles and remixes on international labels such as his own Sunburn Recordings, Sony Music, London/FFRR, Astralwerks,  Global Underground and Hooj Choons.

Gavin has continued a successful international DJ career, jetting out weekends to entertain funky hedonists with his provocative beats and gamma rays. He has traveled the world presenting a hybrid sound of house, techno funk and electronic precipitation

After recording the first Hawke single “3 Nudes In A Purple Garden,” featured on the classic Hardkiss album DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, Gavin started to focus on producing albums that strayed from the well beaten paths of genre-centric dance music.  At this time, Hawke began to characterize the many collaborations and original sound clashes that he would develope.

The Hawke album NAMAQUADISCO was released on Sunburn Recordings in 1998 and HEATSTROKE was released on Six Degrees Records in 2000.

In 2004, Hawke presented a third original album entitled LOVE WON ANOTHER. Described by the Orlando Weekly as “thick with the stoned-out, everything’s-cool-man optimism.”

Love Won Another spawned two remix album and several music videos.

In October 2009, the newest Hawke album titled “+++” was released.

Over the past decade, he has remixed the likes of Youssou N’Dour, Led Zepellin, Elton John and The Beatles, performed alongside Snoop Dogg and The Buena Vista Social Club and released original recordings in Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2010, the song “Mundo Via Afrika” was featured on the official Sony World Cup album “Hello Africa,” alongside the best of contemporary African musicians.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Gavin Hardkiss now makes his home across the Golden Gate Bridge near the city by the Bay.