Gavin Hardkiss – 30 minute guest mix on Brain Food Radio – 10pm to 11:30pm (AEST) – 3rd of September 2024 (guest mix from 11pm)

Producer and DJ Gavin Hardkiss delivers the first of a four part series of releases as part of the 17+ song album titled Inheritance.

Inheritance tracks Gavin’s life from growing up in South Africa through the San Francisco Hardkiss era of the ’90s to his baffling 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. Having fun experimenting with music.

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

Previously, Gavin has released six albums under the guise of Hawke and two albums with his Hardkiss brothers. The single Acid Funk was recently released on Dirtybird Records and singles are regularly released on the Hardkiss Music imprint and other labels including Do Not Sit and Taul Boy Records.

Look Out Baby Here I Come and Lightning Strike continue an ongoing collaboration with Nigerian born vocalist and performer Bisi. Previously, Gavin and Bisi released Spirit Of Pinboi EP and other singles including Lovaboat, the George Floyd inspired Better,and the Struggle EP on Hardkiss Music.

Psychedelic Woman refashions a sample from the 1973 Ghanaian song by Honny & the Bees Band into a modern afro disco romp already heard in DJ sets at Lightning In A Bottle and Sunset Campout this summer.

I Don’t Want To Fight twists the guitars of Mbaqanga Zulu jive with a layered three way call and response into something familiar yet different.

Check out Gavin Hardkiss’ music below then listen to Brain Food Radio TONIGHT for his EXCLUSIVE guest mix!

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