Producer and DJ Gavin Hardkiss delivers the second 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 '90s Hardkiss San Francisco era to his current 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.
 

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

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Living in California, Gavin helped pioneer the US electronic dance scene with the groundbreaking record label Hardkiss Music.  He quickly joined the ranks of the International DJ elite, jetting to raves and clubs around the world to perform his eclectic sounds. Gavin was one of the main forces who helped shape the '90s dance music community of San Francisco that brought an organic afro funk sound to the forefront.

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Through the years, Gavin's focus has been on recording genre defying  albums  under  the alias  Hawke including NAMAQUADISCO,  HEATSTROKE, LOVE WON ANOTHER , +++, LOVE IN STARS and THE DARK ART OF LIGHT WORK.

 

In 2013, Gavin published his first novel CUBIC LUST.  In 2020, he published a treatise on how the imagination creates reality titled DARK ART OF LIGHT WORK.

 

He has also released singles on Sony Africa, Dirtybird and Do Not Sit and has also produced several releases with Bisi, a Nigerian singer/performer. He has remixed Youssou N’Dour, Mazzy Star, Elton John and Michael Franti, and performing alongside Africa Bambaataa, Derrick May, Snoop Dogg and The Buena Vista Social Club.​

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