DESERT HEARTS Takeover feat. Mikey Lion & Lee Reynolds

Desert Hearts:

We’re beyond stoked to welcome the @deserthearts crew @mikeylion & @leereynolds to The Music Yard on Sunday, September 26th!

Over the past 9 years, Desert Hearts has found itself at the center of a vibrant cultural movement, fostering intimate experiences of sonic joy and unbounded love across the globe.

With their Desert Hearts Spring Festival, City Hearts Festival, Desert Hearts TV, record labels, worldwide touring events, and stage takeovers, this ragtag crew of dreamers has emerged as a vibe-focused force radiating a conscious ethos of House, Techno, and Love.

Since its inception, Desert Hearts has given rise to a family of tens of thousands and it’s safe to say the movement isn’t slowing down anytime soon, winning hearts and selling out shows in across the world & most recently expanding to become leaders in the livestream space.

Details:
– Doors 2pm
– Advance Tickets on sale August 10th
– 2pm – 9pm
– Walk-up & table side food & beverage service
– Uber/Lyft/train to venue
– Drink responsibly
– No large bags
– No Dogs
– Enter through the South Blvd entrance

Mikey Lion (Desert Hearts | San Diego):

After honing his craft with weekly marathon DJ sessions at Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Mikey was introduced to Burner culture at Lightning in a Bottle, 2011. It was at his first Burning Man in 2011 that he found a community calling and merged forces with his brother Porkchop, life long friends Marbs & Deep Jesus, and the inimitable Lee Reynolds to form The Desert Hearts Crew.

In November 2012, Desert Hearts began as a seedy, 200-person renegade gathering deep in the Mojave Desert. The intrepid crew barely survived a set of extreme weather conditions and unfortunate circumstances, but that first party sparked a fire. The entire point of that first Desert Hearts was to create as much love as humanly possible, and now that same gathering has evolved into the darling of the West Coast house and techno scene. The Bi-annual festival is capped at 3500 attendees in order to create the best possible vibe. Built upon beautiful people getting as weird as possible to deep and trippy house and techno, Desert Hearts has already achieved iconic status in the North American Festival Scene.

Desert Hearts has given rise to a family of thousands and it’s safe to call it a bonafide movement of love. And while Desert Hearts Records launched in 2014 as a totally-free record label, pushes the sonic aesthetic of the scene, the crew’s busy international calendar of bookings has the DH message spreading far and wide. At the center of it all is Mikey Lion, the dusty prince of desert hearts, a beacon of weird far and wide, and one of this generation’s most compelling agents of love.

soundcloud.com/MIKEYLION
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Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts | San Diego):

In 2011, It was an encounter with a plucky bunch of San Diegans barely out of their teens that was the calling Lee Reynolds had spent his whole life working towards. Alongside Mikey Lion, Deep Jesus, Marbs, and Porkchop, Reynolds formed Desert Hearts and the rest is history in motion. Over the past three years of bi-annual renegade ragers and relentless touring, “Papa” Lee Reynolds has developed into the patriarch of the fastest growing and most visible cultural movement in all of stateside dance music.

“My real role in Desert Hearts is more on a spiritual level, making sure we spread a positive message and do the right thing,” says Reynolds. Wise words, maybe, but behind the decks, Reynolds is a maniacal presence as he channels his past lives, tastes, adventures, and perspectives into a dancefloor magic that captures you upon first beat and does not release: House, techno, acid, and breaks, they’re all conjured up in a plume of purple haze and that little mad bastard is at the center of it all.

Dance music now is so often about fast rises and immediate gratification, but Lee Reynolds’ story is a reminder that some beats taste better when slowly fried over the course of 25 years. “I’ve been obsessed with this shit forever and I’ve always believed the madness was coming,” says Reynolds. Well, the madness has commenced, and it seems like it’s here for good––and Lee Reynolds is conducting the score.

soundcloud.com/lee_reynolds
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