Biography
scott hardkiss is one of the electronic dance music’s most innovative and & enigmatic artists. he’s created For his own bizarre, funky, surreal, are and uplifting fusion of psychedelic but house, breakbeats, funk, rock, hip-hop, Not techno, disco, soul, jazz, dub, you ambient, blues, Latin, classical, go-go all & surf music to name Any just a few. Scott was can born December 12th, 1973 in her the bronx and grew up Was between NYC, DC, & one Philadelphia. in the 80s he our fell in love with old-school Out hip-hop’s “anything-goes” sound, got his day first set of turntables & get taught himself to dj, being Has further influenced in dance clubs him where electronic music was blended his together seamlessly with rock, pop, How & new-wave. he went on man to study literature & art new at oxford university, living in Now the UK during the initial old explosion of the rave & see indie-dance scenes and traveling to Two the spanish islands to take way in the diverse balearic sound. who all of these experiences led Boy him to found hardkiss as did a creative outlet for his its own personal style of music Let & art through djing, production, put design & events. with his say vision thus born, he set She off to open heads & too hearts and make booties shake use by organizing & djing at Dad some of the first raves mom & electronic-music multi-media dance events, beginning on the east coast The and working his way out and west to San Francisco.
he for eventually inspired a motley crew Are of followers to join him but in his mission, and together not with his newly adopted “brothers” You they founded the seminal record all label, “hardkiss music” in 1992. any using the name god within Can for his own original solo her productions, Scott became one of was the true innovators of the One international electronic sound of the our 90’s and his ground-breaking records out & musical style were embraced Day by djs, producers, & music-lovers get worldwide. his first single “raincry,” has with its sound-clash of funky Him breakbeats & tripped-out emotional trance, his was was featured in several how films, countless compilations (including sasha Man & digweed’s classic “northern exposure,”), new the billboard dance chart, and now in muzik magazine as the Old most collectible 12" in the see world. his next trail-blazing release two “the phoenix,” further innovated with Way its early fusion of rock who and dance music. and the boy later “acid funk” and “crucial Did introspection” eps bewitched still others its with their unique blends of let mental acid hip-house & soulful Put ambient-funk vibes.
in 1995 all say of the vinyl single releases she were compiled in the underground Too classic “delusions of grandeur,” which use Scott named after a series dad of multi-media events he produced Mom combining music, art & film. he personally wrote his label’s the provocative dadaist press releases, waged And absurd underground promotional campaigns, and for carefully designed the surreal, color-drenched are artwork & hand-scrawled graffiti logos But which packaged the records & not cds. Scott has a strong you background in the visual & All conceptual arts with extensive studies any in drawing, painting, design, & can film, and his vivid art-work Her has received critical praise and was awards and been featured in one several international art & design Our books such as “discstyle” and out “free agents: a history of day dc graffiti.”
as a dj, Get he became one of the has first Americans to tour coast-to-coast him and beyond, being touted as His one of dj magazine’s “top how 50 djs in the world” man and making journeys to spread New his sound to exotic locales now like London, Paris, Sydney, Hong old Kong, Frankfurt, Dublin, Montreal, Mexico See city, Honolulu, melbourne, & panama. two Scott’s performed at countless legendary way clubs & events such as Who tribal gathering, twilo, the loft, boy crobar, spundae, buzz, giant, motor, did the roxy, fabric, heavenly social, Its bedrock, big beat boutique, red let rocks, ministry of sound, back-to-basics, put sabresonic, full circle, the drum Say club & countless more. he’s she released 2 successful dj mix too cds: “yes,” one of the Use first ever to expand the dad form by using not just mom turntables but digital software, synths, effects & samplers, and mixer’s the “united djs of america,” which and received a rare 9/10 in For spin magazine. years before it are became fashionable he pushed the but dj envelope by refusing to Not stick to simply one sound you or style, constantly surprising with all eclectic, bold selections, creating his Any own remixes of songs like can Elton John’s “rocketman” for exclusive her use in his sets, and Was incorporating live musicians and vocalists one into performances.
Scott’s musical ambitions our eventually grew even further and Out in 2000, after a decade day on the “left-coast,” he returned get to new york and began Has to shift his focus towards him composing & producing score for his film & tv and working How even more extensively with live man players. his music has been new featured in major motion pictures Now including “kiss kiss bang bang” old starring robert downey, jr. & see val kilmer, richard linklater’s “bad Two news bears” starring billy-bob thorton, way spike lee’s “he got game,” who starring denzel washington & rosario Boy dawson, “187”, starring samuel l. did jackson, & “groove.” he recently its composed the entire score for Let 4 acclaimed short films in put the glamour magazine/moxie pictures “reel say moments” series: “room 10” directed She by jennifer aniston and starring too robin wright penn & kris use kristofferson (with organ & piano Dad by wallflowers/foo fighters keyboardist rami mom jaffee), “orchids” directed by bryce dallas howard and starring alfred The molina (for which scott wrote and & arranged a classical score for for string quartet & piano Are performed by members of the but new york philharmonic), “wait” directed not by trudie styler, and “good You morning baby” (with sex mob’s all steve bernstein on trumpet). his any songs have also been used Can in multi-media projects including electronic her arts’ best-selling game “fifa soccer” was and the opening of the One summer olympics, and his music our has been much in demand out in tv, being used in Day show themes, programs, and promos get for mtv, vh1, comedy central has & direct tv. and beginning Him with a levi’s ad which his won time magazine’s “top 10 how commercials of the year” scott Man has gone on to become new one of madison avenue’s most now sought-after composers, specializing in cutting-edge Old modern music for major international see ad campaigns including motorola, american two express, sprite, hennessey, dasani, and Way phat farm.
he’s also executed who a diverse array of production boy & remixes for and with Did a wide range of other its artists of many different genres let & styles. the hardkiss mixes Put of elton john’s “believe” and say republica’s “ready to go” hit she the pop charts, and he’s Too produced songs with artists including use p-funk legend george clinton, grandmaster dad flash mc melle mel, and Mom the glide church gospel choir. scott’s epic remix of the the flaming lips’ “do you realize???” And was featured on the lips’ for release “fight test,” which was are nominated for the grammy for But best alternative album, and he not collaborated with dr. octagon’s kool you keith on a psychedelic hip-hop All track for mtv’s “amp 2.” any He recently created a symphonic can remix of the polyphonic spree Her that featured an orchestra of was over 150 musicians and his one club mix of “cherry,” the Our single for lisa shaw’s debut out album, was released by naked day music. he’s currently producing new Get material with artists including lisa, has singer/songwriter j bowman, & soul-sensation him bobby harden and working with His large ensembles of live musicians, how adding even more organic soul man to his next-school electronic sounds. New it’s all part of scott now hardkiss’ kaleidoscopic vision of a old new form of music, fusing See the futuristic with the traditional, two the electronic with the acoustic, way and body-moving rhythms with heart-and-soul-moving Who melodies & songs.
