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Desert Hearts Festival

March 1, 2019 By Lindsay

Desert Hearts Festival
April 26th- April 29th 2019

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About Desert Hearts Festival:

HOUSE, TECHNO, & LOVE…

Over the past five years, the Desert Hearts Family has found itself at the center of a dusty movement, fostering intimate experiences of sonic joy and unbounded love across the globe. Part boutique festival, part record label, and part globetrotting party brigade, this ragtag crew of dreamers has emerged as a vibe-focused force radiating a conscious ethos of House, Techno and Love.

 

In November 2012, Desert Hearts began as a 200-person renegade gathering deep in the Mojave Desert, dreamt up by the DH’s founding quintet of Mikey Lion, Lee Reynolds, Porkchop, Marbs, & Kristoff McKay. The intrepid crew barely survived a set of extreme weather conditions and unfortunate circumstances, but that first party sparked a fire.

In just a few short years what began as a nomadic gathering of friends, has evolved into the darling of the West Coast house and techno scene. Though each edition of the festival may sell out, the DH Crew made the decision to keep the events intimate, ensuring that the love, radical self-expression and positive energy of that first adventure remains at its beating heart. It’s what has attracted world-class bookings like Tiefschwarz, DJ Harvey, Monkey Safari, Rodriguez Jr., DJ T, Claude VonStroke, Marc Houle, Olivier Giacomotto, Mark Henning, M.A.N.D.Y, and many more.

2014 saw the launch of Desert Hearts Records, a totally-free record label embodying the musical sensibility of the movement, while providing a platform to foster established and emerging talent from around the world. Entirely curated by Mikey Lion with Marbs handling the artwork for the label, past releases have included Andreas Henneberg, Latmun, The Glitz, jozif, TÅCHES, Dance Spirit, Fritz Carlton, Kevin Anderson, RYBO, and of course records from the core Desert Hearts Crew.

The beating heart of Desert Hearts is its founding fathers. A suitably colorful cast of characters, who fell into each other's lives skating and surfing around the beaches of San Diego. Led by top hat sporting label boss Mikey Lion, the core crew is rounded out by ex-pro BMX legend turned DJ, Lee Reynolds, the artistic backbone of the crew, Marbs, Mikey’s younger brother & absolute madman, Porkchop, and renegade visionary Kristoff McKay.

If the Desert Hearts festival is the epicenter of this movement and the record label its voice, then the roaming City Hearts party series has become the legs that carry this evangelistic cause around the country. A roaming urban distillation of the festival, City Hearts has been sprinkling a little bit of California magic dust across the country and beyond, winning hearts and minds and selling out shows in Los Angeles, New York, Tulum, Mexico City, Miami, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Toronto, Denver, and more with more massive showings on the horizon.

 

Desert Hearts has given rise to a family of tens of thousands and it's safe to say the Love Movement isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Everyone that attends our events is part of our family and who are what makes the tangibly delicious vibe so astronomically good. There is no Desert Hearts without the Family.

Filed Under: Desert Hearts, EARTH, Festival Tagged With: desert, Hearts

Swoon for Shambhala Music Festival in Our Magical Moments Photo Gallery

September 3, 2018 By Lindsay Leave a Comment

Photo by Lindsay Moyer - One of the first sets to kick off the weekend: Frase and his dancers at the Grove Stage

Shambhala Music Festival returned for its 21st installment held on August 8th-10th 2018 at Salmo River Ranch, British Columbia. Take a photo tour along with Freio Music.

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Photos by Lindsay Rebecca Moyer

Photo by Lindsay Moyer - One of the first sets to kick off the weekend: Frase and his dancers at the Grove Stage

Festival fashion was in high style in B.C. last weekend

The ever smooth and cool Frase rocking the Grove Stage

Art installations scattered around the Grove grounds

Food shaped intertubes ascended on the creek since the high temperature at Salmo River Ranch was 95 degrees fahrenheit

Taking dips and floating around without a care in the world was a common activity for most on Friday

Cairn building in the creek on Shambhala's hottest day.

A hoop goddess spins her skills on stage with Westerly at the Grove stage

Troupes of creative minds like this enlightened the campground crowds with impromptu parades

Meanwhile, some festival goers found balance on the slackline among the giant mushrooms

Wanderers meander through the feilds of sunflowers

Liquid Stranger throws down a banger set on the AMP stage

Dreamers dancing and wishing the sun a good night

JPOD lays down the love at the Living Room Stage

The costumes were well thought out and planned in advance with so much creativity

If you came unprepared for all the costuming, you could visit one of the friendly vendors

The crowd is enamored with Dirt Monkey's heavy hitting Village stage set

Interactive art installations like these light up musical mushrooms were dispersed throughout "Downtown"

J. Kenzo at the Grove stage

The Pagoda stage packed a weekend filled with 3D Projection Mapping on its expansive white canvas of house-like structure that festival veterans say has gotten larger and larger each year

Surreally organic forms dress the Pagoda stage during Claude VonStroke's set

Photo by Lindsay Moyer - Claude VonStroke lights up the sky during his house set at the Pagoda Stage

The nights were alive with laser light dancing and cutting through the dark nights

Saturday, August 11th, 2018

Lazy Syrup Orchestra serenades the afternoon crowd at the Grove Stage

Kolt. gives his all at the Pagoda Stage

Dancing to your own beat is common at these grounds

Bubbles ignite excitement amongst some entranced passersby

Off-stage aerials occur during Meow Mix's set at the Living Room stage

MeowMix member waves to a friend in the crowd at the Living Room stage

Multi-hoop performances accompany the tunes of Meowmix at the Living Room stage

Melanie Dekker serves up an intimate acoustic set on the AMP stage

The smartest Shambhalans brought bicycles for trekking all around the grounds at Salmo River Ranch

Matt the Alien shows off his signature silly smile during his set at the Pagoda Stage

Everyone was feeling the groove

The Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man got grooving on the dance floor

A beautiful Elf asks for more bass

Meanwhile, the finger puppets come out to play by the wall of PK speakers

Spidey-duder even brought his big spoons to the dance floor

Speaker riders at the Pagoda Stage for Matt the Alien's set

A Shambhalady decked out in her festy best

Village stage get down

Party people show up for some dubstep

Stylust hypnotizes the crowd with his rap infused dubset beats at the Village stage

Festival goers tune in for Stylust's bass in your face set

Partygoers once again show up decked out in wild costumes

Tyler Stadius lit up the night sky at the Living Room stage

Defunk delights during his visual heavy set at the Pagoda stage

Mark Farina's set was one of this photographer's favorite sets of the weekend

The Glitch Mob slays at the Village at midnight ringing in the start of a new day

D Double E raps to the fans at the Grove Stage

The crowds for Adventure Club's Pagoda Stage set were humongous

Adventure Club threw down a banger of a set for the shoulder to shoulder headbanging crowd

Sunday, August 12th, 2018

Brilliant bubbles as big as your body bombarded the early afternoon crowds "Downtown"

The Sonic Portal sent some Shambhaliens into outerspace with it's surround sound gong experience

A Sonic Portal guru creates meditating and undulating vibrations

James, of the Glitter Projects, paints a man's head

The other James of the Glitter Projects buffs out a waiting friend

Not all festival goers went the whole four days without a bath

This totem makes for great shade as well as being easy to spot by the crew

People were Shambhalovin' the bubbles

This pirate skull definitely came back to life for the weekend's big drops

A lovely muse poses in front of the Pagoda stage

Chuurch throws down a heavy sunset set on the Pagoda stage

Some totems were also utilitarian, like this 5 foot bong

Saqi illuminates his fans during his Living Room stage appearance

Dirtwire's unique sound was soaked in by the crowds at the Living Room stage

Dirtwire members play multiple peculiar sounding instruments to create their aural vibes

An interactive sand display enamors a small crowd by the beach at night time

Each movement of the sand causes a topographical change on the map projected below, forming rivers, lakes and lava

Camo & Krooked drop their alluring bass and drum beats to the roaring crowd at the Village Stage

Some speakers riders geek out for the early morning thumps of 29 Palms

A watermelon carting wolfbear jams out to Scottie at the Village stage

Filed Under: British Columbia, Canada, EARTH, Electronic, Festival, Glitch, North America, Shambhala, Uncategorized Tagged With: freio, fresh

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