DJ Harvey & DJ Garth
DJ Harvey from Cambridge has a cult following the world over and is influential in bringing the disco/garage/house sound from America to the UK. His musical career officially began at the age of 13 as a drummer for a punk band. The DJing came after a trip to NYC where he was inspired by the emerging hip-hop movement. To him, cutting up breaks was an extension of drumming and so he purchased his first pair of Technics. A graffiti bomber and member of the gang which went on to take the name, TDK (Tone Deaf Crew), Harvey’s crew gained notoriety as TONKA Hi Fi. It was as DJ for the crew that he forged his reputation as an eclectic programmer of music, throwing outlandish, sometimes weekend-long, parties. Should be right at home then.
Garth has been an icon in San Francisco nightlife for twenty years, playing a key role in sustaining the flames of conscious hell raising that existed here in generations past.
Bringing UK sound system culture to SF’s psychedelic climate, Wicked’s lawless full moon beach parties ushered in an era of Acid House hysteria that ripped through the west coast and spread into the heartland. They scored a Turbosound rig and toured in a ’47 Greyhound bus whose previous owners were a gospel choir, spreading their own gospel across the States and were the pioneering sound system at Burning Man. Ever the DJ’s DJ, he has stayed true to the original art form playing all-vinyl sets out all over the planet, turning out parties upon request.
