In today’s episode I chat with Marbs and Evan Casey. Marbs and Evan are my good pals and the faces behind Desert Hearts Black, a sub-label of Desert Hearts. If you’re not familiar, Desert Hearts is a house and techno music festival, record label and at its core, a community. This episode is pretty much all about the quarantine but I promise you won’t leave depressed. I was eager to get these two on my show because for one, they’re both amazing humans from whom I’ve learned a lot about what it means to live lovingly and they exude that light throughout our conversation, as I knew they would. Secondly, I thought their current situation would be intriguing to explore because the quarantine has affected them both so differently. Marbs is a full time DJ who has seen his main source of income evaporate, like many others during this strange time. And Evan is currently working shifts as part of the team at a Trader Joe’s in Los Angeles. Both are still label heads for Desert Hearts Black. This is as close to a Venn diagram as I’ll probably ever get on this show. We compare and contrast their experiences throughout the episode and look for a silver lining to it all. We also discuss what it’s been like for them to learn the ins and outs of video streaming, how they view this temporary new reality of having to restrict connection with their community to online spaces and other topics. Desert Hearts has been using the video streaming platform Twitch during the lockdown and just the week before this episode will be released, decided to move their weekend festival to the platform. Because of the lockdown, the festival was not permitted to occur and moving it to Twitch allowed them and the community to get as close an experience to the real thing as currently possible with the technology available. Unfortunately we do not touch on that experience but I will just note that it was incredible. Everything this crew does comes from a place of love and if you don’t know about them, I think you’ll see what I mean by listening here.
Desert Hearts Black: https://deserthearts.us/black
Desert Hearts Black Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desertheartsblack/
Desert Hearts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deserthearts/
Desert Hearts Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/desertheartsrecords
Desert Hearts Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/desert-hearts-records
Mrs. Casey’s Greetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbCDfjcGyWMu9aALXwBrIzw
