Scott Hardkiss

A leading member of the San Francisco-based Hardkiss collective, Scott Hardkiss was a prominent house DJ/producer during the early to mid-'90s West Coast rave scene. Born in the Bronx, NY, he moved around the East Coast (i.e., New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia) while growing up and first got into music during the early '80s. He later studied at Oxford University in England, where he experienced the burgeoning U.K. rave and alternative dance scenes of the late '80s. Upon returning to the U.S., he began organizing DJ parties of his own on the East Coast before making...