Space Cowboys in the news + events!
It has been a busy week in the Space Cowboy administrative offices keeping track of all of the links and shout outs we’ve received from the likes of Wired, CNET, sfgate, all praising the efforts of the talented crews who help put together Yuri’s Night last week down at Moffet Field.It was not the Unimog’s first appearance at Yuri’s Night, and hopefully not the last. We had a great time rocking on the tarmac while NASA security gave us props on the music and our truck. Not to mention the huge crowd getting down in front of her bass. A big thanks to everyone who worked on, came out, rocked on and supported this night. We hope a greater appreciation for Space was at least one of the things you left with that night.
For those of you who missed it, here a just a few links and photos to check out:
From SFGate: The Space Cowboys’ UNIMOG has a few hundred people’s bootys on fire just a dozen yards from barbed wire fences.
From Business2.com: ...Space Cowboys – the Bay Area’s hottest DJ posse – were on hand with their Burning Man art car, the Unimog, to lead the dance.
And an article on News.com
A mention in this article on Wired
And also from Wired
And from Scott Beale
For those of you who are tired of FOMO – here are a few more opportunities to check out your local Space Cowboy DJs:
Friday April 20th, 2007
Mighty Breaks presents A Finger Lickin’ Thang
with beat bashers The Drumattic Twins!
Mighty – 119 Utah @ 15th
$15 at the door before midnight
$10 presales availableTheir visas are sorted, the dex n’fx show is packed and they have their eyes locked on SF. We were disappointed with the problems in January, and have got everything aligned for next weeks show. It will be the premier Finger Lickin’ performance in San Francisco for the Drumattics, nowhere else but Mighty. Check out the exclusive mighty breaks mix
Joining the drums are local rockers: Murphstar (SEISMIC)
rrrus (Space Cowboys)
Trav (SEISMIC)
Syd Gris (Opel)
Kramer (djkramer.com)### Saturday April 21 OPULENT TEMPLE PRESENTS: EVOCATION Porn Palace, 415 Jesse @ 6th $10 playa wear, $20 street clothes
With Carbon Community (Sober Music / Bless, Dallas TX) Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks / Space Cowboys) Evinrude (Space Cowboys) and more…
Please come in your sexy playa best.
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Saturday April 28th MONKEY 9PM – Later – Later! The Porn Palace 415 Jessie St. (@ 6th) $20 Donation Burning Man Ticket Raffle!
Join us Saturday, April 28th, for MONKEY: a banana peelin’, vine swingin’, primal primate throwdown featuring two rooms of boom to shake your prehensile tail ‘til the early morn’! 100% of Proceeds to Benefit “Homouroboros”; Peter Hudson’s next playa masterwork. Everyone involved has volunteered to support the production of Peter’s next stroboscopic zoetrope.
Come see why: www.hudzo.com
In the Art Barn, you’ll view Peter’s past work and speculate on the scope of homouroboros. You can also buy limited edition homouroboros tees, bandannas, panties and more. Plus, preserve your posterior for posterity. Live ass-casting is back! And with all our favorite Playa sound camps and DJ’s under one roof, this is a rare opportunity for those allergic to playa dust to hear some Black Rock legends.
Monkey Room Lineup (main room)
An-ten-nae (Get Freaky) vs. Laird (Get yer’ Freak on!) Ernie Trevino (Space Cowboys) vs. Ethan Miller (FNF) Anthony Garlic (Green Gorilla) vs. Fred Funk (Brass Tax) Syd Gris (Opel) vs. Shissla (House of Lotus) j9 (Angels of bAss) vs. Viajay (Angels of bAss) and more!!
The Guerilla Lounge (front room)
The rumble in this jungle will be brought by the legendary Radio Active. Master MC, beatboxer, writer, painter, and b-boy, Radio Active was a longtime member of Spearhead. For those of you unfamiliar with the true art of vocal percussion, prepare to get old-schooled.and El Papa Chango’s gonna be dropping Latin Guerilla BOMBS long into the night!
Guerrilla Lounge Lineup:
Radio Active (Live MC/Beat-box) El Papa Chango (El Circo), Tamo (Angels of bAss), Aaron Pope (The Deep End)
COSTUMES encouraged/rewarded: Show me the MONKEY!!!
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Friday May 4th FRESH at Shine Another installment of Fresh underway, this time hosted by 8ball (or maybe H8ball?) and Mr. Pickles. Lineup and workup TBA – watch this space: http://spacecowboys.org
Live sets from WMC (courtesy of Flavorpill)
For those of us who couldn’t blow off the real world for a week to boogie for a week in Miami at WMC, the nice folks after Flavorpill has posted some streaming sets so we can hear what we missed, including a hiphop mix from A-Trak so rich and funky you can almost hear the sunshine heating up the vinyl.
April Space Cowboy Annoucement
Hello Friendly Person,
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to write up one of our happy, witty, welcome and refreshing little Space Cowboy announcement emails. Last month I spent a couple weeks adventuring in the furthest corners of the Earth, and after that I delved deep into the wondrous and exciting world of project deadlines at work. In the interim my mind has been bubbling over with pithy and irreverent concepts for how to start these announcements, all of them filled with tangential references to obscure events and people that only some of you will know followed by a good humored jab at one of the many silly idiosyncrasies exhibited by our friends in the scene, particularly when their higher than balls on a giraffe. It would’ve been an apt intro, I’m sure, but only a few folks would’ve got it, and I’m sure it would’ve alienated a much larger segment of the audience, so instead I decided to reach out to the lowest common denominator with a simple message I know everyone can get behind: “Eat More Pussy, Bitches!”
Listings for this announcement include info about our next installment of Fresh, held this Friday at Shine, curated this month by Cheeks (and then she hits the road for several months in search of her spirit animal). Also, a new mix from Aaron Jae, and a link to The Geometrist’s mix from back at BoC.
Also, and perhaps MOST IMPORTANT, there’s a message from your favorite Space Cowboy house-rockin’ DJ and Unimog sound engineer, Brad Robinson, about a very troubling matter involving the wrongful conviction and imprisonment in Nicaragua of one of Brad’s friends.
XO, 8ball@spacecowboy.org
UPCOMING EVENTS
Friday, April 6th– FRESH presented by Cheeks
Cheeks is about to skip town for an undisclosed length of time, so this is the big send off before she heads out for the undiscovered country. Partial proceeds to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma Research. Expect a night of ass-shaking house from:
Brad Robinson (Space Cowboys), Moody Eva (GoodBeats, Big Popsicle), evan james (evanandrews.com) Shine (1337 Mission St btw 9th & 10th) 9pm – 2am – $5
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Saturday, April 7 – Aries Underground
All Aries DJ lineup with: Solar (Sunset), J-Bird (Sunset), Seven (NK7), Sol (NK7), Fred Funk (Brass Tax), Mancub (Space Cowboys), Dfunkt (WISH), Sunwoo (Vessel), Eric Sharp (Rockit Science), Lyndon Hill (Los Angeles)
Sound by Soren, Visuals by Phil and Will, Door by Shioban and Isaac, Host David Soto
11pm-6am, $15 cover. 2 Rooms of house, breaks and dirty late night bizness! Underground location. Call the NK7 voicemail night of the party: 415 520 9188
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Friday, April 13 – BAY AREA YURI’S NIGHT 2007
Get ready for something entirely different. On April 13th the Bay Area joins the world in celebration of space exploration in a unique convergence of artists, scientists, astronauts, performers and musicians.
Yuri’s Night is a commemoration of humankind’s first venture into space, by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. This gathering bridges national, cultural, generational and social barriers to ignite excitement about what is new on the horizon in space exploration and to remind us of the magnificent feats humanity is capable of. With Space Cowboy DJs Kapt’n Kirk, Brad Robinson, rrrus, Ernie Trevino, Aaron Jae, Evinrude And Plaid – Warp Records, UK , Telefon Tel Aviv – Hefty Records, Chicago Bluetch- Aleph Zero, Native State, Portland, Ooah + Boreta – Glitch Mob, LA/SF Sutech – Context, Soul Jazz, Leaf , Mr. Projectile & Jonah Sharp (aka Spacetime Continum) – Merck, Reflective, Astralwerks, RD – Designed Disorder, Glitch Mob, Welder – Cyberset, Mozaic – Nexus, Dr. Toast – False Profit
Cutting-edge interactive technology and live demos. Science demonstrations and innovations from the worl ds of robotics , engineering, and astronomy, will also be on display: Engage with space-inspired and technology-infused art installations. Experience rare video works documenting art in space. Enter the Documentar Dome and fuel your imagination with the planet’s greatest space-related documentaries, including screenings of: Witness awe-inspiring space-themed performances by an armada of acrobats and dancers. Live dance and acrobatics fused with audiovisual performances, will be coordinated with a world-class lineup of live electronic music. Event opens at 6:30pm NASA Ames Research Center* Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA, 94035 Tickets are on sale now. Limited $30 presale tickets still available, but not for long! Purchase advance tickets at: www.worldspaceparty.com/tickets.php
*References to NASA Ames shall not be construed as official NASA approval or endorsement of any non-Governmental or commercial entity or activity.
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Saturday, April 14th – DIRTY
As well as having 2 super talented UK producers and dj’s for another one of Evil Breaks wicked nights at Jelly’s, Subscience has decided to join us one more time. This will be the event to help them celebrate their 4 years together and will be their last show before a long deserved break.
B.L.I.M. (Boy Lost in Music) – UK (TCR/Botchit & Scarper/Track) Kid Blue – UK (Fat!/Lot49/Sinister) Also, inside: Aaron Jae, Bam w/Frogger on Didjeridu, M.O.D., and Trav. And in the Subscience Outdoor Area: Ripple, the Hitmen (Cubehead & Kirill), Maebyn La Fey, Misha, and MC Manny Vibes. + fire performances by a couple of the LSD Fuego kids
Jelly’s ( 295 Terry Francois st., SF) $5/$10 presales, $15 @ the door (www.GrooveTickets.com), 10pm-4am.
More info: www.EvilBreaks.com
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Saturday, April 14 – GARAGE MAHAL ART CAR BENEFIT
Included on the line-up are Space Cowboy’s Ernie Trevino, HoLer DJ Shissla, Tamo from Angels of Bass, Trav from Seismic, and more.
$15 (donation) / 10pm – 5am In Potrero area – exact location will be revealed on their website on the day of the party: www.garagemahalcamp.info
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Friday April 20th, 2007 – Mighty Breaks presents A Finger Lickin’ Thang! with beat bashers The Drumattic Twins!
Their visas are sorted, the dex n’fx show is packed and they have their sites locked on SF. We are excited to host the guys for their premier Finger Lickin’ performance in San Francisco, nowhere else but Mighty. Check out the exclusive SF mix they made for mighty breaks here: http://mightybreaks.com/drumattictwinsmix/
Joining the drums are local rockers: rrrus (Space Cowboys) Murphstar (SEISMIC) Trav (SEISMIC) Syd Gris (Opel) Kramer (djkramer.com)
Mighty – 119 Utah @ 15th http://mighty119.com 10pm-4am, 21+, $15 at the door before midnight $10 presales available:
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=24465
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From the Evil Breakster hissself, Aaron Jae’s latest mix:
http://aaronjae.com/index.php?go=disc&d=17
Tracklist: 01-Audio Soul Project “Tied To You “(FCB rmx) 02-Dylan Rhymes w/Odissi “Superstar”(Elite Force Rmx) 03-FCB + Karanyi “You Delight” 04-Rob Reng Ft. Huw “Price”(Madox Rmx) 05-Rennie Pilgrem vs Andrea Lai “No Less” 06-Jono Fernandez “Rising Up” 07-Chris Carter “Misnomer” 08-FunkDeFino (FFS’4Phaze’Rmx) 09-Mach One “Rip Chord” 10-Toskin “Digital Divine”(Aftershock Rmx) 11-Strider “Tiger Uppercut”(SuperstyleDeluxeRmx) 12-Access Denied “Virtual Click” 13-Ragga Twins “Everybody Hype”
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And The Geometrist’s live mix from Breakfast of Champions is on his Podomatic page:
http://thegeometrist.podomatic.com/
PLEASE READ, PLEASE HELP
Space Cowboy Brad Robinson says:
“Please take a minute to read the below message and view the video on youtube. This is a very sad scenario. This is a friend of a friend that I went to college with in Nashville , TN.
First, let me thank you for taking the time to read this message. I am reaching out to urge you to become involved in the story of Eric Volz – a young man sentenced to 30 years in prison in Nicaragua for a crime he didn’t commit.
I’ve become deeply passionate about this case, as he is a dear family friend and has been an older brother to me as far back as I can remember.
Follow this link and watch his story through video – it tells about the his struggle better than I ever could in writing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YChhOHrFA4
You can learn more about the case and donate to Eric’s legal defense at www.friendsofericvolz.com
Also, if you are a member of MySpace, you can add him as a friend at www.myspace.com/freeericvolz
Again, thank you for taking the time to read this. This has been a personal heartache and terrible injustice.
Forward the video on to everyone you know – and join me in the fight to FREE ERIC VOLZ.”
April Fresh
Just ‘cause we’re RIPE, doesn’t mean we don’t get soft and cuddly, and you know we’re always clean as a whistle (at least thats what we tell the 5-0). Come on out and see the softer side of the Space Cowboys at April’s installment of our new first fridays monthly, FRESH at Shine. Cheeks is heading out on a safari, so she’s putting together a special house music send-off, with a good chunk of the proceeds going to her favorite charity, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. So snuggle on down to Shine, Friday, April 6th for April Fresh you know you want to cuddle..
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