Burning Man 2011 !
For the past 15 years the Space Cowboys have been shaking your business on the playa. And this year will be no different. Sure we’re making some changes, like throwing a big daytime event at our Ranch & Saloon (4:45 & Esplanade) on Wednesday; and the UNIMOG has been upgraded yet again, now with 8 21” subs, additional lighting effects, and a completely new electrical system. But other things will be the same, like love from Martha and some of the best tunes to be found in the dust.
So here it is, our tentative playa itinerary… (but this is BM so don’t hold us to it)
with Space Cowboy djs: Shissla, Tamo, Deckard, Zach Moore, Pickles, Erik Hz, Spektrum and very special guests
> Sunday night: grand opening at the greeters station / gate 10pm-3am?
> Monday night: at Hudzo’s Charon 10pm-4am? with guests Ding Dong & Joe Joe (Brass Tax) and Lee Coombs
> Tuesday: tbd
> Wednesday afternoon: SC hootananny at the SpaceCowboys’ Saloon (4:45 & Esplanade) high noon – sunset with special guests Ali B. (Air, UK) and John H. (Fort Knox)
> Thursday dawn: Samurai Sunrise (outer playa) dawn-10am with guest MoPo (Janky Barge)
> Thursday afternoon: Lingerie Party – Camp Chinchilla 3pm – sunset with guest Andreas (Humbolt)
> Thursday night: tbd
> Friday night: The 14th Annual Space Cowboys Black Rock Hoe Down (1:11 & outer playa) 10pm till sunrise with special guests Elite Force, Plaza de Funk & Peo de Pitte (UK)
> Saturday night: at the Flaming Lotus Girls’ Tympani Lambada 10pm – 5am? with guests Kramer (Distrikt), Derek Hena & Gravity (Pink Mammoth) and (Disorient)
> Sunday: Black Sabbath Pancakes (location & time tbd.)
So if you’re going to be getting dusty next week, swing by 4:45 and Esplanade and say howdy!
- The Space Cowboys.
Elite Force - Burning Man 2010 RIPEcast Exclusive Mix 2
This week The Space Cowboys are pleased to bring you a very special Burning Man edition of The RIPEcast courtesy of Tech Funk pioneer and good friend, Elite Force [U&A Recordings]. Featuring several unreleased Elite Force “revamps”, this masterful RIPEcast exclusive mix is the perfect tune-up for the Playa, Boys and Girls. Don’t forget to add it to your list of things to pack for Black Rock City.
You can get this mix right now by visiting The RIPEcast on Podomatic, SoundCloud or iTunes.
And for a complete schedule of Elite Force Burning Man gigs, including his Friday night set at the Black Rock Hoedown on the Unimog inside The Temple of Flux, visit www.uaarecs.com/burningman.
Click here for a free download of the Elite Force vs. Prodigy ‘Smack the Force Up’ MP3
- Intro – LSD
- Seductive – Take Control (Tom Stephan Mix)
- Djedjetronic – Bit This Thin
- Chemical Brothers – Horse Power (re-fueled)
- Proxy – Vibrate (Noob Mix)
- Lee Coombs – Italo Disco (Maelstrom Mix)
- Dom G – Work (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Mix)
- Chasing Shadows – Amirah (Elite Force Revamp)
- Elite Force & Various – Hangover Deep (Revamp)
- Chems Vs Dyson – Swoon (Elite Force Revamp)
- Elite Force – Psychotrope Jams (extract)
- Zodiac Cartel Vs Elite Force – Devil’s Mashup
- Felix Luker – Mechanical
- Paul Chambers – Yeah Techno! (BeatauCue Mix)
- Bitrok – Closest Strangers (Loops of Fury Mix)
- JDS – Blackout (Elite Force Re-fix)
- Felix da Housecat – Oops
- Don Diablo – Who’s Your Daddy (Black Noise Mix)
- Ed Rush & Plaza da Funk – Keep Your Pacman (a Revamp)
- MJ Cole – Sincere (Nero Vs Elite Force Revamp)
- New Originals – 1979
- Excision – Subsonic (Elite Force Revamp)
- Elite Force & Bar 9 – Shaolin Style
- Outro – Now Generation
Simon Shackleton’s Elite Force project began way back in 1996, debuting on his own newly founded Fused and Bruised label with a series of peerless 12s and remixes. After a successful five years, he put Fused and Bruised on the backburner to concentrate on production work, and following several years with Whole9Yards and Moonshine he became a mainstay recording artist for AdriftRecordings (formally known as Kingsize Records) before moving on to set up hisown hugely successful U&A imprint.
Often credited for being a lynchpin in the developing the tech-funk genre (an amalgamation of breaks, house, techno and electro) he has released a series of highly successful singles in the past few years, finding broad support from DJs and musicians across the board, including the likes of James Zabiela, Sasha, Crystal Method, Laurent Garnier and Fatboy Slim to name but five. In 2008 released a semi-retrospective double album’s worth of remixes and re-workings of a 12-year back catalogue, with over 25 mixes coming from such luminaries as Miles Dyson, Rogue Element, Deepgroove, Dylan Rhymes & Calvertron.
In addition to these solo singles, Meat Katie has been a regular collaborator with Elite Force, a relationship that had begun in 2003 with the massive-selling ‘Toba’, and that will see their creative relationship come to fruition in 2009 with the launch of their new joint project under the name ‘Dustbowl’, as well as a series of singles under the ‘Meat Katie & Elite Force’ banner.
As a remixer, Elite Force has always been in huge demand, with re-workings for the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Crystal Method, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, UNKLE, Infusion, Rennie Pilgrem, Shiloh and Dylan Rhymes all contributing to his reputation as one of the most creative and effective remixers around.
Elite Force’s music has also been the soundtrack to many a movie, with a huge list of impressive A-list credits to his name, including the likes of the Matrix, Charlie’s Angels, Arlington Road, Mortal Kombat, Crow, The Bone Collector, The Jackyll, Spiderman 2 and his music has appeared on a wide array of TV shows, from CSI to Top Gear, from Football Focus to LA Doctors. He’s also soundtracked a number of computer games, including no fewer than 5 FIFA games, several of the Wipeout series, The Matrix and Motorstorm 1, and he is currently writing some bespoke music for forthcoming games for Ferrari and Motorstorm2.
On the decks, Elite Force has been a prime mover since 1990 when he cut his teeth playing huge student nights and self-promoted acid house nights in the South West of England, before moving up to ….London…. and ultimately gravitating towards his tech-funk style, with which he now has a full diary of global bookings. He has become known as one of the top technicians on a circuit that has included massive shows in Belarus, Hungary, Australia, Italy, USA, Czech Republic, India, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China, amongst others, as well as numerous festival slots including Glastonbury, Coachella, Bloom, Wickerman, the Glade and more recently Burning Man.
He was also responsible for the hugely influential Strongarm Sessions webcasts which became something of an institution since their inception back in 2001, receiving as they did around 20,000 downloads per show, but now put on the backburner to concentrate on other projects, such as his own blog, Tech-Funk Manifesto and his other musical projects, such as Dustbowl (with Meat Katie).
Bio courtesy of www.myspace.com/shackforce.
Artwork courtesy of Thomas Reed at Hive Management.
For more information on Elite Force visit www.eliteforcemusic.com or www.facebook.com/djeliteforce.
PANTHEON: this Friday at 103 Harriet 2
Join the Space Cowboys as we support the construction of this year’s Burning Man Temple. Designed and led by one of our very own Cowfolk (PK together with Rbca Anders & Jess Hobbs), the Temple of Flux is a product of many people from the sound-camps you know and love, so it’s only natural that they get together to through a party of eh “historic proportions”....
So Tie on those togas, toss on the leafy crowns, strap on the sandals and let’s show the Romans how it’s really done! We’re gonna get down to a clash of the titans, raising funds to help build the Burning Man Temple 2010.
pan·the·on (n)
\ˈpan(t)-thē-ˌän, -ən\
1 : a temple dedicated to all the gods
2 : the gods of a people
3 : a group of notable persons or things
4 : a massive benefit for the 2010 Burning Man Temple :: The Temple of Flux
5: : a debacle of a toga bacchanal
Greek & Roman Attire Encouraged! (AKA TOGA PARTY!)
SOUL OF MAN (Finger Lickin’, UK)
ELITE FORCE (U&A Recordings/Lot49, UK)
SLYDE (Finger Lickin’, UK)
MYAGI (Pop and Lock, Canada)
Mancub, Brad Robinson, 8Ball, Zach Moore (Space Cowboys)
Ding Dong, Ernie Trevino, JoeJoe, Mace (Brass Tax)
Gravity, Derek Hena (Pink Mammoth)
Clarkie, Aaron Pope (The Deep End)
Kramer (Distrikt/The Deep End)
Murphstar, Trav (Seismic)
Ethan Miller (Friends and Family)
Motion Potion (Fringe/Janky Barge)
Jive (Garage Mahal/Fix)
Syd Gris (Opulent Temple)
Eric Sharp (RockIt Science Labs)
Forest Green (Cute Fang Recordings)
Laird (Golden Gate Recordings)
and
Chris Smith (DJ Fluid, Om Records)
103 Harriett, SF
Friday, 9 July 2010
9pm-5am, 21+
Tickets
www.pantheonsf.eventbrite.com
Pre-Sale $10 – $18
At door $20 With Costume/$25 Without
ps.
The Temple of Flux is hosting two more benefits this weekend
featuring Soul of Man, Slyde and our very own Mancub !!!
On Saturday night 7/10at the Underground in Reno; undergoundFLUX
On Sunday evening in North Lake Tahoe at the Lakeside in Tahoe City: Keep Tahoe FLUX
Soul of Man, Live from Breakfast of Champions 2010
Our latest installment of The RIPEcast with Soul of Man live from BoC 2010 is now available!
There are two ways you can get this mix:
1. By subcribing to the RIPEcast at the Apple iTunes Store with this link to the iTunes Store
2. Or if you don’t use iTunes, you can download it right away with this link
A few words from Justin Rushmore (one half of Soul of Man from Finger Lickin’ Records) on his BoC experience:
I arrived in San Fran on the 30th to stay with fellow cowboy Murphstar and spent the following day rummaging through my tunes. The brief – New year, funky, breakbeat, party, classics, Finger Lickin’- the result is what you have for your sonic delight. I started with an unusual jungle tune ‘Strange Things’ from Count Sinden that got mashed up with some happy new year toasting from the infamous Ragga Twins and then smashed into Deekline’s booty of ‘Outer Space’. Tried and tested classic that set the party mood. I was trying to get the cowboys to open the dark curtains because it all seemed too night time for a day time party but the ravers just weren’t having it! The curtains remained firmly drawn and the aural assault was underway. Elite Force’s outstanding burning man anthem of Deadmau5 was next to destroy, followed by DJ Fixx’s ‘Shake it’. One of my favourite house producers of recent years is Miles Dyson his ‘Outro’ track always delivers with a mighty punch with its classical strings and devastating bass line. Next up was a cheeky bootleg of Alan Braxe’s ‘Intro’. See what I did there -‘Outro’ then ‘Intro’(!!); following this a monster rerub from Krafty Kuts called ‘Funk Nasty’ featuring Grandma Funk. Then one of my faves of 2009, the awesome South Rakkas Crew, ragga overload and remixed by the mighty talent of Fake Blood – a marching anthem of epic proportions, a tune that is neither breaks nor house but commands all crew to unite.
No set would be complete without a Plump DJs tune, their ‘I’ll Be Good’ always vibes up the room, as does Finger Lickin’s remix of the year…Rising star Peo De Pitte delivered an incredible take on the Drumattic Twins ‘Crazy Love’ which was followed by a cheeky mash up booty that I was given in the Ukraine at an incredible festival on a beach by Russian superstar dj Lady Waks. It mashes up her ‘Minimal’ tune with Crookers and Salt & Pepper’s ‘Push It’ one of the biggest tunes of 2009. Stop for breath. No! Slyde’s ‘Slippedy Starter’ gave a nod to the old school Finger Lickin’ days then Control Z’s remix of a Dylan Rhymes tune took the roof off bringing the set back to the pure breaks orgy. Dub Step has taken over in 2009 and to be honest it doesn’t rock my boat too much, however when Shack of Elite Force hijacked TC’s ‘Where’s my Money’ the result was a deadly dancey and hard hitting melange that has become a main stay in recent sets. Then a classic from the Finger Lickin’ vaults ‘The Push’ by the Plumps, another awesome Fake Blood production ‘The Dozens’ and then as any superstar dj should, I did…I ended with the outstanding 2 Many DJs remix of Chems ‘Superstar DJs’.
What can I say? San Francisco has something unique. An up for it, musically educated, warm, super friendly and crazy bunch of nutters. Truly an incredible honour to be a part of – Huge respect to everyone who came and heard the set and to the Space Cowboys I raise my glass – Have a great 2010 and see y’all soon.
Justin Rushmore
A very special thank you to Justin from The Space Cowboy for the wicked set. Also, thank you to Scott Finsthwait for the photo of Justin.
Next up on THE RIPEcast:
February 9th – Clarkie (The Deep End) Live from BoC 2010 February 16th – Zach Moore Live from BoC 2010 February 23rd – MurphStar (Seismic) Live from BoC 2010
