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Weird!

PK — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:10:00 -0700

Thanks for rockin’ the block with us again this year! Photo credit to Pilar Delatierra

APRIL FRESH

Andrea — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:25:00 -0700

After taking March off to recover from Snow Fest in Lake Tahoe, the Space Cowboys are feeling FRESH once again and gearing up to bring the San Francisco massive a very special edition of their monthly event, Friday April 4th, at Shine. Please join us as we honor drum and bass godfather and BBC Radio 1 host, Grooverider (recently sentenced to 4 years in a Dubai jail for possession of a little over 2 grams of marijuana), with a night of the bass heavy, complex, dancefloor-smashing music he’s pushed forward since the dawn of breakbeat hardcore circa 1991.

Everyday Junglists:
Mancub
Kap’n Kirk
Ernie Trevino
bassben
MC: Greg G

If you are interested in signing a petition to the United Arab Emirates to deport Grooverider to the UK and remand him into British custody, which would be a huge improvement in his situation, please follow this link:
GROOVERIDER PETITION

Scarfism announcement

8Ball — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:00 -0800

Hello Friendly Person:

I can’t help cringing when it’s Andy Time at the end of 60 Minutes. “You ever notice on airplanes they’re always telling you to put your seat belt on when the planes on the group going 20 miles an hour, but they let you take it off when it’s 35,000 feet in the air going 700 miles an hour? Why is that?” When he opens his mouth there’s the occasional chance he’ll say something insightful, but mostly he just makes me doubt there’s any such thing as growing old gracefully. 99% of the time the codger spins and yammers on topics that are only complex if you’re a retard whose run out of unicorn stickers and paste to eat. What I’m saying is Andy the stereotypical out-of-touch, cranky, rigid crusty fart.

So today I know I’m gonna come off like Andy, but I just gotta ask… When did everyone’s necks get so fucking cold? What the hell is up with all the scarfs? Is there some kind of deep socially-meaningful scarfism movement starting that I ain’t heard about? What the hell?

I got this co-worked who was living in Brooklyn a while, and when he came back from a recent trip he was wearing this knotted little scarf everywhere. Said so was everyone on the East Coast. “All the hip kids are wearing em.” He also mentioned NYC was under several feet of snow. And, okay, it’s a wee bit chilly in the upper Left Coast right about now, and with that temperature drop I’m willing to accept scarfism’s practicalities for the outdoors. But I see people wearing these things inside all the time, and I find myself stifling hostile urges to grab, yank, and give fools a nasty scarf-burn around the neck. I know, it’s fashion, right? But wearing a scarf indoors…? You should wear a helmet and water-wings, too. If you’ve got to wear something around your neck, make it something bold, useful, and hip. Next time you’re heading out for the day, instead of reaching for a whimpy wittle scarf, do like your hype-man Flava Flav. Yeah, you know what Time it is… it’s time to wear a big ass clock around your neck. That’s right. A Big. Ass. Clock. Around your neck. Boooiiiiii!

XO, 8ball at space cowboys dot org

PS: Hella thanks to everyone – I mean EVERYONE – who cried Uncle with us at this year’s Breakfast of Champions. The weather rocked, the Whisper folks rocked, we had a ridiculous amount of rockin’ DJ who, you know… ROCKED. And then there was the rockin’ly lovely people who also contributed to the Rockin’ Good Time™. Space Cowboys does a few events throughout the year – we pimp out the Mog sometimes, and we throw a party here and there – but Breakfast of Champions is really where it’s at for us. It funds most of what we do out on the playa, and it’s what keeps the lights on the rest of the year while we tinker on the Mog. So, again, Hella Thanks to EVERYONE! We heart you, bitches!

PPS: Now, on to upcoming events….

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, Jan 25—Mighty Breaks 3rd Anniversary @ Mighty

Mighty Breaks was founded on the idea of bringing great DJs together for a night of dancing, great music, friends and fun crews at Mighty. It was a magic formula that could only take place in the club we all feel at home. We have enjoyed bringing together the many breaks crews of the Bay Area and appreciate all of the support over the years. We would like to invite all of you to join us on January 25 for a massive night of Local Breaks. With tag team sets and two rooms of sound, all we need now is your smiling face to round out the night!

We look forward to rocking out with you all with the Mighty Breaks ALL STAR lineup:
Murphstar (SEISMIC)
The Geometrist (Space Cowboys)
Aaron Pope (Deep End)
Shissla (House of Lotus)
Tamo (Angels of bAss)
sh00ey (Deep End)
Bam (Evil Breaks)
Mozaic (Nexus)
Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist (True Skool)
Tim Deitz (The Fringe)
Syd Gris (Opel)
Samira (SEISMIC, Sister SF)

Mighty – 119 Utah St., SF
Doors at 10pm
$10 or $5 RSVP info@mighty119.com

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Friday, Feb 1 – FRESH presents FREE DIRT @ Shine

February Fresh Space Cowboy host Ernie says:
Hope everyone is having a great start to the new year. February is just around the corner. So is the next rendition of Fresh.

I am very proud to announce that we will have Dirt dropping his tracks from his new self produced full length CD Girth of the Earth. The first 50 people in will receive his CD. This sht is raw as fck so be prepared and get there early to nab your copy.

We will also have our very good friend Moody Eva fresh from San Diego and now residing back in the East Bay to drop her mad flava houseness on us.

Our last guest is no small potatoes. Erik Hz will be gracing us with his tectonic madness to keep you up on your breaks knowledge. This is a going to be one for the books so drink your water, take your vitamins and get your rest. Cuz this trio will surely do damage.

Shine – 1337 Mission Street, SF
$5 – 9PM til 2AM
www.shinesf.com

Dirt’s page

Moody Eva’s set at Breakfast of Champions

Erik Hz’s page

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Friday, Feb 22nd – Evil Breaks & False Profit present DIRTY @ DNA

Aaron Jae says:
I know a bunch of people were expecting a show from E.B. in January, but instead of pushing forward with a show that just wasn’t quite right, we decided to move it to February. So here we are, coming at you with a show that we KNOW will deliver. We’re teaming up with False Profit for this one, and along with the 2 UK headliners and a stellar local lineup, this is really one you can’t afford to miss.

Upstairs:
Diverted (Diverted Traffic/TCR/Sokolov Sounds/Mofo/ibreaks) – UK
AMB (Chi-Recordings/Sinister/Money Shot/Audio Therapy) – UK
Carbon Community (Sober Music/Bless Records/Moonshine/E.B.) – SF
Aaron Jae (E.B./Space Cowboys)
Bam (E.B./Invibe)
M.O.D. (E.B.)

False Profit upstairs:
Dr. Toast (FP)
Alxndr (Downlow/FP/Transported SF)
Obi-J (FP)
DJJD (FP)

DNA Lounge ( 375 11th st.)
$10 presales available soon
$10 b4 11pm/$15 after that
10pm – 4am??
21+ w/ID
www.EvilBreaks.com

NEW MUSIC

BOC Mixes ONLINE!
Hella new mixes on the site for you to listen to, including ALL the sets from Breakfast of Champions.

Check them out here

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New 8ball Mix
Finally! What you’ve hella been waiting for…. Another 8Ball Deckless Wonder mix special, just for you!

Tracks:
01. escort / starlight / 118bpm edit
02. fannypack / nu nu yeah yeah
03. the gossip / listen up! / mstrkrft mix
04. mark ronson / stop me feat daniel merriweather / chicken lips malfunction rmx
05. dorfmeister v mdla / boogie no more / reversoo mix
06. the rapture / get myself into it
07. escort / a bright new life / morgan geist rmx
08. she wants revenge / black liner run
09. junior boys / in the morning
10. zoot woman / holiday home
11. the human league / don’t you want me
12. css / let’s make love and listen to death from above
13. spoon / don’t you evah
14. ghostland observatory / paparazzi lightning
15. djosos krost / better place
16. kid dub, cozzy d, d dub / genesis / audiofly rmx
17.royksopp / remind me
18. chromeo / 100%
19. ashley beedle, london heavy disco revue / magic sky / glass robot mix
20. colette / i didn’t mean to turn you on
21.trabant / the one / black ghosts rmx
22.lcd soundsystem / time to get away / gucci soundsystem rmx
23. the pase rock / sexy mf feat amanda blank / dj eli rmx
24. latour / people are still having sex
25. kissy sell out / her / metal on metal rmx
26. le castle vania / tigertron feat factory aire
27. hilary duff / stranger / vission v aude mix
28. christopher just / i’m a disco dancer / misc rmx
29.calvin harris / the girls
30.ciara / get up feat chamillionaire
31. kid sister / let me bang / xxxchange rmx
32. jem / they / cut chemist rmx
33. muscles / jerk
34. chikinki / hello hello / mcsleazy rmx
35. chromeo / tenderoni / mstrkrft rmx
36. robyn / bum like you
37. arabian prince / strange life
38. hyper crush / sex and drugs

And you can find a bunch more 8ball mixes here

Fresh from the Playa this Friday!

8Ball — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:58:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Cocksucker:

Hey, sorry if this announcement is a bit surly—the aggro glow of Black Sabbath Pancakes still hasn’t worn off, I haven’t gotten used to brushing my teeth with toothpaste instead of tequila yet, I’m still suffering from the playa-lag weariness that results from spending my sleeping hours in a virtual sweat lodge, and my interpersonal skills are on par with those of a schoolyard bully. We had a Metric Fuck Ton™ of fun out there this year, and amazingly I’m already missing all our friends and family from the playa. To help ease our reintegration into the real world, this month’s version of our monthly party Fresh will be a 1 week reunion, where we coach each other on the social skills and etiquette that might’ve been left behind on the playa, swap stories of misery and carnage from the Exodus, or just get hammered:

This Friday, September 7th – FRESH FROM THE PLAYA @ SHINE Music by Space Cowboy DJs Brad Robinson, Mancub and 8ball Come in your dusty playa gear! Shine – 1337 Mission Street $5 / 9 – 2 www.shinesf.com

XO, 8ball at spacecowboys dot org

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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (AKA Mighty Breaks, Flaming Lotus Girls, and more!)

8Ball — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:01:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Person:

(Long preamble this morning, so if you’re impatient, skip down for info about Mog appearances at Mighty Breaks tomorrow, the Serpent Mother fundraiser on the 27th, and other goodness.)

Seemed like a good idea at the time. I wish I knew who came up with that phrase, and I’ll bet whoever it was wishes they’d copyrighted the bugger. Think how often it comes up—after Gavin hooked up with his buddy’s wife, right after Chris Daly opens his mouth to says anything, whenever Iraq is mentioned in the White House, and if there’s a God I’m sure he says it whenever he thinks of us. Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time is the only way to explain things like pet rocks, the country meets techno anthem “Cotton-eye Joe”, taking another pill because you’re not “feeling” anything from the first one yet, or any kind of trance ;)

Space Cowboys have done a lot of lame things in our time, and I promise you all of them seemed like a good idea at the time. It’s hard to single out any one moment or act, because they’re all so gloriously lame in their lame, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, way. But with Burningman so close, and with discussion in our group turning towards art projects, there is one treasured story that I think is worth sharing. The story of Space Cowboy Byron’s swing. This was somewhere between 98 and 01, the years are all a blur at this point, so let’s just say the theme was The Seven Nebulous Wheels of the Body. Space Cowboy Byron (who has long since retreated into matrimonial seclusion, where his brain cells will be fortunate enough to live out their remaining days and die a natural death) decided that, while our camp had a barter bar, DJs, hot chicks and dangerous playa vehicles, it was missing one thing: a really big swing. So, he went to work. Now, swings have a fairly uniform structure—a couple of supports with something across the top that the swing hangs from is what most of us are familiar with, but Space Cowboy Byron was what you might call a non-conformist. No paired support structures for him, his swing would be a feat of axioms, paradigms and mathematics, or something. He envisioned what ended up looking like a long, narrow upside down V – where the two top tips of the letter were rooted into the ground at an upward angle, that shot the point of convergence up in the air about 30 feet or so, and the swing hung down on a long rope from the apex. He built the whole thing with thick metal pipes, but since he couldn’t find single pieces long enough to achieve the height he was going for, he coupled several together with some sort of threaded joiner. Remember that, because it’s the important part. The swing went up early in the week, and all agreed that he was right – the camp did need a damn swing after all, and for the next few days many of us lazied away the days swaying on what we would later learn was a giant death trap. Flash forward to the Hoe Down. We were having a party, people were dancing, other people were doing weird Burningman shit, customers were trading random crap for dusty booze at the barter bar, and a dozen yards or so away from the dance floor, a couple of hyper-active burner dudes had the bright idea to try red-lining the swing. They’d take running starts at it, they’d stand on the seat upright, they’d flex and grunt, and kick, and keep the swing further and further up. They were doing such a good job at it that soon, they had a small crowd cheering them on. That just encouraged them to push harder, which must’ve seemed like a good idea at the time. But on their most triumphant lurch upward there was an audible crack, and as they hung in mid-air, segments of the pipes separated everything began to plummet. The two guys, having just reached the crest of their swinging, were shot forward from where the 80lbs or so of metal came crashing down, but they still hit the ground hard, and for a moment nothing moved but the cloud of dust that accident kicked up. Because the guys had been swinging so wildly, the crowd had been standing back a respectable distance, so no one else was in what would’ve been the decapitation zone when the metal came down. Space Cowboy Byron and some others jetted over to see if anyone was hurt, particularly the two nummyheads who’d been on the swing, but as soon as they were able two stand they raced off into the night, apparently fearing some sort of retribution for causing the swing’s collapse. A quick investigation into the disaster uncovered that the ends of the pipe, which had been threaded, were now nearly perfectly smooth – the stress caused by the Xtreme-swingers, which was a scenarios not considered in the design’s calculus, had completely stripped the pipes’ threading. And that was the final ride of the Space Cowboy’s Swing-of-Death, which definitely seemed like a good idea at the time.

xo, 8ball@spacecowboys.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

FRIDAY (TOMORROW) – 7/20 – Mighty Breaks presents SHOW YOUR COLORS Mighty Breaks is hosting a field day/pep rally that brings together your favorite Burning Man crews, each with their own color and DJ.

Join us for a musical battle royale as the crews challenge each other to “walk offs,” arm wrestling, dancing competitions and, of course, drinking games. But know this: there are no sanctioned events, so anything is fair game. Burning Man’s loudest cheerleader, The Space Cowboy’s Unimog, will be bringing it on outside all night.

SPACE COWBOYS – ORANGE – 8ball, rrrus, Mancub & Brad Robinson on the Unimog

SEISMIC – RED – Murphstar
HOUSE OF LOTUS – BLUE – Beth Murphy
THE FRINGE – PURPLE – Mopo & friends
DEEP END – PINK – Zach Moore
OPULENT TEMPLE – WHITE – Syd Gris, Zach Moore
GARAGE MAJAL – GREEN – Jive

Saturday, July 21 – Day Party/Fundraiser at Pier 23 You are invited to an afternoon/evening of dancing in the sunshine (or fog) to celebrate Mango’s soon-to-be bundle of joy! Get your groove on to DJ’s : Ellen Ferrato
Brad Robinson
Zack Darling
Joy Glasier

Pier 23, San Francisco
1pm-8pm, $10 donation requested

Saturday July 28th – SERPENT MOTHER FUNDRAISER presented by Flaming Lotus Girls We’re bring the Mog to Flaming Lotus Girls’ party to help raise funds for the Serpent Mother World Tour. The day kicks off with our favorite carbon-belligerent activity, BBQing followed by several hours of dancing and libation!
With Space Cowboy DJs Brad Robinson, Mancub, 8ball, Kapt’n Kirk, Aaron Jae, and Pure Evil Also with DJs ShOOey (Deep End), Murphstar (Seismic), Shissla (House of Lotus), and Majitope (Lowpro). From 2pm-2am (BBQ 4pm – 9pm, Dancing ‘til 2am)
354 5th Street @ Harrison

Upcoming Space Cowboy Events, Recommendation for Saturday, & New Mixes

8Ball — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:40:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Person:

When I woke this morning I thought I’d bust out today’s announcement first thing, and then get on with my day. But here we are now almost at the end of the day, and I haven’t had a chance to write a proper preamble. Instead I’m just going to get on with the listings, which include info on tomorrow night’s SNAKE fundraiser at the Porn Palace, and the Friday, July 6th FRESH celebrating Space Cowboy Pootie’s birthday in true ass-slappin’ fashion, a recommendation for The Deep End’s benefit this Saturday, plus some links to new mixes by Aaron Jae and yours truly…

XO,

(L)8ball at space cowboys dot org

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, June 28 – Here Kitty Kitty
Mancub’s throwing down (tonight)
Also with DJs Leo, Shrimp, NoMe, & SimpleGreene
222 Hyde (@ Turk)
9 – 2am / 21+ / NO COVER

6/29 Friday – Snake @ The Porn Palace – A Fundraiser to support the art of Peter Hudson
Join us for SNAKE, the sultry companion to MONKEY, our first fundraiser in support of homouroboros, Peter Hudson’s next playa project. Thanks to everyone who came out last time and made it a huge success… let’s do it again! We’re ssssuper pssssyched to present a dusk-til-dawn lineup guaranteed to make your rattle shake. Both rooms will be writhing at the Porn Palace, so come in your finest snake attire!

Special guest Lee Coombs – Thrust With his latest album titled “Land of the Monkeysnake”, this man is no stranger to the cause. Don’t miss a minute of his special extended set!

With support from your local charmers:

Bar
1000 MACE (DeckAde)
1100 Ding Dong (Brass Tax)
1200 Felix the Dog (Black Diamond)
0100 shOOey (In Deep)
0200 Wolfie (LA / (Mutaytor)
0300 j9 (Angels of bAss)
0400 Kapt’n Kirk (Space Cowboys)

Dungeon
1100 Smoove (Funketronic)
1200 Laird (Get Yer Freak On!) vs Shissla (House of Lotus)
0100 Lee Coombs (Thrust)
0230 Brad Robinson (Space Cowboys) vs Murphstar (SEISMIC)
0400 Ernie Trevino (Space Cowboys)

Visuals by MEDIA MAN

As if that wasn’t enough, we’ll also tempt you with the forbidden fruit that is The Flaming Lotus Girls, and a special retrospective of Peter’s previous works. 100% of the proceeds benefit the production of Homouroboros. Go to www.hudzo.com to see why.

Porn Palace
942 Mission b/t 5th & 6th
10:00pm – 5:00am

Tuesday – July 3rd – Evil Breaks, SisterSF, and In Deep presents Dyn-O-Might II @ Mighty

Evil Breaks, Sister SF, In Deep, along with the new addition, the Ambient Mafia, will be teaming up to bring you a 4th of July party celebration you’re not going to forget. And since everyone has the following day off, why not come and spend your Tuesday night in debaucherous style with us at one of the best venues in the city??

Our headliner, Carbon Community will be bringing out his drummer Pete who will be playing on his full drum kit, along with Dave bangin away on his synths & hanging drums. Carbon Community Live has been constantly compared to Uberzone’s Live show, and with the addition of the hanging, light-up drums, it just might be taking it one step further. Come see how amazing a Full Live PA can be!

Carbon Community – FULL LIVE PA!! (w/Cradlerock on drums)

Evil Breaks DJ’s – Aaron Jae, Bam, M.O.D., Athena
In Deep DJ’s – Clark Hamon, shOOey (back room @1am), Zach Moore
SisterSF DJ’s – Forest Green vs Seraphim, Samira vs Icon, Melyss vs Amber
Ambient Mafia DJ’s – Sixtyuk vs Redstickman, Peek vs Speakeasy Ray, Squelchy vs Olde Nasty, Cubik vs Rafiq (Live!), The Captain

Mighty
119 Utah @ 15th
10:00pm – 4:00am
Presales @ http://tinyurl.com/2jkxan: Limited $7, then $10
Door tickets: $10 before 11:30 & $15 afterwards

Friday, July 6th – FRESH – The Pootie Tang Party presented by Biggie Shortee “A party sooo exclusive, air can’t even get in….”
With Pootie’s Bootyshakers Mancub, Kapt’n Kirk, 8ball

Shine
1337 Mission Street in SF
9PM – 2AM, 21+, $5 or FREE to pimps, hos, and Pootie’s pals!
Shine

Friday, July 13th – TRIPLE POWER at Il Pirata Musical guests:
Corbin Dooley (bikini wax, vinylholic recording artist) Arizona bikiniwax.com
DJ Butterface (Vinylholic, Bikiniwax, BreaksFM)
Mancub (Space Cowboys, Netamp, Sleevin)
9:30-11:30 Butterface / Corbin tag team set
11:30 – 12:45 Mancub
2:45-end Giamma
info@djbutterface.com

Saturday, July 21 – Day Party/Fundraiser at Pier 23 You are invited to an afternoon/evening of dancing in the sunshine (or fog) to celebrate Mango’s soon-to-be bundle of joy!
Get your groove on to DJ’s
Ellen Ferrato
Brad Robinson
Zack Darling
Joy Glasier

Pier 23, San Francisco,
1:00PM to 8:00PM
A donation of $10 is requested for this fundraiser

Flaming Lotus Girls Fundraiser SOMA, July 28th Saturday, 2pm-2am

TENTATIVE Line-Up
Pure Evil (Space Cowboys)
8ball (Space Cowboys)
Shissla (House of Lotus)
Mancub (Space Cowboys)
ShOOey (The Deep End)
Brad Robinson (Space Cowboys)
Murphstar (Seismic)
Kapt’n Kirk (Space Cowboys)
Aaron Jae (Space Cowboys)
More details TBD

RECOMMENDED

Saturday, June 30th – Deep Endup—A Deep End fundraiser Please arrive before 2am to ensure your $15 cover ensures the Deep End camp will bring even more high spirits & deep grooves to the playa in 2007!!
:: Lineup ::
1000 – AJ Medina
1200 – Shissla (House of Lotus)
0100 – Aaron Pope
0200 – shOOey
0300 – Clark Hamon
0400 – John Early
0500 – Syd Gris (Opulent Temple)
0600 – Mike Giannini
0700 – Kramer
0800 – Layne Loomis
0900 – Zach Moore
1000 – JRod
1100 – Matt Hosley

The Endup
401 Sixth St @ 6th
10:00pm – noon
$15 donation at the door

MIXES

Aaron Jae’s new mix, “Crunky”, is ready for your downloading pleasure:
Get it here

And yes, ANOTHER MIX by 8ball is ready for you as well—this one’s Electro House Con Carne

Tracklistings, and other mixes are here

Save Club Six

8Ball — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:57:00 -0700

Looks like the City is going after Club Six. Considering the state of 6th Street, seems counter productive for the City to target one of the area’s few successful establishments. But it wouldn’t be the first time government did something that didn’t make a lick of sense… Here’s a plea for community support from Angel Cruz, the owner of C6:

I would like to thank all the patrons, promoters, DJs, artists, and employees of Club Six for an amazing six and a half years. We have owned and operated Club Six trouble free for all these years: there have been no ODs, no stabbings, no shootings, and no underage drinking. Now we have summoned by the Entertainment Commission of San Francisco for a hearing to suspend our Place of Entertainment Permit and our After Hours Permit. This would mean no DJs, no performers, and no dancing for one month. This would put us out of business.
The complaint states that Club Six violated the noise ordinance anywhere from three to nine decibels above our limitations. Over the last few years we have invested over $200,000 in soundproofing. We continue to do more sound work to improve our situation. Regardless of the outcome of the hearing, I am committed to meeting the guidelines the city has set forth. I have 20 years left on my lease at Club Six and intend to continue to bring quality entertainment to the community and to the City of San Francisco.

My goal when I bought Club Six was to unite all types of people, music, and cultures together in a place where everyone from all walks of life would be treated equally. It was to create one of the city’s top venues in what was and considered to be one of the city’s most blighted and destroyed neighborhoods: Sixth Street. Do you remember Sixth Street six and half years ago? Friends and business associates told me it couldn’t be done.

Now, Club Six is the largest minority-owned business and employer on Sixth Street. People from all over the Bay, the country, and the world stop off there. Club Six is the anchor of Sixth Street and in many ways the glue that keeps it together. It has been instrumental in helping to bring more businesses to the neighborhood, and I am very proud to say that I can see my vision of successful co-existence between all types of people being fulfilled every day. Club Six is Sixth Street!

Our hearing is scheduled to be held in Room 406 of City Hall on June 5th and will begin between 4:00 and 5:00 pm. Please show your support for us by showing up and saying a word in our behalf. For now, we will continue to do business as usual. Please come down, listen to some incredible music, dance, and enjoy Club Six. We are open! Please forward this to a friend, send us an email of support at clubsix@comcast.net , and cc the community leaders below.

Thank you again for allowing me this wonderful opportunity to own and operate Club Six.

Angel Cruz
Owner, Club Six
Club Six: clubsix@comcast.net
Chris Daly: chris.daly@sfgov.org
Bob Davis: bob.davis@sfgov.org
Mayor Gavin Newsom: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org
SOMPAC: mban@sompac.com
SPUR: info@spur.org
Urban Solutions: info@urbansolutionssf.org

And one more thing (I forgot, but you shouldn't!)

8Ball — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:21:00 -0700

Hello Friendly Person:

Normally when I omit an event from the announcement, I figure it just wasn’t meant to be. But once in a while I am compelled to retrace my steps and make the world right. And that is the case today, because the not only is the event I spaced an landmark opportunity for the community to come together under the banner of peace, joy and happiness, but (perhaps more importantly) it’s also an event I happen to be playing! That’s right—it’s another big opportunity to see ME, so don’t blow it! (Thanks to shOOey for catching my flub…) – 8b

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Sunday, May 6th – You Can’t Stop Weird!: Opel’s Offical After Party for the How Weird St. Faire

Because of the downsized number of sound stages How Weird is allowed, we don’t get to rock the How Weird St. Faire this year. Have no fear though, you can’t stop weird, as we host one of the official after parties starting at 6pm when the faire is over, right down the street at Mighty.

Indoor / Outdoor Sound with:
Syd Gris (Opel / Opulent Temple)
Hoj (Opel / djhoj.com)
Melyss (Opel / Sister SF)
Mancub (Space Cowboys / amp.net)
Aaron Jae (Evil Breaks / Space Cowboys)
8Ball (Space Cowboys)
shOOey (Deep End)
Scottino (Fix)
Ron/e (Fix)
Nathan Vain (Opulent Temple)
Billy Cassazza (Opulent Temple / Nutbass)
Djeeno (Word of Mouth)

Only $5 bones all night.
2 chill buses in effect
Bring your Toys!
How Weird staff & Volunteers in for Free.
More info at Opel Productions

Space Cowboys in the news + events!

8Ball — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:29:00 -0700

From Andrea’s latest SC annoucement:

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

And on Flickr – 1 , 2 , 3

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 available

Their 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

April Space Cowboy Annoucement

8Ball — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:30:00 -0700

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

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

www.nk7productions.com

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.

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

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

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

### MIXES ###

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”

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.”