Samira

A Special Flambé Lounge & Black Rock Arts Foundation Benefit We’re HALF way there! Don’t miss celebrating the mid-point in our Burning Year! Doors open 7pm. Arrive early for happy hour drink specials, art reception, Burning Man schwagabelia (get it while it lasts!), prize drawings and superfantastic treats–for early birds only! Also get the inside scoop on the SoMa Park STAN Project! And stay late because the fun goes till 4am STRONG!

NuBass Breakbeats presents Broken Beats Break Hearts: an evening of breakbeats supplied by an all female line-up! Samira (SEISMIC, Sister SF) NAHA (Gray Life) Nyx (Breakbeat Ninjas) Charly (Bodyrock) Dante’s 5300 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle 21+ // $5 Fatt and filthy breaks on plush Mackie sound.

A Pagan Valentine Initiation Temple of the Heaving Bosoms: Sly, Ben Davis vs. Sharon Buck, Eprom, Samira. Funk-tional Devotions: Leopard Skin Uke, Z.O.N.K. (Live!), ESKMO. Don’t miss the live music, on-site costuming, roving performers, rooftop garden, two stages, dancing dancing dancing going late late late! Anon Gallery, 285 9th St. (@ Folsom), SF 10pm until late! $10 before 10:30 / $15 devoted/ $20 ambivalent More info

How great is San Francisco right now? Cherry blossoms in full bloom; 65 degree weather and sunny days. It feels like spring is in the air! Come on out tonight to celebrate this fine city we live in! SEISMIC is going head to head against the Space Cowboys for Mighty Breaks tonight. The same crews that brought you the New Years marathon of SEISMIC 007 and Breakfast of Champions are teaming up for another rocking night. We love throwing down with the Cowboys as mayhem always happens we get together with those kids. As a special treat, Breaks superstar Plaza De Funk is fresh off the plane from London to headline this event. Plaza De Funk is Brilliant. He spent yesterday showing the SEISMIC crew his latest unreleased tracks and all we can say is that you all are in for a treat. Featuring SEISMIC DJs: Murphstar, Trav, Samira & Brett Pinkin and Cowboy DJs: 8ball, The Geometrist, Mancub & Evinrude Mighty – 119 Utah @ 15th 10pm -4am, $5 in advance at mighty119.com, $10 at the door Buy Tickets

If you are planning to buy discount Pre-Sales for SEISMIC 007, do it NOW! We only have 30 remaining. If your friends have been slacking, tell them to get on it. This event will sell out.

If you miss out on Pre-Sales, we will have some tickets at the door. They are $60 before 10:30 PM and $70 after 10:30 PM.

Remember, it is New Years and the line for the door can get pretty long from 10:30 -1:00 so get there early.

SEISMIC 007 is lining up to be our best event ever. From an amazing line up of world class DJs to mind blowing custom visuals from Pix-N-Stones, a cast of drop dead gorgeous Bond Girls, 3 full bars and two rooms of sound, Complimentary Champagne at Midnight and you!

Celebrate the Eve of the Eve of the Eve with the Pronoia crew. We’ve invited our friends over and we’re serving it up family style! Help yourself to a healthy heaping of Breaks, Dubstep, Ghettotech, Glitchfunk, Drum n Bass, etc. Have as much as you want! It’s FREE. Courtesy of your friendly local DJs: Audiovoid/LayerZ vs Genji Samira vs Redstickman Raydeus vs. Calamity Jane Pieter Rizen vs Obi-J This free evening of sonic alchemy Powered by Pronoia. Le Duplex (1525 Mission St, SF) is a dope new space that just opened this year with a sweet vaulted ceiling, full mahogany bar and a fat EAW Avalon sound system for the dance floor. There is a tight skywalk that over looks the bar with a vip room and bottle service.

Just received an email from Melyss with a link to this article about the closing of London based distribution company Intergroove UK: DJmag.com Dance News: Intergroove Goes Bust “Dance music labels, vinyl lovers, and record shops are today mourning the death of one of the world’s biggest dance music distributors.” Intergroove distributed many labels, including a large lot of some very fine breakbeat labels: 10 Kilo, Audio Bug, BoomBox, Burrito, Chi, Deep Cuts, Fat, Finger Lickin’, Functional, Jalapeno, Kilowatt, Lab-Rok, Lot 49, Marine Parade, Menu Music, Mile High, Mob, Money Shot, Punk Funk, Release, Spin Out, Splank, Streetwise, Supercharged, Tagsta, TCR, Thrust, Vertical Sound. This is pretty shocking news. Yes, i understand that the world is becoming more and more digital & yes, it’s part of the evolution of things & yes, i’m sure those of us who are still die-hard vinyl junkies will eventually adapt. The sheer number of artists and labels that will be affected by this, however, is considerably large–especially for the breaks scene. A sad day, in many regards. More thoughts on this soon.

Link: SEISMIC Link: Mighty Deekline & Wizard, Nick Thayer and Murphstar, Samira, Trav, Brett Pinkin, along with Emerge. Special Guests: The Space Cowboys out front and Club Bootie in the Back!

the sound of my mother tongue. the sounds of trees. galloping horses. the sound of percolating coffee, the sound of carbinated water. the sound of a well-maintained motorcycle, and sounds that ratchets make. or the way in which only david bowie can pronounce: “jasmine” every sound that keith jarrett has ever spilt into this world. the turning of pages in old hardbound books. the lack of sound, the spaces in between as these to me constitute the essence of breakbeat, of poetry, of philosophy… and, at times, i also like the sound of my memory