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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

A new residency for Lee Coombs at MIGHTY with Space Cowboy DJs on the Unimog & Visuals by James Green of pixnstones.com Space Cowboys are proud to welcome back good friend and rockstar Lee Coombs. Lee is settling down for a chunky extended 4 hour set at Mighty while the cowboys rock the Unimog out front. THRUST Recordings is Lee’s new label, and San Francisco’s newest party. Being one of his favorite cities in the world to DJ, he can’t wait. The full line-up includes members from crews that are helping to make San Francisco one of the great breaks communities in the world: Fred Funk, Goldilox (Brass Tax), Samira (Seismic, SisterSF), Aaron Jae & Bam (Evil Breaks), Adam Ohana (Get Freaky) The guest list page is up and running on Lee’s website, so get on it! Mighty, 119 Utah St. @ 15th, SF 21+ / 10pm-6am / $15 at the door / OR get on that $10 ALL-NIGHT guest list!

you know what’s so crazy about my set last friday? i remember it record for record. i actually pulled my set-list out from that night the next day, which is something i have never been able to do. especially considering that my record box is usually a disastrous mess at the end of the night (and it was again on friday). but i remember my set so clearly, every mix, from the moment i dropped a new record in to the moment i pulled out of each mix. i just knew from the moment i dropped that first track that my set would be strong and loud and tight. i don’t think i’ve ever felt so confident. the crowd was completely there & they just wanted more and more and more. Cece had told me: “i want you to play with absolutely no mercy….” well, the crowd told me the same thing that night. it was incredible :-) SO many people came up to me that night & thanked me profusely for making that event possible. not your standard “you played a great set”, but people truly being grateful for the experience. quite remarkable.

Word around town is that the dormant dance music scene –along with the crowds that make it move — is coming back fast and furious. (Just check Monty Luke’s blog if you don’t believe us.) One indicator is the new party Beatmatch, in which DJs from SF’s tightest crews infuse the opulent settings of Mezzanine with a bit of the underground spirit that nourished them on the long way up. Tonight’s party offers a mix of house and breaks from Green Gorilla’s M3 and Anthony Garlic, Sister SF’s Melyss and Samira, and Space Cowboys’ Brad Robinson and Smoove. No funny business, just straight-up dance music for an energizing Friday night. (PS) Which crews were represented at the first Beatmatch party? The first correct answer wins a doublepack CD from Sister’s Melyss and Samira. flavorpill SF

Beatmatch is taking us back to the early days of the SF underground dance scene. When with an incredible passion for dance music, DJs delivered the 4/4 beats (in the strangest of locations) and the vibrant crowds went wild to make San Francisco a true player in the world of house music. Tonight, local (and exceptionally tight) DJ crews: Sister SF, Green Gorilla Lounge and the Space Cowboys are teaming up to show us how it’s done and put to rest, once and for all, that the dance music scene here is dwindling in 2004. (JC) Nitevibe Buzz