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Looking for a place to sweat off the Thanksgiving extra weight? Shine’s got Battle of the Bands (as in Sweatbands) tonight, featuring Space Cowboy DJs Tamo and Zach Moore, plus Ethan Miller, Mace, Kramer, and some jerk named Murphstar!

Sweatband-up and head over to Shine, 1337 Mission St., at 10pm – 2am.

More info on the Facebook invite

We have a little Thanksgiving treat for you, Friendly Person. The latest installment of the Ghost Ship mixes is from yours truly, 8ball, and lemme tell you, this mix is going to be the perfect compliment for your holiday dining. I don’t want to oversell this, but I think it’s fair to say that if you download this mix and drop it on mom and pop’s stereo at dinner tomorrow you will definitely get their attention. Maybe even in a good way!

I know there are a lot of rumors out that about 8ball, and it’s sometimes hard to know what to believe, how to separate the truth from the truthy. So, I’ll take this moment to set the record straight. Yes, I am the longest serving member of Space Cowboys. No, my DJ name is not a drug reference. Yes, it does seem a lot like a drug reference, but I swear it’s not. No, the guy who tried to burn the man a few years back wasn’t listening to Deckless Wonder vol. 3 on his iPod moments before he did it. Yes, I sharted at BoC and had to play my set and hang out for the rest of the party commando-style. And no, I don’t patrol the crime-ridden streets of San Francisco dolling out justice wearing a mask, a cape, and shirt cocking.

Now, where was I… Oh yeah. Here’s my Ghost Ship set. I went with breaks for this party, mainly because it’d been a while since I played a breaksy set. I had a strategy: since the party was called Ghost Ship I had to play “I’m On a Boat” and since it was Halloween I had to play “Thriller”. And I played some other stuff, because if I’d just played those 2 songs for the full hour it might’ve been a little weird.

- 8B

1. I’m On a Boat featuring T Pain – DJ Kue’s Remix – The Lonely Island
   
2. One in the Front featuring DJ Assault – Deekline & Dustin Hulton Remix – Deekline & Wizard
   
3. Miami Block Parties – Slyde
   
4. Block Parties – Slyde
   
5. Get Hype On This – BSD
   
6. Crazy Love – Peo De Pitte Remix – Drumattic Twins
   
7. Club Action – Stanton Warriors Remix – Yo Majesty
   
8. Panther – Syntonics Remix – Barletta
   
9. Pushin Harder featuring Whiskey Pete – DJ Hero Remix – Oh Shit!
   
10. Rude Boys – Kraft Kuts Re-rub – Krafty Kuts vs Draax & Seavers
    
11. Thriller – Louse La Rouche Remix – Michael Jackson
    
12. Killa Soundboy featuring Sleepy Wonder & Zeebo – Featurecast Remix – Fort Knox Five
    
13. Dynamite Love – Krafty Kuts
    
14. Nine to Five – Rico Tubbs Remix – Boltan
    
15. Bulletproof – Larry Tee & Alexander Technique Blogula Remix – La Roux
    
16. Shake It Naught – DJ Fixx

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Many more mixes are here

Aaron Pope’s been a long time friend and favorite of the Cowboys, so we’re exceptionally glad that the recorder didn’t bomb out on is set like it did for Murphstar’s (sorry Murph!).

Pope wrote us a short play-by-play of his Ghost Ship DJing experience…

This year’s Ghost Ship party was one of the better SF parties I’ve ever been involved with. When I took over the decks at 4am, the main floor was packed with screaming, bouncing, costumed silliness, and the energy was infectious. At one point I remember there being a row of self-appointed go-go dancers, dancing on the stage in front of me – until security shooed them off. Since I was closing out the room, and wanted to keep the crowd on the floor, I kept the music fun, rather than dark and bangin’. I played an eclectic mix of house, breaks and electro, including some original songs that that my partner Chad and have done. Before I knew it, it was 4:50am and security guy was there again, giving me the ‘cut-it’ sign. I reluctantly lowered the fader, thanked the crowd, and the party was over. I hope the live energy and fun of this set comes through in the recording, and please excuse the few, of less-than-perfect mixes.

The tracklisting for his set is…
1) Apollo 440 – Dude Descending a Staircase (Stanton Warrior Vocal Mix)
2) Skee Lo – I wish I Was Taller (Big Deal Remix)
3) Waveplant & Ernesto – Bassline (Chad North and Aaron Pope Remix)
4) Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls (Zodiac Cartel ‘Weapon of Choice’ Remix)
5) Calvertron – Doggy Style (Zodiac Cartel Remix)
6) Armand Van Helden – This Ain’t Hollywood
7) Haggstrom-Be My Baby (Peo De Pitte Remix)
8) Chew Fu – I’m the Man in My City (Dirty Extended Fix)
9) NAPT – Angels
10) The Body Snatchers – I Like What I see (HiJack Mix)
11) Dr. Dre – Still D.R.E. (Tenzin remix)
12) Tittsworth – WTF (Deekline & Tim Healy Remix)
13) 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings and Queens (Chad North remix)
14) Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Stanton Warrior Remix)

Get the mix here

More about Aaron Pope
You can also find Aaron Pope on his Facebook page

And you can download two more recent mixes full of house, breaks, electro, and some original tracks on JungoRoad.com.

Most of his other mixes, including lots of funky, mid-tempo fun, can be downloaded here.

Next from our Ghost Ship recordings is Kapt’n Kirk. He’s a longtimer with Space Cowboys, and if you’ve been to any of our landmark events like the Hoe Down or Breakfast of Champions, you’re familiar with this nutball’s dark and dirty breaks.

I’ve now played a good handful of Space Cowboys Halloween parties at this point, so this time I wanted to put something together that would be good party music and would really get the dancefloor rocking. This was also the first time since my very first time playing out that I actually put together my set from start to finish prior to hitting the decks. Though, without working turntables or Cdjs I had no way to practice the set. While in many cases I believe that live mixes should sometimes just be left “on the dance-floor” (not in your car), I was truly stoked to have a live mix that was ready for ready for downloading. All of these tracks are new to me within the last few months. Please enjoy, and I’ll see you all at BOC with some nastier sh#@t to melt yer raving faces off. Blat!

1. Hands Up – Benzo, feat Ed Solo Mc Flipside (Stanton Warriors Remix)
   
2. Sewer Gash – Stereo Type
3. FunkDation – BSD
   
4. Bouncy – G.T.M
   
5. Freestyle – J Mekka and J Bass
   
6. ThrottleFunk – Marc Adamo
   
7. Attitude – Alien Nation V DFunk
   
8. Schizophrenic – Utku Sonmez
   
9. Deft ODE – Vent
   
10. AvonDale Krunk – Timmy Schumacher
    
11. Garms – Vent, Ft. Profisee
    
12. Sickening – Stereo Type
    
13. On the Mic – Dom Almond
    
14. Hyper Flight – Equalizers
    
15. Under My Skin – Stereo Type
    
16. Blood Sport – Equalizers
    
17. Dusk Til Dawn – Stereo Type, Feat Wizard, $pida & Foreign Beggars
    
18. Bangers & Mash – Stereo Type, Feat Foreign Beggars
    
19. Mothermash – Unknown remix
    
20. Get Wild – Stanton Warriors

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