I feel the love. Yes. How nice to get a love letter instead of all this terrified hate mail…

love indeed. xo

I’m sound asleep in my indoor mall balcony room at the mall of the americas Marriot in Dallas and suddenly this strobe light starts going off. It wakes me up – dunnoe why a rave in my room would wake me up, they’re old school and I’m totally used to them – Then the computer lady starts saying “Attention. Attention.” in that completely emotionless voice. You know, the one that totally freaks you out because it is really saying “We are in control now.” right? Then the voice says “There has been an emergency in the building. Please evacuate the building. Do not use the elevator.”

It looks like this in my room:

So I’m naked. And I’m wandering around the room holding my phone and my sweater (I know, you’re thinking “Why did he wear a sweater to Texas?)
And I decide that there can’t possibly be a real emergency. The strobe light is still going off, and computer lady won’t shut up, but it’s gotta be that someone smoked in their room, or the housekeeping people didn’t want to wait to work. They were just over excited about cleaning and pulled the fire alarm to get everyone out. Right?

So I look out of my window. The little strobe lights are going off all over the entire mall. The computer lady is talking at each one of them all over the mall. It’s a bad vision of the future. I look up and water is pouring down from the balcony above me. It’s seeping into my room. It smells bad. It’s not just water, it’s POOP WATER.

OK. Well now I’m dressed. And I’ve got my sunglasses on. An I’m wandering the halls looking for the stairs. I find them and make it safely to the lobby. The hotel staff are there to greet me. They explain that a sprinkler malfunctioned. They upgrade me to a junior suite. They give me a grande coffee on the house. I stagger outside to smoke.

Outside I learn that a man in the room next to the people I’m sitting with – the man in the room above me – was a “large man” and he “did something to the toilet.” Margory – a wan, thin woman in stylish sunglasses and pajamas – explained everything to me. He was standing on his toilet trying to blow smoke up into the bathroom fan when the toilet collapsed out from under him. The industrial toilet fixture couldn’t hold his weight. It just gave. Well… He tried to hold on to the sprinkler so he wouldn’t fall. So he set off the fire alarm, demolished the toilet, and ripped the sprinkler out from the ceiling as he fell to the hard slate floor and hit his head.

Awesome.

Out here smoking, I begin to wonder “is poop water bad?” so I ask Siri – the ai on my phone – She doesn’t know. I ask a staff member, “Why does it smell like poop?” She puts her hand on her heart – like they only do in Texas – and closes her eyes – so you know she’s lying – and says “oh. That’s because the water comes from a different line.”

I stare into her lying Texas eyes and smile. “Thank you.” I say. But I’m really thinking “Right. It comes from the poop water line. And poop water is totally bad for me.”

They have just given the all clear. I get to go back up to my room now and get my things – the non essentials I left behind (how can I face those things now?) – and go up to the 8th floor and enjoy my junior suite upgrade for about 2 hours before I have to go to the airport to come home.

Life is so beautiful. The set last night was the best one I’ve ever played in Texas. Simply breathtaking. So amazing.

Needless to say I return this afternoon to San Francisco in true and visceral triumph.

This intro portion of the talk is ultra upbeat and kind of annoying. Bear with it, or skip over it and listen to this man. Enjoy!

Here is the facebook event invite:

http://www.facebook.com/events/310692755675292/

It says it’s invitation only,
let me know if you want to be invited and I will be glad to send you one.

Listening to this aural history of Ibiza has set my heart on fire. I can’t tell if it leaves me missing San Francisco more than the summer I spent on the Balearic Islands in 1989 or the other way around. But I’m aching inside for counter culture, momentum, freedom, and something that really feels like it’s mine. I’m really tired of “them,” and I’m really tired of “you.” I want to go home. I want to let go. I want to set my own soul ablaze with the love that can hardly speak anymore…

I think it’s brave and wonderful of Danny Rampling to have produced this documentary. It’s a little on the over the top UK announcer voice thing, but what’s really perfect is how much of the music we get to hear, and how the people who were there do the talking. That much of this documentary is precious, and wonderful. So little of our history has been captured, recorded, or documented in any way. I am so glad this was produced. Thank you.

Barefoot In The Head Part 1

Barefoot In The Head Part 2

You don’t have to sit here on this page and listen to the whole thing – I know how hard that is for some people – so it’s downloadable, and you can bring it with you on a journey of your own. Enjoy!

In an era of snotty little brats only liking things that either no one else has ever heard about before, or that smack you in the head (because you’re dead inside, but you blame it on other people) I want to take a moment to introduce you to something really near and dear and special and wonderful: The Dead Rose Music Company.

It takes time to appreciate what these two are all about. The music isn’t fast, it doesn’t come to your house, knock on the door, and when you answer jump out of the bushes in white sunglasses and yellow pants screaming… this music comes with you wherever you go. You hum it later, and don’t know what it is. It seeps into you, and loves you back.

In my opinion The Dead Rose Music Company are the best thing going. I am a fan. I am devoted. I love what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and everything else about them.

Listen for yourself:

Links:
Soundcloud Profile
Twitter Profile
Profile on futureboogie

It’s Littlz Birthday and one of her all time favorite producers is coming to town to do a special LIVE set.

FRIDAY MAY 11, 2012

3HR. LIVE/DJ SET (get there early, you won’t regret it!)

san francisco house legend…

SUNSHINE JONES
Dubtribe Sound System, Treehouse Muzique,
King Street, Sunday Soul

http://treehousemuzique.com/

http://soundcloud.com/sunshine-jones

local support by…

JOHN BAUGH
SoundsLike

music starts at 10pm
21+ w/ valid ID

Elm St. Bar
2810 Elm St.
Dallas, TX

ONLY $5 ALL NIGHT LONG! Don’t sleep on this one! :)

Here’s the facebook invitation

Sunshine Jones is returning to DeepSpace!
Sunshine and François Kevorkian all night
Monday April 30th 2012 – Cielo – NYC

The end of a lovely NYC weekend:
Saturday April 28th – Dubtribe at Robot Heart in Brooklyn
Sunday April 29th – Sunday Soul Unlimited – NYC
Monday April 30th – DeepSpace – NYC

It’s a lovely weekend coming up at the end of April 2012

1. Dubtribe Sound System join Robot-Heart in Brooklyn on April 28th
Copy Machine Heart Buses Dance

Facebook event information

2. Sunday Soul Unlimited – NYC
We are still sorting out the location, but on Sunday the 29th I’ll be in Manhattan transmitting Sunday Soul Unlimited from somewhere – Zoe Wilder, Nutritious, and Illana are on the case helping me to locate the right spot for us to get down in.

More info

Nevermind. I decided to do April’s Sunday Soul on the 22nd instead. So no SSU in NYC. Sorry New York. I wanted a day in town to play.

3. Sunshine Jones and FK at Deep Space on April 30th
As a part of the Deep Space anniversary celebration I will be joining FK for the second time at Cielo for Deep Space.

Last time was a defining moment in my life. I could have hung up my headphones and never played again after that party. Hisa was leaping up and down, taking pictures, Red picked me up and shouted “You are my new boyfriend!”, the lighting man fell deeper and deeper in love with me every track I played, and FK let me play for hours and hours. Never to be repeated or duplicated. Heaven on earth. Let’s see what happens this time!

More info
Facebook invitation

To Listen:
At 9pm in San Francisco (which is Midnight in Manhattan, and a sleepy 5 am in London)
you can head over to 90hz.org and click the big play button.

For a little bit more of a sophisticated listening experience you can grab the 90hz IP address – http://sc2.mystreamserver.com:8084
and drop it into iTunes, or WinAmp or WMP or however you listen to inter-web audio
and rock it like that.

Easy.

iPhone and iPad Users:
You can connect with your iPhone from anywhere you have cellular signal.
open Safari and type http://sc2.mystreamserver.com:8084/listen.pls – touch go
No need for an app or anything, it just works.

Community:
We get together in the chat at 90hz. We are a tight group of friends,
we talk seriously, and freely. It’s nice if you’re up for that.
It might be weird if you’re not.

To join in the dialog, sign up for the 90hz forum and then click the “chat” link
from anywhere on 90hz.org and come on in.

Mailing List:
Sign up for the Sunday Soul mailing list here. We never ever share our email list
with a single solitary soul. You opt in, and you opt out.
It’s up to you completely.

For more about Sunday Soul – here
Read the manifesto – here

Join Us!

Dubtribe Sound System return to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina
Saturday May 5th 2012
Asheville Music Hall
with In PLain Sight
Tickets available at brown paper tickets

I am playing a very special live electronic set in dub on Sunday May 13th 2012
at Dub Mission in San Francisco. Dub Mission is at Elbo Room – 647 Valencia St.
9pm until 2am and it’s 21 and over please.

Facebook Event Invitation

Pick it up here
Read the press release

It’s so lovely to see a little vinyl revival around here. It’s been much too long.
I am thrilled, and honored to be included at the subject of this special edition 10″
Makes me so happy.

Enjoy!

this remix of Syvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ is under my skin today. And I feel it. I feel real…

Thank You illvester. You’re killin’ me.

To Listen:
At 9pm in San Francisco (which is Midnight in Manhattan, and a sleepy 5 am in London)
you can head over to 90hz.org and click the big play button.

For a little bit more of a sophisticated listening experience you can grab the 90hz IP address
and drop it into iTunes, or WinAmp or WMP or however you listen to inter-web audio
and rock it like that.

Easy.

iPhone and iPad Users:
You can connect with your iPhone from anywhere you have cellular signal.
open Safari and type 216.59.35.35:8084/listen.pls – touch go
No need for an app or anything, it just works.

Community:
We get together in the chat at 90hz. We are a tight group of friends,
we talk seriously, and freely. It’s nice if you’re up for that.
It might be weird if you’re not.

To join in the dialog, sign up for the 90hz forum and then click the “chat” link
from anywhere on 90hz.org and come on in.

Mailing List:
Sign up for the 90hz.org mailing list. We never ever share our email list
with a single solitary soul. You opt in, and you opt out.
It’s up to you completely.

Head over to 90hz.org and make the decision for yourself.

For more about Sunday Soul – here
Read the manifesto – here

Join Us!

A project that really has my attention is Brand Spirit:

“Every day for 100 days, I will paint one branded object white, removing all visual branding, reducing the object to its purest form. Each object may be purchased for less than $10, something I own, something another person gives me, or something I find.”

Have a look