Honey Soundsystem is a San Francisco gay DJ collective that throws events that feature international musical artists with a "fey" sensibility and impeccable talent. Our events center around classical imagery and historic moments in queer nightclub history. Honeysoundsystem.com for more details.
Get ready, Honey Soundsystem's next big move is just around the corner, sit tight and enjoy all the new music being released on our Honey-Pot-Cast before we reveal our most exciting news to date...
Thanks for all the support, this summer has been wicked!
Thursday Night Robot Hustle + Pee Play Burning Mary's Supremacy Party 5:00 oclock on the Wheel Sundown to Sunup
Friday Night Honey Soundsystem's Honey Dusted at Comfort + Joy All Night Party w/ special guest Felix Dickinson (Cynic, Horsemeat Disco) 7:30 and FAIRLANE
Thursday August 7th, in San Francisco Radio Lines: A West Add Radio Benefit Party Josh Cheon, Robot Hustle, and Steve Summers support The Transfer on Church + Market 9-2am I Donations go to West Add Radio www.westaddradio.com
Suppervision II III's projection cabaret + cuddlefest Supperclub on Harrison + 3rd $9 pjs/costumes I $15 street clothes www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHsefalszA
Thursday August 7th, in Los Angeles A Club Called Rhonda with Dee Jay Pee Play Guatelinda - 4916 Hollywood Blvd. 9-2am I $3 with RSVP to rsvp@callrhonda.net, $6 without RSVP www.callrhonda.net
Friday August the 8th, in Los Angeles Shits & Giggles : San Francisco Takeover Honey Soundsystem (Jason Kendig/PeePlay) + Parker (aka Lady Meat) 740 S Broadway in Downtown (enter through alleyway) 10-? I $5 Cover
And of-course who would want to miss the Special Disco Version Donuts (DFA!) in Los Angeles on Saturday? Details at donutsparty.com
We would love to see you out and if you see us give us a hug! New mixes in the works now for the Honey-pot-cast check your itunes any day now! We also have a couple of Large Honey-logo T-shirts still available for sale just ask!
Pick up this weeks Guardian with DJ Jason Kendig on the cover and Josh Cheon mention as an up and coming gay to watch in 2008. Honey Residents Out of the Closet: PRIDE FRIDAY JUNE 27th
MARY: Burning Mary's Pride Party w/ KENDIG+ROBOTHUSTLE PRIVATE LOCATION + CALL 4157387537
BIBI: Middle Eastern Pride Disco w/ JOSH CHEON THE PORK STORE 16th + Mission
HONEY SOUNDSYSTEM at GLASOTNBURY (UK) 2008 KENVULSION + PEEPLAY PERFORM at NYC DOWNLOW TENT FRI 27th 11pm - 1am + SAT 29th 2am - 4am
HONEY SNDSYSTM Fire Island Disco Party Saturday June 21 Cafe Flore Market & Noe SF
This is the after party for the screening of WILD COMBINATION A Portrait of Arthur Russell by MATT WOLF
The screening is at the ROXIE Theater part of the 2008 FRAMELINE FESTVAL
Synopsis:
WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience.
Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg—to tell this poignant and important story
ANNOUNCEMENT! STEFAN GOLDMANN IS THE NEXT HNY GUEST!
Having released for top notch labels like Classic and Ovum since 2001, Stefan Goldmann is one of Germany’s most respected producers and DJs today – especially after his ground breaking releases for Innervisions and Perlon. Creating an unique style of house beyond deep and future forward techno beyond minimal, Stefan has clearly set an unmistakeable trademark of his own on the map of electronic music today. With his meticulous production and focus on quality he’s been running ahead of the pack, and being enthusiastically rinsed by top notch DJs from all accross the board. His track Sleepy Hollow on Innervisions – also featuring a b-side together with Germany’s most wanted: Ame - attracted key players as diverse as Carl Craig, Garnier, Villalobos, Hawtin, Steve Bug, Luciano and Gilles Peterson playing it in their sets and making it a hit all over the place. It was also voted being one of the top 10 tracks of 2006 by the readers of Germany's Groove and De:Bug magazines. Sleepy Hollow clearly set the standard in 2006 together with the other few anthems like Audion’s “Mouth To Mouth” and Carl Craig’s remix for Theo Parrish “Falling Up”.
A string of highly acclaimed remixes (Romboy & Chelonis R. Jones, Blackjoy, IT, Kenny Hawkes, Sideshow and coming up: DJ Gregory) for labels like Faya Combo, Freerange, Classic, MFF and Systematic also established Stefan as one of Europe’s most in demand remixers. Some of his rather experimental works have been recently added to the IMEB Phonoteque at the National Library of France and exclusively featured by Richie Hawtin in his DE9 Transitions DVD mix on Minus as well as being an integral part of his digital live sets.
Furthermore in 2006 a now legendary series of 6 DJ sets by Stefan was commisioned and broadcasted by London’s Lektric Forms Radio. Other artists on the station included Ivan Smagghe and Jennifer Cardini. In his radio sets, Stefan mixed anything from John Zorn to LFO. His club sets are equally challenging, representing a broad range of outstanding dance music instead of sticking to a narrow conception of one of today’s subgenres. Main spot frenzy is as much a strength of Stefan as his early morning sets at Berlin’s Panorama Bar.
In 2007 Stefan finally founded his own label Macro, with its debut “Aurora”. Macro was created as a boutique label showcasing very few artistically outstanding, carefully designed releases a year. The first release went straight to #4 on Groove Mag’s Top50 and received overwhelming support by everyone from Hawtin to Luciano and Lazarus, to Kruder and Steve Bug. Besides running the label and producing new material for Innervisions and Perlon, Stefan is DJing all over Europe, with upcoming tours of the US and Japan.
$10 Dollar Pre-Sale Tickets are available for a limited time only for Return To Paradise with Sister Sledge ("We Are Family" "The Greatest Dancer") and Holy Ghost! (DFA Records).
Go --->here to order them online with TicketWeb Tickets also available W/O Service Charge at Azaela 411 Hayes Street (at Gough) or Urban Outfitters, 80 Powell Street
Tickets go to $15 anyday now. Then they end up at $20 at the door due to the enormous costs to make this brilliant party a realization! Don't believe? Check out video from Hercules last month:
Alexader Robotnick is one of those charachters in music that mystifies. Alexander Robotnick (aka Maurizio Dami) is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi.
In 1983 he attained international popularity with his track "Problèmes d'amour", published first by the Italian label Materiali Sonori and then by Sire-Wea. "Problèmes d'amour" went on to become a "cult track" of dance music. In 1984 he joined "Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici" a multimedia-oriented group and composed soundtracks for theatre works, videos and video-installations. He also composed soundtracks for films and theatre works by Italian directors such as Alessandro Benvenuti, Antonio Climati, Marco Mattolini, and Marco Risi.
In 1987 he turned his interest to World Music, and for the next decade collaborated with African, Kurdish and Indian musicians. In 1994 Robotnick began working with the Indian-Italian band "Govinda" leading to the production of two tracks "Devotion" and "Transcendental Ecstasy" for Govinda's first album "Selling India By the Pound".
In Summer 1995 he conceived and organized the first Ambient Music Festival in Florence at Anfiteatro delle Cascine. In 1996, with Nazar Abdulla and Rashmi Bhatt, he created "The Third Planet" , a multi-ethnic band that blended traditional music from Kurdistan, Algeria and India with modern sounds. With "The Third Planet" he produced 2 albums; "Kurdistani" and "The Third Planet". The band gave numerous concerts in Italy. In 1997 his collaboration with Lapo Lombardi and Ranieri Cerelli lead to the "Alkemya" project, releasing an album with CNI. In 2000 he created a label of his own, Hot Elephant Music.
A selection of music supported at last year’s Burning Man Festival by Uchronia, Hot Alien Lounge, the Deep End, Green Gorilla Lounge, Honey Sound System and Wicked. Featuring tracks and remixes by Trentemoller, Richard Dinsdale, Monolake, Switch, Tigerskin, Blackstrobe, Ame, Triple R, Rub N’ Tug, Out Hud, Modeler, Radio Slave, Break 3000, and Solieb. Mixed live by Ken Vulsion on the Honey Sound System. Image courtesy of Uchronia aka the Belgian Waffle.
HNYARCHIVE: Kenvulsion's This Is Not A Disco (4/15/08) [View | Hide]
Its hard to explain how good this mix is. When this one came out it was on repeat for so many people we knew that you kinda just gotta hear it to get it. One thing is for sure, Kings of Tommorow gets the red carpet treatment here.
The FREE RSVP list is CLOSED for Hercules + Love Affair and Honey Soundsystem this Friday. For all of you who missed out you can still get in on our $10 guestlist (rsvp now, pay at the door).
Send an email to RSVP@mezzaninesf.com with “$10 LOVE AFFAIR” in the subject and their FIRST and LAST NAME in the body of the email.
Now go clean that battered bed sheet because Friday night is a TOGA PARTY (no joke and we will have complimentary TOGAS and clothes check for those that come without).
Greek Gods 01
Bacchus, in Greek and Roman mythology, the god of wine, identified with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and Liber, the Roman god of wine. The son of Zeus (Jupiter), Bacchus is usually characterized in two ways. One is that of the god of vegetation, specifically of the fruit of the trees, who is often represented on Attic vases with a drinking horn and vine branches. As he came to be the popular national Greek god of wine and cheer, wine miracles were reputedly performed at certain of his festivals. The second characterization of the god, that of a deity whose mysteries inspired ecstatic, orgiastic worship, is exemplified by the Maenads, or Bacchantes. This group of female devotees left their homes to to roam the wilderness in ecstatic devotion to the god. They wore fawn skins and were believed to possess occult powers. The name Bacchus came into use in ancient Greece during the 5th century bc . It refers to the loud cries with which he was worshiped at the Bacchanalia, frenetic celebrations in his honor. These events, which supposedly originated in spring nature festivals, became occasions for licentiousness and intoxication, at which the celebrants danced, drank, and generally debauched themselves. The Bacchanalia became more and more extreme and were prohibited by the Roman Senate in 186 bc . In the first century ad , however, the Dionysiac mysteries were still popular, as evidenced by representations of them found on Greek sarcophagi.
Mezzanine booked Hercules and Love Affair + Timo Maas on the same bill. Then they called us to repair some of the damage. We couldn't be more excited.
Not only do we get the honor of introducing ourselves to one of our favorite new acts but we also get to reward our devoted dancers. We are offering 100 free tickets to the event this Friday at Mezzanine (11/04/2008), first come first serve.
Hercules and Love Affair is responsible for this winters #1 faggy dancefloor favorite "Blind" featuring Antony's (of Antony and the Johnsons fame) vocal stylings. His album is chock full of disco-house deliciousness and flawless from start to finish. 12" and a full length coming out on DFA records, Hercules (aka Andy Butler) is the gay making us shake our hips and lick our lips. We are delighted to give him a warm San Francisco welcome, as we know you are too.
Send an email to: CONTEST@mezzaninesf.com with “FREE HERCULES” in the subject and your FIRST and LAST NAME in the body of the email. Follow these instructions very carefully otherwise you might not get on the list. Please only send one name at a time.
After all the spots have been filled, we will have a LIMITED $10 discounted tickets guestlist.
As apart of our first ever adaptation of a book onto the dance floor starting today we will be sharing different excerpts from Dancer from the Dance on our blog and myspace until Sunday the 23rd. Here is pages 30-32 featured on our flyer:
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