This was the first event of the Tour which was totally planned and implemented after the Tour's split with Fraser Clark.~cubensis
Reviews from the e-mail community SF-Raves, the day after the event:
The SPAZ/Zippie party was definetley one of the best parties I've been to all summer. There were essentialy three rooms, the front entrance/bongo lounge ... The main dance area, and the chill space down below. The vibe was plain and simple: DANCE DANCE DANCE. With the exception of the ambient area, I never saw anyone NOT dancing!
The atmosphere was this weird sort of techno-psychedlia. They had some great black light art and lots of other wierd stuff painted on the walls, not to mention the video projections and the other assorted effects. I was under the impression that the building the party was in was the 'zippies' HQ. Does anyone know what the deal is with that location? I really hope they decide to throw some more parties there.
Now to the subject of this post... Does anyone have any mix tapes of that super super intense hardcore acid they were playing around 2-3am. I thought I had heard it all, but that stuff was phenomenal. The ripping analog bass lines grabbed hold of my entire body and sent me stomping like a mad man! I need to hear some more of that stuff :)
Peace out...
-Ernie
I must agree that this was a very very high energy gathering of people and also in what looked like someone's flat. The music was intensely fast and everyone was going WHACK-o. I think it was around 3am that they started doing LIVE techno with about 3 guys and a bunch of keyboards all piped through the mixer so that the DJ could fill in his own stuff too. THAT sent the crowd into this frenzy... I wish I could have joined the pit of people but my body just couldn't do it. (one of the reasons why I couldn't get out to Liquid unfortunately) And the location was really quite a trip with spirals painted on the walls and floor. There was some guy behind the DJ doing some video editing which I couldn't quite understand, but it seemed to add to this aura of "technology" with all the keyboards, turntables, computers and tv screens crammed into what looked like the kitchen.
Marsupial & Sea Otter
I said the Zippies had a silly name. And at SPAZ I found out they were real people and totally into our vibe and really nice. So I apologize to the Zippies and I pledge to try and not be so stuck up as to focus on a name when I should be trying to connect with _people_. I am such a stuck-up dumbass sometimes.
Sean
Before the actual jupiter bash party was to take place, on the preceeding Friday evening, the SPAZ folks invredient focused around Pronoia into the whole zippie events. When asked about how we can be better accepted by the city authorities, he says that we must keep partying, and try and open up a dialog with city officials to try and get a more permenent venue for young folks to go to, so they can party late at night. Angus says that the scene can improve by working together with oher promoters for better "Cross over" or cooperation.
I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to pull another all-nighter, but was sucessful in getting a good hour and a half of deep meditation to substitute for sleep, because I know I would have to muster up enough energy to deal with the much higher energetic raves put on by the UK folks, but was not prepared to deal with the even higher energy level of the music from the raves in India.
Sorry to have missed Malachy's event, but I just could'nt possibly leave the Zippy Jupiter Bash party last night due to the incredably high state of mind I had evolved into, and was led to believe that the ComeUnity rave was at Cesars Palace (Far away from Jupiter bash).
I arrive slightly before midnight, at the Stevenson address that last year has hosted numerious parties, such as Cordoroy City, YSH, and a number of other smaller parties.
I admit, the venue was on the small side, but the vibe more than made up for it. The music was so different and really creative in such a way, as to have great variaty, and was a really refreshing change from the typically "Housey" sound from the SF Rave scene. Almost all of the music was instrumental, very trancey, lots of synthesizers, and very melodic in nature. Also it lacked the throbbing BOOM BOOM sound, yet the beats were very pronounced, just not as dominating, yet very brilliant, and VERY DIFFERENT than what I've heard in this area.
The beat tempo stayed around the 135 to 145 BPM range, which some SF'er might find too fast. For me, it was almost perfect.
Goa Gil was responsible for MOST of the music, deriving them mostly from DAT's recorded from some of the famious huge raves from India. Although it was technically difficult to do a precise "beat match" from DATS, he did a brilliant and gallant job, dispite a few glitches and a few stumbles that gave me opportunity to chill.
They allowed ins and outs, and only charged $5 admittance to help cover their costs.
I have dreamed of attending some of these raves, but last night, I finaly experienced musically what they are all about. Later on, about 3:30 or 3 am, the Universal Sound group from the UK, did their LIVE set, and I literally left the planet. I haven't danced so hard in a very long time, and dipite the fdct that I stayed up all night on Friday, I simply HAD to do another all nighter, and still mustered enough energy to keep going a 2nd night without sleep, probably due to the higher energy level of their music.
The sound system, although over-driven at times, was more than adequate for the space size.
Downstairs they had two great chill areas with plenty of couches and pillows, but I never was able to spend much time "chilling", not with the energy level of the music.
The rave lasted well into the morning, and kept going well past 9 am. But we were expecting a lot of people from "come/unity" to make it over here, but only a trickle of people made their way to Jupiter Bash. This is most unfortunate, because I would have to say that this is the best rave I've been to this year, dispite the smallish venue. For those that chose Come/Unity, I hope they had as much fun as we did. At any rate, the venues were only a few blocks apart, but I assume that Come/unity didn't allow ins and outs, thus putting a damper on the abilities of people to "cross pollinate" which was most unfortunate.
Rave on - and keep the scene alive...
Peace
Cap'n Crunch
Hi Folx--
What a fabulous weekend this was! I'm sure the *Jupiter Effect* is doing it's thing! The only regret I'd have, if I had regrets, is that I didn't make it to the Come/Unity as I had intended because I was having so much fun, using so much energy, communing with so many good friends, and dancing my arse off at their greatparty!
My weekend was framed by zippy-related activities: the truly excellent small rave on Stevenson Alley that featured great spaces (chill room, drum area, dance area with great altar and good sound and visuals) and *mainly and finally* what ended up to be more than six hours (!) of dj Goa Gil's Best DAT-ing that had us all levitating from time to time! The zippies really showed that they can do it (I especially liked pincus the parallel universe teuton at the door and statuesque on the dance floor for at least an hour near the end).
Then today, Monday, I went by Crash Palace and saw the Cap'n crunching in the adventures of his with the zippies and my English friend Keith a poem of his for the pronoid cultural anarchic CD-ROM they are making! Anyone can put in anything: song, writing, painting, dance, drama, you name it--it will be a totally inclusive work of art. And the ol' revived Kennel Club looks great as the new Crash Palace!
End of superlatives!
Sean sez--
> I said the Zippies had a silly name. And at SPAZ I found out they were > real people and totally into our vibe and really nice. So I apologize > to the Zippies and I pledge to try and not be so stuck up as to focus > on a name when I should be trying to connect with _people_. I am such >a stuck-up dumbass sometimes.
Well, we *all* are! That's really good of you to flgellate yourself in public, Sean, but as the zippies are cultural age nts-provacateurs they open themselves for radical inter- pretations. I told some of them at the party on Stevenson Saturday that they should contact Bill Griffith, the artist who does Zippy the Pinhead comix, because Zippy is pronoid, too, in a very existential, zen and idiot-savant sort of way. I mean, we have to unite with our potential allies. In one of his strips Zippy visits the Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk because he heard it was one of the great sacred sitesf the world.
I mean, how right can you be?
ciao,
Will
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