SPACE-A-LICIOUS

Howdy! Check out what’s going on in Space:Garage this weekend:

Friday, the 5th of February will bring you a lot of sensual musical moments with guys who definitely play directly from their souls.

Straight from Whereland comes DJ union Dest & MMZ who DJ almost for a decade and do it so well to have their own radio-shows both on Kurzemes and TikTakRadio.com waves.
We just can’t forget the nice interplay DJ Zazzy had with Mixmaster Raitis last month therefore we expect Zazzy will bring the same cool vibe back again this time.
DJ BraveSoul is relatively fresh in the scene and says that his challenge is to release your soul out of your frame - your body.
So, open your heart and let your soul fly! Just don’t forget to gather your soul back into your body when leaving : )

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Saturday, the 6th of February will bring an exclusive bunch of DJs here in S:G. Actually, we hear them so seldom that it almost seems they’ve come from space! Accordingly, they’ll bring you… What else – techno, of course!

DJ Esse, for example, plays so rarely and spends so much time in his Vilnius studio that has managed to get him released on such cool labels as: Ostwind, Neurotron, Futureaudio, Time has changed, Flying flowers, Night drive, Salto and the list goes on and on. Hard work pays off, doesn’t it?
With great honour we give you our pride and joy – NGC-5128 who has releases on Exposed Audio, Netcords and Team Tomorrow labels. While residing in London, UK for years already, he still remains much respected among techno lovers here because we doubt that the scene would be the same if not him and his Techno Carnivals.
For unknown reasons we haven’t hosted our dear Kris Crown since November when he played with President Bongo. We missed him very much and we hope it’s a mutual thing : )
We don’t know much about DJ Astron from Cēsis, but having that space-a-licious name and being NGC-5128’s protégé was enough to gladly let him play. Btw check out his mix!

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OH YOUR GOD

Hi!
Firstly, yes of course we are oh so very sorry for those who suffered from the infamous WC dysfunction last weekend – Mario Bros were working all night collecting shrooms up and down the pipes but the almighty Mr. Frost won the battle. We promise to do everything we can to get those facilities working for this w-end, because:

On Friday, 29th of January..
The new improved TechnoSega party console V.6 is coming to your town! Get ready to be hypnotised by the strobe lights and blown away by the constantly surprising Ritmika’s techno warriors Rimi and Gesta with various shades of electro-techno musical spectrum. And be prepared for their bonus – a Lithuanian deeptech guerilla-comrade Infektion (a.k.a. FLSH/Vibranz) performing live! For an insight visit his soundcloud and for a little PR – his tracks have been included in the respected Mr. Laurent Garnier sets.
Actually, all these guys don’t ask for essays, it’s quite easy: Quality guaranteed!

Saturday, 30th of January the Cool we are going a bit old-school. As there really was a time when we were wearing our sunglasses at night and licked nicotine from silver screen, we let the sentiment take over us and realized we need a discotheque to party like its 1999. To have a proper trip back to those days we asked our good friends, DJs Bombey, Dub:ra and Stankoff to prepare retro electro sets. We are sure they won’t let us down and we are more than sure that our headliner will know how to bomb the bass original millennium style! Behold the Universal Human Underground, a.k.a. -=UHU=-. Yes, it’s our very successful Gatis Pastars from International Deejay Gigolos, Transient Force and Universal Human Underground records. Sounds fierce, right? Stay tight for the disco light!

-=UHU=- elektridas live at NIA by FFF

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SERIOUS SPACE-TIME

Hola! It’s Space:Garage’s b-w-end!
Put your neatest blouses and fanciest pants on, we gonna celebrate!
One year in this 6th floor mad house is a serious space-time! We had our ups and downs, surprises and disappointments but they all fit in the course of changes, which we praise. Together with friendship. Although we have lost some of friends, we have gained many new ones. Although some of DJ’s have made us wish we never have let them play at S:G, we have discovered for ourselves some amazing local talents, such as Gstp, Kodek, Dub:ra and many others.
We are very proud of having such great names as President Bongo, Dub Taylor, Barto, Jimmy Edgar and Swayzak being written on our posters. Still, our values stay the same – as much as we love music, we appreciate our friends – they make us proud as hell! In brief, that’s the way we will continue – float on our specific wave with hope that we’re enjoyed by the peeps whom all this is done for.

Friday, 22nd of January – Minanimal. Druzhba. Zhivachka.*
Now when Minanimal label is closer to S:G than S to G, we thought their regular party could fit this w-end just fine, just fine.. Same as we are, Minanimal is one hell of a friendly bunch so they warped with Home Radio to give you a night to not wanna leave early.
Our special guest – Markus Newton – manufactured in Hamburg, year 1972, managed to move us and mountains in his home Germany while staying true to underground. Starting with his own regular “Circle” club evenings in Hamburg, he then expanded into his own label “Salto Recordings” which has done releases for such artists as Laurine Frost, Maetrix and our very own Max Brannslokker.
Markus’s house/techno visions will be heated up and carried on by our always responsive friends Contour+Bombey from Home Radio, Minanimal’s Milkmagic and first of this year’s dread-locked surprises Moire with his “less rasta, more pump” set.
Let’s pump it up so that frost backs off!

Some mixes to get you started:
Markus Newton november 2009 mix
Moire at Space:Garage 08.01.2010
Milkmagic teejamiks

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That’s for the main course, now – the cake.
Saturday, 23rd of January, you are very welcome to our another regular – Ksenia Kamikaza’s Intelligent Debosch! While mistress’s set stays enigmatic, she has made sure we are entertained meanwhile.
A brutal mix of electro, breaks and cosmic melodies will be brought to you by the highly experienced Lithuanian brother Moon Disco. He has the joy of a vinyl release on Control Tower label and now will allow us to enjoy him performing live!
DJ Cute will keep up the smart brawl with a set so eclectic and unpredictable, that we can only guarantee that your melodic ears will like it. Moreover, the music will be accompanied by synchronous visuals of a very fresh and intriguing project CBETOMUSIC consisting of Le Zzz and Black Widower. Debosch on!

For a retrospective and those unsure:
Intelligent Debosch 23.02.2008
Intelligent Beats 4th anniversary

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* Minanimal. Friendship. Bubblegum.

Teddy who? Teddy what? Teddy Touch

Hello!
First of all we want to compliment upon all the djs and artists performing here last weekend. From dubstep to house and all in between - no matter the style differences, every single one of you raised the bar of quality music! Thank you very much!

Now about this weekend.. check this out:

Friday, 15th of January - Röyksopp DJ’s set in Space:Garage!
We are going to raise the roof off for real!

As the party will mostly be dedicated to the music of our black bros and sises, DJ Ai-Va the very well known Riga’s club-heater will warm you up with a spanking hip-hop/funk cocktail while you enjoy yours.
Next, our regular space-man DJ Contour will take you to a slightly different orbit with classy mix of funk/electro/techno.
Now even the lamest Latvian will be heated up properly for our special guest – Teddy who? Teddy what? Teddy Touch. As we all probably didn’t know, he’s the man behind the turntables and shit at the gigs of very melodic Röyksopp and even had the honour to co-produce a track called “Eple”. Also, he’s been DJ-ing for such men of honour as Snoop Dogg, Nas, Redman, The Roots, at MTV parties and international festivals, and the dossier goes on and on. In short, he’s definitely the one to check out.
And right at the point when all you party animals will be sweating buckets, we’ll give you a fresh Jamaican breeze by the ladies of Crystral Sound System! Aren’t we sweet?

You don’t wanna miss this, dontcha! : )

Door: Ls 2,- before midnight; Ls 4,- after midnight
DressCode: smthn comfy; FaceCode: smile

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Saturday, 16th of January - Danscotheek

MALORK
AL DEE
ALEX BOGDANOV (Musique Unique)
KRIS HOVEL & LAURENT DATHIE (morning set from 6am)

Door: Ls 3,- ; Ls 2,- after 4.00

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2010 001

We are all in lockstep that New Year’s bash in Space:Garage had everything such a party must have: wonderful crowd, crazy atmosphere and uniquely bright DJs. It also proved that our audience enjoys almost every kind of quality music. So we promise to be more eclectic this year.

As genres, garage and dubstep go together as cow and milk. So, it seems quite organic to have regular dubstep parties in Space:Garage. This Friday’s party will be warmed up by another very surprising new talent we support, called Slovar. Although he plays dnb, we see a lot of common features in these styles and just wanted to give this guy a chance. Also, some people felt that it was not enough of our very dear Grupa Svaigums at NYE’s party, so they’ll play again! And guess what – that’s not all! Brain will give you some of his freshness with his special dub-ish set and the party will be concluded by Moire who for unknown reasons will be playing first time at S:G! Yaba-DUB-a-doo!

Saturday is THE day for house music. Actually, Saturday and house go together as hockey and beer, girls plus cars and S:G finding new local artists. Such as Gregfull – having a DJ dad, he was raised in local and neighbouring discos early learning to love the versatility of music. As Gregfull, our next guest Mixmaster Raitis also learned to groove almost before walking and undoubtedly will have some very special and harrowing musical messages to give you. Last, but not the least is our house veteran, Zazzy bringing, as always the best and deepest of house out there. Come on, let the sunshine in!

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Message from designer: yo, predicting your question about Ligo design in January - thats symbolizing дуб-step. : )

And here are some new mixes from dj.new.com:
http://www.7tracks.ch/?p=159 (UK Funky)
http://comfortnoise.typepad.com/blog/2009/11/comfortnoise-podcast-0021109.html (dubstep & dubtech)
http://comfortnoise.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/comfortnoise-podcast-0031209.html (dubtech, house, berghain dub techno)
http://comfortnoise.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/ile-orin-uk-funky-by-newcom.html (UK Funky)

WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND

Yo yo! Thank you for such a great party!
Photos of that craziness are here.

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2009 GO HOME!

Update: Everybody is welcome to bring their flash drives with some historic photos of the wonderfull time we had together. Will show them on big screen. Let the slide-show madness begin!

GRAND 2010 NY EVE DELUXE IN SPACE:GARAGE
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Of course we WILL celebrate the New Year’s Eve!
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Even if many of us are happy that this year is over, it gave us many bright moments.
Our NY’s eve line-up is based on those brightest of moments and people who impressed us the most.
So check out:

Dub:Ra - new hero on the stage, reminded us that most of all we like to get drunk with electro-pop sounds.. and seems we will do it more often next year.

Oleg Bombey - universal soldier who can save any party. Proved many times.

Ivars Zalkalns (Ze Ivarzz) - scene veteran. He was playing in our last NYE party and at the most parties with our guests - President Bongo, Swayzak, Dub Taylor to name a few. Ivars is also the mastermind behind TikTak Radio which was born in 2009.

Milkmagic - owner of some secret gender weapon. When he plays, 95% of dancers are females, who can actually dance. Now also part of S:G crew.

Gesta - generative flow of sounds of masculinity and intellect but with a smile on the face. : )

Greg Eversoul - California man temporarily living in Riga. Outstanding taste accompanied by outstanding skills. Musical storyteller.

Kodek - without any doubts and by all means the best electronic live artist LV ever produced. Will play special program under alias DEX[da]BASS.

Uppfade - we are happy and proud that there are producers who’s tracks become popular not only in Rigas rajons.

Grupa Svaigums - their dubstep is a perfect cure from alco-coma and is the must-be preparation in the NY’s eve first aid kit.

Pelmeshkin - the best party photographer and S:G chronicler. Thousands of historic photos will be shown on the big screen.

Mlada - during this year she made it from amateur to professional VJ.

Other NY extras:
- 360 panoramic fireworks view (starting from 23:00)
- party starting at 00:30
- welcome drink
- we will try our best to make it warmer than usual
- entrance - 4Ls. (3ls before 01:00 and after 08.00)

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CHRISTMAS MIX FROM GOSH

dj snobo :: [after]live @ space garage 19.12.2009 by snobo

HOPE FOR FRIENDSHIP

Howdy-hoy boys n’ girls! Did you notice that this is the last week-end this year? We did! : ) So, if you wanna shake those gingerbread-tangerine-what not bellies back into shape, Space:Garage is the gym to come to!
We know exercises alone are boring, therefore this Friday, December the 25th we’ll add a little color to it. We proudly announce another new series of events called Technicolor!

Musical instructor Andrey Emelyanov himself will warm you up with deep techno massage. That will be smoothly transformed into heavier, a bit darker and more classical techno work-out carried out by Musique Unique. Forwards morning those durable ones will be shook out by our springy Milkmagic with his very special Morning Glory set.
Our visual minds - talented Mlada and Ostrovsky have prepared peculiar old-school moving wallpaper straight from silver ages of Technicolor - 50ies and 60ies for your eyeful.

And we don’t stop! Saturday, 26th of December at 22PM we celebrate sweet name of Victoria and give a tribute to her self-made lamp titled Hope - once smashed by our wonderfully crazy audience. Because Hope never dies and because we want you to go even butt-loco!

If this didn’t make any sense, our new found hero DJ Dub:ra will make you go bananas! Rumours are spreading that he’s a skilled mixer with a neat musical taste. His electro pop set will be continued by yet other local foreigners - Max Brannslokker and Katya Tyukova. Yes, they reside in Berlin now, so let’s show them what they are missing! Everybody knows what an up-lifter DJ Uppfade is and, yes we know it’s off the hook to let him play in the afterhours; so we did!

Let’s stretch and bounce for a colourful and extatic next year weehaa!
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DUB:RA

Hello!
Music has always been our priority. Free from any genre limitations still we try to search for artists exploring new grounds of innovative mixing, original track selection and making it sound new, vital and qualitative. We search for those who are not afraid.. And thank you Lord they keep comin’ - new names, new tracks, new moods..
You all must remember Kris Crown whose inspiring performance at the recent President bongo’s visit and the truly marvellous Videmix 12 with no doubt moved us all.
The next big thing to look out for is the man that goes by alias Dub:ra. He has proven to be an artist with truly wide perception of contemporary electronica by producing and releasing several Dub’ish, IDM’ish tracks together with Salmz and releasing various style mixes of which we present in our opinion the most interesting one.
Boys and girls - it’s Dub:ra’s electro pop mix! And be absolutely sure you will hear him very soon in our cosy space apartments.
But till then let the music speak…

dub:ra electro pop mix by dubra