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samira

joined on 10/30/03
last updated 04/03/08
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startling

March 24, 2008
Getting to know Samira is like taking a bite of rich, velvet dark chocolate and allowing every chord in your mouth to resonate in tune with it’s flavor, then wetting your lips and saturating your tongue with the perfectly harmonized twang of a red wine.
December 18, 2007
I love spending time with this amazing woman and her cousins cousin! :)
December 2, 2007
I said ~

YOU A CONSTANT BREATH OF FRESH AIR
(except when you smoke...then your just PRETTY)
September 22, 2007
~a constant breath of fresh air~
August 30, 2007
Purple haired exuberance,
child like happiness and excitement,
daring, challenging, intelligent,
beautiful, wonderful, loving,
fascinating, transfixing...giggly.

All words that describe you Samira...

ik houd van u.
August 30, 2007
My guardian angel upstairs, you’re my favorite breakbeat diva. You're patient, you offer encouragement and you’re my listener ...a thousand thanks and thousand hugs. You're beautiful, courageous and an extraordinary woman.
August 27, 2007
Samira is a rare gift wrapped in the prettiest purple paper imaginable.

It's true that the best things come in small packages.

Thank you for you constant love, your understanding, your words, your music, and most of all...

Your friendship.

You're Great Fun!
August 14, 2007
SAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss u SAM!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Let me count the ways.......1.......2......3......4.....5.....6.....7.....8.....9.....10..........11.................12......ok this is lame. I LOVE YOU sooooooooooooooo much! mwah!!!!
August 5, 2007
sam... i love you!! and i think your pretty!!
February 20, 2007
sam,
thanks for being my friend.
thanks for letting me play at that beach that one november past ;o)
that weekend changed my life in such great ways.
thanks for bringin' it to all our parties!
thanks for all you do in this universe.

see ya @ mighty the 3rd. fuckin' yay

love ya sista,
frank
January 8, 2007
Sam is GREAT! She makes me smile.
January 3, 2007
Fuck off I'm Que'n!; and she's mixn'!
September 7, 2006
Seriously: Samira is my favorite DJ in the World.

Thank you for giving me the Gift of Musick, Sister. i haven't been the same since i first experienced your breaks. You brought my soul out and increased the speed of my vibration. Heh. Not many DJ's can do that magick shit. *crosses arms, smiles knowingly*

.. now where's my stack of mixes ?
March 30, 2006
I LOVE SAMIIRRRAAAAAAA!!!!
Unsu...
 
March 8, 2006
Once upon a time there was a Big Right Toe. She had been big all her life. Big Right Toe was lonely because all the other toes laughed at her and teased her for being so big! This made her sad. Poor poor Big Right Toe. Big Right Toe was always cold because she was so big and wasn’t able to snuggle with the other toes for warmth. What Big Right Toe didn’t realize was that she had a mommy that loved her very much and one day her mommy put a soft and cuddly blanket just over her! Suddenly Big Right Toe was warm and looked so pretty that all the other toes wanted to snuggle with her. Lucky Big Right Toe! Not only did she now have other toes to snuggle with, she also had a beautiful, kind, wonderful mommy who loved her very very much. And everyone who knows her, understands why.
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But I am flesh. Not rock

Sleep escapes. Evaporates into insomnia. When do you forget to imagine our separateness. Forget that I might be lit with sorrows. Because I love the shadow of beauty as much as beauty. And I love the thought of a song as much as the song itself. And I love a sleepless night more than a night from which I cannot remember my dreams. I am all the stories I never told. All the letters I did not send. What, then, is poetry. When do you forgive yourself for noticing the gap between us, for the loves and ecstasies, even though all are inevitably lost.

And now there is still the lump in my throat. The solidity of sadness that, too, will go away. As it always does. This is how tears get swallowed. This is how the bricks of why? fall into the pit of my stomach. Attach themselves like pearls, as though all unanswered questions would offer themselves in this way. Strings of pearls. Tears. Words. indigestible. And reminders that I am still here.

(and somewhere in there you ask, Are you okay.
Again. my heart wanted to crack. But I am flesh. Not rock)

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Age
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about me
web developer by day [bepress.com].
vinyl slinger by night [seismicsf.org, sistersf.com].
born & raised in amsterdam.
graduate school drop-out turned code-monkey.
poet turned dj.
my hair has been purple for 10 years.
i love my cat.
i hate shopping.
newcastle is delicious.
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"Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion....They are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life."

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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babble on to Babylon

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Samira is a San Francisco-based breaks DJ, a Dutch-Indonesian transplant from Amsterdam, who spent her formative years listening to the sounds of the gamelan and began her life-long love affair with the piano at age 7. She discovered her voice behind the decks during a stint of writer's block, and hasn't written since. Today, best known for her relentless and bass heavy late-night sets, it is still a deep love for story-telling that remains at the root of Sam's sound.

Samira is a resident of Sister SF, the most recognized cross-genre, female DJ crew in the world. She has recently had the pleasure of joining SEISMIC, a crew dedicated to strengthening San Francisco's breaks community.

Sam has produced and co-produced weeklies, monthlies, and one offs, hosted a 2-year-long weekly webcast on Club246, and has made appearances on FutureBreaks and Bass Pressure Radio, as well as the documentary film Vinyl Is A Girl's Best Friend (Irish Rose Films) with DJ Shortee, Annalyze, Shejay, and more. Samira has been featured in publications such Etc. Magazine, Karma Mag, REPELLENT, Womens Enews, among a number of other online publications. She has also been featured on the nightlife television show :CODEtv.

Sam has carved a niche for herself with her dark & compelling nu-skool breaks, DJing up and down the West Coast, gracing the decks as far as Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, New York, and Miami. She's played every well-known club in San Francisco, including Mighty, 1015 Folsom, Mezzanine, DNA Lounge, Club 6, and 111 Minna.

Samira has DJd alongside international breakbeat talent such as: Krafty Kuts, Future Funk Squad, BLIM, SOTEG , the Carbon Community, 10Sui, Soul of Man, Stereo8, The Rogue Element, The Breakfastaz, DJ Hyper, Lee Coombs, Hi8, DJ Friendly, Boabinga, 30Hz, theIncredible Melting Man, Myagi, the Phat Conductor, Grayarea, J-Break. As well as other artists such as Andrea Parker, Miss Honey Dijon, Jondi & Spesh, Heather Heart, Reid Speed, Shortee.

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you know where to find me

ANON SALON goes all
Dee-Lite-Fool
A BeautiFOOl Departure

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008

@ Whisper
535 Florida St. (@ Mariposa) in SF
9pm-4am!

They Serve Food as Well!

Suggestive Donations:
$10 before 10:00 /$15 fOOlhearted/ $20 alOOf
Dress elegant, whimsical & even romantic

www.anonsalon.com/april08

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downstairs
9:00 - 11:00 - Roy McNeil (Organik Music) - www.youtube.com/organikmusic
11:00 - 12:30 - Kid Wha... read more
Fri, April 18, 2008 - 6:17 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Third Annual FLIP YOUR LID!
Black Rock Arts Foundation Benefit
THURSDAY, APRIL 17th
6:30pm - 2:00am (there are 3 parts to the evening; see below)
at supperclub
657 Harrison Street (between 2nd and 3rd)
San Francisco


Here are the full details:
tinyurl.com/3fouqu

Smoove and I will be tag-teaming from 1-2am.
Let me know if you want to go & I may just put you on my guestlist ;-)

BOOM!
Thu, April 17, 2008 - 11:04 AM permalink - 2 comments
 
I hope you're ready to dance all night, because Temple has an all-star lineup planned for Friday's Break Beat Booty. The Autobots bring their bumping basslines and funktastic breaks while Carbon Community drops his glitched out, live breakbeats that you've come to love so much. Sister SF residents Melyss, Samira and Seraphim join Icon, Paul Hemming, Tone and DJ Von as they rock the rooms at Temple. (www.nitevibe.com)

Event: Break Beat Booty
DJs: The Autobots, Carbon Community, Icon... read more
Thu, April 10, 2008 - 3:01 AM permalink - 5 comments
 
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SEISMIC Love Fest 2006

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remembrance of smiling, resurfaced

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Pink for October

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