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Groove Garden x 2 in August!

djdragonfly — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:13:52 GMT

YOWZA: July is giving way to a very big August, and foremost amongst the many great nights ahead is Friday, August 15th! From England by way of Italy The Groove Garden presents Gaudi, renowned Six Degrees Records recording artist, producer, sonic wizard and musician. His appearance at Groove Garden represents his first ever first ever arrival to the West Coast where he'll alchemize live Indo-Arab dub & deep global, tribal breaks into an epic journey during his three hour set! With a biography that's over two decades long and a dedication to music that's even longer Gaudi constantly reappears from sonic hallowed hollows like some kind of pearl diver, surfacing with new gems that radiate in the setting of the dancefloor. In its most recent instance he buyoed to masterfully remix Pakistan's legendary Qawwali singer Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan tp produce one of Six degrees finest releases "Dub Qawwali" Actually the album was not so much a remix but a collaboration using material direct from the original multitrack studio! There, he masterfully integrates the rhythmic sensibility of reggae with Qawwali, and floats the whole album on the bass ethos of dub. So, if you have not heard of Gaudi simply trust us on this one check his video clip for a taste of whats to come as he rocks festivals round the globe! For a listen, check him on: Six Degrees Records www.beatport.com www.Itunes.com

Groove Garden - May 31st (instead of June)

djdragonfly — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:34:55 GMT

Hey all... Come join us for another night of flyin' fat grooves thei s SDAT MAY 31st!!! - and note: We are NOT doing a GROOVE GARDEN in June.

Where casbahs twist.......

djdragonfly — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:58:08 GMT

THE GROOVE GARDEN http://www.thegroovegarden.com 2398 Sir Francis Drake, Fairfax Doors 8:30 admission at the door: $15.00 all ages DJ Dragonfly LIVE: JEF STOTT celebrates his new album release SARACEN with special guests: Persian Vocalist Hooman Fazly Percussionist DrumSpyder Chillspace: Makuru feat. Geofferey Gordon Manose Anastasi Mavrides Peter Warren Marty Fowler Vlad Greetings to Those Who Groove! This Saturday night The Groove Garden presents a truly globetrotting experience on both the dancefloor and in the chillspace! In addition to all the Dragonfly-mixed 3rd-World (metaphorically, not categorically) scrunchy, funky roast of rippin' riddims, techy chompers, housey bumpers and dubby wonders - we have a super-special live set by DJ/Musician/Producer Jef Stott premiering his newly released tracks from "Saracen" (Six Degrees Records). Now, to sidestep any queries regarding nepotistic journalism we will attempt to separate ourselves from the fact that Mr. Stott is a good friend of the Groove Garden, as is Six Degrees Records, and that this release is one of their finest albums: Deeply captivating, melodically mysterious and movement inspiring. Saracen's (Saracen refers to the nomads of Syrian and Arabian deserts during the time of the Roman Empire) compositions are like freed doves: Beautiful in flight, symbolic of our yearnings, hopes and wonderment. In this instance imagine the doves are set to flight against a backdrop of twisted, crumbling casbahs and jasmine scented souks where live oud, crackling percussion and mystic vocals are tempered by deft rhythmic programming. Saracen's deep basslines bluster, grip, toss and turn with the tempos. They register as upsurges as garrulous as camels or as gentle as swells of the Arabian Sea. And on the album, Vocalists MC RAI, Reda Darwish, and Hooman Fazly meet listeners at the intersection of an exotic array of melodic and expressive instrumentation, the likes of which are an arsenal to the vocabulary of any Scrabble enthusiast: Riq, Saz, Santur, Oud, Dumbek... Saracen live (or on the album) is not a dance experience, or a listening experience, its journey beyond your own horizon of flight. Now...elsewhere: Out the door, down the hallway of our own bazaar of beats is the chillspace: Here we have Makuru, where an epic 3-hour set is the expression will be the expression of some of the Bay Area's finest musicians. Featured this evening, we have a musical depository of some wonderful kind of nu-world trade route that sees Bansuri flute, Didgeridoo, Tablas, Electronic drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals blend in deep, meditative ragas, swirly Asian ambience and African funky groove. Renowned percussionist Geoffrey Gordon and Nepali flute player Manose step in as special guests, joining Anastasi on guitar, Marty Fowler on bass, Jackie Castro on vocals and Peter Warren on drums! Chill, chai and massage and treats…all on hand, all night, to serve up your needs .

April 5th Groove Garden - Trans~Global Fusionism!

djdragonfly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:06:40 GMT

The Groove Garden 2398 Sir Francis Drake Fairfax Doors 8pm/$15.00 www.thegroovegarden.com DJ Dragonfly – global groove Yossi Fine - Ex-Centric Sound System Castle 9 - opening dub set Tutti Pazzi – global downtempo Yo - Just back from producing the week-long Miambient @ the Miami Winter Music Conference (www.miambient.com), and have headed home with an arsenal of new tunes and sneak previews from some of the best producers of organic-stylee global groove. So while you might not know what's new and what's not, what you will know on Sunday afternoon is that your post recovery bliss is the amalgamation of surrendering to a persuasion of percussive percolations, a swirl of supersonic suggestions and the embodiment of beats-as-beliefs. With that, we invite you to join us THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 5th to freak and funk, catch and release, tunnel and soar through an evening of uplifting and celebratory dancefloor freedom! DANCE SANCTUARY LINE UP: DJ Dragonfly - 9pm-on ~ all night set: Plenty of exciting new tracks from friends at Six Degrees Records and OM Records set the tone for a night of dancefloor tectonics as breaks, house, dub, downtempo, drum N bass are are swept into channels of molten bass-boiling global groove, eradicating entire villages of negativity, fear and doubt as we shapeshift the dancfloor into the highest mountain, whence (or "from whence", depending on your persuasion) we sing your name! Castle 9 - 8-9pm Opening set Rare and sweet eclectic global and dubby grooves are the welcoming warm up treats to get you off your feet, outta your head and into your body! CHILLSPACE LINE-UP: Yossi Fine! From Israel via Brooklyn, here's an incredible musician and founder of world groove pioneering Ex-Centric Sound System, also with more credits to his name than the film Ben Hur had extras! Yossi Fine can roll off collaborations with the likes of David Bowie, Eryka Badhu, Lou Reed, Naughty By Nature and Me’shel ndegeocello. He's been featured on over 100 albums, and tonight he rolls out head-nodding, deep dubby loops basslining the chillspace as the cosmic translator at the portal of groove. See ya on the other side...... and check this clip in the meantime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEk6a9IMWQ Tutti Pazzi: Softly sifting the you through the membrane where your working week meets the weekend, Groove Garden Rezzies Sophia and Kat open the chillspace with chilled out eclectic global downtempo and spacious world rhythms. Massage maestro Al Chan is on hand to make your tired and tensioned body renewed and restored, Genvieve stirs up treats for the tounge with a palette of organics delights.

This Friday Feb 15th and Saturday Feb 16th: Prosper and Julia Butterfly Hill Birthday bash...

djdragonfly — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:34:06 GMT

Groove Garden Jan 5th, 2008

djdragonfly — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:03:47 GMT

The Groove Garden: Saturday, Jan 5th 2008! Saturday, Jan 5th 2008! The Groove Garden: 2398 Sir Francis Drake, Fairfax Doors 8pm/$12.00 DJ Dragonfly DJ Bob Duskis DJ Sophia vs Katiana We are very pleased to announce the FIRST groove of 2008, with very special guest DJ, founder of Six Degrees Records and purveyor of some of the best world music on the planet, Bob Duskis! He'll be giving away free CDs, too. fist come, first served! DJ Dragonfly, your wingman on the decks...throws down the funk and funks up the floor! Openeing set with Sophia & Katiana

In the Zeitgeist that frames our era, our ethos is the “NOW” of change and revolution, and for us, it begins on the dancefloor…

djdragonfly — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:44:37 GMT

The Blacklight & White Ball: Come dressed to glow - in ALL white! Sunday, Dec 30th 2007 The Groove Garden 2398 Sir Francis Drake Fairfax, 94930 http://www.thegroovegarden.com doors 8pm/$15.00 ($14.00 via paypal) DANCE SANCTUARY - The Global edge of grooves with: Dragonfly Sophia Katiana Suzanne Sterling – spiral dance CHILLSPACE: Jeff Stott and Outersect: Live electronica dubby chillout via Arabica massage by Al and Satya, Organics by Géneviève Groove Garden Missive Volume 12 - The Posturing of the Hyperbolic: WITH A RUBRIC HUZZZAH! WE PRESENT THE FINAL GROOVE GARDEN DANCE ANNOUNCE FOR 2007 AND ARE PLEASED TO STATE: On Sunday, December 30th – The Eve of New Year’s Eve - The Groove Garden becomes the re-entry point for all those grooveless individuals that the club scene left as disincarnates. Souls will no longer wander the empty, meaningless nights of nullibiety but descend upon us like angels at the crossing. The Groove Garden becomes a place where an ecstatic threshold of light and sound galvanizes people into the world of the subconscious, tapping into the realm of Possibility and the unforeseen expression of the self . Beneath the subconscious (and feet) a substratum of bassbins give loft to a thousand dance moves and the terrain becomes wildly unfamiliar. Individuals become lost in the retribalization of their spirit where everything is sacred, and nothing is forbidden (well, dance moves anyway). With that, dear reader and recipient of this email, consider yourself supremely invited to peak your freak and join us for an evening of sublime escape into whackingly good melodies, super vibey people and whumpin’ sound on a big ‘ol wooden dance floor. It’s a place where you can check out and chill out to live musicianship, give in to the temptations of a massage, dance your taste buds with the virtues of Géneviève’s victuals and meet lotsa good people from near and afar! AND DON'T FORGET: WEAR ALL WHITE as we flood the floor with a deep hazy swirl of incandescent purples and blues, where dancers glow in an electric arc of vibrating white! In the Zeitgeist that frames our era, our ethos is the “NOW” of change and revolution, and for us, it begins on the dancefloor…