8ball Mixography

When acid house sounds like deep house and nu disco sounds like the footsteps of someone running down the middle of the street.

8Ball x Josh Damon - Brick And Meteor by Space Cowboys

**Spring Forward Lean Back** Chill trap, electro R&B, and other head music I've been collecting and listening to lately, usually in the spaces between getting out of bed and arriving at my desk, and sometimes the reverse. There are some new sounds, some old sounds, some old sounds made new again.

Bassline, breaks, jackin house, and garage -- who'd wants some? Well, me personally speaking, I could go for a bit of that. So could a tent full of dance-crazed maniacs during my set at Breakfast of Champions this year. And hopefully the rest of you tuning in to this week's RIPEcast will find this mix taken from our infamous New Year's Day party suitably enjoyable as well. As per usual, all tracks...

Music I've been playing to add extra happy to happy hours... some tracks appeared in other recent mixes, but I don't mind if you don't. xo, 8ball

Great seeing everyone (and we do mean EVERYONE!) at Ghost Ship last weekend. This week's RIPEcast features one of the Space Cowboy originals, DJ 8Ball. 8Ball sez: "It's been a while since I've recorded a long mix like this, but with a busy October of gigs at Ghost Ship, Treasure Island Music Festival, Monarch, and more I found myself neck deep in new music. Rather than let it all get left behind i...

Hello fellow Freedom Lovers! T'is the season for swim suits and beer, for flags and fireworks, and for BBQing... and with that comes a new BBQ-friendly mix from Space Cowboy DJ 8Ball. At a smidge more than 2 hours, it's a blend of your old school, nu funk, ragga, mashups, and whatever else was laying around. So head out to the backyard, soak the brickets in lighter fluid, fill up the kidding pool,...

Enjoy this set from 8ball as recorded live from 'Cosmic Nightlife', The California Academy of Sciences' Yuri's Night celebration in San Francisco on April 11th. For more information on the Space Cowboys visit www.spacecowboys.org.

Breakfast of Champions is one of those rare instances of improving with age. It started as a complete shitshow of ravers who'd forgotten the meaning of the word 'sleep', but it's evolved over the years into a exuberant annual celebration of music and community. Yes, it's still a shitshow, but it's the best shitshow around.  Instead of playing outside in the sun this year I played inside Mighty. Th...

It's horribly unfair, but unfortunately the responsibilities of adulthood sometimes have a knack for getting in the way of a good time. Case in point: Halloween is the bestest holiday ever, and one of my favorite ways to celebrate is by playing a special, ghoulish set at Ghost Ship. This year, however, a couple little things called work and parenthood loomed as obstacles to finding the time to bre...

8Ball live from the Funktion One stage at Breakfast of Champions is this week's featured mix on The RIPEcast! Enjoy! Photo courtesy of Scott Finsthwait http://finzw8.photoshelter.com www.spacecowboys.org

The Space Cowboys are proud to bring you the 100th episode of The RIPEcast!! The co-founder and longest active member of our clan, 8Ball, has commemorated the moment with this fabulous 2+ hour RIPEcast mash-up! Enjoy, Boys and Girls, and thank you for listening! "Holy Cowboy! Our podcast just got a new digit! This is our 100th episode, which means we should take a moment to reflect on all the kick...

Halloween is widely known as the most whoreable of holidays, and to help you celebrate Space Cowboys' whoreable DJ 8Ball (aka H8ball) has brewed up a nightmarish new mix.  Filled with thrills, chills, ghouls, and gore, this haunting treat is guaranteed to go BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! in the night. For those souls sailing away with us on Ghost Ship: The Afterlife this weekend, 8Ball's mix is the official s...

Enjoy this live recording of 8Ball from Two Crews One Cup at Public Works last month! We'll see you on the playa, Boys and Girls! www.spacecowboys.org

House, Breaks, Funk, Drum 'n Bass, Dubstep, Hip Hop....there isn't a style of dance music that the longest active member of our clan, the Whoreball DJ 8Ball, can't play. And for your listening enjoyment this week, 8Ball has cooked up this tasty, summer house mix entitled "Sun Tan The Brain (Space Disco)". Enjoy Boys and Girls! Track List 1. You Got The Look - Long Distance Analog 2. Play With Me (...

This week on The RIPEcast we're pleased to bring you this live recording of the venerable DJ 8Ball from the 11th annual Space Cowboys' Breakfast of Champions New Years Day party at Mighty in San Francisco. Enjoy Boys and Girls! www.spacecowboys.org RIPEcast artwork and Podomatic page design by Jem Panufnik. To check out more of Jem's work visit www.jempanufnik.com.

"Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. It brings out sides of people you don't get to see everyday -- creative sides, dark sides, funny sides, and -- based on some of the costumes I saw at Ghost Ship -- a lot of you folks have extremely slutty sides, too. My set this year includes a little something from each of those categories. So, in addition to some big dancefloor movers, I made sure...

This week I'm very happy to be welcoming back to the Gough Street Sessions podcast fellow Space Cowboy, 8Ball. This 67-minute breakbeat mix is a live recording of 8Ball's set from the Seismic "After The Love" party on October 2nd at Mighty here in San Francisco. Enjoy Everyone! In addition to SoundCloud, The Gough Street Sessions can also be heard on Podomatic.com, Mix. Dj and iTunes: - http://the...

My first recorded mix of 2009, finished just before my birthday. Originally I was trying to crank out new mixes on a monthly basis, but that was before I started playing with loops, samples, effects, and such—all stuff that I tweaked and tinkered with for weeks for this latest mix. Hopefully my turn around time for making this sort of labored mix will go down, but until then listen up to DW7.

Here’s another tasty portion of mostly drum and bass (with a handful of other ingredients layered into the sandwich like bacon and peperoncini). The inspiration for this one is that big bright thing that coincidentally showed upright when the weather started getting real nice.

This my second mix of tracks that Rayna shared on the Modyfier-Modifying blog.

Boo, bitches!

This week on the RIPEcast we ponder the question: What if 8Ball had played the 2010 Hoe Down? www.spacecowboys.org

8Ball - Deckless Wonder Vol. 5 by Space Cowboys