We've moved!

Good bye blogger.

Planes, trains, automobiles...and techno hippies.

Wonderful week with our friend Rick Bull aka Deepchild. Started off with a debut performance in Portland and then we took off for beautiful Twin Springs in Idaho for Esthetic Evolution.

Also, don't forget tonight's throwdown (The Social) at ETG is free before 11pm. Come get your PRIDE on!

Residents Night @ The Social June 25th

Shameless Productions Presents...

***** The Social ♥ *****

Please join us on Saturday, June 25th for another episode of The Social! This month, we Shameless are gonna be tearing down the disco ball & thrashing the dance floor for all you sexy people! June brings an all Resident night! Where your favorite Shameless DJs Recess, Levi Clark & Adlib come together and promise to deliver you a fun filled evening of dancing music love good vibes & fresh live music from Joe Bellingham! The night will open with our good friend DJ Luying aka Moist Towelette and will be hosted all night long by MC Anton Bomb! The Shameless ethos encourages people to shake their shame off and get their game on! Don't be ashamed, let go and be shameless! Hope to see you all there!

Recess [Shameless]
www.simplyshameless.com
www.soundcloud.com/itsrecess

Levi Clark [Shameless]
www.simplyshameless.com

Adlib [Shameless, P.O.E.]
www.simplyshameless.com
www.soundcloud.com/peopleofearth

Joe Bellingham (LIVE SET) [Shameless]
www.soundcloud.com/joebellingham
www.simplyshameless.com

Luying [Anti-Gravity Music]
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AntiGravity-Music/210479824482?sk=wall

MC Anton Bomb [Shameless, YES]
www.simplyshameless.com

Electric Tea Garden
1402 E Pike Street
Seattle, WA

Saturday, June 25th at 10:00pm - June 26th at 4:00am

Reduced Cover Before Midnight!

www.simplyshameless.com

Here is the recording of Joe Bellingham's Liveset from the last Social!

Video from My Bloody Valentine is Shameless #8

Thanks again to everyone who came out and made the night a hit! Here's the video to prove it.

The Next Shameless Social (Portland vs Seattle)

You gotta get outta there!

Pictures from Shameless Social w/ Jimmy Edgar - Feb 2011

Click here to view them all!

Shameless/Innerflight Throwdown!

Please join us on Saturday, March 26th for ROUND 2 of the recently revitalized Shameless Social! This month, we're incredibly excited to be hosting our good friends from the ever-talented Innerflight crew in a tag-team DJ session of epic proportions. Each Shameless resident will be going head-to-head with an Innerflight resident of YOUR CHOICE! That's right, you get to vote on the pairing!Our crews have been good friends for years, and most of us have played together at a variety of shows. But we've only gone head-to-head one other time, at Balls Out, an old Shameless monthly at the ReBar. Balls were out! Beats were dropped! Words were exchanged! Costumes were worn! Star-spangled banners were played! It was an outright deluge of dance music insanity. In the very end, there were no clear winners... except the dancers still standing when the lights were turned on. This time may prove to be even crazier...

-THE CONTENDERS-
Repping INNERFLIGHT:
J-Sun (AKA Frequent Flyer)
Kadeejah Streets (AKA the Wolfman's Brotha)
Manos (AKA the hands of fun)
Rhines (AKA High hitpoint Harry)

Repping SHAMELESS:
Recess (AKA Our Fearless Founder)
Levi Clark (AKA Baby Daddy)
Joe Bellingham (AKA the Mad Baker)
Adlib (AKA Dr. D-vo!)

How will it turn out this time? Who will win? Shameless? Innerflight? one of the dynamic duos? The ETG barstaff? Your hangover? You? The answer is that nobody knows! And the only way you're gonna find out is through voting (below), attending the show and getting down with your bad selves.

TO VOTE, PLEASE VISIT:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V2KY5N6

We will announce the results of the survey a few days prior to the event, then draw straws for time slots. Come early and stay late, because we assure you some awesome and unexpected shenanigans are gonna go down all night long.

SeXXXy Time!

Jimmy Edgar

On Saturday February 26th we welcome back The Shameless Social to the Electric Tea Garden (ETG). This fun filled monthly event returns after a brief intro last year at ETG and will be kicked off with a highly anticipated live appearance by !K7/Warp artist Jimmy Edgar. Come early and connect with your Shameless friends and then dance the night away at one of Capitol Hills most intimate underground venues.

:: Saturday, February 26th Electric Tea Garden : The Shameless Social ::

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:: JIMMY EDGAR LIVE SET:: !K7, WARP : Berlin/Detroit

jimmyedgar.com

Jimmy Edgar in The Stranger

Listen to Hot, Raw, Sex (!K7)

Lover. Fighter. Prophet. Freak magnet. Time-traveler. Musician, photographer and designer Jimmy Edgar is a wayward star-child streaking across the cosmic dance-floor. Endowed with a supernatural feel for futuristic funk, the Detroit native has been bleeping and grinding about the Milky Way since he was a teenage humanoid. While his peers were worrying about their grades and popularity, Edgar was spinning alongside his hometown's DJ heroes and programming intricate beats that were unquestionably interplanetary communication disguised as dance music. In 2001 at the tender of 18, his hyper-sexed microchip stylings caught the ear of Warp, where he cranked out his brand of amped-up laptop funk for the next eight years, culminating in the full-length classic “Color Strip”. Now 26, Edgar is shaking things up at German beat boutique !K7. "When I was 18 and signed with Warp, my next goal was !K7 for some reason. I believe I attracted !K7 to me through the 'Law of Attraction'. I think this is going to be an incredible journey." The new album “XXX” is out at the end of July and its New Jack Swing winks as much at Minneapolis, Compton and Paris as it does Detroit or Berlin. On new turf, Edgar's sonic prowess takes on a leaner, more radio-ready shine. "Function of Your Love" zips and struts about like something Andre Cymone might have cooked up for Jody Watley in their chart-topping heyday. On "Hot, Raw, Sex" Edgar lets the synth stabs and hand claps fly fast and loose. "In My Color" has the percolating, crystalline bounce of I:Cube's late 90's French Touch. "Midnite Fone Call" is the kind of lush “Quiet Storm” that Alex Gopher might kill for. "Push", with its staccato rhythm and come-hither incantations would make Timbaland blush. The instrumental interlude "One Twenty Detail", runs Kraftwerk through a low-rider worthy break-beat filter and "Vibration" sounds like pornographic Morse Code tapped out by Egyptian Lover. While the album is largely a one-man show, “XXX” is not without accomplices. A Latvian girl named Anet sings on "Physical Motion" and a rising new R&B singer from NYC signed to XL recordings, Azealia, ad libs on the same track. "Whenever I have worked with women and art, they have this way of putting balance into everything." The album's sophistication should come as no surprise, considering the mix of elements that factored in its creation. "Celibacy. Love and Loss. A myriad of intense relationships. Home studio on mostly analog equipment, finished digitally. Some recorded on tape. Some recorded frustrated, sick, broke, pissed off, in love." Referring to other influences, Edgar adds, "I learned piano from black dudes at the Baptist church in Detroit. They taught me to extend my fingers and play from the heart." As for Kraftwerk, the Belleville Three and the rest of the early electronic pioneers he says, "Those guys were tryin to make Stevie Wonder more danceable. They were tryin to make Prince with that equipment. That is what I do essentially." What Edgar does essentially and very well is make your body move. Most of the time he does it alone, but there has been no shortage of willing partners. In addition to an array of remixes for everyone from pop acts like Will Smith and Scott Hardkiss to indie darlings like emo-electro duo Purple Crush and new wave soul man Theophilus London - including 2009's cruising-with-the-top-down jams "Blindfolded" and "Higher" - he famously turned Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" inside out into a blistering workout from beyond. Deeply inspired by Jacko and incapable of standing still for very long himself, the ever-restless Edgar is eager to take his musical peep show on the road this summer. As if his beats and dancing weren't enough, just to make his seductive intent perfectly clear, Edgar adds "I designed 12 florescent neon tubes to make an "XXX" on stage." Ultimately, the best thing about Jimmy Edgar's intergalactic funk is that for all its mystical kink, it's solidly the kind of music you could easily imagine today's pop tarts making. If Beyonce, Lady Gaga or Fergie had any sense, their million dollar booties would have Jimmy Edgar on speed dial already.

Support by:

:: LINCOLNUP :: (Bubblin') : Portland

:: DJ dAb :: Solidrate : Seattle

:: LEVI CLARK :: Shameless : Seattle

:: JOE BELLINGHAM : DJ SET :: Shameless : Seattle

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TICKETS & VENUE INFO.

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Saturday, February 26th : The Shameless Social : Doors open at 10pm / 21+ / Party goes until 4am $10 before 11pm - Electric Tea Garden 1402 E Pike St

VIDEO FROM PAST SHAMELESS EVENTS AT ETG

Deepchild

J.Phlip

NEXT MONTH: The Shameless Social - Saturday March 26th - Innerflight DJs will be paired up with Shameless DJs and YOU get to vote on the pairings! Cast your vote here... http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V2KY5N6

My Bloody Valentine 2011 Recap, Pictures and Thanks!

Thanks to everyone that came out to our 8th Annual 'My Bloody Valentine is Shameless' party last weekend. We had a blast and it looked like many of you did too! Chris Van Wick was kind enough to take some pictures during the event. Click here to view them all.

Also, Megan Dapper will be putting together a short video documentary soon. In the meantime, here are a few clips that Verse took with his phone. Great shots of the two giant walls of visuals! Check them out here.

A lot of time and energy went into this party and in turn there are many people to thank. First off, a huge thanks to Billy and the FRED Wildlife Refuge for taking a risk on us. It was the first event of it's kind there and we were honored to be a part of it. Second, lots of love to all of our DJs and performers. Everyone brought their A game! That goes for Looptid too, who impressed many with his giant projections on both walls. Special thanks goes out to Jess, Tasha, Cara and the rest of the decorating crew, Joe McLean for setting up the lights/space shaping, SEAF, 4Horseman (for not just performing, but for making jello shots and holding it down at coat check), Starborne Sound, Castle Sex Shop for donations, Sugarcomb Salon and Alisha who worked the Beautification/Gorification Station, ProBooth for the photography booth and all of our amazing volunteers that helped promote, set-up/break down and worked various positions throughout the party. With everyone's support we were able to make some cash for LLAA, celebrate our anniversary with our family/friends and kept the 'My Bloody Valentine is Shameless' tradition alive for 8 years running. Thank-you again for not just coming, but for participating! We hope to see you at some of our upcoming events.

NEXT UP:

Saturday February 26th - We welcome back The Shameless Social to the Electric Tea Garden (ETG). This fun filled monthly event returns after a brief intro last year at ETG and will be kicked off with a highly anticipated live appearance by !K7/Warp artist Jimmy Edgar. Come early and connect with your Shameless friends and then dance the night away at one of Capitol Hills most intimate venues. With support from Bubblin's Lincolnup (PDX), DJ dAb and Shameless DJs Levi Clark and Joe Bellingham.

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Monday March 21st - The long anticipated Night Slugs tour is finally coming to Seattle! Shameless will be teaming up with Decibel and Car Crash Set to present Bok Bok, Girl Unit, Kingdom and Ceeda at Chop Suey.

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Saturday March 26th - The Shameless Social: Innerflight DJs will be paired up with Shameless DJs and YOU get to vote on the pairings! Cast your vote here...

Survey

Thank you for your support over the years! MUCH LOVE!!

Videos from My Bloody Valentine Is Shameless

Thanks to all who came to the annual My Bloody Valentine Is Shameless party last Saturday at the Fred Wildlife Refuge! Stay tuned for photos and a complete video documentary of the party, but here are some videos to wet your whistle for now!

SANTIAGO & BUSHIDO - LIVE AT MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS SHAMELESS:


ADLIB - LIVE AT MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS SHAMELESS:


JOE BELLINGHAM - LIVE AT MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS SHAMELESS:

A SPECIAL DJ SET FROM MOZAIC [Glimmer of Dope - San Francisco]

In anticipation to his return to Seattle this weekend. We wanted to feature a Mix from

Mozaic

[Glimmer of Dope - San Francisco]

Shameless had him out to headline the J Phlip After Party at The Monkey Loft last November 2010 along with Recess & The Perfect Cyn. This portion of the recording is all about Mozaic mixing down some fresh tunes for y'all shameless in Seattle!

You can catch Mozaic along with Santiago and Bushido, Kid Hops, 214 & more at the 8th annual "My Bloody Valentine is Shameless" at the Fred Wildlife Refuge, a brand new and totally OVER-THE-TOP arts venue in the middle of Capitol Hill. This year's event is raising money for the Lifelong AIDS Alliance and features our usual blend of stellar music, outlandish performance art and our always popular pinata-smashing.

VERY LIMITED DISCOUNT PRE-SALE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!!! Go to our Brown Paper Tickets event ASAP page for more info!

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/143547

Meet Fred.

This Saturday. Shameless Anniversary Party at the Fred Wildlife Refuge. Sneak peek at the new venue below. Scroll a few blog posts down for more information about the upcoming shenanigans on Feb 12th. Santiago & Bushido will be headlining! Benefit for LifeLong AIDS Alliance. Dress to express!

Something Diff'rent this Wednesday Night

Ok, it's Wednesday night, but don't let that stop you. Car Crash Set and Out For Stardom have stacked a line-up full of future dancefloor sounds. Combine the rich talent on this line-up with the new sound system at the Baltic Room and it's a guaranteed good time.

Here's what The Stranger had to say...
"Local bass-music Renaissance dude Ill Cosby stacks the bill with quality for the second edition of his Diff'rent Flex monthly. Ex-Seattle, now-LA-based Samo Sound Boy creates upful, Caribbean-spiced tracks for labels like Trouble & Bass and Run Riot whose drums sound like they're being battered with palm trees. Young Bellingham knob-twiddler Cedaa, who records for Cosby's Car Crash Set label, has a precocious way with technically and melodically dazzling post-dubstep soulfulness. This is his Seattle debut. With LOL Boys and DJ sets by Mad Rad's Darwin and Ill Cosby. Baltic Room, 9 pm, $5 before 11 pm/$7 after, 21+."
-Dave Segal

8TH ANNUAL MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS SHAMELESS!

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FEBRUARY 12TH 2011 @ FRED WILDLIFE REFUGE

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Shameless is proud to present the
8TH ANNUAL MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS SHAMELESS!

Heartbreaker's Hall
Santiago & Bushido (PottyMouth, Cajual Records -CHI)

Amidst the countless DJ’s and producers working in the burgeoning Chicago house scene, Santiago and Bushido stand apart from the rest with their unique blend of tech-tinged house beats and killer remixes that are becoming quite the sought-after commodity. Since teaming up as a production duo in 2003, Chris Santiago and Tim Bush have dropped numerous EP’s and remixes on some of the most well respected labels around including Potty Mouth, Om, Ultra, and have generated a significant following in the process. Their unique sound and flawless DJ sets have helped to establish Santiago & Bushido as one of the premier acts in dance music today.
Their track ‘Head Trick’ was one of the true dance anthems of 2008, a major crossover success receiving play and charting from many of the globe’s top DJ’s such as Moby, DJ Tiesto, Switch, Armin Van Buren, and Diplo. Head Trick was the 1 most downloaded song in January 2008, and the 8 most downloaded of the entire year on Beatport.com, the world’s top online site for electronic music. Santiago & Bushido followed the success of Head Trick with a number of critically acclaimed releases and remixes including a massive remix of Kaskade’s Billboard 1 hit single Move For Me, a reworking of Larry Tee’s Louis Vuitton, and their original single Can’t Be Wrong which has been licensed to numerous complications such as Ministry of Sound. In addition to belting out club tracks Santiago and Bushido have worked with Om recording artist Colette on her artist album “Push” for which they wrote and produced multiple songs including the album’s single, “If,” which was licensed for an episode of Real World for “MTV” and can also be purchased as a ring tone from Verizon.

Having been intimately involved with music his entire, life Bushido picked up his first pair of turntables and sampler on his 16th birthday and immediately went to work mixing, sampling, and cutting up any piece of vinyl he could get his hands on. His carefully crafted DJ sets caught the ears of some of Chicago’s nightlife elite and he soon found himself playing all over the city. Tim spent his days working at Chicago Recording Company, sharing the same recording space with the likes of R.Kelly and Smashing Pumpkins among others. By working alongside some of Chicago’s most well respected engineers at CRC, Bushido honed his engineering and production prowess until opportunity knocked.

While Bushido was mastering his craft, Santiago was working his way up the Chicago’s nightlife hierarchy. Within one year of playing live gigs, he secured a Friday night residency at Zentra Nightclub’s House Arrest, and within a year he would be playing to Chicago’s most musically educated and up-for-it partiers as an exclusive resident at “World’s Best Dance Club”, Smartbar, joining the halls of dance icons that have enjoyed similar slots there (including other current residents Kaskade and Justin Long).

As DJ’s, Santiago & Bushido draw influence from their Chicago house background and apply harder and heavier elements to their sound. Santiago & Bushido are regularly headlining and appearing at some of the best parties in the US and beyond including Avalon in LA, Decibel Festival in Seattle, and Bed in Miami. Recent shows have them playing along side some of the hottest talent around today such as Deadmau5, Crookers, and Kaskade. Their 2009 dates include a multi-city tour in Australia, multiple trips to Europe, and regular gigs in North America.

http://www.facebook.com/santiagobushido
http://soundcloud.com/santiago_bushido

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Mozaic (Glimmer of Dope) SF
Kid Hops (Kexp90.3fm/TRUST)


Shameless Residents
Recess & Levi Clark (Shameless)
Adlib (Shameless/POE)
Joe Bellingham (Shameless)


Cupid's Cave (2nd Room of Music)

214 (Touchin Bass/Car Crash Set)
Jen Woolfe (Shameless) SF
Kadeejah Streets (Innerflight) w/ MC Anton Bomb
Moist Towelette & Riff Raff (Anti-Gravity Music)
Blondzie (Happy Days)
All My Friends Are Dead (Las Vegas)


Live visuals by Looptid Visuals

Proceeds to benefit Lifelong Aids Alliance


Performance art assistance provided by Seattle Erotic Arts Festival and The 4 Horseme


Get Tickets

Check out video and pictures from past Shameless V-day events...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlKBAkZMw8
http://simplyshamelesscrew.blogspot....entine-is.html
http://simplyshamelesscrew.blogspot.com/2007/04/obligatory-brave.html

Brandt Brauer Frick - Bop

I was recently reminded of just how awesome these guys are.

My Bloody Valentine is Shameless #8

Hive-Mind Halloween 2010 Recap

Thanks to everyone who helped us make Hive-Mind Halloween another huge success this year!

Here's the wrap up:

* Photos and video from a dozen different photographers have been posted to the web site: http://www.hive-mind.com/halloween/2010/.
* We had about 1,400 people in attendance which is the biggest year yet
* We netted about $24,000 for Youngstown and Room to Read. Party for the kids!

So I wonder if there will be another Hive-Mind Halloween party next year. Have we truly RESURRECTED it???

Recess Mixes - Two from the vaults!

Two mixes from 2005. Each with a very different style from one another. Back when records were heavy.

Galaxy Rock For Disconauts - All vinyl mixed live by Recess - 2005 by ItsRecess


Assid Test - All vinyl mixed live by Recess - 2005 by ItsRecess

Shameless & See Sound Lounge put together a simply KILLER evening for all you Dirty Birds out there!

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NOVEMBER 20TH @ SEE SOUND LOUNGE
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J.PHLIP : SF/Berlin
Dirtybird

http://www.myspace.com/jphlipmusics

http://www.dirtybirdrecords.com/

http://soundcloud.com/jphlip

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RECESS : Shameless

http://www.simplyshameless.com

LEVI CLARK : Shameless

http://www.simplyshameless.com

Free before 10pm / $10-$15 after / 21+

@ The See Sound Lounge: 115 Blanchard St.

Following the J.Phlip (Dirtybird, SF/Berlin) show at See Sound Lounge Saturday night (11/20), we'll be keeping the party going until sunrise with

some very special guests from SF and PDX. We're not doing an official event invitation for this after party and it'll be basically word of mouth. Stay tuned... Location to be announced day of show. Of course, some of you may already know where to go once the bars close. ;)

SF, PDX and SEA all coming together for one special night!

Here's the link to the main event at See Sound Lounge...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151980401511861

Don't sleep!

:: J.PHLIP ::

J Phlip (pronounced J Flip) known to some as Jessica Phillipe discovered house music in her hometown of Champaign, Illinois, just 2 hours south of Chicago. Sometime around her 19th birthday she got her first DJ rig -

two belt drive turntables and a mixer lacking EQ knobs for $100 bucks! From then on, her poor roomates were forced to listen to a constant dance party in-between her Systems Engineering studies. There aren't a lot of 4.0 brainiac engineering majors who decide to become DJs instead of cashing in on their degrees but Jessica truly loves the music and has dedicated her life to it.

Her proximity to Chicago’s famous house scene tremendously affected her sound, but the distance afforded her the freedom to incorporate a variety of other influences into her repertoire. Her sets posses a fun, "lets-not-forget-this-is-dance-music," feeling and simultaneously keep you guessing about what might come next. Her collection spans house, tech house, deep house, techno, booty bass and pretty much anything that make you shake your ass.

She’s currently a well known DJ/Producer in San Francisco. Her skills on the decks and in the studio have secured her highly desirable spot as an official member of the dirtybird crew. She has a residency at San Francisco’s infamous Endup nightclub, which is notorious for its non-stop, never-ending parties.

Jessica continues to have new productions coming out on dirtybird where she has signed on as an exclusive original artist. She is currently Claude VonStroke's favorite support DJ and has already played at amazing high profile gigs like Fabric, Space Ibiza & Back to Basics. She was also chosen for URB Magazine's Next 100 of 2009 and recently temporarily returned after a successful extended trip to Berlin. But she won’t be on the West Coast for much longer as Europe is once again calling her name. From there she’ll be making asses shake on the dancefloor and she's just as excited about it as the day she got her belt drives!

You can listen to her latest mix here: http://soundcloud.com/jphlip/j-phlip-are-you-eating-healthy

Shameless Productions. Keeping it weird since 2003.

What will you be for Halloween?

>> Hive Mind Halloween 2010: Resurrection <<
www.hive-mind.com/halloween/2010

• Relax in Madam G's Purgatory Parlor (Sinner Saint Productions)
• Worship in the Chernobyl Chapel, courtesy of Flight to Mars
• Drink deep at the Unicorn Bar (Space Virgins) and the Anton Bomb
• Take a dip in the Deep Blue Sea (Cabiri)
• Wander the Flickering Fire Garden (Knomesthetics)
• Get sweaty to EQlateral, Splatinum, Kristina Childs, Nommo Ogo, Joe Bellingham, Levi Clark, DJ? Whatever, Menami, Recess, and Michael Manahan
• Sate the late night munchies with mobile eats from Street Treats and, of course, Philthy Sanchez

Amazing to see so many groups working together for such a good time, neh?

Here's the only problem: last year, we said we wouldn't do it again, and we meant it...until so many folks came forward to volunteer to make it keep happening. Now, what if folks who enjoyed it last year don't know it's back on? Tell them! Forward this post, say you're coming on the Hive Mind Halloween Facebook page, heck, go ahead and Twitter it!