THE DOUBLE DOWN FEATURING B. BRAVO & THE STARSHIP CONNECTION THURSDAY AUGUST 18TH.

The Double Down is a monthly party featuring the finest in Bay Area live music & DJ's, third Thursdays at John Colins. The August edition of the party features a live performance by Bay Area musical artist B. Bravo & The Starship Connection, alongside resident DJ's E Da Boss & Kung Fu Chris.

B. Bravo & The Starship Connection – Frite Nite golden child and funk sorcerer B. Bravo has assembled a crew of intergalactic badmen to form The Starship Connection - a synthesizer funk/future bass quartet featuring Bay Area instrumentalists Teeko (F.A.M.E./FourOne Funk), Daren Grant (Bayonics), and Bob Menacho (Bayonics).  The Starship Connection blasts off with their dazzling array of analog gear performing original bangers and classic B. Bravo joints like Midnite and Computa Love which gained him international acclaim.  Their debut EP featuring the epic bounce cut 'The Roll Out' is set for release in October on Frite Nite Records.  Hop on board and get ready to take a cosmic ride into funk's future.

Tickets available at the door: $5 before 10:30pm $7 after

John Colins

138 Minna Street @ New Montgomery
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 512-7493

21 & up

E Da Boss:

DJ E Da Boss has been in the game since 1987, when as a youngster in Newark, NJ, he tried to emulate local hero DJ Cheese on a Realistic mixer with no crossfader. A few years later, a friend introduced him to legendary DJ and producer Mark the 45 King, whose mixtapes inspired E to get into digging for old records and breakbeats. From there, E worked on expanding his record collection and his DJ skills.

In 1994, E started making his own beats on a delay rack with a looping feature and a Casio SK-1 sampler. Two years later, he upgraded to the ASR-10 he uses today and has been banging out heavyweight beats ever since.

Besides his commitment to production, E has also toured the world as the performance DJ for Blackalicious, Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Jennifer Johns, and Bicasso of Living Legends. Having been fed a steady diet of E's beat tapes, Gift of Gab said he would make a point of working with E, and later on, after Gab called him from South Africa, E officially became Blackalicious' tour DJ and through that, also spun for Gift of Gab's solo tour, Lateef the Truthspeaker's solo tour, and some dates for Lyrics Born. He has shared the stage with such luminaries as KRS-One, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, The Roots, Chaka Kahn, and many more.

Kung Fu Chris:

Kung Fu Chris is a San Francisco based DJ/ musician noted for spinning a wide variety of styles of music.  Over the years KFC has presented such notable parties as Fo' Sho! Fridays, Sabado Soul, Paint The White House Black, Full-Step Wednesdays & Trouble Shooting, as well events co-hosted with DJ MAKossa including the legendary Funky Rewind series which highlighted some of the most well respected and interesting DJ's in Bay Area & beyond. Each of these parties explore the dynamics of different musical genres ranging from funk to soul, hip-hop to dancehall, DC Go-Go to boogie, future funk to dubstep and how these musical styles combine and intertwine.