REMEMBER:

Any tickets that Santos Party House is selling are available at our box office. Please ring the doorbell and someone will be there to help you. It's open between 12 and 6:30 PM. Monday through Saturday.

Tickets for 2009 (New Year's Eve party) are also available at the Other Music store located at 15 East 4h St in Manhattan.

Letters To Santa

Santa’s Party House, due to several coincidences and what we are sure to be very honest mistakes, has become the forwarding address for all letters to Santa Claus sent through the mail. The amount of mail we received this season was astounding, jamming up our normal intake of demo tapes and mail order catalogues. Here are a few notable correspondences we’ve received. In the interest of preserving our indie credibility, no names have been changed.

-Dear Santa, I would love the princess dynasty doll called Lilac Bianca for crissmas this year. If you dont have any of that one its okay but I already have Red Trina and Sapphire Jeff so dont get me one of those again. Thank you Dana

-Dear Santa, I am Zachary and I am 9. Simon got to listen to the T.I. with the curse words when he was 7. When you give me the Ying Yang twins album please let it be the one with the curses I promise I wont say them to Becky this time. Ive been good. Love Stan Levy

-dear santa, i would like all the wars to end and for all the hungry people to have food for christmas. if you already gave that to someone else please give me all the different kind of transformers. sincerely, desan

-Dear Santa,
I am so humbled by the blessings I have received in my life that it pangs me to ask for anything else. So it is in that spirit of gratitude that I come to you with one request for this Christmas. Please have Claire get pregnant by the end of this season of As The World Turns. More is at stake here than you know.
Please fix my gambling,
Jared

-Claus,
If I find out you’re using my pictures to hit on Myspace chicks again I’m filing charges.
-Hugh

-Dear Santa,
I am prepared this year. Filling my fireplace with concrete wasn’t enough. Then I tried filling the rest of the fireplace with feces. It’s still there. I now have two separate defense contractors surveying my roof and a deadly cocktail of weaponized raccoon musk coating every window and door pane of my house. Come and get it, fat man. Remember I am still the 4th ranked knife fighter in Bellflower.
Clifford


-Mr. Claus,
This notice is to again remind you that you are behind on your utilities payments by the equivalent of several weeks. If this persists any longer we will terminate your services and your accountant indefinitely. We have also noticed that on the checks you have sent, you have refrained from writing in the account number and instead have drawn very detailed pictures of male genitalia. This is technically sexual harassment and punishable by federal law. Please cease this behavior immediately or we will take action.
Regards,
US Eagle Electric

Santos Wins PAPER Awards!

Wow, everyone, we're bopping big time! On Sunday, November 16th, 2008, Paper Magazine and Diesel held their annual Nightlife Awards. Santos was nominated for every eligible category and won them ALL!

Best Club (People's Choice) - Santos Party House

Best New Club - Santos Party House

Best Party - Fridays at Santos Party House OPEN w/ Q-Tip + Rich Medina + Vashtie

The most important award for us was the Best Club People's Choice, where people from around the city and the world could cast their vote for their favorite NYC hotspot. Santos Party House won it all!

Thank you to everyone who voted for Santos Party House! And thank you to everyone who comes to party with us! And thank you to everyone who has given their energy to make this dreamland come true! These awards are all dedicated to you! The entire club is dedicated to you! THANK YOU!

Click HERE to read the New Yorker Magazine's review of the awards night.

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Paper Invades LA with Santos!

Santos came to LA and PARTIED!

Paper Magazine has long been a beacon of light in New York City nightlife and arts culture. Every year, the magazine heads to Los Angeles, to give Hollywood a taste of the Big Apple! This year, they invited Santos Party House to host their November 5th kick-off party, and transport the magical vibes of Manhattan into a converted grocery store on Sunset Boulevard!

Andrew W.K., Spencer Sweeney, Ron Castellano, and Santa's partner, Derek Ferguson, spun records, hyped the mic, jammed on keyboards, and gave motivational speeches throughout the night.

CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO!

This week, legendary disco DJ/producer Nicky Siano is getting political-- he's hosting a pre-election victory party for Barack Obama during his acclaimed residency here at Santos! Expect a night of classic disco jams, seriously deep rarities, and soulful funk hits that will get you in the celebratory mood!

NICKY SIANO

Nov 2, 2008
Doors @ 7 PM
$5
downstairs

Another award

The Village Voice has awarded Santos Party House the status of Best New Dancefloor.

Buraka Som Sistema, world music, and Pythagoras

UPDATE: You can download a Buraka Som Sistema DJ mix here.

When people on these fruited plains from sea to shining sea say "world music," they usually just mean "music that comes from anywhere else," don't they? It pretends to describe something, but it describes what it's not. The term is all tied up in exoticism and American creation of the cultural "other."

After a vague attempt at defining the pseudo-genre ("Closely informed or guided by indigenous music"? Huh?), Wikipedia, in its infinite wisdom, clarifies:

World music does not include

• Western popular music
• Western Art music (i.e. European classical music)
• Any post-ska genre of Jamaican music(i.e. reggae and its various subgenres)
• Reggaeton

First of all, something makes me think that the only reason reggae is omitted is that every home in the US has a copy of Legend.

Second of all, if the term "world music" wasn't already horrifically outdated, it is now.

In the Internet Age, geographic location plays a much smaller role in the development of your musical self. Case in point: Buraka Som Sistema. These kids make their own brand of "kuduro," a type of sample-heavy, energetic dance music which has been recently popularized in Portugal and Angola, or at least that's what the Internets say.

For those of us who have recently cut back on our weekend trips to Angola due to the financial crisis, there are some familiar musical touchstones in the mix: plenty of techno, plenty of drum n' bass, plenty of hip-hop, a little bit of crunk, a little bit of Baltimore club, a little bit of house? Growing up, these dudes listened to zouk and soca, but evidently also to Dr. Dre and Orbital. Their panglobal melting pot results in a sound that is distinctive, but also unafraid to cop good ideas from anywhere, whether it's Lisbon or Elizabeth, NJ. Betcha five dollars they were up on Napster or Audiogalaxy or Morpheus just a few years back, like the rest of us. Raise you a next generation of popular musicians who have no regard for genre, context, or historic authenticity.

Lil' John, one-third of the group, even does that thing that loads of B-more DJs do where they take a really short loop and repeat it over and over and then move to double time, then double the double time, then double that quadruple time, then faster and faster until it's not even music anymore, it's just noise, but who cares because Omar is holding a gun to your head and telling you to dance so you better fucking dance. Check out the minimix on Lil' John's personal Myspace if you don't know what I mean. He does it with "Crazy" at about 4:00, and in a bunch of other places.

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher/mathematican/theorist, is said to have cured a young man of his alcoholism through a modal melody. If you believe that's possible, then you better believe this shit will cure your sobriety real quick.

Oh yeah- and they're playing a DJ & MC set here at Santos this Thursday! What a crazy coincidence! It starts at 9PM, is $12 in advance, and $14 at the door.

Tickets can be bought online via Ticketweb.

Check out Buraka Som Sistema's Myspace. All four songs up there are absolute bone-crushing bangers, but "Sound of Kuduro" is even fucking beyond that. For serious.

New York Press Award!

More praise! This time from Best Of Manhattan 2008: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Best New Venue
Santos Party House
100 Lafayette St. (betw. Walker & White Sts.), 212-584-5492

Opened in May by a group of investors including party rocker Andrew WK and downtown impresario Spencer Sweeney, Santos is a dark open space that boasts a million-dollar sound system and a weekly schedule of parties that put it to good use. WK calls the space "a perfect physical representation of freedom," and says the club harkens back to the glory days of such legendary spots as the Cat Club in the 1980s and Life in the '90s. When we were there recently for a late-90s themed bash, skuzzy nu-ravers with dreads and rocker chicks with peeling nail polish danced together to New Order. The projectionist played a continuous loop of PiL-era Johnny Rotten above the stage. If the coolest kids you know opened a club, this would be it-though in this case you have to pay for beer.

The Santos Party House Cheer

THE CHEER:
Santos Party House, in downtown Manhattan, New York City, is very pleased to present you with the official SANTOS PARTY HOUSE CHEER! The song can be downloaded for FREE at the official Santos Party House Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/santaspartyhouse - it's the first song in the audio player. Just click "Download" for a free MP3.

WE WANT YOU TO REMIX IT, BABY!
And if you'd like to make your own remix of the song, simply email info@santospartyhouse.com and write, "Remix" in the subject. You will be sent links to download the songs elements (vocals, drum beat, keyboards) as individual .wav audio files. Then you can do whatever you want with the song! It's free for you to use and enjoy!

ABOUT THE CHEER:
The "Santos Party House Cheer" was created by a non-physical entity, named SANTA SANTOS (the living spirit of New York City nightlife). The song was recorded by channeling SANTA SANTOS into musical form, via the partners of the Santos Party House club and venue.

Awards

Many people seem to be taking notice of this fair Party House. Some of them publish magazines, which is cool! The L Magazine awards took place a few days ago. We were mentioned in EIGHT categories, and won three awards:

• Best Place to See DJs Spin Vinyl
• Best Venue
• Best Dance Floor

What a fun, sexy time for us!

However, we were thankful to lose in one category: "Venue with the Most Pretentious Line-Companions." We don't think you're pretentious! We love your sensual, aloof stare!

Mayor Bloomberg repeals bizarre cabaret law

City Hall is looking to eliminate - or at least loosen - the cabaret license so more bars and businesses can allow patrons to let loose! Read all about it at the Daily News.

Welcome to Santospartyhouse.com!

Welcome to SantosPartyHouse.com - our new official website! We're still fine tuning and smoothing out a few rough edges, but we're proud to share our calender of upcoming events with you, as well as provide general information about our space. There are many dance parties, live music concerts, and special events to come! We'll keep the NEWS up to date, so be sure to check back often. We're very happy you've been reading this! You look beautiful when you read, and the way your eyes are tracing over these words REALLY looks so good. Please keep shifting your pupils - just like that - and now relax your cornea a little bit - soften every part of your eye, and let it fall across the world. WELCOME TO SANTOS!