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CD

1. Victoria's Secret
2. Circus of Horror
3. Free Rider
4. Too High To Move
5. Pacific Rhythm
6. Broken Promises
7. Pillow Talk
8. Can't Be Beat
9. Gold Rush
10. Singing Sand
11. Utopia
12. Keep on Rolling

And vinyl

Side 1

Victoria's Secret
Circus of Horror
Free Rider
Pacific Rhythm
Keep on Rolling

Side 2

Broken Promises
Pillow Talk
Gold Rush
Utopia

Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link

I lifted the image from the Beardo thread - hope that's OK.

The only info I have is from a thread on DJ History. They say there end of April, and imply that it's on !K7, but there's nothing on their website. The myspace just says "The album is finished".

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it. I really love some of the tracks I've heard. Will write more (and maybe post Drax, since it's not gong to be on the album) later.

Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link

sweeeet

r1o natsume, Thursday, 13 March 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

haven't listened to the songs i have in a long time, maybe it will sound new again!

mizzell, Thursday, 13 March 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link

what is the beat in drax from?

winston, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link

of course those assholes would leave Can't Be Beat off the vinyl 8[

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

!K7 press sheet says summer.

Andy K, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

if this is on !K7 can we expect a run of more than 500?

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i've heard about half of these tracks off podcasts, mixes, blogs.
"if this is on !K7 can we expect a run of more than 500?"
i hope so.

oscar, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Winston: Track B contains a sample from Double Fantasy's track "Children Of The Universe", taken from their album Universal Ave.

jaxon, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link

grady, you could always buy the Drax 12" from discogs for $124

jaxon, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link

8]

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I just dropped way two much on the new Quiet Village and Otterman Empire. I guess its drop way too much now or WAY WAY WAY too much a year or two down the road. Anyone know where I can find the 1st Quiet Village? Is it a lost cause?

-- grady, Monday, February 6, 2006 10:02 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link

heard a rumour that these guys were actually signed to EMI for a year or so, but got dropped without putting anything out. lololol @ EMI, u mad.

haitch, Friday, 14 March 2008 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link

jaxon, i've got that lp, i was referring the tha BEAT itself (unless they did it themselves, but it's too familiar to me)

winston, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link

so alan parsons is ok with this shit, eh?

winston, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, so I think there are various things that are quite interesting about this.

First, can we sort out the sources for the six tracks on the singles?

Drax is Double Fantasy, Children Of The Universe, and something else?
Too High to Move is apparently Giorgio Moroder's track Fly Too High, which I don't know, but is the spoken word vocal from that or something else?
Pillow Talk by Quiet Village is an edit of What Goes Up by Alan Parsons. I'm pretty sure that the begining part is actually from Voyager, which is the track before What on the album Pyramid.
Can't be Beat ?
Free Rider ?
Circus of Horror ?

Jamie T Smith, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't know any of the originals, actually, so to what extent are these "edits" or just sample-based tracks?

Is it digging and recontextualising or making something new or half-way between?

Jamie T Smith, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Second, although this stuff fits nicely in various genres (Quiet Village tracks have popped up on recent mixes I've heard by Trickski, or on some Balearic mixes, or on Beats in Space or whatever), what I like about it is that there is a definite aesthetic or mood to it that goes beyond that. (Although Free Rider and Circus of Horror maybe fit more with their Fragments of Fear mixes, whereas the other stuff and the remixes is more of a piece, along with the Rekid record, maybe).

So, what is that aesthetic, what are the antecedents etc? Also, please talk about the remixes here too.

Jamie T Smith, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

When Too High to Move popped up at the end of a mix, I had that moment where you know something but you can't remember what it is, and I thought DJ Shadow for a moment. Which is a good reference point, actually. What Does Your Soul Look Like? could easily be a QV track, for example. Plus early Shadow has Alan Parsons samples, doesn't it?

So Trip Hop:Hip Hop is as QV:disco/prog/horror soundtracks/soft rock?

In terms of the remixes, they are obviously dub, in some sense, but again they've got a really distinctive atmosphere about them. I think maybe it's to do with what gets the delay FX and the phasing and so on. It seems like they're picking out different elements or frequencies or whatever, but I need to listen more closely.

Jamie T Smith, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Presumably they are named after the Martin Denny track, so I was thinking that maybe that was the third element: Exotica.

During an engagement at the Shell Bar, Denny discovered what would become his trademark and the birth of "exotica". The bar had a very exotic setting: a little pool of water right outside the bandstand, rocks and palm trees growing around, very quiet and relaxed. As the group played at night, Denny became aware of bullfrogs croaking. The croaking blended with the music and when the band stopped, so did the frogs. Denny thought this to be a coincidence, but when he tried the tune again later, the same thing happened. This time, his bandmates began doing all sorts of tropical bird calls as a gag. The band thought it nothing more than a joke. The next day, though, someone approached Denny and asked if he would do the arrangement with the birds and frogs. The more Denny thought about it, the more it made sense. At rehearsal, he had the band do "Quiet Village" with each doing a bird call spaced apart. Denny did the frog part on a grooved cylinder and the whole thing became incorporated into the arrangement of "Quiet Village".

Although there aren't actually frog noises (although there are on the African Queen remix!) most of the time, I think that's the atmosphere I get from all the records.

Actually, I just looked at the myspace again and this is pretty obvious!

Jamie T Smith, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link

good record:

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/D/denny/denny_quietf.jpg

sanskrit, Friday, 14 March 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Days: Chi-Lites, "Coldest Days of My Life."
Drax: Double Fantasy "Children Of The Universe" and something else?
Too High to Move: Giorgio Moroder "Fly Too High (Inst)" from Foxes OST
Pillow Talk: Alan Parsons "What Goes Up" & "Voyager"
Can't be Beat: Trade Mark "Days of Pearly Spencer"
Free Rider ?
Circus of Horror ?

jaxon, Friday, 14 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

well anyway it's old news to have beefs with disco edits, because disco edits are just a subset of the larger BEARDO DISCO phenomenon.

and as we've discussed elsewhere, BEARDO DISCO is not merely the new electroclash, it is actually the new TRIP HOP.

-- renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:11 (1 year ago) Link

it's pretty much the new trip hop BECAUSE
1) pastiche factor = "hey look, the best moments of old school rap, WITHOUT THE RAP"

2) uneasy hipsters = "hey, couldn't i just be spinning alice coltrane records instead of major force west??"

-- renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:57 (1 year ago) Link

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 14 March 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

1. Victoria's Secret
5. Pacific Rhythm
6. Broken Promises
9. Gold Rush
10. Singing Sand
11. Utopia
12. Keep on Rolling

^^^ are these all new? has anyone heard them?

max, Friday, 14 March 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link

i hear Pacific Rhythm and found it fairly awful.

jed_, Friday, 14 March 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link

heard

jed_, Friday, 14 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

of course those assholes would leave Can't Be Beat off the vinyl 8[

^^^^^^^^^^

, Saturday, 15 March 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Too High To Move (spoken word): Captain and Tennille "Never Make Your Move Too Soon"
Utopia: Andreas Vollenweider "Steam Forest"

noise annoys, Saturday, 15 March 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

what happened to drax.mp3 and negro.mp3?

moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 15 March 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i think the QVP remixes are much better than the QVP "tracks"

moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 15 March 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link

i agree. i finally picked up the remix of "dave's sex bits" the other day and it is like some kind of undersea spa treatment.

tricky, Saturday, 15 March 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link

<3 the cosmo vitelli rmx

max, Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link

man this album is killing me right now, i had no idea it was all edits...

BATTAGS, Sunday, 16 March 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link

oh man i do not feel the remixes at all but i am not so down with radioslave/rekid in general... love love love the re-edits though

winston, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link

that double fantasy lp is actually pretty good

winston, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

you have to turn the bass up and treble down though

winston, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

this cd is awesome!!!!!!!!

gr8080, Friday, 21 March 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link

<3 utopia

max, Saturday, 22 March 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

jergïns, Saturday, 22 March 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link

eh this is what i was expecting

12's vs Lp's

gr8080, Saturday, 22 March 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link

99% sure utopia is Andreas Vollenweider

gr8080, Saturday, 22 March 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link

<3 the cosmo vitelli rmx

-- max, Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

it was inevitable that this dude would be involved with a project that interests me. i should probably seek this out.

Cosmo Vitelli, Saturday, 22 March 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

-- jergïns, Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

fuck you

max, Monday, 31 March 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link

not milquetoast!

jergïns, Monday, 31 March 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

finally heard this. comes out soon. this week, I think. verdict is must cop ASAP.

Romeo Jones, Monday, 21 April 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Silent Movie is the score to an amazing imaginary movie about an Italian millionaire's undersea adventures set in the 1970s.

The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 21 April 2008 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link

for those without promos/rips etc, here's a few tracks :
http://media.k7-de.com/mp3player/quietvillage.html
looks like i may have to buy this as its all rather nice.

mark e, Monday, 21 April 2008 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link

oh, and release date : 12th May.

mark e, Monday, 21 April 2008 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link

via the fb group:

Quiet Village Gigs 2008

19.04. Quiet Village DJ set (Joel only), London, Go!Zilla

15.05. QV DJ set (Joel only), Allez Allez, London

20.05. QV live set @ La Fleche D’Or, Paris / RECORD RELEASE PARTY

29.05. QV DJ set @ ParisParis, Paris, France (w/ Chateau Flight)

31.05. QV live set @ Mutek Festival, Montreal, Canada

NEW! 14.06. QV live set @ MEET & BEAT @ HOME / Offenbach, Germany

20.06. QV live set @ Sonar (Sonar Village stage),Spain

13.07. QV live set @ Oxygen Festival, Dublin, Ireland

20.07. QV live set @ Glade Festival, UK

NEW! 24.08. QV live set @Electric Elephant Festival, Croatia

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quiet-Village/8191049833

wonder what goes into the live sets. laptoppage?

jaime, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link

how many tracks got renamed?

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link

or were "drax" and "negro" just made-up names?

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

also: will buy t-shirt of that cover

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link

why would they come all the way over to canada and not come to the states?

jaxon, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

mutek is a festival ... last i heard radio slave was just djing, maybe they took the opportunity to also turn it into a one off qv live thing ... i think they have other commitments in europe during the surrounding dates (i was snooping around their schedules thinking if they can be in mtl then why not toronto)

jaime, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link

am curious about this. have liked the remixes i've heard.

a few months ago i picked this record: http://www.discogs.com/release/805571

i thought that maybe this was the inspiration for the name. seems maybe more likely than martin denny.

andrew m., Tuesday, 22 April 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/qv.jpg

gr8080, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

grrr

winston, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link

no way

winston, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link

this stuff is totally guilty pleasure
all about reveling in the aesthetic rather than the music (altho the music is the aesthetic omg)

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link

how is it guilty pleasure?

jaxon, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link

i kinda like the novelty of it and when its on its like 'aha im listening to hip instrumental vibez' but i cant imagine not looking back on this in two years like ive been spending my time on instrumental hip hop

is a disco beat really any different from a breakbeat

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link

it kinda feels like the music is so tied to the conceptual novelty that when context changes its not gonna age real well

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link

what else have you got to do?

carne asada, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link

do you think mo'wax has aged badly? maybe this proves I'm an old jackass but i think most of the early trip-hop stuff sounds even better than it did 5 years ago!

moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link

actually i know that's already been proven

moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Vahid otm, and apologies for not crediting your beardo = trip hop theory above.

Hey, this sounds great, too.

Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i cant get enough of 'too high to move,' amazing song

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

just missed 420 by 3 days ;_;

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

deej you need to smoke more pot

max, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah i should really post on ilx more too o_O

deej, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

this music is for all time

winston, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link

but i am a triphop/ez cheezy vibez apologist so i don't know

winston, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link

i dont like that one song 'cant be beat.' do like how 'gold rush' sounds like the beginning of ccr doing 'grapevine.' <3 pillowtalk, too high to move and utopia

deej, Friday, 25 April 2008 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link

i dont like that one song 'cant be beat.'

what!!! crazy talk

dmr, Friday, 25 April 2008 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link

"pacific rhythm" is ryuichi sakamoto track from 'summer nerves.' straight sample jack, i don't even know that it's looped

Bangelo, Friday, 25 April 2008 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

just ordered for less than $20 (including shipping) direct from !K7

gr8080, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

It's an unmixed DJ-Kicks, right?

BOOM BOOM

Andy K, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

im gonna release a cd of 'edits' that is just originals w/ that reggae airhorn effect on top

deej, Monday, 28 April 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

love that sound

deej, Monday, 28 April 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

utopia is some corny ass bullshit

jergïns, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link

jergins get off ur high horse

max, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link

if u manage to take girls to bed to that song i don't wanna meet the girls

jergïns, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link

http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-11-08/cdcc8bea804f_243.jpg

gr8080, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link

you need to get out of seattle depresso

max, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah

jergïns, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:55 (sixteen years ago) link

why would they come all the way over to canada and not come to the states?

they're coming to seattle and if they're gonna be here surely they'll hit SF.

super excited:
Wednesday June 4th @ the Nectar Lounge
= RADIO SLAVE = UK / Berlin
= QUIET VILLAGE = UK / Berlin - Live Audio / Visual Performance
$10 adv.
9pm doors 21 & Over

jergïns, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link

hey jergs i'd smoke a bowl before that show if i were you

gr8080, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

grady 8080

jergïns, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

id smoke TWO bowls

max, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Jun 7 2008 8:00P
End Up, San Francisco San Francisco

BATTAGS, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link

max is number 1 facebook fan of quiet village

jaxon, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link

yeaaaaahhhhhhh

max, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link

also facebook friends with prins thomas suckaaaa

max, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link

just heard another sample source from the album. the original to Gold Rush is 'Buffalo' by Writing on the Wall.

jaxon, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Jun 7 2008 8:00P

Isn't something like June 8 2008 3:45A more realistic for the End Up?

The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

i don't like that place. the doorpeople took my weed TWICE (not joking)

plus it's just kind of greasy and gross

winston, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

imo

winston, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

u don't say

jaxon, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link

btw SF folks, Amoeba will have this - INCLUDING VINYL - in stock for release date tomorrow. call the store, ask for mike bee, and i will hold it for you if necessary. can't buy til tomorrow though.

BATTAGS, Monday, 12 May 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

ppl who are into this would dig Air France i think

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link

if you're hating on 'pacific rhythm' you're nuts. vocoder parts are awesome.

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link

patrin review on pfork is characteristically terrible

moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

it's blatant Tarantino bait that sounds like Hendrix's Band of Gypsys after developing some kind of Italian soundtrack fetish,

^^^writing very much in character

deej, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link

coyotenate.jpg

strgn, Thursday, 15 May 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link

i was more offended by the way "i only loved this cheap and tacky 80s schmaltz when i figured out it's actually the o'jays" was rubbing up against "no wait, i really really do like this cheap and tacky 80s schmaltz, it's like having jodie foster blow crack smoke up my ass while we watch miami vice reruns"

pick your lazy cliches carefully and make sure they don't negate each other

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link

i walked into the record store today looking to buy a copy of silent movie and instead i walked out with a used copy of "STEPPENWOLF: GOLD". can you smell it?

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 15 May 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link

loving this. for some reason i missed all the WEWW singles - only heard the remixes - so it's all fairly fresh.

v, do steppenwolf really have enough good trax for a two-disc compilation??

haitch, Friday, 16 May 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link

not really!

moonship journey to baja, Friday, 16 May 2008 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link

LP arrived in the mail from !K7 yesterday.

only liner notes: "All songs written and produced by Joel Martin and Matt Edwards"

gr8080, Monday, 19 May 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? did they not license *any* of it?

BATTAGS, Monday, 19 May 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link

i know right? i loled.

gr8080, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Am I stupid for not going to the record release party tonight because I had some friends at my house?

Tobias Rapp, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link

I thought we could listen to it at my place. Which we didn't. And now I'm having second thoughts.

Tobias Rapp, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link

O SHIT

quiet village RA mix!

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 29 May 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link

RA mix pretty dull. :(

Raw Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link

haha isnt quiet village's schtick "hip dullness"? or do you mean dull in another way

max, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

i went to see the live gig in mtl the other night just expecting a laptop gig, but it was actually a really lovely audio visual set. can't really tell if they do anything to the tunes themselves (don't have the record yet), it is definitely laptoppage but they've put together a series of visuals (spliced movie scenes) to go with the songs. my advice if you go to see this is stand at the front . also they've added more gigs to their myspace ... think they are at cielo in nyc tonite.

jaime, Monday, 2 June 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link

nice, they'll be in SF this saturday. thanks for the heads up

jaxon, Monday, 2 June 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/shackedup/0qvmutek.jpg

mutek cheaped out on the screens a bit. the focus is totally on the visuals and sound. matt and joel sit off to the side.

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link

(^^^ all that other stuff on stage was for the next act)

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link

no idea what they'll do at the End Up, it's a tweeky dance club

jaxon, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah, i mean, i think that as qv those guys might still be figuring out exactly what the best way to present themselves is, in a 'live' setting. i guess where the focus has been on radio slave as producer/ remixer/ dj and on joel martin as a dj (very straight forward things) ... this sample based creation is totally different. i had no idea what to expect going into it but i left thinking how they did it made total sense. it was a splice and dice soundtrack to a splice and dice movie, and i found that presented in that way it was more engaging and absorbing than listening to just the tracks themselves. (then again, other than the 12 i have i've just been streaming them off myspace)

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link

(hmmm i just reminded myself that this is quite similar to what in flagranti does with those little vids on the codek site, which i also like)

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link

let me guess they used jodorowsky and kubric and bunuel and ... who else?

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link

They used those but claimed that they'd shot the films themselves.

Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link

mutek cheaped out on the screens a bit

that doesn't look like "cheaping out" compared to what I saw, Cielo had one teeeny teeeny screen going

let me guess they used jodorowsky and kubric and bunuel and ... who else?

tarsem
http://film.up64.de/filmgesichter/caps/vdo/vdo_thecell04.jpg

black shampoo
http://videodetective.com/photos/778/032680_11.jpg

some weird indian shaman movie where the dude had a falcon
...

dmr, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost

you would think so wouldn't you? clever people. hehe. the 2 that i know of are sort of funny actually, not art school at all.

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Cielo had one teeeny teeeny screen going

ouch bummer. i said cheaping out just cuz it was like, some big pieces of bristol board cobbled together

jaime, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link

neat mix ...

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/Acyde/nwjm.jpg

http://www.themostinfluential.com/RADIOPLAYER/files/NEWWAVE.mp3

spotting has already started at djh if anyone's curious about the tracklisting

jaime, Friday, 6 June 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link

can't really tell if they do anything to the tunes themselves

I think it's pretty much just playing the record, I didn't notice any differences

at the same time I'm still glad I went to the "show" because I had never been to Cielo and the sound there is pretty sick and the movie was funny/cool

also it inspired me to get the record and there's some really nice stuff among the non-early-leaked bits namely the vocoder on Pacific Rhythm and the vocals on Keep On Rollin

dmr, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link

also I had never heard Francois K dj before and it was pretty cool! the Quiet Village thing was kind of the "opening act" at Deep space

dmr, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link

he does that

i tried to check out radio slave there last year and missed his set cuz i didn't realize he was opening

jaime, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link

although qv opened at mutek too and i was totally expecting them to be on at like, 4:30 or something

jaime, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link

somehow I timed it pretty good, I was paying to get in and the first part of victoria's secret came on

dmr, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I walked in right as they were starting as well. QV was cool, but I also had never been to Cielo and had a great time during Francois's set.

maciej recognizing trill, Friday, 6 June 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link

> They used those but claimed that they'd shot the films themselves.

ZING!

BleepBot, Friday, 6 June 2008 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link

I am going to see them tonight at Elbo. They are playing The End Up tomorrow, but I don't think that club is the proper setting for them.

oscar, Saturday, 7 June 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link

that joel martin mix is amazing. it almost sounds like if harvey had been commissioned to make a mix of new-wave done balearic. this one's a keeper.

oscar, Saturday, 7 June 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link

reports from the field:

Dude you didn't miss anything. Somebody was djing some awful slow jam when I got there, then suddenly someone said, "Hello, we're Quiet Village. Enjoy the movie.". Then they walked away and there was a reel of film clips playing and the album played from beginning to end. Seriously, like off a cd. They never did anything. I can't believe they advertised as "Live". So lame.

jaxon, Monday, 9 June 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

saw em do this in seattle last week. i thought parts were really affecting. liked it. and matt dj'd as radio slave after. was fun.

andrew m., Monday, 9 June 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I guess it's all about expectations ... I wasn't expecting a live gig, just laptop + movie

cielo billed it as something like "U.S. debut for Quiet Village Silent Movie - an audio/visual experience"

dmr, Monday, 9 June 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

i just found the vinyl locally for 17 bucks, sitting in the stacks of 'electronic music' @ 2nd hand tunes. are there really only 500 copies of this??

deej, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1318855&ev=rb

wtf @ swedish dude trynna get 75 bucks for it?

deej, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link

neat mix ...
http://www.themostinfluential.com/RADIOPLAYER/files/NEWWAVE.mp3
spotting has already started at djh if anyone's curious about the tracklisting
-- jaime, Friday, June 6, 2008 3:30 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

where's the djh thread? i don't recognize a single track from that mix. maybe the first is gary numan?

jaxon, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?p=353862

oscar, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah that first one is numan

oscar, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

xxpost. nevermind. found it http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35202

jaxon, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Man, I'm not really feeling this album at all.

jaymc, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I was supposed to play the Elbo Room before I was booted in place of QV. Oh, well. I would've had at least some of the room dancing!

Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

i noticed that philip sherburne talked about the mutek set in his month in techno column. i didn't really get the vibe that it was "a winking, conceptualist lark".

jaime, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link

the only way i can assume its 'winking' is because they're basically just looping other ppl's music?

deej, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

he was describing the audio/ visual show

jaime, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

oh nev mind then

deej, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

captain jay vee, my friend throws that elbo room night. i can talk to him. would love to see you play.

jaxon, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

thanks jaxon. Yeah, I was looking forward to it so I was surprised to find they got QV instead. Granted, I'm sure they're a bigger draw than I would've been so I hope it worked out well for your friend. Maybe later in the year. I really like SF and would love to play there.

Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

well, i was feeling generous -- i mean, i could've gotten all sour grapes that they weren't "really" there "playing" their music, but like i said, i'd already decided that certain laptoppers should just cede the stage and be happy with playback (something akin to tape music "performances" of the '60s). and since the vibe in the room, to my mind, turned into something different than the norm, and a little special, i cut'em some slack.

pshrbrn, Thursday, 12 June 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link

what i'm trying to say is that both pitchfork things i've seen on qv seem to imply that they're trying to pull a fast one and i don't get that feeling at all. i agreed with the rest of what you said.

jaime, Thursday, 12 June 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

nah, i didn't mean that at all.

pshrbrn, Friday, 13 June 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link

this album is like Moodymann for white music. not 100% wack, but pretty blandly inoffensive and not really very interesting to me. the fact that they take writing credit for it is pretty retarded too.

pipecock, Friday, 13 June 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

has anyone mentioned High Llamas on this thread? or any of the balearic threads? cos this album kinda reminds me of the High Llamas a bit, or their Hawaii album at least, minus the indie vocals and plus weed.

jabba hands, Monday, 3 November 2008 05:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I like this album, which has made me go back to listening to the Chi-Lites. Never heard of it until that Pitchfork "Most Overlooked Records- 2008" article a few months ago.

Vision, Monday, 3 November 2008 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

fuck this record is pretty cool.....apart from sounding like 90s chillout

Local Garda, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link

#1 record of summer 2008, for me!

and it's now out of print, so if you see one snap it up if you don't have it already! seems like too many rights holders came forward to collect their due...

mikebee (BATTAGS), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link

and xpost to pipecock above, doesn't kdj do the same thing?

mikebee (BATTAGS), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

lol, did they honestly think they'd get away with that?!

it's a shame because it is a great record. it walks a verrrrrrry fine line between chillout cliche grossness and being good, but stays on the right side for the most part.

resident advice whore (haitch), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link

their RA podcast possibly better than the album

Local Garda, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks for the reminder- I'd been putting off buying this for ages and had noticed it was getting scarce wherever I went music shopping. Just ordered a copy from K7 for a very reasonable $12, along with the new Circlesquare.

Telephone thing, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Singing Sand is my favorite track on here.. *so* 90s chillout. but i always loved the idea of 90s chillout more than 98% of the music it produced, so.. i guess if 90s chillout was as good as this song, maybe it wouldn't be so maligned and hated.

fwiw (rockapads), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link

this is a good soundtrack to reading roberto bolano fwiw

LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link

hmmm what other 90s chillout does this sound like? i think the "chillout cliche grossness" of this album might be a little overstated simply by virtue of BEING a downtempo "chillout" record in 2008.

moreover: For me, a lot of kuniyuki (who i love) tracks lean far more towards the whole hookah-lounge-chillout-dreadfullness than the QV, but that might be just because of the live instruments/fretless bass factor. QV is more crusty and dusty but do those attributes even matter w/regards to "chill factor"?

i haven't read this thread since the album came out so maybe those point have been brought up, but anyway i think there's a fair amount to discuss w/regards to this album's context in 2009 and what it means and all that.

winstonian (winston), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link

i guess the album kind of brings it back full circle to alex patterson spinning AOR in the lol chill-out room at Oz

winstonian (winston), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link

new copies £6 on for amazon.
bargain.
had listened to this lot via spotify (or other stuff that isn't on album) and was wanting to pick up a copy.
ta for the nudge re it being out of print.

mark e, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link

had to send back 9 of the 10 copies the store i worked at over christmas had. :( might mean it'll turn up in some places at a lower price tho.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Still great for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Went looking for some of the samples.

Circus of Horror:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sCb8N9MzdY

"He is not only gone, but he has ta-ken ev-ery-thing that they have" monologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHb7zA8SspI

The rest of Too High To Move is a slowed down Giorgio Moroder instrumental...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVw6gqkNHM

...of the Janis Ian's 1979 single Fly Too High:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTjbz9NqX_U

Plasmon, Monday, 22 July 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.discogs.com/QV-Social-Music-Change/release/6235869

brimstead, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

https://soundcloud.com/rekids/aa-quiet-village-untitled-vocal-version

just sayin, Thursday, 19 November 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

i still listen to this

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link

Same here

People still getting offended tho

Expansive09 February 8, 2015
referencing Silent Movie, CD, Album

Interesting cd if your blatantly ignorant of all the artists that where ripped-off and never made mention of in the liner noted. Sacrilege by the label K7 which should have been sued for releasing tripe like this.
I contacted Andreas Vollenweider's (a man whose music is truly inspirational!) management to advise them off the theft of Vollenweider's music on the release. Hopefully this cd is now just a coaster in the studios coffee room!

groovypanda, Friday, 28 September 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link

wow.
so much anger for someone who listens to such calming music.

mark e, Friday, 28 September 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link

same x3, really really great disc

brimstead, Friday, 28 September 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link

i was disappointed that "drax" never made it on cd... it's "children of the universe" by double fantasy album with a super slow tribal-ish beat on top. so vibey

brimstead, Friday, 28 September 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link

album

brimstead, Friday, 28 September 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link

went through a phase with this earlier this year. super underrated and held up way better than i remembered.

joel martin is now doing somethin under the name velvet season & the hearts of gold. they put out a sanctioned edit from the stems of this balearic bomb this year: clive steven - mystery man. very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmTaNH4b7M

anza808, Saturday, 29 September 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link

did not know one of these guys is radio slave. i remember not liking the album as much as those first two twelve inches.

macropuente (map), Saturday, 29 September 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link

yeah i missed that brainchild reissue :

so good

the late great, Saturday, 29 September 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

revive!

listening through we are family lp yesterday and got here and was like "ahhh there you are!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zImRWMMZl-A

but i'm wrong, and based on a snippet i heard this cover is the correct answer:

"pacific rhythm" is ryuichi sakamoto track from 'summer nerves.' straight sample jack, i don't even know that it's looped
― Bangelo, Friday, April 25, 2008 6:36 AM (thirteen years ago)

both released in 1979.

andrew m., Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEqgfZfTToI

bought a folk comp a few months back and when the groove of this track kicked in, took me several days to realise where i had heard it before.

mark e, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link

Has anyone ever been able to figure out what the sample source for Singing Sand is?

MarkoP, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

New material coming soon apparently

groovypanda, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link

Oh wow nice! Always adored Silent Movie

octobeard, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:04 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

Silent Movie seems to have been reupped to streaming services now too and this time with Utopia included 🙂

groovypanda, Friday, 7 June 2024 13:44 (two weeks ago) link


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