Quiet Village Silent Movie

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?

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??

not really!

LP arrived in the mail from !K7 yesterday.

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

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

i know right? i loled.

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

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

O SHIT

quiet village RA mix!

RA mix pretty dull. :(

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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)

(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)

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

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

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
...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

ZING!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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??

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

wtf @ swedish dude trynna get 75 bucks for it?

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?

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

yeah that first one is numan

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

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

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!

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".

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

he was describing the audio/ visual show

oh nev mind then

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

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.