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
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
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