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
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
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
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