Quiet Village Silent Movie

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
...

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.

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.

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.

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.

nah, i didn't mean that at all.

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.

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.

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.

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

#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...

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

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.

their RA podcast possibly better than the album

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.

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.

this is a good soundtrack to reading roberto bolano fwiw

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.

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

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.

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.