Quiet Village Silent Movie

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.

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!

good record:

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

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 ?

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

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?

i hear Pacific Rhythm and found it fairly awful.

heard

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

^^^^^^^^^^

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

what happened to drax.mp3 and negro.mp3?

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

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.

<3 the cosmo vitelli rmx

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

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

that double fantasy lp is actually pretty good

you have to turn the bass up and treble down though

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

<3 utopia

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

eh this is what i was expecting

12's vs Lp's

99% sure utopia is Andreas Vollenweider

<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.

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

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

fuck you

not milquetoast!

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

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

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.

oh, and release date : 12th May.

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?

how many tracks got renamed?

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

also: will buy t-shirt of that cover

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

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)

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.

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

grrr

no way

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

how is it guilty pleasure?

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

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

what else have you got to do?

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!

actually i know that's already been proven

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

Hey, this sounds great, too.

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

just missed 420 by 3 days ;_;

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.

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

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

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

i still listen to this

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!

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

same x3, really really great disc

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

album

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

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

yeah i missed that brainchild reissue :

so good

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.

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.

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

New material coming soon apparently

Oh wow nice! Always adored Silent Movie