Quiet Village – Broken Promises

I recently read an article in London newspaper – The Guardian – that sales of mens pyjamas and womens lingerie had risen at Lillywhites Department Store. Particularly mens flannel pyjamas and raunchy ladies lingerie.

Reason being that people are staying in – due to the global recession – and instead snuggle up at home in their jammies, and have – how shall I put it ? – “slumber parties”!

Not entirely sure if this is the reason why Jonathan Jeremiah and his rather special “Happiness” is currently sitting at #1 in the DMC Zzub Chart.

Nevertheless – if you still haven’t wrapped your ears around this beauty, and especially the Quiet Village remix, you now have an extremely good reason to nip out the door and head to Lillywhites to stock up on flannel Electro jammies…..or whatever takes your fancy!

If you’re planning a “slumber party” – let this be your chosen soundtrack, and share it with your boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, swinger or pet!

It’s a wonderful thing!

MP3: Jonathan Jeremiah – Happiness (Quiet Village Remix)

A man has been arrested in northern Greece for allegedly growing marijuana on the median strip of a highway. Police say the 35-year-old was caught in the middle of a six-lane highway linking Athens with Thessaloniki, harvesting 42 marijuana plants up to 1.8 metres tall.

Ganja Babe (Live) - Michael Franti

The Sea Life London Aquarium says its tactic of piping Barry White’s music into a shark tank to encourage breeding has paid off. The ‘‘Walrus of Love’’ has turned love-shy zebra shark Zorro into a marine love machine. Staff warn guests about his behaviour, because it looks far from romantic.

I Am The Walrus – The Beatles

(I’m afraid I couldn’t find the lovely Barry White number. And you know what? I’m kinda relieved.)

A boy in Alabama faked his own kidnapping to avoid bringing home a bad school report. The 11-year-old claimed a man grabbed him and forced him into a car. Police were suspicious that the boy had managed to escape with his band instrument, but not his bag.

A Scathing Report – The Telepathic Butterflies

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Circus of Horrors in Dorset, England, has been swamped with applications to join its freak show. The circus was expecting a handful of replies from its ad at Jobcentres this week but there have been 50 callers and far more are expected to audition.

Circus Of Horror – Quiet Village

Brian Johnsrud spat a thawed cricket 6.9 metres at the Central Wisconsin State Fair to win a contest. He says his secret is picking the biggest cricket, putting it upside down on your tongue and taking a deep breath before putting the cricket in your mouth, so you don’t swallow it.

Night of the Crickets – Mr. Gnome

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Here’s a groovy collection of chill out tunes featuring Boozoo Bajou, Mr. Scruff, Nitin Sawhney, Tosca, Nostalgia 77 and Nightmares on Wax.

Click the album art to download or here.

Mellow Mix vol. 3 is a two disc set of slower songs spanning multiple genres including bands such as Radiohead, Primal Scream, Neil Young, Led Zep and Blur. Unwind and relax.

Click here to download disc 1.

Click here to download disc 2.

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Hackney boy producer and edit extraordinaire, we are yet to find a bad tune from this guy. Originally one half of Radioslave he now runs Arcobaleno records and holds down a residency at We Love Sundays at Space. This mix from May 30th 2006 fueled my love for the techno italo combo. Resident adivisor has a cool piece about the man in question.

1. X-Ray Connection – Get Ready (sSuk edit)
2. Poussez – Come on and do it (Cuts)
3. Jimmy Bo Horn – Spank (sSuk edit)
4. Nitro Deluxe – Lets get Brutal (sSuk edit)
5. Chicago – Street Player (beats)
6. Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Intro Edit)
7. Animotion – Obsession (edit)
8. Gwen Guthrie – Seventh Heaven (Intro)
9. Gonzalez – Haven’t Stopped Dancing (Congo Break edit)
10. Ecstasy, Passion & Pain – Touch & Go (sSuk edit)
11. Eddy Grant – Nobody got the Time (edit)
12. Daft Punk – Technologic (Deeep Accapella)
13. Sly Mongoose – Snakes & Ladder (Rub’n'Tug Remix cut)
14. Anthony & Camp – What’s I Like (Beats)
15. cosmo Vitelli– Delayer (Quiet Village Project Remix) (Intro)
16. Kaptein Kaliber – Oh ah ah
17. Telex – How do you Dance (Tomboy Remix) (Intro Beats)
18. Frankie Knuckles – Baby Wants to Ride
19. Savas Pascalidis – Break it down
20. Tomboy – Samba
21. Alden Tyrell – Knockers
22. Tiga – Good as Gold (Morgan Geist Monophonic Mix) (sSuk no-vox edit)
23. Kelley Polar – Vocalize (Morgan Geist 12″ Re-Edit) (sSuk intro edit)
24. Sascha Funke – In Between Days
25. Lindstrom – Take me to Metro

Serge Santiago- Beats in Space May 30th 2006

This made my day today. A link to download all the archived Resident Advisor Podcasts. The best podcast out there by a country mile.

http://206.130.122.151/ra/

A while ago, they started archiving podcasts without giving me the chance to save them all, so i lost some absolute beauties. But now, the numbers included in that URL are as valuable to me as the winning lottery numbers… (almost).

If you don’t fancy downloading them all – here’s my pick of the bunch.

RA017 – Matthew Styles. One of the earlier mixes and one of the best from ex Crosstown Rebels head honcho.
RA032 – Henrik Schwarz. Henrik’s own style of instrumental techno and minimal techno
RA074 – Prins Thomas. Live set featuring some biggies such as LCD Soundsystem 45-33 and Aeroplane’s debut track Caramellas
RA098 – Todd Terje. Groovy techy Disco.
RA102 – Fourtet. Psychedelic electronica.
RA104 – Quiet Village. Samples and soundtracks.
RA114 – Aeroplane. For me, the best mix i heard last year
RA126 – Motorcitysoul. Never heard of them before this, now i look out for them all the time.
RA131 – Johnno Burgess. 80’s cheesefest spectacular
RA134. Danny Howells. Does what he does best.
RA136 – The Orb. As expected, beatless bliss.
RA144 – Surgeon. Hard, Room 1 Fabric Techno. I fooking love this.
RA147 – DJ Pete. The latest release, dubstep and dubby techno.

Lets hope that treasure chest stays up long enough for us to grab them all.

Nu har vi pyttsat ut en hel del CD-skivor; en del nya och en del gamla klassiker.

Till de gamla klassikerna får man räkna Tony Joe White, vi har två album här, dels Black and White, och dels Tony Joe White Continued. Härlig swamp-blues med svängig rockkänsla. Sen tidigare har vi DVD-n Tony Joe White live from Austin, Tx.  (Jag hoppas ni är medvetna om att man kan låna musik-DVD gratis här. De är de med gul plutt på sig.) Mest kända låtar är väl “Willie and Laura Mae Jones” och “Polk Salad Annie”.

En man med sådana polisonger måste man respektera!

En till gammal klassiker, om än med inte riktigt lika många år på nacken, är Boards of Canadas “Music has the right to children“. Detta album får väl räknas som en av electronicans milstolpar. För oss uppvuxna på 70-talet är det ibland nostalgitrippar av muffliga ljud från gamla barnprogram, skivor som ligger lite off-center på vinylspelaren, en solgassig oinredd vind, analoga kassettband, och allmänt skruvade ljud. Kom ut 1998.

När nu solen skiner från en klarblå himmel (i skrivande stund i alla fall!) känner jag att jag måste tala om en av de något nyare skivorna, som får mig att känna sommarvibbar i alla fall. Det är Quiet Village – Silent movie, som skapar nytt av gammalt genom att återanvända en hel del av musikhistorien, (som till exempel Alan Parsons Project) i sin cinematiska cocktailmusik. Ingen video, men en länk till deras hemsida (gå in på “Tracklist”) där man kan lyssna på en del av låtarna från albumet.

Går vi över till det lite tyngre gardet hittar vi det danska hårdrocksbandet Volbeat, som med sköna harmoniner drar iväg riktiga röjarriff på albumet Guitar gangsters & Cadillac blood. Rekommenderas inte som bilmusik då det torde vara omöjligt att hålla hastighetsbegränsningarna med detta album i bilstereon!

Som avslutning på detta inlägg plockar vi fram några riktigt gamla rockrävar som varit med länge med sin stompiga rock och galna energi. Vi talar naturligtvis om AC/DC, med gitarristen Angus Young som iklädd skoluniform hållit hårdrocksfanan högt och samtidigt förankrat den djupt i rocktraditionens riffmylla. Black Ice heter senast alstret.

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If you feel like discovering a whole new world of music, the K7! Records compoany is a nice try. From fusion, nu-jazz, electronica, chill out and many other sounds, the european based record company is one of the most famous wordlwide. Hot Chip, Erlend Øye, Annie and Milosh have released their masterpieces at K7! .

If you don’t know where to start, here you go.

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Se você está afim de descobrir um mundo de músicas novas o selo K7! é uma boa pedida. Desde fusion, nu-jazz, eletrônica, chillout e muitos outros estilos estão presentes no catálogo da compania européia de música, uma das mais famosas mundialmente. Hot Chip, Erlend Øye, Annie and Milosh já lançaram trabalhos na K7! .

Se você não sabe por onde começar, essa coletânea é do que você precisa.

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K7! Music – V.A.

1 – Awful Game – Milosh
2 – Brainfreeze [Edit] – Tres Demented
3 – Circus of Horror – Quiet Village
4 – Dancers [radio Edit] – Circlesquare
5 – Flickers [Edit] – Boozoo Bajou
6 – My Piano [Dub] – Hot Chip
7 – So Special [Feat. Paul Conboy] – Bomb The Bass
8 – The Story [Edit] – The Matthew Herbert Big Band
9 – You’re Not All That – The Herbaliser

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As I evinced in my Janurary podcast, seasons drastically affect my music tastes.  During the winter I usually enjoy hunkering down and really analyzing different music types.  I tend to reach for more abstract types of music, music that will challenge me, and I believe that some of this has come out in my podcasts.  Now, as the weather gets changes (finally!), so do my music interests.  Now, instead of scrutinizing the essence of the song, I desire to exist side by side with it, letting it enter my ears and take its course on my being.  The podcast that results from this?  Much easier to listen to, and more upbeat on the whole.  Check it:

03.09: Download // Stream

1. [Δ0:00] The Sun Balance Part I by Vibracathedral Orchestra: This song is an excellent introduction to a mix because it acts as a type of ginger to the song world.  It clears your pallet before the oncoming rush of the next songs.  The sounds seem to be imitating the crashing of waves on a shoreline, yet they are far too electronic to even come close.
2. [Δ2:53] Blissout by Lemonade: Ahh sweaty dancefloors and drone music.  The break about two and a half minutes in is to die for (“lem-on-aide… blahhh!”).
3. [Δ9:52] Time For Us All To Love by Bullion: I don’t know what it is about this song, but the first time I heard it couldn’t help but yell, “OH MY GOD!” (I’m not kidding).  It probably has to do with my obsession with straight 4/4 base drum, or maybe the surprising addition of the beat at the beginning of the song.  Whatever it is, it sure gets my synapses firing in that right way.
4. [Δ14:22] Free Rider by Quiet Village: Nothing reminds me more of the 1970’s than Silent Village.  Too bad I never lived during that time period, nor was the music created then either.  I’m sure it’s the samples that are getting to me head.
5. [Δ18:27] Reconstruction by Matmos: This track throws me through a tailspin every time.  Somehow they successfully switch from glitchy, super sliced vocals, to a simple folk guitar tune all within the confines of one song.

Raiders “Indian Reservation”…Sly & The Family Stone “Thank You”…Les Baxter Orchestra “Blue Tango”…Pat Boone “A Closer Walk With Thee”…Melody of Love/No More

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BALANCE 014 represents another step forward for this acclaimed series of dj sets. Through two discs and the use – remarkable – of more than 100 tracks, Joris Voorn constructs in layers and deep atmospheres a perfect combination of tech house, minimal and electronic music of dance. A epic mixture in the best sense of the word, the balance that obtains is a rare feat, since when combining the variety and the coherence, make for connoisseurs and dancers the same perfect. The tracks change quickly and in silence, but the rate continues, follows… and follows…

It takes a visionary DJ to combine tracks from Radiohead, through to Goldie, Leftfield, Jimpster, Aphex Twin, Dubfire, System 7, Minilogue, Cobblestone Jazz, Emmanuel Top, Joakim, Âme, Mood II Swing, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave, Carl Craig, Flying Lotus, Quiet Village,Marc Romboy, Robert Babicz, Tiger Stripes just to name a few. So sit back and
enjoy as EQ Recordings and Joris Voorn prepare to take you on a journey that recent mix CD compilations rarely manage.Promo material

I have been waiting for quite a while for a decent chill-out mix to creep up within the Resident Advisor Podcast. The Quiet Village episode was close on the downtempo tip, but if anyone is going to do it and do it properly, its The Orb. RA have officially published its first ambient podcast – about time.

Proper ambient beatless bliss. The mix takes on the familiar Kompakt Pop Ambient guise, with fellow ex Orb’er Thomas Fehlmann’s influences oozing throughout and Ulf Lohmann providing the epic ‘Nicht Die Welt’ mid-way through. No tracklisting has been put up, to many RA members disgust, so please feel free to id any of the tracks.

Hop along to the Resident Advisor podcast page to download the podcast (you have to be a member>sign up for free) and for a quick Q&A with the men behind the mix.

So. December came and with that some, unexpected, time to have a life outside of the office again. This hasn’t happened for God knows how long and I had pretty much forgotten what to do with this life thing… So what’s a poor boy to do if not make a few lists?

To start things off – best 50 albums of 2008, 50-31.

50 – 31

50 The Hush Sound – Goodbye Blues
49 Quiet Villlage – Silent Movie
48 Plants & Animals – Parc Avenue
47 The Cool Kids – Bake Sale
46 Horse Feathers – House With No Name
45 Benji Hughes – A Love Extreme
44 Grizzly Bear – Recordings @ Morning Becomes Ecclectic
43 Black Mountain – In The Future
42 Drive By Truckers – Brighter Than the Creations Spark
41 Laura Marling – Alas I cannot Swim
40 Ratatat – LP3
39 The Walkmen – You & Me
38 Plushgun – Plushgun
37 The Dears – Missiles
36 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Cardinology
35 The Dodos – Visitor
34 The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
33 Radiohead – In Rainbows
32 Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
31 Man Man – Rabbit Habits

To be honest a few of those albums, like In Rainbows and Vampire Weekend, would probably make it into the top 30 on any other day. But the cut got to go somewhere and today they just didn’t fit the bill. I’m also aware that The Decemberists recordings for “Morning Becomes Ecclectic” isn’t really an album. But whatever. My list, I make the rules.

Tomorrow – number 30-21.

As explained in Jourdan’s previous post, the year of 2008 is drawing to a triumphant close. Below is second half of Bodhi Tree’s 2008 wrap-up of the year’s best in musical compisition. We hope to have a slew of random Bodhi-esque awards to hand out at some point, but for now this simple list will have to do.

10a. Heartcore- Wildbirds & Peacedrums
-While you could argue that this technically may not have been a 2008 album, these Swedish vocal-heartthrobs dropped this beauty on American soil back in May. I stumbled upon this band only a few weeks later thanks to the ever-so reliable Good Records, who spun the record as some friends of mine prepared for an in-store performance. My friend Jess and I immediately found Mariam Wallentin’s vocals to be a more badass reincarnation of Feist. Her chemistry with Andreas Werlin can only be matched by the adorable couple I was forced to tie them with in tenth place, featured below.

10b. Re-Arrange Us- Mates of State
-This is the one pick I’m expecting quite a bit of flack for, but I refuse to make any excuses. The rapport between this husband and wife is so delightfully harmonious that after 9 months of constant exposure and listening I still can not get over it. I’m sure you have your notions on Mates of State, but if any of them are based on their previous work then do yourself a favor and give this record a listen. Hearing tracks like “Get Better” and “My Only Offer” just make me want to shrink them down and carry them in my pocket everywhere. For lack of a better, more masculine adjective, this is the cutest album of the year.

9. Rook- Shearwater
-This album is full of contradictions in a most admirable way. It’s soft (“I was a Cloud”), yet hard (“Century Eyes”), pessimistic (“Rooks”), yet harmoniously beautiful (“The Snow Leapord”) all at the same time. Anyone who questioned frontman Jonathan Meiburg for abandoning his post at the Okkervil River during the height of his former band’s existence is almost certainly retracting their unwise criticism. On a side note, the album release show for Rook at The Parish in Austin may have been the year’s best live performance, just ask anyone who was in attendance.

8. Silent Movie- Quiet Village
-A smorgasbord of intricately connected samples make Silent Movie an almost ideal soundtrack to a rather audacious year. As I stated when I reviewed this album for KVRX this summer, it’s the sweet, satisfying dessert following a delicious meal that features The Avalanches Since I Left You as the main course. The album fluctuates through ambient melodies to fast, meant for a late Saturday night timbres, all the way into reggae and soul, provoking imagery of film along the way, just as advertised.

7. Laulu Laakson Kukista- Paavoharju
-Another example of why 2008 could be considered the year of the Scandinavians, Paavoharju takes psych-pop to a whole new level. The foreign name may throw your expectations a bit off the mark, but this album evokes a variety of musical styles, that flow together in an unexpectedly fluid manner. The greatest thing about this album is that people can enjoy it from a multitude of interpretations. Some may use it to fall asleep, while others remain fully engaged, bobbing there head to “Kevatrumpu” as they finish the day’s tasks.

6. A Certain Feeling- Bodies of Water
-Hearing a band for the first time in a live setting and loving them can almost be poisonous, particularly when they are playing almost completely unreleased material. Thus was the case with Bodies of Water, a band who reeled me into their vicinity 3 times over the course of SXSW 2008. Once again, this band’s intertwining of male/female vocals hits the spot, but in a much more unique manor than any other album’s I’ve encountered in 2008 or otherwise. Through their well-aligned and extremely demanding vocal energy, its clear that David and Meredith Metcalf are on a joint mission that is not to be met with vexation, whether you are “Gold, Tan, Peach, or Grey.”

5. Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
-To the chagrin of many doubters, these remix wizards lived up to the hype when it came to dropping material of their own. Through their own mix of samples, innovation, and vocal modulation, Alice Glass and Ethan Kath made the syncopation of screaming and dancing socially acceptable. The best exemplification of Crystal Castles’ talent: they can even make a Health song sound good. I honestly can’t think of another act who could pull of that miracle.

4. Alopecia- Why?
-Despite putting a song on his palm that we can’t read, Yoni Wolf once again gave the world access to a revolutionary outlook of hip-hop in 2008. If you know me well, then you should be aware of the fact that 2005’s Elephant Eyelash may very well be my favorite album of all time. Only a man who would fly to my funeral from anywhere would impress in a situation with such high expectations. He may be a landmine as opposed to a ladies man, but his expertise has yet to explode.

3. Devotion- Beach House
-Not surprisingly, this is one of my two overlaps with Jourdan’s list, and honestly, you would have to do quite a bit of excavating to discover a legitimate 2008 music wrap-up that doesn’t credit this album with the respect it deserves. Their dreamy melodic pop will whisk you away into a state of relaxation only the non-working folk on the shores of Florida can imagine. Whether it be distant percussion or swirling, effortless vocals, this album is pristine to its core. In year that was headlined by the tough times brought about by an economy gone astray, Devotion plus a glass of red wine may be the ultimate prescription for a stress-filled day.

2. Third- Portishead
-No band in the last 15 years has operated in such a hidden shadow of fright and secrecy. Even in their heyday , when they essentially founded the trip-hop genre, Portishead was a mystery, rarely preforming live or granting interviews. After two brilliant albums, the band went into a ten year hibernation period, almost seeming forgotten sans the routine appearance of a song from Dummy in a movie every so often. Portishead may have only been out to prove that they still had it with Third, and that’s fine, because they definitely still do. We all know what a decade-plus wait can do to expectations and results (see the predicted disaster of Chinese Democracy) and usually it is simply a matter of how close can you get to matching the hype. While I may be a bit bias, my favorite band of the 90’s showed us all in 2008 that they are still musical staple, one of the big guns that should never be written off as long as the slightly neurotic and farouche Beth Gibbons can still operate her majestic vocal chords.

1. Miami Ice- Icy Demons
-Once again, this may be met with some controversy because it was released in Japan in 2007. Nevertheless, these Chicago natives deployed their latest LP in America this Summer. In my opinion they are the best mix of innovation, creativity, talent and fun available in the industry today. They can hook you with any instrument, whether it be the bouncy keys on the album’s title track or the swooning bass on “Crittin Down to Baba’s.” I honestly can’t listen to just a single track on this album. Each note serves a single fix, and I’m an attic that simply craves more. Any band who can say they opened for Of Montreal and outshine them release wise in 2008, deserves the accolade of album of the year. Don’t agree with me? Then in the wards of frontman Griffin Rodriguez aka Blue Hawaii “Fuck it dude I say whatever.”

Honorable Mentions:
Dance Party in the Balkans- Alaska in Winter
Parc Avenue- Plants & Animals
Ode to Sunshine- Delta Spirit
Arm’s Way- Islands
Spectrum, 14th Century- Final Fantasy
The Rhumb Line- Ra Ra Riot
The Midnight Organ Fight- Frightened Rabbit
Water Curses- Animal Collective
Come into My House- No Kids
S/T- Hercules & Love Affair

Adele
Santogold
Faunts
Starfucker
Daedelus
Flying Lotus
Between the Pine
Fujiya & Miyagi
Dragonette
Black Ghosts
Michna
El Perro Del Mar
Lykke Li
Morgan Geist
Kelley Polar
Jaime Lidell
Annie
Kanye West
Gui Boratto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Grace Jones
Pivot
Padded Cell
Girl Talk
Quiet Village
Prosumer & Murat
Ellen Alien
Modeselektor
Carl Cox
Portishead
Meat Beat Manifesto
Bomb the Bass
Radiohead
Underworld
Hip Hop Karaoke
Muxtape
Blip.fm
Pandora
Last.fm

Home of the excellent DJ Kicks series, !K7 Records are giving away a cd sampler featuring some of the biggest tracks released on the label. All you have to do is submit your email address to be sent a download link to some great tracks from Hot Chip, Quiet Village, Carl Craig and The Herbaliser.

Click here for your path to musical happiness.

With Halloween creeping up this weekend, downtempo psychadelic legends Quiet Village have turned out a scary mind-bending ‘Horrorcast’. A full mix of spooky induced noises, samples and tunage. Download it for free here (direct link!). Its like watching a 1950’s Count Dracula film on a Sunday afternoon- thoroughly enjoyable background listening. Or alternatively a great soundtrack to accompany you trick or treating.

I recognised one track out of the whole mix – tune id’s anyone?! I swear one of the them was a freaky farmer song from ‘The Wicker Man’. Happy Halloweeeeeeen.