Word is starting to spread, grassroots style, about our film. Our friend Nick Parish published an interview he did with director Amy Grill over at his blog. The always excellent Stylus Magazine has an interview with Amy upcoming as well. The movie itself even has a myspace account now.

More links to follow. The final installment of our Europe pics is up at Flickr as well.

Thanks to those who have inquired about logging footage. We will host a kind of orientation 19 August so if you’re interested in viewing raw footage and helping us catalog our 216-hour project, email amy@sQuar3.com. Screen credit and perhaps future payment for those with prior experience. This film is strictly DIY — so your help is always appreciated.

sQuare productions is also the home of two DJs, Erik Pearson and David Day. Erik’s a resident at Make It New and Pan Am Fridays, but is currently blowing up as a resident at Hearthrob, the manic twice a month Tuesday party at the Middlesex Lounge. One of the mmost skilled DJs in Boston, Erik can mix grime, hip-hop, dancehall, minimal techno, etc. Whatever you put in his hands basically. Erik also records music down at sQuareone, where he’s almost done assembling a production studio. Get ready for that stuff.

The other DJ at sQuare is David Day (or DJviday as people have so named him) who’s maybe not as good a DJ as Erik, but tries really hard.

Here’s a set from a house party in Cambridge. Two weeks back our art curator friend threw a bash on his birthday. This is DJviday from about 100am to 140am. There’s a pretty bad skip on the Basement Jaxx CD (it’s been played the crap out of now) but everything else (effects, mixing, eq) is live. It was really hot, sweat was dripping on the crossfader, and so forth.

DJviday - Eitan’s Birthday

tracklisting:

Edu K - Bundalele Baile Jean
Switch - A Bit Patchy
Basement Jaxx - Rendez-vu
< < skippage >>
Royskopp - What Else Is There (Thin White Duke Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends
Annie - Chewing Gum (Mylo Remix)
The Knife - Silent Shout (Rave Re-Konstruction)
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Sean Paul - Shake That Thing (Bhangra remix)
Hands In The Air (Bhangra remix)
Jay Z ft Punjabi MC - Beware Of The Boys

Good times.

The footage from the film needs to be watched, and there is only so many hours in a day. 150 hours or thereabouts is unlogged, uncut footage our film has recorded in places like Amsterdam, Montreal, Koln, Jena and the wilderness of the Eastern Germany forest. When you’re logging raw footage, you are really acting as a kind of assistant editor, noting what looks good, what’s compelling and what works, so we need people that know what they’re doing. For more information, or to schedule a time to log footage, reach out to director Amy Grill. There are options for future compensation and, of course, credit.Here’s a sketch of our new logo, properly inspired by the sQuare sound wave, which Todd Gys pointed out to us after we saw it on a piece of techno gear.

sQuare productions worldwide ya’ll.

Speaking in Code, in case you hadn’t heard, is a feature-length documentary that will redefine the electronic music documentary. It’s not a movie about the glamourous life of DJs and the importance of dance music, and it’s not about how Detroit techno is the only techno. Both those ideas are fine on their own, but Speaking in Code not about either. SiC is about the characters (read: real people) within electronic music and how they network, survive and pursue a life outside of corporate culture. The production of Speaking in Code mirrors the kind of grassroots community efforts that make this music possible. This is why we’re always asking you for money and support. We can’t do this without you. It is slated for completion May 2007.

We’re concieving our movie. If you want to be a midwife, reach out.
The idea germinated 1 1/2 years ago in Miami, when our Director, myself, and co-producer Philip Sherburne (Pitchforkmedia, The Wire, XLR8R, etc.) were up late talking about techno and what needed to be communicated to the outside world about the artform. That night, on the dancefloor, Mylo played a track which has stuck in my head since. It went “Don’t stop now / You can’t stop now.” I’ve been looking for it for the last 1 1/2 years.

Last week, at my day job, I heard it again in a mix CD. I kind of freaked out (people thought there was some emergency), and lept to my feet. Turns out it was from a label we had recently signed on as an exclusive.

Marc Romboy runs Systematic, and seems to be a real genuine cat. The type of person we would surely include in the documentary if we had an unlimited budget. It’s a track the German recorded with vocals from Detroit’s Blake Baxter and it’s called “Freakin’”.

Marc Romboy vs. Blake Baxter - “Freakin’”

“Don’t stop now / You can’t stop / Don’t stop”

It’s like.. our motto.