We are in the process of sorting the stills from sQuare production’s recent trip to Germany for the film. In the meantime, catch up with us on this slideshow.

For years, our friend Tyrone Tanous has been talking about his various film projects. Now that we have space to show them, we hit him up and he hit us back.

Big ups to our man Red Foxxworth. Spotlight on Diplo’s Mad Decent blog. Red Foxxworth is one of the DJs at Hearthrob, along with sQuareone resident Baltimoroder, Pop! Providence promoter Morgan Louis and Hearthrob impersario Sensitive Hand.

They let me take the pictures. Last night was Crazytown.

Make It New is free this week: DJs Billy Kiely (Forced Exposure) and Alan Manzi (unlockedgroove) welcome area DJ legend Paulinnate. Be there or be… well… you know.

Phoenix links:

Cosmo Baker (with link to his new MP3 mix)

3 DJs, 3 Nights, 3 Questions

Clubber’s Countdown

It really went off last night when DJ/producer extreme Baltimoroder dropped this:

Quad City DJs - “Come On Ride the Train (Baltimoroder’s Halftime Remix)”

Speaking in Code … the techno movie that’s not about techno.Director Amy Grill put together a chronological behind-the-scenes vidshow that’s worth peeping again:

In the meantime

sQuare DJs Baltimoroder and Daviday are playing a roller rink February 8th with production guru PTVN and disco collector/godhead Joseph Colbourne:

And of course, the Techno party remains at the Middlesex Lounge each week. Our upcoming guests include Worcester rave gods, Mancunian madmen, Germanic disco-funk experts and Spanish technoids.

All along, disco keeps pushing its influence onto the techno masses, as well it should. The Disco Sucks riot illustrated America’s revolt against dance music. It was gay, it was black, it was feminine, it was &c., &c.

But dance tunes remain. There’s nothing quite like submitting to a 4-4 beat and it its many incarnations; indigenous, synthetic or otherwise.

Consider this track from Pantha Du Prince, techno producers from Germany who happen to subscribe to a particular Marxist philosophy while they make glitteringly brilliant tracks. The sound is conflicted in American ears: four-four, symphonic and trancey. Yet despite their dedication to simple life (a picture of their friend’s production space is here), the music is lush and resplendant:

Pantha Du Prince - “Saturn Strobe”

And ultimately, that is what disco is all about: jubilance in the face of the inevitable.

Like this:

Chic - “Everybody Dance (12″ Mix)”

or this:

Isolee - “Beau Mot Plage (Freeform Reform)”

or this:

Kanye West - “Addition (Terry Hunter and K-Dope Remix)”

or this:

Seabstian Tellier - “La Ritournelle”

Robag Wruhme - “Wuzzelbud ‘KK’”

Robag is in the movie.

Sign up for the email list on the right for more information about events.Here is the upcoming schedule for Make It New (Thursdays, Middlesex):

1/4 - DJ Baltimoroder DJ David Day with special guest DJ Die Young FREE

1/11 - DJ Baltimoroder DJ Alan Manzi with special guest DJ TBA

1/18 - DJ David Day DJ Billy Kiely with special guest DJ TBA

1/25 - DJ Alan Manzi DJ Billy Kiely with special guest DJs SASSE and HOLMAR FILIPSSON (Mood Music Berlin) $5.00

2/1 - TBA

2/8 - TBA

2/15 - TBA

2/22 - DJ David Day DJ Billy Kiely with special guest DJ ROB HALL (SKAM, Manchester) $5.00

3/1 - DJ Baltimoroder DJ David Day with special guest DJ JUAMETIC (REGULAR, Spain) $5.00

We’re actively seeking local guest DJs and area stars to come through. It’s always a good time, anyhow and you should see our new pocket-flyers. A flyer revolution.

And Erik (Batlimoroder) and myself welcome REFUSENIK to Pan Am Fridays in a few days. At the Enormous Room.

Speaking In Code, the movie, is wrapping production in Germany. You can visit various links via the newish Google Blog search.

Director/Producer Amy Grill via Blackberry in Berlin:

“We shot several really excellent interviews in jena. After a year and a half of following the freude-am-tanzen crew they are able to be very honest, open, funny, sometimes sad always comfortable and human in their interviews. And their english is much better after more than a year of non-stop remix and gig offers and travels that have taken them from budapest to japan.

This time after a traditional east german meal (basically sausage, ketchup and noodles) and many glasses of red wine we did the final interview with gabor (in german). Is was nearly 2 hours and he talked in depth about why he took a break this summer and didn’t go to many of his gigs.

The purpose of this trip was to get more in depth interviews that give the stories more meaning and a solid backbone/structure. We already have plenty of coverage and footage with the artists in action (at work, play and travel).

We shot at Weekend and scott said - this is defintely the nicest club we’ve ever shot at - the soundsystem is really nice and clean. There was a sub the size of a small boat in the dj booth and you could feel the sound like gusts of reverbirating wind. Amazing. Chilling. So good. For the first time I stayed in the club well into the morning. I couldn’t stop dancing. Sasha killed it as the sun was beginning to come up (scott had left by then). And then ellen appeared again and dropped that super bass get physical track - I nearly lost it. It was after 10am when I took the elevators back down to the lobby. Weekend is in a skyscraper.”

Sounds like good stuff.

Make It New is filled with discoid madness. The idea that techno/house came from disco is finally cementing itself as fact and dance music couldn’t be happier.

Justus Kohncke of Kompakt Records draws immeasurable inspiration from disco. His touch is high-hat euphoria time and time again. On our New Year’s night, with the special help of Joseph Colbourne, this track became a must-play.

The treatment here of Zero 7 is pretty excellent, and the rip, clearly from a piece of vinyl, only adds to its natural feel:

Zero 7 (feat. Sia) - “You’re My Flame (Justus Kohncke Remix)”