Archive for February, 2007

02.24.07

Director/Producer Amy Grill has been holed-up in the edit suite in the last few weeks reviewing even more footage and has put together a full 5-minute trailer which recontextualizes the film as a series of stories, intertwined through narration and a timeline, which connects all our wonderful characters.

As we’ve been saying all along, the film is much more about subcultures and how they operate than what techno is, or what electronic music is. In the teaser, you see Miss Kittin waving the Modeselektor flag, Monolake and his creation the Monodeck, the Wighnomy Brothers playing in the mountains of Jena, Germany, Tobias Thomas at the close of Tanzhalle St. Pauli in Hamburg, NYC promoter DJ Spinoza (Bryan Kasenic) and much more.

The full trailer will get its debut soon at the sQuareone studios.

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We’ve posted about Inner City’s “Good Life” before, but on a Gmail thread we were exposed to a new unreleased remix.

DJ Red Foxxworth is part of the Hearthrob party crew, which DJs a fashion show this Thursday:

Hearthrob visited Montreal and played the Peer Pressure party [slideshow here] and are debuting their fascinating DVD this Tuesday at the Middlesex Lounge.

Here’s Foxxworth’s re-edit of Inner City’s “Good Life,” as remixed by Eric Prydz. “You can blog it but it’s really simple I did it in 15 minutes drinking Sparks,” he says.

Inner City - “Good Life (Eric Prydz Remix)” (Foxxworth’s 15-minute drinking Sparks remix)

02.21.07

My goodness, this blog is inactive far too long. Expect that to change.

A new trailer is on the way, Director/Producer Amy Grill has managed to recontextualize our movie in a grand 5-minute stunner. Google video on the way.

We’ve had a very busy February, and we knew it would be. Events like Thunderdome 3, featuring the sounds of Trouble n Bass, to Boston talents Hearthrob going to Montreal [gallery here] it was busy. Not to mention that Johnny Love of Guns n Bombs played in town last week [gallery here], we DJed a roller rink [gallery] and so on.

You get the idea.

It’s all collaboration and networking, in every way possible. Electronic music lends itself very well to networking and from the movie to the promo to the music — sharing is caring.

Recommended blog Home Taping points this out a lot.

The music, with remixes and reedits and so on, is all about a collaboration. Sometimes merely aesthetic collaboration. Like this new track from the excellent disco-erotique duo In Flagranti:

In Flagranti - “Intergalatic Bubblegum” [128 kbps]

Which spins Amii Stewart at about 33. Here’s the 12″ remix version, with some really nice freestyle edits:

Amii Stewart - “Knock on Wood (12″ Remix)”

Lots of questions being raised these days within the industry about sampling, fair use and freedom of expression. The remix culture, the culture of electronic music in general, is starting to transform an artform. Most everything we’ll do in the coming months has to do with these questions and others.

This Thursday check out DJ Die Young, Baltimoroder and David Day at Make It New (DJ Rob Hall cancelled, sorry!), Pan Am with a one-off this Friday at the Enormous Room.

Electronic music has always had its heart in the avant-garde… since Edison.

And one more MP3. A rare 12″ rip from Jean-Michel Jarre, an early avant/electro combination:

Jean-Michel Jarre - “Exquinoxe 4 (12″ mix)”

Fully re-styled and re-tooled trailer teaser in the days ahead.