As we duplicate the entire Speaking in Code archive (that’s the 236-line tape log screenshot there!) images are flashing by — the 808 club in Boston’s Chinatown, writer Philip Sherburne at home in Barcelona, BPitch Control owner Ellen Allien beside the sparkling Spree river, Monkey Mafia at the Awakenings Festival, etc. one thing is clear. We need people to watch this stuff!

Tape logging requires volunteers to watch footage — raw unedited footage — and notate when moments are shared, character traits are revealed or a magnificent shot is captured. Loggers get an inside view of the project and a first-hand look at the film itself.

If you are looking for experience in documentary, already have experience in final cut pro and are serious about dedicating your summer to watching wonderfully raw footage, contact Director Amy Grill.

Many thanks to those who have linked to our trailer (Commander Master Chief!, Kosmic Luxery!), every little bit helps. Again, if you’re looking to post it, use the code at Virb.com if you please. A new teaser — yes, indeed — complete with motion graphics and a more refined presentation of the movie, is coming soon.

And more from Basstown:

Basstown presents Pantha Du Prince Live
w/ DJs Todd Gys and Die Young

@ RocketBar
(formerly the Modern)
36 Lansdowne Street, Boston, MA 02215
MBTA Access: Kenmore Green Line
(617) 536-2100
May 31st, 2007 10pm-2am 21+

$5.00 with RSVP / $10.00 without
rsvp to: basstownprod@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/basstownpresents

Much more information here.

RSVP YOUR NAME(S) HERE

Pantha Du Prince (aka Hendrik Weber) is one of the elite techno producers in the world. Whispered amongst the foremost aesthetes, Weber plays both the Detroit Electronic Music Festival this weekend and Canada’s Mutek festival the next, eventually landing at the APT club in New York City.

Between that, he comes here on Thursday to the RocketBar, a cooly intimate venue and home to one of the finest soundsystems in Boston.

ResidentAdvisor.net calls his music “Detroit and minimal vs. My Bloody Valentine and psychedelia”. NYC record store Other Music says his latest release (”This Bliss”) is “full of beauty”. UK music site Boomkat calls it “Totally cosmic,” and expert US site Stylus gives This Bliss an A-.

We’ll send out an exclusive Pantha MP3 DJ mix on the mailing list Monday. Sign up today.

Here’s a rarity from Weber, a Depeche Mode remix which only appeared on a UK Club Promo. Depeche Mode is easily the most cultured of the supergroups, enlisting only the finest remix artists in Europe, including Speaking in Code subject Robag Wruhme.

Depeche Mode - “Lilian (Pantha Du Prince Raboisen Ecke Burstah Remix)”

Weber’s endlessly smooth sound can only be heard on a large soundsystem. We’re looking forward to the live set.

Another contemporary of Weber’s is Lawrence, (aka Peter M. Kersten), who runs Pantha Du Prince’s record label Dial Records. His releases are majestic space techno of the highest magnitude. One of our favorites comes from the Liebe Detail label (see below):

Lawrence - “Place To Be”

Buy the high-res version here.

And since we love sharing with you the music that we love, here is the latest remix from Joakim, who we brought through Lansdowne just a few weeks back [pictures here]. From one of our favorite bands, Cut Copy [buy their stuff here].

Cut Copy - “Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix)”

Coming soon to Boston: Akufen, the Field and much more.

As we shake off the remains of Winter, the film is again taking the highest priority. In the last few days we have coordinated press packets and business plans. A few more people have volunteered to log the raw footage of the film and the duping and digitizing of all remaining master tapes (230 hours of footage!) is still ahead of us.

The Sundance deadline for completion is an ambitious one. To get off on the right foot, we have dug further into our own pockets to purchase a bigger hardrive for more space and a bigger monitor to manage the size of the project with additional screen real estate.

New producer Alexandra Lee has come on board to further guide us through the funding wilderness. Lee is a tremendous asset, having worked around Boston for numerous organizations who need support. For questions on investment, you can reach out to her here.

As we expected, elements and characters in our movie continue to thrive after the cameras have turned off. BPitch Control keeps pushing the link between genres — Modeselektor’s new Boogy Bytes 3 mix is out now. Kompakt, as a friend recently said, “can do no wrong, it’s like Warp back in 92.” Robert Henke, aka Monolake, is performing Layering Buddha live at Mutek (have fun, guys!), the Wighnomy Brothers is putting out a compilation of their amazing remixes June 5th (Depeche Mode! Nitzer Ebb! Underworld!) and so on.

While here in the U.S., DJ Spinoza is throwing a 24-hour party (!), Thunderdome continued blazing its (literally) underground path with installment #5, unlockedgroove’s Six Million Dollar Dan is relaunching his band as Electric Laser People, writer and DJ Philip Sherburne is rocking parties everywhere these days and so on.

Which is not to say that the film hinges on the success of these characters (and others featured), but the film is about a network of characters, not the acceptance of electronic music. Still, it’s nice to see them still moving forward.

Meanwhile, we’ve put the trailer on yet another social networking site, imeem:

Here it is also on MySpace, iFilm, Virb and of course YouTube and Google. Feel free to add them to your blog, MySpace, Facebook or whatever else is out there. Every little bit helps (if you don’t have a preference, the quality of Virb is outstanding).

Here are some tunes to keep you moving. The first, from our beloved Wighnomy Brothers, who recently re-entered the production world, with a remix of Norway’s finest, as featured on their second volume of remixes:

Royksopp - “Beautiful Day Without You (Wighnomy’s Und Robag’s Spekkfakkel Remix)”

The brothers (a/k/a Gabor Schablitzki (a/k/a Robag Wruhme) & Sören Bodner) continue to produce new remixes as well, like this stereophonic wonder for U.S. label Ghostly International:

Lusine - “The Stop (Robag Wruhme Remix)”

The third MP3 comes from Apparat, a taste from his new CD Walls. Apparat makes an appearance in the film as Ellen Allien’s music-making partner and friend to BPitch Control. Their Orchestra of Bubbles CD is one of the classics of the genre. “Fractales Pt. 1″ takes I.D.M. music to new places:

Apparat - “Fractales Pt.1″

See you on the Internet.

With our two booking projects behind us (thanks Tim Sweeney, Joakim, Hearthrob, Damien Culvelier and Slumber Party! Joakim pics here, Hearthrob here), sQuare productions turns back to our film project.

Director Amy Grill has set a deadline for the completion of the edit, or at least a rough-cut, of our feature film Speaking in Code. The Sundance Film Festival, America’s most famous independent festival, is taking submission for its 2008 festival. The deadline for feature-film submission is Sept 14th. We’re gonna be done by then.

That gives us all summer long to log the rest of our 230 hours of footage and start plotting the arc of the documentary. To finish by then, however, we need to buy more things. First and foremost, two terrabit drives in order to house the film, and some kind of large display (as in the 20″ version here), to view all our footage in a proper way.

Here again is the one-minute trailer snippet for your viewing pleasure:

The full five-minute version is available upon request from the director.

Speaking in Code is a story of an electronic music underground and how it operates. Through the eyes of journalists, producers, promoters and DJs, the audience watches as dreams come true, things fall apart and life unfolds. Through a group of wonderfully engaging characters, a story of reliance, devotion and interconnectivity relays universal themes of art, survival and community.

More here. Stories about Speaking in Code can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

We’ve had to move our edit suite back to the home base (sQuareone R.I.P.), but the art we supported through our studio space lives on. Tonight new work of Jeff Sweat is being premiered in Boston’s South End:

If you’re in Boston, we would encourage you to attend. Or stop by the gallery while the work is one display this month.

The summer is coming in New England and it’s always a beautiful thing. Trees blooming, baseball in the air and we can open the windows again. Here’re two tracks for the 07 summertime.

Armand Van Helden - “I Want Your Soul”

Interviewing Boston’s own International superstar tomorrow. This one is off his newest album, Ghettoblaster. One for the highway, open the sunroof.

Burial - “Unite”

This is for the nighttime. Newest track from the mysterious dubstep artist Burial. The self-titled 2006 debut was our favorite album of the decade (buy it here). This one is off the forthcoming “Box of Dub” from Soul Jazz Records. Possibly the Greatest Record Store on Earth (their newsletter is here).

One more, the fantastic combination of Ame, Henrik Schwarz and Dixon with the empowering vocals of Chicago House maven Derrik Carter. As featured in Body Language Vol. 4, one of the best mix CDs of the year. Pick it up here.

Henrik Schwarz, Ame and Dixon Feat. Derrick L. Carter - “Where We At (Part 1)”

The road less traveled is now the path of choice.

Thursday night our promotion/booking project takes on a second show, this time going straight at Techno with a guest DJ set from Joakim, one of the premiere aesthetes in Europe and manager of the Tigersushi label and others.

We’re doing it at Club i-D at Axis on Lansdowne Street, above the Axis nightclub. Axis last Saturday was a tremendous success [pics here]. Club i-D is smaller, but has a huge soundsystem yet only holds 300 or so people, which is what we needed. We need this show to be loud loud.

Room is limited so get your $5.00 RSVP in now. (click to open an email or shoot one to basstownprod[@]gmail.com).

You must email your RSVP to get $5.00 off. Your name will be on a list at the door.

Joining Joakim are local talents Slumber Party (aka DJezus and DJ Die Young) and local dance-music maven Damien Culvalier:

Damien rolls with the RobotLoveSongs crew and, like Joakim, is French. I always get a kick about telling people he was a Vice Magazine “Do”. Of course, more than that he’s a great DJ — he played Make It New a few times, and his sets are always fun. Be sure not to miss it.

Joakim himself is playing a DJ set of dance music (loud!), but is more in-tune with a good sound than a lot of dance noise. Here’s two exquisite remixes, one of dance-pop queen Annie and a lesser known rework of Antena:

Annie - “Always Too Late (Joakim Remix)

Antena - “Camino Del Sol (Joakim’s Antwerp Remix)”

Send in your names for the $5.00 RSVP list now.

We’ve also been informed that Sharam Jey from Cologne Germany is playing a last minute show at Axis downstairs as well. Coming to our show allows to you go downstairs to check it out. Here’s a rapidshare.de mp3 mix from Sharam to check out in advance.

See you Thursday.