Quiet Village prep Silent Movie

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  • Radio Slave and Joel Martin’s electronic exotica project Quiet Village unveils a debut album.
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  • Radio Slave and Joel Martin’s electronic exotica project Quiet Village unveils a debut album. We thought we were pretty familiar with Radio Slave, aka techno thumper Matt Edwards, but his side project Quiet Village makes us think he might really be a softie at heart. A collab between Edwards and ex-film editor and music nut Joel Martin, Quiet Village take their name from the fake-Hawaiian Les Baxter track from the fifties, which should clue you in to the sound: QV loves bad Italian movie soundtracks, easy listening and slo-mo disco and aren’t too bothered about the dancefloor (well, perhaps a little bit). So far QV have three singles out on rated label Whatever We Want, five sides of which make it onto the album, plus they’ve remixed the likes of Gorillaz, François K, Cosmo Vitelli and, um, The Osmonds. Silent Movie therefore is a summation of Quiet Village thus far—expect free hippie ramblings (‚Free Rider’), Sunday evening exotica (‚Can't Be Beat’) and porny prog rock (‚Circus of Horror’). You can preview a few tracks at QV’s MySpace. Tracklist CD 01 Victoria's Secret 02 Circus of Horror 03 Free Rider 04 Too High To Move 05 Pacific Rhythm 06 Broken Promises 07 Pillow Talk 08 Can't Be Beat 09 Gold Rush 10 Singing Sand 11 Utopia 12 Keep on Rolling 2xLP Side 1 01 Victoria's Secret 02 Circus of Horror 03 Free Rider 04 Pacific Rhythm 05 Keep On Rolling Side 2 01 Broken Promises 02 Pillow Talk 03 Gold Rush 04 Utopia ’Silent Movie’ by Quiet Village is out on !K7 on April 28th, 2008.
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