In an age where everyone and their grandma is a laptop DJ, it’s possible that some legitimate talent may get lost in the shuffle; however, the filtering process of the internet is still turning its gears and the cream of the crop is rising.

Like top shelf DJs before him (Justice and MSTRKRFT to name a few), XXXChange knows the importance of choosing a great song to remix.  The song is your canvas so you better be painting on something you love.  Consequently, the greater the song you decide on, the more likelihood you are going to screw it up.

Some of the notable XXXChange remixes have been to Thom Yorke, Panda Bear, Santogold, Gang Gang Dance (visit the post below) and Sunny Day Sets Fire.  While Justice often attacks a song with all the French electro beats they can muster, XXXchange does a great job of keeping the artist’s original vision while injecting his own tweaked out dance style.

[mp3] Santogold - LES Artistes (XXXChange mix ft. Movado)

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How did this sit on my desktop for this long without me listening to it?  That’s the question that I scream at the music gods as I shake this Quiet Village record at them with prophetic fury.  I think it was the name that evokes some mid-western source of solitude, or something acoustic-y, like the second coming of Bon Iver or any axe wielding balladeer whose music is equal source for the sleepy stoner as it is for creating romanitic moments for the clinically unhappy.  I guess I shouldn’t have looked to the name to help define QV’s music.

Fortunately, the mindset I had going into my first listen of Quiet Village’s Silent Movie was thrown out the proverbial door with all the bath water as soon as that static, horn blow broke into that bass heavy riff number one.  “Circus of Horror” sounds like it could be the title track off the soundtrack to some blaxploitation flick where Pam Grier has some excellent fight scene inside the mirror room of a fun house all to save some ancient crystal goblet filled with coke.  Get my drift?  Silent Movie might have been produced under a practice of watching 70s pulp films with the mute on and Quiet Village providing their own score.  It would be a nice exercise even if it isn’t the actual truth.  I could see Tarantino jumping on something like this for one of his films.  Maybe Inglorious Bastards?

[mp3] Quiet Village - Circus of Horror

If you are curious as to the origins of the band’s name, look no further:

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