Wednesday June 4th @ The Nectar Lounge
Decibel & Nectar proudly present The Silent Movie Tour, featuring Seattle debut performances by....



RADIO SLAVE : UK / Berlin
Rekids / Poker Flat / Get Physical Music
http://www.myspace.com/rekid

Radio Slave's Matt Edwards is the central figure of the current British progressive house revival. An influential figure in dance circuits, in the last five years Edwards has ascended to the pinnacles of house music through a cavalry of aliases that include Radio Slave, REKID, and the Quiet Village Project (with Joel Martin). Radio Slave has an uncanny ear for bringing together all the major eras of house and techno, from Chicago jack-house to Detroit analog techno - from British progressive house to more minimal German strains - and blending them together into music that sounds altogether new yet inspiringly familiar. Edwards has also cultivated a talented roster of like-minded producers at his REKIDS label, which has become an indicator of high quality for dance music enthusiasts the world round through singles by Luke Solomon (also known as one-half of The Freaks), Toby Tobias, Mr. G, and Spencer Parker.




QUIET VILLAGE : UK / Berlin - Live Audio / Visual Performance
!K7 Records
http://www.myspace.com/quietvillage

After three sought-after singles on the Whatever We Want label plus remixes for the likes of Gorillaz, Francois K and Cosmo Vitelli, Quiet Village step out of the shadows to present their first full-length album, "Silent Movie". Comprised of master crate-digger Joel Martin and rising house-music star Matt Edwards (aka Radio Slave), and borrowing their name from Martin Denny's exotica masterpiece, Quiet Village make the old sound new (and vice versa). Influenced by Italian film soundtracks, BBC library music, disco edits, acid rock, vintage soul and easy listening, they meld the unlikeliest elements-bluesy guitar, chamber strings, air-raid sirens, shuffling breakbeats, even flutes and seagull cries-into the most gorgeous music you will hear all year!


... with special guest...


NORDIC SOUL : Live Downtempo Set
Decibel / Broken Disco
http://www.myspace.com/nordicsoul

Nordic Soul is the solo moniker of Decibel Festival brainchild Sean Horton (Db founder, director and curator). More that just a moniker, the name Nordic Soul describes Horton's production aesthetic, which fuses the soulful sounds of Detroit's urban landscape (Horton's upbringing) with the ethereal textures and melodies associated with Northern Europe (Horton's heritage). Nordic Soul's solo releases, remixes and collaborations range from instrumental hip hop (Emergency Breaks on K-Records, 1998) to deep techno and often pay homage to multiple genres within a single track. As a producer, Horton's vast array of influence spawns from almost 20 years as a musician (guitar, bass, and keyboards) and 15 years as a DJ and avid music collector. Since Nordic Soul's inception in 2003 he has shared the stage with a diverse selection of talent including; Trentemoller, Modeselektor, Derrick May, John Tejada, Matthew Dear, Monolake, Thomas Fehlmann, Boys Noize, Funkstroung, Bassnectar, Cobblestone Jazz, T. Raumschmiere, Boom Bip, Richard Devine, Bruno Pronsato, Outhud, Tipper, Four Tet and Lusine to name a few. Horton also perform laptop percussion with electro pop quartet Synth Club (featuring Reggie Watts on vocals) and the soulful house quintet Loveslap (featuring KJ Sawka on drums). Known as "the busiest man in Seattle techno," Nordic Soul is a key member of the growing U.S. electronic music scene and clearly here to stay.

- $10 advance tickets available at www.ticketweb.com
- 9PM doors
- 21 & Over

Nectar Lounge
412 N 36th St - Fremont, Seattle

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Nectar Lounge is a venue that has about a 150-person capacity. That place is going to go the fuck off. Holy crap.

That's fuckin' awesome! I went to Nectar a few times before I moved... Great little place! Maybe I should make a trip back home for this

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That is awesome. Radio Slave is a fantastic DJ, expect lots of dark techno. Quiet Village would definitely be an interesting show live.

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Thats a dope line-up

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

Quiet Village was meh. Contrary to it being booked as a "live visual/audio performance," all it was was Matt putting in a CD of all of their tracks and letting it play for an hour, occasionally adding the typical DJM effects over top while Joel Martin did some visual editing. The visuals were great, and with the atmosphere that Nordic Soul setup in the beginning, it was nice to just chill and watch them (they were really long clips, cut-up old 70's movies including fucking weird porn). Still, I expected a few MIDI controllers and something a bit more live.

Matt's solo set as Radio Slave, though, was just so fucking awesome. Good Lord was I impressed. The man knows how to layer and I was thoroughly floored throughout most of his set. 10/10.

Theres not much they can really do live though since most of the tracks rely heavily on sampling. I'll be seeing him on sunday.


And yeah Matt is an excellent DJ.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

wow thats sick lineup