So "Groove", a movie directed by Greg Harrison and featuring many familiar faces from the SF music scene had its debut at Robert Redford's Sundance indie film festival this weekend in Park City, Utah. I was there for the Saturday night showing and the party thereafter (which was OFF the HOOK!).
Yesterday the rumor mill carried word of a very large distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics. The music consultant for the movie was Wade Randolph Hampton (DJ WishFM) and he had some great stories about the mad rush to get the audio together at the Lucas studios over the first couple of weeks this month. Tracks by Spacetime Continuum, Mixmaster Morris, Hardkiss, John Digweed, DJ Garth, Polywog, Christian Smith, Jondi & Spesh, Trailmix, quite a few others and, oh yeah, Octave One. John Digweed did a cameo (that should help with the European market), and other DJs in the movie included (to my delight, since they're all old friends of mine from the SF scene) Polywog, Forest Green, Monty Luke and of course Wade himself, plus actor Bing Ching who got the bug and spun a pretty impressive set Saturday night (and just like every DJ, complained about his mixes afterwards :). Not only is it cool to see your friends in starring roles and extras in a production like this, but it's actually a really good movie, and I hadn't seen anything but the stills on the Web site until Saturday night. So keep an eye out for this one. phred www.groovethemovie.com http://www.indiewire.com/film/festivals/fes_00Sund_000123_buzz.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/ 2000/01/24/DD3727.DTL&type=movies
