Soulwax’s Part Of The Weekend Never Dies out TODAY

December 10, 2008, 03:32 AM

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Part Of The Weekend Never Dies, the new Soulwax tour documentary / live-show extravaganza, is out in North America today, on [PIAS] Recordings. It's documentary into Radio Soulwax, a touring concept that for the past three years has showcased the talents of four Belgians (Soulwax) who themselves programmed and promoted, DJ'd
and played live each and every night alongside a revolving array of their friends and some of the most exciting acts in modern music, traveling relentlessly through the four corners of the globe.

Recorded over 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia, the results are manifested in two films. The first is Part Of The Weekend Never Dies, a documentary that captures the adulation, debauchery, ebullience, reflection, cynicism, tiredness, despair, delusion, ridiculousness, contradiction,
revelation, exhaustion, homesickness of the life of a DJ/band on the road, which includes 2manydj's and Soulwax's Nite Versions live footage, and also features James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, and Klaxons in behind-the-scenes footage and interviews. The second is a live film, Nite Versions Live at Fabric and 120 other places, that captures perfectly the blissful and beautiful sonic malevolence of Soulwax's Nite Versions blitzkrieg.

Part Of The Weekend Never Dies is purely and simply a documentation of four guys making people forget everything and lose their shit, day in, day out. It captures the uniqueness of what Radio Soulwax is and was to people all around the world. Not just the euphoria and revelation but the cold sweaty comedown, the butterflies of love or nausea, the adoration of music, the party and the crescendo and most importantly sharing and friendship and as far removed from the notion of the pill-popping superstar DJ as you could healthily get. It's the kind of thing that anyone -- longtime fans or the newly-converted -- can enjoy.

The film was directed by Soulwax together with Saam Farahmand, a Partizan director who has made acclaimed promo videos for the likes of Janet Jackson, Hot Chip, Hercules & Love Affair, Late of the Pier and Lightspeed Champion, amongst others. Last year he collaborated with Klaxons on four videos, winning the "CAD Music Week Award" for Best Director along the way, proving that he has a bright future ahead of him as one of the UK's most innovative young filmmakers.

Watch the trailer to Part Of The Weekend Never Dies:

www.soulwax.com

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