We are launching a Village Thrift tour of gatherings and concerts for Fall '08 in conjunction with our second release, Village Thrift: Circa '08. Should you be interested in hosting a Village Thrift gathering to build your community, share dialogue and teaching, host a night of worship, prayer, and spiritual impartation, please contact Todd Berger at berger@entertheworshipcircle.com to secure your date immediately.
re:MIX submissions for Village Thrift (due this Friday!)
Category: Music
Remixers,
This Friday (August 1st) is the cutoff for this final phase of Village Thrfit Circa 2008 entries. We will have more contests in the future, but if you'd like to be included as one of the original pioneers and get promoted as such, we need your entries immediately. Drive it to Colorado, overnight it, send it by carrier pigeon... this is your chance to be a part of the next Village Thrift... now is your time to shine. now bring it! Remix Submissions Deadline
Final submissions must follow these guidelines: a. In the specified time signature, tempo, and key, in 24/48 AIF files b. In a multi-track file/project. The Village is optimized for Logic 8, but files may also be submitted in OMF format with all effects, automation, etc. bounced to complete audio files that have "flattened" the automation, effects, etc. c. Multi-track submissions must be accompanied by an MP3 burn of the mix at 128K. d. Submission should be presented on CD-R to Village Thrift, 743 Gold Hill Place, Woodland Park, CO 80866 with a signed copy of this page. d. All submissions are due by August 1, 2008, and become the property of the Village on receipt.
The time is now to get involved ReMixing an Enter The Worship Circle venture with us that we call the Village Thrift! All remixers, dj's, hobbyists, rearrangers, mashup artists welcome!
The original Village Thrift: Circa 2005 was released as a collaborative effort between Todd Berger, Ryan Lott, Ben Pasley and others and, we think, is an incredible work. Our latest project simply titled “Village Thrift” is not a traditional album at all…it is a creative space between all of us. It is free to join, free to participate, and all the products from the Village Thrift are free as well! You just go to our store and download an 8-Pack+Vox and get started! There are currently 9 Songs to remix and more will be added over the next few weeks.
EWC: Village Thrift concert bookings for FALL ’08
Category: Music
We are launching a Village Thrift tour of gatherings and concerts for Fall '08 in conjunction with our second release, Village Thrift: Circa '08. Should you be interested in hosting a Village Thrift gathering to build your community, share dialogue and teaching, host a night of worship, prayer, and spiritual impartation, please contact Todd Berger at berger@entertheworshipcircle.com to secure your date immediately.
Podcast Interview: Todd Berger of Village Thrift
Category: Music
Todd is a full time musician who finds his inspiration in ancient poetry and through the modern gritty beats of urban America. Todd's unique style is indicative of the traditional singer songwriter a la Billy Joel mixed with the modern high energy rock and electronica more typical of Cold Play or early Beck.
Todd has some great insight and wonderful stories to share. Don't miss it!
DJ’s, Musicians, Remixers!: First 2 Eight packs are now available for download
Category: Music
4.04.2008
Project Update
The very first 8pack+Vox packs are up in the store! Are you ready to get your creative on? Go get the goods and start cranking out your own version of the song! We will take submissions until August 1, 2008. Expect two new songs a week for around 10 weeks...all for free for you to remix/arrange! The ZIP file contains the 8pack+Vox, an Agreement, and an MP3 rough of the song in its present birth DNA...Go!
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New Village Thrift Recording Update
Category: Music
9.02.2007
Project Update
Songwriting has commenced for the new Village Thrift recording. We should have plenty of material for you all to work with by the time we release the tracks to you for your creative genius. Between 3 writers, we have about 40 song ideas so far to sort through and choose which ones to develop further. My friend, DJ Doc (Harrill), and I are pretty excited about some of the collaborative alliances that are being made both here in Cleveland and abroad. We're dreaming big dreams at this point, and I'd imagine the credits will be a lengthy list of friends by the release date of this latest Village Thrift installment.
Let me say this, that the Psalms have never seemed so relevant in light of the issues we are facing around the world and in our own back ally. I think I'm personally starting to understand David and his wildly creative collaboration between Psalmists who were about singing to God about the issues that surrounded them in that time. They didn't wax elloquent in pouring out their hearts to the Lord, nor did they feel bashful about airing out their dirty laundry in the corporate setting. Another thing I'm remembering is that before we had what we now know as the Bible, God was speaking to and through mortals like David, who were simply responding to what they were hearing. They created a bunch of songs, that have been added to the Bible, and the rest is history. We who now have the Bible, refer to these now as the "Word of God". I wonder how David and the psalmists would have responded in the creative process had they known their music would be documented as the God's word to future generations. I wonder how they would have fealt knowing that only the lyrics would endure and that future generations would only be familiar with these songs divorced from their original musical and cultural context. Pray for us, as we now excavate this ancient poetry from it's cultural context and reassemble it using the musical context of today to preserve it's truths for posterity.
Laurel and I just got back to Cleveland this week after having travelled back from a spending several days with the Joe and Angie Steinke and their tribe from their discipleship community there in Madison and then continuing on to spend a week with Peter and Jessica Woehler at a ministry called Source in Minneapolis. I sincerely want to thank those of you who support us-- especially those in leadership at our local fellowship, NewSong Church! Without the generosity and partnership of individuals like yourself, it would be impossible for us to do all that the Lord asks of us to reveal Christ to students and people in transition. Laurel and I want to take a moment to thank you for your faithfulness over these years.
Madison, WI
In the setting of a barn converted to a very magical concert space, we had the opportunity to share our hearts with about 70 students in the discipleship community of Mad-City Church. We heard some great reports from several that night, but one in particular I'd like to mention, is that of a woman who said she was a real mess the whole time. When I responded asking her if she was OK, she said, Oh yes... God was really working on her all night while we were ministering, "it was so anointed". We joined with the worship team at Mad City Church on Sunday to co-lead worship for their 2 morning services. I was really blown away at how the messages in the songs and the message Elliot shared worked somehow in tandem-- just one more way I've witnessed God weaving things together that may at first appear to be unrelated. Wow!
Minneapolis, MN
Laurel and I packed up the Van and took a 4 hour trip with our group from Cleveland to land in Minneapolis to be a part of the Artist Intensive at Source, a inner city ministry lead by Peter and Jessica Woehler. We were able to meet up with Tracy Howe, Ben and Robin Pasley, Karla and Gary Adolphe, Caleb Friesen, and Kate Hurley, all of whom are a part of our Blue Renaissance family of arts missionaries. During the week we lead worship, prayed over people, lead small group discussions, and taught in mini-seminars to equip artists. The theme of the entire week was about belonging to the family of God and how we operate as the Body of Christ. There was some very powerful worship during these sessions... powerful in that there was a strong sense of unity in the midst of our corporate worship. I remember leading a song that I'd written just a few days earlier that people were singing with me as I was singing it for the first time w/o words or any visual aids as to where we were going. We were going the journey together, into unfamiliar waters taking risks but feeling comfortable in doing so together. Let's just say God's kingdom WILL come and HIS will will BE DONE in a people who are willing to walk in that level of unity. We finished off the week with ArtFest, a public street festival that allows us to love on the people in the neighborhoods surrounding The Fallout and just a few block from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This was the same festival Laurel and I got to participate in 2 years ago, so it was awesome to be back to witness all of the progress made in the last 2 years and to love and encourage Peter and Jessica, and the people they love and serve.
For the remainder of the Summer, things will calm down for us in out travels. In the Fall we would like to travel with our BRCG partners to Recife, Brazil to continue our work sowing into our relationships there. I'll be telling you more very soon. Please pray and consider partnering with us! We will be helping Brazilians create original worship that will be culturally relevant to Brazilians. And ALSO, after writing a bunch of new material for the next Village Thrift recording, I am endeavoring to complete this recording by the end of 2007. Please pray for key partnerships for collaboration for this recording, our work in Brazil, and our ongoing missionary work here in the U.S.
Our audio and video podcast links let you subscribe in iTunes where you get new episodes automatically! Our feeds are high quality 128K MP3’s or 640 pixel wide M4V movies! Text feeds can land in your RSS reader or be delivered by email. Cancel anytime, no risk, all fun!
Let me say this, that the Psalms have never seemed so relevant in light of the issues we are facing around the world and in our own back ally. I think I'm personally starting to understand David and his wildly creative collaboration between Psalmists who were about singing to God about the issues that surrounded them in that time. They didn't wax elloquent in pouring out their hearts to the Lord, nor did they feel bashful about airing out their dirty laundry in the corporate setting. Another thing I'm remembering is that before we had what we now know as the Bible, God was speaking to and through mortals like David, who were simply responding to what they were hearing. They created a bunch of songs, that have been added to the Bible, and the rest is history. We who now have the Bible, refer to these now as the "Word of God". I wonder how David and the psalmists would have responded in the creative process had they known their music would be documented as the God's word to future generations. I wonder how they would have fealt knowing that only the lyrics would endure and that future generations would only be familiar with these songs divorced from their original musical and cultural context. Pray for us, as we now excavate this ancient poetry from it's cultural context and reassemble it using the musical context of today to preserve it's truths for posterity. 
Laurel and I just got back to Cleveland this week after having travelled back from a spending several days with the Joe and Angie Steinke and their tribe from their discipleship community there in Madison and then continuing on to spend a week with Peter and Jessica Woehler at a ministry called Source in Minneapolis. I sincerely want to thank those of you who support us-- especially those in leadership at our local fellowship, NewSong Church! Without the generosity and partnership of individuals like yourself, it would be impossible for us to do all that the Lord asks of us to reveal Christ to students and people in transition. Laurel and I want to take a moment to thank you for your faithfulness over these years.