Archive for December, 2004

• Thursday, December 30, 2004  5:59 pm 

  Happy Neu! Year

  Twas the night before New Year and nothing moved in the house, nothing except some feeble neurons in the frontal lobe of a 20 JazzFunkGreatster. He was trying to write something about one of his favourite songs, ‘Fur Immer’ by Neu!.
  He had decided to avoid the evocative angle, he had already used it when talking [...]

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• Saturday, December 25, 2004  1:25 am 

  20 Jazz Funk Greats XMas End of the Year message

  Ok, we at 20JazzFunkCakes are not going to have an exciting best of 2004 list with a countdown and everything…why? because we are rubbish and we are two and we don’t want to fight each other to decide which of the featured artists gets to be number one…and we are too lazy to devise one [...]

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• Wednesday, December 22, 2004  5:42 am 

  Murciana Japones

  We Love travelling…

  Murcia, Spain: Schwarz are a band from Murcia, in the south-east coast of Spain, and they are quite weird, which is of course something I love.
  I have caught up with their stuff quite late (living in the UK etc), so the only thing I can say is that their last album, ‘Arty Party’, [...]

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• Tuesday, December 21, 2004  8:20 pm 

  Electronic Northern Soul

  Stazi - World of Temptation
  So this man walks into a bar and says Stazi come across like Soft Cell with a little bit of Phoenix Nights magic.
  My mother in law saw Stazi and said they do a hefty bit of Wigan casino (no bingo) but with the electronic beats of The Human League (or BEF) [...]

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• Monday, December 20, 2004  6:09 pm 

  Neurotoxic shock treatment of the Plankster

  Optimo have remixed All Repro from Moebius,Plank,Neumeier’s Zero Set.
  I’ll give you a bit of a rest to contain your excitement.
  Take a deep breath and count to eleven.
  Ready now?
  Then I’ll begin.

  Betty Botox presents Kraut was an obvious for us at xxjfg. It’s like our very own Christmas present or something, some of our favorite [...]

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