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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Listening to Stylus magazine’s Stypod show on the Kompakt label, which is so funny, mainly for there attempts to pronounce the names of the tracks and artists. They are much braver than me. Rex The Dog – Frequency Loved Rex the Dog since Prototype, Frequency is his second single. Pushing the pitch wheel of his…
Japanther- Super Loser Had to love ‘em: first, their name is one of these hybrid words like ‘Liger’ (featured on that Napoleon Dynamite film and in Spain’s dodgiest circuses), ‘rat’ (half rat half bat) or ‘brat’ (half bat half rat). Then the track is called ‘Super Loser’ with ‘Super’, that gives us a hint of…
Jad Fair is a genius. He (in his own words) ‘started (along with David Fair and David Stansky) what has now proven to be the quintessential power, punk, allstar, rock and roll band in the history of the universe. Half Japanese, the name itself is music. Too beautiful, too beautiful, too beautiful.’, he makes amazing…
Electroputas- Never Been More in Love In the third (non planned) instalment of New York City bands this week we visit the wonderful Social Registry manor once again to bring you Electroputas, a trio by whom we already posted a song during the Monster Days preceding Halloween (they were Leatherface in it, by the way)….
Slint-Nosferatu Man Nosferatu was a creature of chalk and slate with a spidery shadow. Slint filled its cold and rigid body with boiling blood and bloody muscle, Brian McMahon gave it a raging voice. The guitars in this song tease, pierce, rip and tear, the bass is made of the same stuff as nightmares and…
Man Man- Man Who Make You Sick This song by Man Man is in ‘The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face’, recently released by Ace Fu Records, and is a little oddysey where Can go to a cabaret and decide to jam with the Greasettes or maybe Deerhoof, Don Van Vliet observes intensely…
Today’s post comes from guest geek Scott of Nascent Zine. Genius. A band who cover all the genres on your cutting edge indie club flyer but who are more influenced by Homorap and UK Garage (i believe the adults are calling it Grime nowadays) whilst simultaneously managing to have a proper Teenage Jesus/Contortions style nihilism…
Well I finished my homework and now I’m ready for a night on the town, who better to do it with than Adam Green from The Moldy Peaches and Bruce Springsteen from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (like there is any other Bruce). Adam Green – Born to Run Boy it will be…
I am writing from the future, I can do such a feat thanks to the machine above, discovered by Stuart…anyway, further into what’s to come…(no lottery numbers, sorry)…Next Year… …Next year starts with a bang, i.e., the LCD Soundsystem album in DFA, which contains lots of nice stuff, some of which we already knew (Movement,…
No More – Suicide Commando This German new wave one hit wonder seems to have dated rather well. Not that it was a hit anywhere, but you know what I mean. It could easily have been inspired by the classic drug information film Christiane F Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo, or a 50s B movie…
Warning- we will be 10Jzfnget until later in the week as one of the members of the team has been abducted by the forces of the neon reticle and is now fighting for salvation in a tron-like environment. Please pray for his physical and spiritual well-being, the song being posted today is nothing but a…
I bumped into the doppelganger reading one of those Advanced Dungeons & Dragons gamebooks, the Werewolf one (the best ones are the Ninja and the Ravenloft ones, by the way). Although according to old lore, this creature is a ghost that attachs itself to a living being, like a shadow or something, and follows it…
Must write post. Got 10 minutes. Sip Coffee. Sip Sip. Go for the Stream of Consciousness thang. La di La. Gotta get ready for Lightning Bolt. Die Monitr Batss. Second Album, Girlz of War. Related to the Gossip. In Troubleman Records (one of our favourite labels like, ever). They wrote this amazing song called ‘Spread…
One of Kill The DJ resident record players Sir Alice has recorded vocals on with Avril on the new album Members Only and works with Marc Collin of Volga Select and Nouvelle Vague. This is no reason to be impressed, but this certainly is. Sir Alice – Bouda is a Material Girl In England at…