Archive for January, 2005

• Monday, January 31, 2005  9:50 am 

  Origin of the Greasys

  We get to hear and see a lot of weird bands at xxjfg, actively seeking them out for you is part of our job!
  One of the oddest species we have encountered over the past few years is The Pink Grease.

  This normally shy and retiring creature can be seen skulking into the second hand shops of […]

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• Friday, January 28, 2005  2:28 am 

  Hug a machine today

  Here at xxjfg we have on numerous occasions been known to get quite deliriously excited by multilayered abstract electronic music that oddly seems to be mostly made Germans.
  M83 really confused us by not being German (not even a German grandmother or aunty as far as we are aware).
  Jeans Team are German (phew not too confusing) […]

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• Thursday, January 27, 2005  5:56 am 

  Dave Clarke’s guide to DIY

  1. Don’t do it yourself, build robots to do it for you, they can hammer and grind and drill much faster, and you don’t bang yourself on the thumb or anything nasty.
  2. Play them DJ Hell’s track Let No Man Jack to inspire the workers and keep them from revolting. In a weird 3 laws […]

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• Wednesday, January 26, 2005  10:28 am 

  Johng ma Mum

  Mahjongg RaYDONcoNG 2005, out in Cold Crush- March Kinda like AVALONches - Go! Team but PoSt PunK, some. PouNding SnAcks or SnAkes of Rythm they hit-bite-beat-hard hard hArd and PASSionate gLyTchy cAsio synth Guitars like RAPTure on Opium. Not cut and pAST but kinda you TrickstERS, deconsTRUCTIONists, you! cut and furTHer and hit the DRUM […]

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• Tuesday, January 25, 2005  2:58 am 

  Hangedup

  Last year saxophones and cowbells were rescued from the dungeons of ‘uncool’, will it be violins this season? Well, Patrick Wolf’s got a bit of that in in his new single, the Libertine. Some other people (sorry, forgot the actual link) bet on flutes on account of Dungen and Caribou.
  What do you think dear readers? […]

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