Its the summer, its actually sunny and hot (ish) in Brighton! So here, erm… is Dark Day: Dark Day- Chameleon Yeah ok, this is a bit morose and if its raining where you are, sorry if you feel the need to cry when listening, but we never said 20 Jazz Funk Greats was all rollercoasters,…
Michael Rother – Sterntaler My favourite uncle of 20jfg, sure to give us a Worthies Original on every visit, is Michael Rother. With Sterntaler you get that initial opening sweetness which soon swells into a rich multi layered caramel, not in an overwhelming way, but just right. Jaki Liebezeit keeps the rhythm steady while Conrad…
Have you ever fantasised about Mike Patton and DJ Scotch Egg getting together to compose an alternative soundtrack for Suspiria? Do you leave your room often? Don’t worry dear reader! We 20jazzfunkgreat kids understand you have eccentric worries, and that’s why we are bringing you this track from the thrilling power & blood & silver…
Hawnay Troof has just released Dollar and Deed, one of the albums of the year, maybe to make up for his super-short releases of the past (usual tune clocking at around a minute, is Get Up resolution love an album or a maxi?), fancy speedlines and dayglo sneakers, aerodynamic tube socks make up for superrapid…
HTRK- Ha Slow and filthy, thats the way we like it. HTRK manage to record the missing semi-industrial dirt soundtrack to that Richard Kern film you know he has in the private stash of him and Lydia Lunch getting to ‘know’ each other while watching David Lynch movies. HTRK share the scent of “this is…
Silver Apples are what we stand for, a weird beat you can dance and go WTF to at the same time, all in a tune, Program is but the archetype (Hallogallo, Kiss me Again, Mother Ski, Sister Ray, Ruckzuck, Windowlicker, U.F.O. would be other examples). ‘Why do people bother doing music after this?’ asked Massimo…
20 Jazz Funk Greats had a go at being professional DJ’s on the weekend at The Great Escape, courtesy of the nice guys at Adventures Close To Home- our thanks go out to them! Evil tyrants MTV2 fucked with our shit so we only got to play a small amount of records before Metric’s intro…
The Emperor Machine – Bodilizer Bodilsizer God like genius award winners The Emperor Machine return with some new Vertical Tones And Horizontal Noise taking the shape of a track so gloriously infectious and Old Grey Whistle Test it hurts. For those of you who are unlucky enough not to know The Emperor Machine have been…
We at 20jazzfunkgreats know about the rules of argumentation and taxonomy, so we have decided to put up three bands that begin with a d. And one that begins with a w cos we feel like it. As Milan Kundera would say, you’re gonna have to put up with it guys. The first two are…
Are we giving you a Fox N’ Wolf overkill on 20JFG? No, it would be overkill if they sucked but they don’t so its an overload!!! 3 tracks this year so far, you lucky bitches! Partly inspired by a recent viewing of Teenwolf (don’t bother with Teenwolf 2, but check the last 10 minutes for…
From time to time, once each two months or so, your 20JFG kids need to release all that tension accumulated doing research on the way people do things online (you’re our guinea pigs dear readers), plotting to undo the western economic system, programming code trees of extreme complexity that unfold multidimensionally like origami chicken printed…
Rave! We promised more rave before but didn’t deliver but now we are so fuck off with complaints! Some old some new (or neu), its all good whichever fickle fashion music cycle it spawns from, nineties or nauthies (I fucking hate that term). Hands in the air, all ravers: Rather than give you some random…
Ok I was going to write a post about the transilvanian doom metal invasion coming to carve Satan’s real name in your forehead with a meat cleaver, you know all the sludgy witchety evilness etc. but then the sun blinked at me (even though it’s 9.00 PM on the evening oh well) and I thought,…
(This was supposed to be posted yesterday but our macpage thing blew up, apologies for the delay, bless our star kid Steve for a solution…enjoy!) Can Oneida do no wrong? They have been releasing consistently mindblowing albums for a few years, I guess they should start a subscription business where you pay a fixed amount…
Aah, the split 7″, such a wondrous creation. Recent great: the Silver Daggers/Death Sentence: Panda split, part of the Bored Fortress series, with its brown card, glitter paint and stuck on paper leaves. Thats how you make a record sleeve, none of this photoshopped to the nines shit. Bleugh! Uber-label Kill Rock Stars put this…
Listening to good coca-disco might make you feel a bit weird, especially if you are out on a stroll around town with your headphones on, you know, just check out the high drama high octane synths and the reaganomics robodisco beats, whoops, suddenly you’re not walking, you’re making moves, that guy over there in the…
Too many people have written too many things about Scott Engel and how he gave up boy band career ect ect. I do not find Scott fascinating, just his music. All I can see is like any good micro organism, adapt and survive. As a performer Scott is one of those rare kind attempting accelerated…