Wheras boys can grow funny little beards and rock the wizard look or go full Horrors and look like girls wanting to be goth boys with deliberately slap-dash make up, its really down to the fairer sex to go full schizo-gonzo on our collective ass. Check out Dandi Wind for example, a deranged feral performance…
Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ would be here right at the top if only it had not been posted already by both Moistworks and The Number One Songs In Heaven. It would be at home today with its glamorous snynthetique disco-porn thumps. Its Italo day! First up comes a jaunty little number by Digital Emotion. What they lack…
Hi Kids, apologies for the lack of posts this week but we’ve been fighting the heatwave and the black bugs that started appearing in the periphery of our vision as soon as we stopped smoking cigarrettes after the busy gross weekend. We have also been ‘absorbing’ the new Wolf Eyes album, ‘Human Animal’, released by…
The political music I like doesn’t have any sloganeering in it, it’s not a pamphlet, it’s not about easy solutions to hard problems, it’s not about rules to live all lives by, it won’t try to impose any commandments in my brain because that’s not the way to convince my heart, and I know there…
Neu-Rave will not fuck off will it? Pookie and I have just this very nite witnessed Rother & Moebius blast out some at Komedia (actually it was equal parts squiglly Neu Rave, Miami Vice, holiday TV program theme tunes and actual Neu!) to a basement of bearded folk who kept talking loudly (hello? legends in…
Allez Allez – Allez Allez Allez Allez is the sound of an organic Brazilian Associates. As nutty as new wave squirrel shit, but with a firmish grasp of a groove, you’ll be surprised to here this tune was actually made by contemporise of The Associates in the early 80s in Belgium. Maybe not that surprised…
Neutral Mute – Engine You know the bit in an LCD Soundsystem concert at the opening of Movement, when the crowd of indie, dance and electro kids suddenly turn into the front row of an Anthrax gig in 1987? The controlled ranting turns into a primal outburst, and James looks like he’s having the most…
20jazzfunkgreats is a dance music blog. That the tunes we like to rave to tend to contain shiteloads of white noise, weirdoes yelling gnarly obscenities and cyclopean basslines that literally do bring the house down simply proves that those years we spent locked in a basement wallowing in our own filth, watching Lon Chaney movies…
Remember last time I said I had a favourite band? They were from Toronto and went by the name of Crystal Castles, their Nintendo no wave blitzkrieg is blasting sharp window bytes off those stupid London skyscrapers to chop airheads’ heels off like, two minutes ago dude, check them out tonight in Delete Yourself at…
I don’t think I know or am what it’s needed to write about these songs the way it should be done but I can’t help it, because even though my spirit is weak, its roots buried and dead in grey concrete and clogged waterpipes criss crossed by sly rats, the white light white heat of…
Digitalism have never really blipped up on my radar (xxjfs2 has had them on his for a while) in the past – so-so remixes of stuff, ok-ish solo things that didn’t really grab me. They just seemed like another electro-house by numbers DJ duo that thought, ‘Yeah, let’s make some tracks!’. That was until I…
‘Wotcha. So I was round my bredren Bob Marley’s house the other day watching the Da Vinci Code on bootleg. After he’d made me sit through the entire Mad Professor back catalogue for the umpteenth time he started playing me this track by some geezer called Silverlink. Fuck me. This is way better than any…
The Horrors – Count in fives (demo) The Horrors sound like a bunch of old men from Manchester/Medway/Milton Keynes or one of those places of ledged, and if they were we are sure they would be held in great respect by the masses. Because they are a bunch of young overdressed upstarts from Southend on…
Honeymoon Killers were a belgian new wave band who got in all the 80s hit-lists with an efervescent cover of Charles Tenet’s glorious tribute to paid holidays Nationale 7, which Stereo Total also did in their hit n miss (too long) Musique Automatique album, they sounded like Devo if they had featured J.C. Vannier on…
An article at Wired suggested today that video-game journalism will one day find its ‘language’ and this will be ‘some crazy, unruly spawn of sportswriting, gonzo journalism, analytic philosophy, memoir and investigative reporting’. Sounds interesting to me, and it makes sense, after all, aren’t video-games more or less complex, interactive worlds the player becomes part…