Archive for August, 2006

• Wednesday, August 30, 2006  3:01 pm 

  the animals will inherit the stars

  We lowly creatures at 20JFG adore anything Emperor Machine-like, and they never fail to impress with remixes of artists dodgy or brilliant (does not matter either way):
  Markus Kienzl - Dundy Lion (Version Emperor Machine)
  ‘Dundy Lion’ comes from Klein Records (the proud lion image beats the faceless 12″ cover anyday), and features a Mars jungle expedition [...]

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• Monday, August 28, 2006  3:01 pm 

  Turn off your mind, relax and kick someone in the face.

  Remix albums tend not to be that great an idea in general, more a ‘lets squeeze out the last few drops of cash from the last album’ kind of thing. There were a few of them last year (goodie: Justice, Erol Alkan and Test-Icicles’ Sammy Danger tearing up Death From Above 1979 (who have fucking [...]

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• Friday, August 25, 2006  1:53 am 

  DieDie

  Deranged no wave demons Die Todliche Doris once recorded two albums that were the same length (each track the same duration over both LPs) and were meant to be listened to simultaneously to create a mystical 3rd LP. We don’t have those LPs and the track we are posting doesn’t come from either (yeah yeah, [...]

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• Wednesday, August 23, 2006  11:49 pm 

  How do we explain this

  ‘Music is like a dream. At the same time it is, on the contrary, like a more distinct form of conciousness than that of our normal waking hours’ (Yukio Mishima)
  Sometimes it is both, sometimes we are hit by sonic rays of loving grace coming from an unexplored universe, of a mysterious beauty which is neither [...]

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•   1:09 pm 

  Won’t someone please think of the Children

  Yep, poor them, subject to all those pernicious influences out there, dodgy Wicker Man remakes (someone bring us the head of Nicholas Cage), Star Wars DVDs where Greedo shoots first, shoulderbags with Jim Morrison’s face in them, bourgeoise new era caps, Ableton, Rockstar game characters way realer than MTV rock stars, those evil multinational entertainment [...]

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