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 here nor there, we don’t simply listen, we feel, and then we try to convey in these humble pages that marvelous sensation of it being, and also of it being here after some strange journey from true hearts, hands and minds. That music and the people who make it is what 20JFG is about, feel the love and enjoy.

The Chronosynclastic infundibulum is a place two days from Mars where all the different and oft conflicting truths that happen to be across the universe fit perfectly like the wheels and springs of a swiss watch or an epistemological rubik cube, if you drive your spaceship into it you will be transformed into a wave that expands through space and time, and KNOWS.

Kurt Vonnegut, its discoverer, forgot to mention that sometimes the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum works the other way around, not only does it absorb matter, but it can also expel it, waves become artifacts that arrive to our laps, to our ears like strange utterings from an alien dimension far away, or maybe real close yet invisible, it’s useless trying to interpret them, we can only enjoy the beauty of their truth and be thankful for the electroacoustic coincidence that brought them to us.

Black Dice- Gore

Gore is the sound of a prog band jamming in a Betelgeusian punk rock club 10 Eons ago forward into the tau dimension, now that’s Kosmische. A total hit over there apparently.

From Black Dice’s staggering close encounter of the third kind Manoman 12” released by DFA.

Ratatat’s Classics, makes us feel all tingly inside, it’s one the nicest, most playful and gently beautiful records to come out this year, well things are about to get better…

Ratatat- Kennedy (E-Rock remix)

Witness in total awe how E-Rock dresses the chamber music melodies of the original in a warm Neptunian disco exoskeleton, shudder, they reveal themselves even more graceful and strangely frail than they already were in their intertwining, punctuating, arpeggiating, emerging and plunging off the epic currents enveloping the steam-powered instrumental spacecraft- – epic destination robotic love, this is Daft Punk taking off their chrome helmets to show us their beautiful eyes, dance which is human after all, electronica which is human above all.

Thanks Ratatat and E-Rock from the mighty Audiodregs , this is simply stunning, get it with the Kennedy 12”.

”This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all” (Carson McCullers)

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