So we at 20 Jazz Funk Greats like extremes, we like to put things together that plainly and ever so blatantly do not go. If you have been to our DJ nite extravaganza (every 3rd saturday party kids! *big grin*), you will know that the general flow and ambience and good hard earned mixing skills are set on fire and hurled out of the window by us. Mainly because we are lazy and care not for standards, but also because we like it a bit different – fuck knows we bang on about that all the time.

Which is why we, along with The Do and Lilo Feast funkids, have teamed together two distictly different bands to play Brighton tomorrow nigth THURSDAY at the Engine Rooms.

Joakim is poised to release his second album which is already firmly in place in our end of year chart regardless of what brilliance is released by anyone else. Its like a schizophrenic nine headed behemoth, like Liars vs Minimal Compact, by way of all things Kraut like Can, Neu! and then industrial menace like Liaisons Dangereuses, sprinkled with electro lasers and no wave rusty sirens. If this wasn’t enough, Joakim is also being graced with a remix of ‘Lonely Hearts’ by the DFA (w00t!) and is producing the new Panico LP (double w00t!!).

The blogs have snapped up the LP like a feral stray dog and flung tracks all over the interweb (we are guilty of this too), but its all love, and this is why we give you this edit instead, from Ivan Smagghe’s “Bugged Out! Suck My Deck” compilation. Here Joakim turns the original into a propulsive disco(not disco)/techno(not techno) edit that sountracks both an information video on the Tokyo underground, and a discotheque-set scene from V.

Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened (Joakim Edit)

Ooh, ‘I didn’t know David Bowie made records that sounded like this’, commented a punter while 20jfg were playing records in one of Brighton’s excruciatingly air conditioning free dungeons they like to call clubs.

David Bowie – Stay

Past the classic song writing that’s as easy to deprecate as the Stones or Beatles, but seems to get borrowed every few years (see Fratellies this time), through to the hipsters and geeks Bowie it’s ok to like of Heroes and Low and beyond to the rehabilitated Modern Love (thanks Soulwax!) and Let’s Dance (thanks P Diddy!) into the comeback with Eno and Walker overtones of Outside there is always something for everyone to hate about the old man.

The first white artist ever asked to appear on Soul Train, who would have known he’d move to Berlin soon.

(unfortunate captions welcome in the comments box)

Personally I love the English West Side Story via Xanadu of Absolute Beginners, a surrealist disasterpiece worthy of Baz Luhrmann if you watch it now, and don’t even get most of our female friends going on Jareth, they wet their pants at the mere sound of Dance Magic Dance.

So yeh, ‘I didn’t know David Bowie made records like this’ was a bit of a shock for me. What, so you knew Santa Claus Was A Blackman, but you didn’t know The Thin White Duke Alien Japanese Cross Dresser was a nigger? Hell yeh! Just check out that baggy waggy (copyright) dance on Soultrain, admittedly he is rinsed out his brain, but he’s a snake hipped stylish rich uncle that everyone fancies at the wedding. Nile and Bernie say it was a life changing moment, and we trust in them.

Right now the reason we are playing this tat old Bowzer song out is it’s ease of use with Trans Europe Express and Get Innocuous, but any excuse to knock out an old classic and confuse the kids is good for me. Confused why this never gets dropped on Beats in Space or by those mighty No Ordinary Monkey types – too much rock for the old block?

Carlos Handlebars, as he’s affectionately known with those sideburns, never sounded so good…

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Summat on da Troof Tomorrow

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