The burst of the Electroclash bubble brought forward by the blossoming of a thousand shit fashion bands who thought having a drum machine and some model who could fake a german accent was enough to release a single has led to a certain neglect of true icy electroid sounds in favour of, first, the whole disco punk thing moves onto yelp-indie at the NME and DFA in tastier dens, thank god for that, moves onto Kosmische disco for you bearded types, Baltimore and the new wave of french crunchy techno some call blog house with new rave on the side, which I guess we’ll have to define one of these days on account of the ‘heated’ discussions that took place in the last 20jazzfunkgreats nite at the Penthouse. Anyhow, being a gourmet as she is, the 20jazzfunkgreats fembot picks the best off everything regardless of the label, and today she’s feeling eerie so here you have some robotic sex tunes you can read J.G. Ballard to.
You know how we always be going on about Citinite, one of the best curated labels out there, we have posted something off everything they have released, well, there we go then: Gosub’s Watchers of the Black Universe is a trip through R Funk’s back alleys, beats connecting spaceships in an alien detection grid targeting the voids of outer space, nimble Egyptian fingers of computer love synthesis, still there’s a warm heart beating strong at its core, or how Tron was actually a documentary, that’s the thing with good electronic music, you can feel human fingers carefully manipulating the sounds behind the network of hardware and software, and this is definitely it. That stupidly funky bass too.
Dopplerffekt’s Gesamkuntskerk has been recently re-released by Clone, so we have got lost in its futuristic paranoid architecture once again, Kraftwerk’s eternal CPU blueprint is perverted and starts sending corrupted messages left and right, or perhaps the user is downloading too much porn, there is also a little homage to all those hard working scientists out there, this is what I put on the stereo when I get to work everyday, yep. Analyse data. Construct facts. Oops. Forget I said that.
And let us close with something which is not quite as electro but still frozen as fuck, and so it goes, Pan Sonic are back with Katodivaihe on Blast First, parts of it sounds like all the evil abrassive bits from the Jesus Mary Chain laid one on top of each other in an avalanche of shards that smother the listener into blissful oblivion, or perhaps Sunn O))) trapped inside a nuclear submarine with Gene Hackman going all ‘I’m the boss’ on their ass…
However, the song to which I’m hooked right now is different, it sounds like Arthur Russell stranded in the midst of a barren tundra, playing his cello to keep the mind (and the fingers) distracted from the biting cold, perhaps also the wendigo away, you can hear its gnarly claws tip-toeing around the feeble bonfire on the sparse beats and the ominous bass of this tune, how awesome.
TONIGHT!!
OvO at the Greenhouse effect, you know the deal, Goblin sleeps with melt banana’s steaming corpse, it’s all for a good cause.
You be warned, don’t bring cats to the gig.
AND
Remember, The DO IS COMING BACK TO THE CORE
CLUB IN BRIGHTON ON FRIDAY THE 1ST OF JUNE with
New deal: 11-4AM 6 quid on the door, 5 quid NUS, 4 if you drop us
a myspace mssg and get in the guest list
And they fired those security assholes. Good times.
We can’t wait to bring you all the hits we’ve accumulated during our
spring break, yeah, it’s going to be like the best indie noise
hardcore dance DIY disco ever.
10 bands we’ll play: Animal Collective, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Drop the Lime, Envelopes, Unicorns, Slayer. Make Up, Public Enemy, Raincoats, Adam and the Ants…
The rest is as good as this. Keep checking our bulletins for more
fancy mp3s and photos & stuff
We’ve even made a blog with songs, photos and stuff cos it’s
like, yeah, a comeback, like, 2.0 you know.
We’ll keep you posted, We heart U.
Also, Marnie Stern & Extreme Animals as one off gigs for your total delight, yay.
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