Thinking about bands, nay, experimental rock and roll units on a mission to create a new music language, I guess if Throbbing Gristle are the black obelisk, then Black Dice must be the star Child, in their ‘Roll Up/Drool’ 12” just released by Paw Tracks they launch another probe into the deep unknown, their warm…
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We were hanging out downtown as we do each night, you know mano, watching the papis singing songs from la tierra with tears in their eyes, playing pinball, staring at las senoritas, drinking cerveza under the moonlight and being super bad-ass when this pendejo who looked like Tony Montana’s boss stopped by in his white…
meaow hrm mewow meeeerrr prrrr prrrrr mhuh mhuh meaaaaow hmrrr meeeewrewaw meeeeaoooow mrrrrrrr mrrrrrr EEEEAW Feline language translator activated. You thought they were cute ah? And then flash bang crash there they were sucking the marrow of your brittle knees while you stared crying helpless from a corner, that’ll teach you not to mess with…
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…
In all things cosmic, you can always rely on the Scandinavian princes, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas to pull a galactic masterpiece of 33 speed wonderment from deep within their wizard hats. If proof is needed, check out Lindstrom & Solale’s last 12″, “Let’s Practise” (12″ version still in our webspace here), or Prins Thomas’ rolling…
we have a hypnotic mixtape provided by French horror-kraut kid Turzi for your listening pleasure. TURZI //// MIXTAPE 2OO7 Tracklist: Deuter – Night Rain Ash Ra Tempel – Le Sourire Vol Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes – Paix Igor Whakevitch – Rituel de Guerre des Esprits de la Terre Ennio Morricone – Citta Violenta Kevin Ayers &…
Slide into this weekend like a recently departed soul into the world of shadows beyond, Brighton is going to be packed with music industry types down for the Great Escape, we hear a few demons hide in their ranks, so beware, don’t let anything get in between the silver charm from the Goddess and that…
I have been sort of out of writing proper dance posts for a while because whenever I do I end up coming across like some sort of grumpy motherfucker, hum, like, hum, damn Neu Rave/ post-Neu rave/ gang-rape pseudo electrohouse/indie dance hooligans get off my jacking Chicago lawn old skool raver massif or something, but…
So we were in Cuba, in a tiny town called Floro Perez, and we cam upon the village square, pumping out some sort of state-sanctioned cuban crunk-hall and like two tourist fucks we start handing out toothpaste, candy, and t-shirts to the kids trying to be all You Shall Know Our Velocity and shit. Stopped…
Don’t mess with our friends Crystal Castles, man, they kill innocent cute deers and wear hoods and leather while drinking beer, learing at you, saying ‘What?’ while the dead creatures are displayed haphazardly. Recently these monstrous abominations of 8-bit frenzied terrortechno have been using live drumming in their gigs which means bad things for human…
20jfg, the drugs thing? It’s all an act. Long gone are the distant days of dexys and quaalude fuelled space rock abandonment, now replaced by Moscow Mule and vegan snack fuelled evenings of Eurovision. The panel’s still out on which is more surreal. The Ukraine’s Bowery meets Biggins glitter alien camp has filled us with…
20jfg down and out from paris to hove mixtape
There is a new 12″ from DC Recordings signing White Light Circus, called ‘Interrupted Time’ that seems to have slipped out under the radar, complete with sexual-as-ever La Boca artwork. It must be time for an album now, right? Here is the flipside: White Light Circus – Secret Operator This pretty collection of sounds comes…
We are fed up with the tyranny of vacuousness, novelty and branded cool. It’s all very boring and unengaging, it sucks, it’s killing the planet and it fuels cocaine trade, we reckon it is linked with the disenfranchisement of the youth, violence in the streets and credit card abuse as well. We say fuck that,…
There is something bad behind that door projecting a shadow of silence inside the room, don’t open the door, don’t open the door don’t open the door. You read 20jazzfunkgreats. Open the door. Beyond the North Wind, Shemale’s new 12” on Bunker is what I would call pre-Stygian music, i.e. the sort of hellish fugue…
Now we are not sure why the silent genius Bumrocks has not put Clara Mondshine on his ruby red list of wonders, as we say it would fit ever so snug inbetween, say, Chas Jankel and Rinder & Lewis with its off-kilter styles and made-by-aliens production. Clara Mondshine – Landing On A Full Moon ‘Landing…
The main tip for the season is the following: have fucking class, style’s in, fashion’s out. On top of being a true legend of Enlightened Synth Disco (I just made that genre up but I hope you know what I mean), Daniel Wang looks hot yeah? Anyhow, if you haven’t listened to his classic Berlin…