Awright, so I know what some of you high production value virtuoso types out there are gonna say, I’ll be first so we’re all in the same wavelength: ‘these girls can’t play for shit’. There, I said it, yeah, I said it, we agree, anything else to add? Because to me that isn’t a negative…
In these dark days of massive corporate oppression from record companies that literally think they own the Earth and its Moon, its somewhat sweet and humbling to receive a CDR that has been handcrafted with artworks and tracks by the artist themselves. Championing the little guys is better! This particular CDR that we are speaking…
We don’t usually do this, we are all about fair distribution of things of an mp3 persuasion. Juan posted Sorcerer’s last single last week, but I’m too excited for the album to not post something from it – brilliance should not be ignored! The LP is called “White Magic” which you could probs gather from…
Whenever someone approaches us talking about the wonders of the ‘New French Sound’ which is currently taking the dance tents of all summer festivals by storm (not that anyone does since they know our opinion about it) we wacky time-challenged fools smile with affability and think of minimalistic soundscapes criss crossed by slim young ones…
Se we’ve been working hard into this visual rejig of ye olde 20jazzfunkgreats site which is going to make you people, and I say this seriously, make you people go bonza. Well, Stuart has been working hard, I’ve been partying at Sonar, but it was all for the blog as you’d of course expect, I’m…
One of your trusty 20JFG types went down to Spain this year for Sonar festival, Genuine ‘Certified badman’ guy by his side. The idea was to, after indie times last three Primaveras, get soaked once again in Barcelona’s sun, espresso overdose sitting idly in the terraces by the Ramblas and the innocent enjoyement of the…
Ralph Lundsten may have done many wonderful thinks during his slightly odd lifetime (including that picture above) but this Swedish maker of space noise musical instruments is currently getting in our playlist thanks to a re-issue of the sci-fi prog track Horrorscope on Red Hook. Jah Wobbles bad trips all sounded like this. Ralph Lundsten…
Spring is in the air and its a good time for all of us. The spirit of Herne is running in the woods again, new life is being brought into the world and our nights are no longer so dark. Festivities are beginning all around as the world awakes. Along side rain, Morris Dancing, Real…
So when making the 20JFG Italo mix earlier this year, Genuine Guy asked the question, “Why don’t more hip-hop artists sample Italo Disco?“. He has a good point. Some of them do it already in their own special way: “Me & U” by Cassie rocks the Italo sensibilities with every new synth line heralding the…
Where cuddly kittens don cunning masks to engage in forbidden acts, we have spied on their secret covenants at night and discovered an ultimate goal, to make humans their pitiful slaves and return to the glorious days of Ulthar and Cleopatra. Wait, they have already succeeded, places of worship thrive as the smear campaign against…
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We’d like all our clubs to be like the Matrix as depicted in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas meets the beginning of Blade meets the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, smoke, mirrors and adventures in the toilettes (not necessarily licking LSD of hippies’ corduroy sleeves, perhaps fighting demons invoked by…
In the perfect world old people in the homes we are all destined for, filling our empty lives by watching others could be interconnected by cctv cameras, in a repetitive cycle of gossip. Ohh did you hear about Beryl’s piles? I feel so sorry for her, but that Tom is such a looker… When this…
We like people who have strong characters, not cardboard copies of the ‘throws the TV out of the window’ school of rock documented by Yo la Tengo in their lovely video for Sugarcube, wannabe thugs driving their tank into a swimming pool surrounded by booty shaken Ladyez after watching Scarface for the zillionth time, or…
A few years back, the underground popularity of Electroclash and its plundering of all things 8O’s, helped to beam Italo Disco back into the limelight. Unlike Punk Funk, its stood the test of time and not been forgotten or replaced with The Next Big Thing. Its been spirited into darker, colder places by Chromatics and…