If Kate Bush was our eccentric Aunt we would visit her all the time. Pulling up to her mansion amongst the misty hills of Dartmoor, we hop off the step of the horse-drawn carriage and run slow motion past the vine-covered columns lining the grand entrance. As we burst through the giant oak double doors…
So 20JFG visited Berlin last long weekend, clenched fists and fractured bones, it was a harsh battle, one where we fought accompanied by savvy wizards, sorcerous mystics & bass music ladies against the powerful & holy green smoke coming out off this majestic city’s decadent and mighty underground, and we lost, it couldn’t have been…
{{Here you have another column from Mr. James Nascent/Black Banana, enjoy the love kidss, and say thanks}} My last post…an open love letter to the West coast lo-fi-trash-about-party bands that I owe a large portion of my record collection to. The ones they wrote about in the NME last week. That was weird…. in a…
Television today is bad… yadda yadda yadda, bla bla bla. By now most of us know the argument, and its one that I’m inclined to agree with. I don’t feel like I need to go tooooooooo in depth, and explain why I’ve assumed that stance either. Tune into the tube 99% of the time, and…
1- Phil Dick once wrote a short story called ‘The Trouble with Bubbles’. It is about a future where Humankind finds itself, in the absence of other habitable planets in the Solar system, trapped in Earth. People’s thirst for space exploration and discovery is temporarily quenched by an industry dedicated to the construction of small…
Planningtorock is a beautiful female counterpart to Frankenstein’s monster. She’s a Victorian Cassette Playa. She is a white and beige witch from the dusty woods of Ganymede. She is the furious force of mother nature to planet Jupiter. She is an alien priestess dressed in silken gowns and a bonnet made from the happy faces…
We like the East the West The North the South of the USA, witches living in every corner, crazy kids on ragged clothes chase them roast them eat their flesh and fart magic spells of sound and fury. Let us begin with our homeboy James Nascent giving you the lowdown on winning by not caring…
That crazy sound from the 70′s/80′s, Space Disco (or Cosmic as it is mostly known) is coming on in leaps and bounds with many artists championing vintage synthesizers (or vintage synth plug-ins for Ableton maybe) and setting course for the nearest milkyway. Lo Recordings are releasing ‘Milky Disco’ in September, a collection of comets and…
450 Million Before the Present- Throughout the aeons the elder things have continued their creation and exploitation of primitive life forms. When some of their experiments escape, the Elder things deign to allow them to evolve on their own, resulting in the creation of the first vertebrates- fish- and other life forms. How it happens,…
Dread at the Controls: In which our hero reveals that we’re fucked and we’re all going to die. Here’s the good news: The Beast isn’t coming. Here’s the bad news: He isn’t coming ‘cos we scare him too much. Blind Willie Johnson: Dark was the Night (Cold was the Ground) Yeah, it seems that despite…
VH1 presents Divas! Live, for one, magical night only from a wishful, imaginary place located somewhere in my brain, and hopefully yours too. On the bill tonight… Amanda Lear. A perfect pop star. An enigma, shrouded by folklore, wrapped up in a mystery, tied up within a myth. She may never have existed at all….
It’s summer times peoples and the 20jazzfunkgreats massiv’s gone down to the hairdressers to get some speed lines shaved on the sides of their heads, hairdo dynamics for superrapid comebacks and party music that brings the house down, rinsing! So we didn’t get to post any M.I.A. last time around because every blogger, and a…
More Grime now, this time of a ferocious persuasion; less bleep, more grrrrowl. These two tracks come straight from the bowels of the E1 horrorhouse, to cause meltdown in your pissy laptop speakers and windscreen shattering reverb in the back of your XR2′s when your out on road, yer? That E1 horrorhouse is actually real,…
About one film that was seen, one that hasn’t yet and one that should be made, and then a sad ending. This is how the story goes: 20Jazzfunkgreats one visited the Duke of York’s on Saturday Night to see Daft Punk’s Electroma. It is a word-less tale about two robots (them wearing those fancy helmets…
In these boring times of tedious, thankless summer jobs, self imposed isolation and beard growing, whilst waiting for my life to begin once again, forests have provided significant solace these last few months. But then forests, immersed and saturated in their own unique mythologies, have always been perfect hideouts for dreamers looking for a place…
Radio 2 ain’t what it used to be. That might be a little harsh, but let me step back in time to explain… Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – Theme from The Tomorrow People There was a time when the younger ears of a 20jfg writer were overexposed to the Radio…