Today we have a contribution from lovely folks Dillon and Lucy – If you tune in to 97.2FM or log in to RADIOREVERB.COM on a Wednesday at 6pm (gmt) or Sunday at 1pm (gmt) you can be wowed and wooed by our Simple Folk radio show. we air live music every week by the flotsam…
(Some naughties suggested the moniker ‘Skag disco’ but let us be nice for once) Stuart has been toying with the idea of slo mo discotheque where you can’t play tunes above a speed of such and such BPMs, was it 120? was it 90? You can imagine it, meticulous beard scratching and stop and motion…
STUART- Movement! Signal’s clean. He pans the scanner. Stops. The range display reads out, counting down. STUART- Range twenty meters. STEVEN (to Juan)- Seal the door. Juan picks up a hand-welder and moves to comply. STUART: Seventeen meters. SCOTT: Let’s get these things lit. He hands one flamethrower to Steven and begins priming the other…
It has been a while since we last jacked the house in an old skool way, I saw an abstract configuration of squelchy noises scowling at me from the corner of the street on my way to work today and I took this as last warning from the Roland loa, drop some acid or have…
Home made electronic noise makers Neptune rise on a two-part concept song Tell my people to go Home. Tell my people to go home (Part I) begins, full of under-mumbled urgency hinting at the great Howard Devoto, with hooks of early Devo noise. Hella’s approach to Load Records is echoed in the drums, while most…
Impalled & heartfelt apologies for the slow beginning of the week kids, we’ve got peoples moving around like this was Bobby Fischer on sludge doom coffee over the randomised chessboard, and sentimental shizzle going on too, your small and rusty robotic scribes happen to be defective & infected with bizarro emotional virii, hence their relative…
Quite how Chrisma (later Krisma, erm why??) came across their 80s German sound is anyone’s guess but it seems likely they jumped every band wagon, and tried every scene in musical history at one time or another. Most of it you would rather listen to a George W speech than, but for some very very…
Having just moved to Providence, Rhode Island, a town that holds a special place in many of our hearts for spewing up a steady and continuous stream of lovably brutal, candy coloured nuggets of noise, Justin Barnes, aka Werewolf Unit, has been out and about, exploring his new found territory, getting better acquainted with the…
We already told you some time ago about Jazzanova-curated ‘Computer Incarnations for World Peace’, what a feast of warm synths and soulful positive vibes this compilation is! But one has to be a total wanker to use the expression ‘soulful positive vibes’! So let’s just call it the prettiest cloud ever to descend from 80s…
Pete Doherty is dead. Finally, that stage seems past, and we at 20jfg breathe a sign of relief. We missed out on the ‘fantastic early Liberties explosive gigs’ that everyone was talking about, and just got some sort of English Strokes the NME so desperately needed. The real point is this: No longer does every…
Onwards rushes the feline army spreading like a sea of furry fury over valleys and mounds, 20Jazzfunkgreats observe enthralled from their vantage point, identifying with their magic telescope some of the most strapping & promising marshalls of this fiery armada, L.A. underground’s answer to Dennis the Menace, Mika Miko cough hairballs of bristling punk rock…
We expect a lot of you dear reader. We expect you to know by now the mighty Rother, Rotherand Moebius – if not have their face tattooed on your genitalia as a sign of respect. A lazy blogger would give you a link to the (woefully under contributed) Harmonia Wikipedia entry, but we expect you…
There are many good things about these three years of 20JFG psychedelic nerd adventures down the crazy spiral, one of which is having met so many good & inspiring people. A few have even put aside some time of their busy schedules to write for us, and we thank them for it, they are the…
A new batch of DFA releases are starting to filter out via the official label and then the new offshoot, Death From Abroad. Holy Ghost! is like The Juan Maclean fronting LCD Soundsystem, Still Going creates where were you in ’92 piano-based house-not house, Altz morph stardust into elastic alien italo-funk and then Mock &…
20JFG is about many things, one of them is change, since we tend to be for people who push things forward, or people who pushed things forward, or people who look back in style to people who pushed things forward, we enjoy the dynamism of our culture, where the driving impulse is a creative one,…