The image of Snake Plissken advancing stealthy down the mesas, sliding in between the small flows of life that flourish in the desert at night like a shark tracking down the scent of his prey in the air so still, desert foxes, coyotes and wild dogs staring on his wake like a visitation from a…
Welcome to my house! Enter freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring! … I am our Lady of Shadows, and I bid you welcome to this palace of darkness and dust, Gorgo, Mormo, the moon of a thousand faces always shines yellow and malevolent upon its spires, a wraith awaits around…
Vivian Girls’ S/T album encapsulates all that made C-86 great, that fortunate connection between Spectorian Pop and Post-Punk lo-fi, topped up with a good dose of cavernous feedback which makes us think of the ‘Girls in the Garage‘ compilations, i.e. teen turmoil unfurls over a spanking 60s psyche beat, natty! This is an In The…
image supplied by Tommyboy Codek is a relentless tidal wave of synthesised arpeggiated surf breaks and polyester primary coloured bongo loops. This faux 70′s wave is crashing upon the beaches of Afro-disco like a thundering black-watered leviathan, leaving the sunbathers drenched with dance music. If Italians Do It Better are the label of the year,…
If you liked that song we posted some time ago with Pete Tosh singing exalted about smoking doobie while dancing to tropical disco then you are going to love this one. We first heard Junior Byron’s ‘Dance to Music’ in the astonishing James Murphy/Pat Mahoney Fabriclive cosmic/physical trip, it was one of those cuts that…
Munich-based Permanent Vacation are another of those labels that seem to exist just to delight your 20Jazzfunkgreats types with beaming rays of light transmitted from the pristine decks of some wonderful cruise across the golden seas of class, as exemplified by our most beloved disco chanteuse Sally Shapiro, 40 Thieves, Ilya Santana (of Quasar fame)…
The Thinker knows everything that goes on this side of the Galaxy, and most of what goes on the other side as well. We arrange to rendezvous in one of those lawless bars set-up in the basement of a building somewhere in the ruins of Lower Manhattan, which I should find through a guide-pill that…
The beautiful guitar melody with which Mirror Mirror’s ‘New Horizons’ begins contains in the revolution of its tones the complete structure of what is to come, like a strange flower slowly unfolding its crimson petals to reveal a wonderful piece of psyche-folk that seduces us with the scent of the United States of America, Syd…
The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible. The mysteries of technology were lost in the time when those elders could read the written word and manipulate machines. The world grew wild and those families who inherited the machines began…
DC Recordings follow up the 2006 evil squirrel-themed compilation of all sounds tectonic and spectral-cosmic with Death Before Distemper 2: Revenge of the Iron Ferret. Said compilation features standard DC Recs bands – The Emperor Machine recording porn music for alien species, Padded Cell soundtracking cloaked skeletons running slow motion after terrified maidens, Kelpe creating…
The Stooges knelt in front of the bloated body of rock and roll, as if to give it that blowjob it very much expected, and while doing so slid a switchblade from the back of their leather jeans and, with one fluid flick of the wrist, severed its femoral artery and watched it bleed &…
20jazzfunkgreats returned to Primavera Sound in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago, and it was like a bit of a comeback home after harsh times at small-hours Sonar last year (not that we didn’t enjoy some frankly fantastic stuff there!). This festival fits most definitely the scattershot taste of your 20JFG nerds, both in terms…
Where we continue our adventures into the lands of quiet and mellow, leaving behind the uncertainty of an English sky for aural landscapes where the sun shines bright filling our hearts with primordial cosmic energies the colour of blue, like the sonic equivalent of Wilhelm Reich’s orgone accumulator, if only it worked and shit. 20jazzfunkgreats…
We already told you about Stickydisc Recordings, which is the labour of love of Eric Broucek, DFA’s in-house sound engineer. After Babytalk’s awesome ‘Keep on Move’ he has a couple of references just out of the press which keep defining a vector which draw the label into the glimmering zone of 20JFG worship. Watussi is…