There are some things which are just awesome and make us feel happy to exist, exhibit one, finest purveyors of trampling down the dusty streets of a western town under a dazing stroboscopic sunset, almost falling but not quite falling, swirling and fumbling like Bonnie and Clyde just about to have their outlaw torsos pierced…
Along with Fan Death, Diamond Vampires are one of our new favourite bands, a band who intricately weave delicate baroque images through the medium of slow bpm-ed disco aurally painting pale skinned princes on skeletal thrones, sipping blood from champagne flutes and translucently glowing in the inverted shade of the moon. Us nerds can only…
20JFG follow the credo of legendary quantum mechanics, of which Hugo Capablanca is both explorer and architect, listen to his tales kids, and say thanks at the comment box, these are the words and the sounds of what we are about. I might have been interzoning again, lost in time and space, when the other…
As you would expect, of all that Services’ new album, ‘Eat Prey Love’, has to offer, 20JFG likes the 6 minutes long proggy instrumental best. The rest is all very enjoyable Ballardian disjointed electro-punk that will undoubtedly add a few well needed ounces of serrated steel to the clockwork mechanisms regulating the operation of thee…
And the dam broke with a mighty crack, and the water precipitated free like crazy horses, and a thousand birds took flight covering the land with shadows, and a sound as if the gasp of a thousand hearts had melded into one, or as if God had gasped at hearing the mighty crack, look at…
Recently 20jfg we have been growing. Not just in number / girth/ facial hair but in our back garden. Spinach, rocket, pak choi , basil , radishes, tomato, chilli , jerusalem artichokes and some nasturtiums (the leaves are rather good). It’s not bad for an area the size of a the back seat of a…
It really can’t come soon enough, but in a few months time one of our most beloved of NYC experimentalist groups, Gang Gang Dance, will return to bestow upon us a new album of their intoxicating neo-tribal tekno trance that should sufficiently have everyone‘s bodies violently convulsing soon enough. Following on from the mind-blowing goodness…
Our beloved true magick star Mrth told you about this particular tune with drawings we couldn’t even try start to describe, least be us forever vanquished to the asylum for psychedelic glosolalia motherfuckers, alien code spilling out of eyes bulging boiled and all that this entails. Well, Mi Ami infiltrate our interstellar space with a…
Since cruising the underground of New York for every illicit feral animal in possession of a fuzzing guitar and prehistoric yelp, Soul Jazz haven’t really shown up on my music radar. The New York Noise triptych of compilations were some of the most concise and striking collections of a certain era to ever be given…
Level * is a bitch. Basically you have to fly the Dude Troll through x2mega crunk-space and jack it all forward dodging crystal missiles left and right, been there done that you say cocky, well, all your past missions were a piece of cake compared to this, psychedelic ace fighter, you are going to be…
Friend and occasional collaborator Sam of ultimate mixtape blog Allez-Allez has been kind enough to bestow upon us a sweet mix made by himself, check it out: Sam Allez Allez – 2OJFG Mix 2008 Sons & Daughters – This Gift (Sam’s Allez-Allez Remix) Harmonia – Dino D.A.F. – Der Mussolini (Conny Plank Mix) Yo La Tengo…
Image provided by Tommy Boy R&B instrumentals can be wonderful things, sometimes forcing all the haters out there who can’t see beyond the often diamond encrusted lovelorn musings that adorn so many of these tracks, to admit defeat and accept that on occasion the sounds of Kiss FM can be some of the most adventurous…
Its an eternal question, one that will only be answered in some synthetically sanitised dystopian future, many millennia from now, directed by Ridley Scott and starring a reanimated Kurt Russell. You heard it here first. Ilya Santana – From Uranus To Mercurius Ilya Santana will be one of those great synthesiser composers of the classic…
It is with a sad heart that we bid farewell to Hedonizm Records, Brighton’s premier dance specialists, who finally closed their doors on the 29th of June after years purveying vinyl nerds, including at least one of your trusty 20JFG types, with unhealthy doses of mindblowing music. Another nail in the coffin of this town’s…
Whenever we go for our Halloween picnic, on the hallowed grounds of a cemetery with mouldy grounds the consistency of ash from which brittle bones protrude like warts in the skin of the Goddess, an ectoplasmic fog trying to cover this abomination with its sticky gauze so as to preserve her decency, we bring a…
We made a drunken deal in Primavera Sound, and it’s on, so welcome Sssamuel Strang getting down first, the curmudgeonly Spanish one plays the harmonica pensive at the back. The sound of monotony swamping your skull, Graffiti Island are not typical. Brought together through a mutual love of the deranged dilettante Jan Terri, their bludgeoned…
With a hefty bag of peyote in their possession, a hysterical horse, and a shamanic drummer in tow, CocoRosie rode in to town on neon unicorns with one of the summer jams of last year, managing to destroy only the best parties with their rainbow coloured, animalistic B-Girl banger of a tune. Not long after…