It’s not that often that I come across a band that I am at a loss to describe in terms of honourable influences, or scenes of a film, snippets of a conversation overheard in a club or a fragment of a book. Gyratory Systems are one such band. Their music sounds like the pulse of…
Hello there, you looking all miserable under the neon lights of the tube, you perusing through vacuous magazines while the screens of Oxford Circus and Victoria Station announce the imminent apocalypse, you lost in the trebly vibrations of an ipod configured to switch the world off, you kicking mangy pigeons off your way, advancing through…
Nite Jewel hails from the stratospherical miasma that floats over, and sometimes through, the citadels of Los Angeles, covering all she touches in a shimmering film of glittering beauty that cascades in droves across the tundras of the ecotone, where chrome wolves slink along the edges of the city to snatch away stray victims, sinking…
Mirror Mirror’s music is a crypt of mystery and sex, a moist opening on the side of a rock wall, enticing entrance to a cavernous corridor darken illuminated by feeble red candles down which you walk surrounded by cloaked figures, eventually reaching a grotto where naked bodies lie, silver amulets, strange flowers and sharp knives…
Johan Agebjörn is a constant source of good times at 20JFG HQ. Besides his excellent labour of pop sorcery piloting a tear-shaped time machine which that shy diva of snow fractal disco loveliness Sally Shapiro rides across the pink seas of pop awesomeness, his mindblowing remixes (we can’t wait to post the synthetic percussive techno…
Between sleep and waking I have a recurring dream about the end of the world and how it will take place in a far off time that will look like a futuristic, smash and grab fantasy of 198O’s Miami. In a world populated by Armani cyborgs and lipstick smeared femme fatales who drive chrome plated…
Woe is me! That Xbox 360, which has given me so many hours of delightful bloodshed and merciless sniping was recently afflicted by the loathed Red Ring of Death. So, after the initial shock and wondering about what to do with my life, I decided to climb down the stairs of my video game manor,…
Its too exciting a prospect that Salem will be recording new material, fact. When this is we do not know, but soon it will come, like impending nightfall when your stuck in the old cemetery in deepest, darkest Dunwich – its all about the fear of the unknown/that advancing noise in the cold black air?…
Picture this, your humble 20JFG scribe awakens on a rainy Berlinese morning with the headache to end them all, brought to existence by one of those eternal & crazed nights that seem oh so frequent in that city of angles and angels, he sits in a comfortable sofa and turns on the TV looking for…
Ah, Vangelis, where would we be without you? Surely we wouldn’t have danced with gods and demons over portentous clouds of a blinding blue, or roamed the streets of hallucinated eastern bazaars where weasely merchants display their strange wares in a most ramshackle manner, baroque pieces of analogical technology blessed with spells of a sublime…
20JFG – Commemoration of good times Mixtape Commemoration of good times mixtape tracklist 1- Ennio Morricone- Theme of Ali 2-Soft Rocks- Black Magic 3-Alain Goraguer- Deshominisation I 4-Black Devil Disco Club- With Honey Cream 5-Venise- Playboy 6-Jellybean Benitez- The Mexican 7-Tom Tom Club- On the Line Again 8-Bostro Pesopeo- Falls (Hercules and Love Affair Remix)…
Felix from Discoteca Oceano is one of 20Jazzfunkgreats longest standing friends & collaborators. An excellent man with good taste to spare, see him here sending some snapshots from the South. This music is frankly amazing, you can really hear bristling in its joyous & raw contours the spirit that has informed so many awesome efforts…
Like the Wu once said, it’s all about the labels. Gotta love Ghostface’s moccasins. And this music, coming from those underground stalwarts who are claiming back the dancefloor for the freaks to boogie tres classy. The arrival of a Permanent Vacation promotional device to the halls of thee 20Jazzfunkgreats curmudgeons is celebrated with the kind…
(image supplied by Tommy Boy) We are not sure whats happened with Lovefingers. The last Daily Fingertrack went up in July and now its September, jeez. Its a shame, we enjoyed that daily dose of wonky synth pyramid disco, those tracks brightened up the day as we meandered through reality, plugged into our iPods, with…