Archive for September, 2008

• Tuesday, September 30, 2008  12:05 am 

  Tally Hope!

  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 [...]

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• Monday, September 29, 2008  12:05 am 

  Pretty lights in my pocket

  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 [...]

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• Tuesday, September 23, 2008  12:01 am 

  Crystals on winds from heaven

  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 [...]

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• Monday, September 22, 2008  12:19 am 

  A celebration of the oscillation

  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 [...]

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• Thursday, September 18, 2008  12:05 am 

  Astral playboys

  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 [...]

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