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 of effervescent and merry somersaults others devote to Olympian victories, scientific breakthroughs or the deciphering of complex codes in esoteric scrolls dug out off the ruins of dead cities in the midst of the cruel desert (we are partial to the last). This is of course a consequence of the immaculate track record of this most excellent Bavarian record label, which has in the past delighted us with sweet servings of Sally Shapiro, Holy Ghost!, 40 Thieves or the gobsmacking Space Oddities Comp (you still have some time to get a sweet tee from their website!)

Anyhow, let’s get to the point and answer the question you must be asking yourself by now, this is, what is the new treasure that Permanent Vacation has left by your humblest’s door?

It is Bostro Pesopeo.

And remember the name, because next time you find yourself in some techno temple somewhere in the midst of the barren concrete landscapes of Eastern Berlin, surrounded by a sweaty mass of believers, and a martial Whorehouse beat creeps under your skin like a morse code message from the psychedelic Gods that hover semi-transparent over the tumult of any righteous party, eventually deciding to jump resolute on the back of that riddim and ride it gallant like Valkyries climbing towards the event horizon of a blinding breakdown (that wicked synth riff proof of the devastating power of the Arpeggio when used right), then, after the delirious explosion of total hands in the air styles, someone is going to ask you, ‘what the fuck was that?’, and then you shall reply,

That was Bostro Pesopeo.

Bostro Pesopeo- Falls

Or music that pounds epic like Isolee battling Force of Nature over the cliffs of Sparta.

You can listen to the lovely Hercules and Love affair remix on the mixtape we have made to commemorate the good life, at the bottom of the post.

Let us continue our stroll down the avenues of label class by referring to wonderful Thisisnotanexit, who have recently released ‘Fear no Fear’ by ghostly post-punk outfit The Detachments. The whole package is of course aces, check out Naum Gabo’s remix, who kills it in a memorable synth melancholy way.

Today we are going to leave you with the original track, a masterpiece of oppressive dirgey modern dance music which draws from the same sort of 80s bleeping euro-techno dark sources as The Knife’s ‘Like a Pen’, if only our favourite Swedish phantoms had spent some time flexing their muscles in the EBM halls of pain of a black prison obelisk towering over the furious waves of the Northern Sea.

It all ends up in blood, sweat and tears, as the murderous progression culminates in an apocalypsis of cadaveric Carpenterian melodies and gnarly bass ululations the likes of which we hadn’t been blown away by since Motiivi Tuntematon’s 1939, more pressure, and darker.

The Detachments- Fear no Fear

We look forward to hearing the album, which Detachments are currently working on with Trevor Jackson.

I don’t know what good deed I performed in a past reincarnation to deserve the joy of receiving those RVNG OF THE NRDS 12” in the post, I guess I must have put some goat milk’s butter on Jesus’ dry loaf of bread as he was roaming the desert haunted by Lucifer’s melodious voice, or else. Because every single one of these eminently collectable releases brought to us by the igetrvng crew bristles with dizzying goodness, and justifies in itself the existence of edits as a space of delightful surprise, as well as starry-eyed tribute to good times past. Exhibit one above, this is, their new reference by talented savant Jacques Renault is shining proof of the previous statement. Just get it.

Jacques Renault- Bad Skinned

Arrive home, slide this yummy slice of vinyl in the stereo, place the needle on the groove with a warm feeling of anticipation and smile as a luxurious explosion of gold, coffee and honey blasts from the speakers, sweet funk music strutting smooth past the velvet curtains of the disco with a riotous bassline wicked enough to drive one to a life of crime, and a percussionfest which rattles like a diaspora of beautiful ghosts laying waste to the wooden floor of my lounge, particularly after a breakdown obviously engineered by someone who knows what rocks the dance ecstatic. This is the kind of stuff that disco dreams are made off, keep it strong you loving & caring nerds.

And so we sort of (but not quite) finish the post with a track included in Cosmo Vitelli’s Parisian label I’m a Cliche’s new ‘Cliche Breaks 12′. I shit you not, this motherfucker of a tune has enslaved the souls of your 20jazzfunkgreats fiends like the seductive neon emanations from some dreamed-of unholy collaboration between Barry de Vorzon, Jan Hammer and Fleetwood Mac, with anthemic riff antics dropped in the breakdown for extra whiplash inducing headbanging oomph.

This is our new theme tune.

Cliche Breaks- Straight my Time

Now seriously, after the infamous events conveyed to us in Walter Hill’s documentary, the Warriors decided to leave Coney for sunnier lands, and as they were driving down south it was this kind of bad-ass shit that was blasting total AM radio from the speakers of their graffittied van, ‘lots of pussy down there in Miami’ muttered Ajax while stroking his bulging biceps.

(what would we do without Tommy Boy?)

And this is where we finish the post with a new mixtape including songs we like ersatz-mixed with the help of Apple’s own contribution to the 2.0 revolution, Garageband, and no skills whatsoever. There is some choice stuff in there, however, do particularly check out Egyptian Lover’s remix of Dez Dickerson’s Modernaire soon to be released by awesome Citinite, and Zongamin’s codeine percussive remix of Mickey Moonlight’s anthem ‘Interplanetary Music’. Good times, as we said.

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)

9-Decadance- On and On (Dub)

10- Memory Control One- Counter

11-Dez Dickerson- Modernaire (Egyptian Lover Remix)

12- Brand Image- Are You Loving

13-Loose Joints- Tell You Today (short version)

14-Mickey Moonlight- Interplanetary Music (Zongamin Remix)

15-Vangelis- Let it happen

20JFG Commemoration of good times Mixtape

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