Greetings Jazz Mutilators, My name is Mark Brown and I’m a video and new media artist from Baltimore. I want to thank 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Merok for putting this project together, all the remixes are fantastic and it’s been incredibly exciting to see what my peers in the video-dome are up to. I…
MAKE magazine’s spiritual fathers are plenty, and today we are going to talk about one – Wally Byam. In the 1920s, along side Hawley Bowlus, Wally kinda open sourced plans for every man’s (and some women) wet dream – their very own Startship Enterprise, the American dream, the pioneers rocket ship – the Airstream Trailer….
The good people at Merok records and one of our favorite bands, Telepathe, were nice enough to ask 20jfg to curate some remixes of the Telepathe song, Devil’s Trident.Firstly we need to thank all the artists who responded, the results were amazing.A Vinyl 12″ of some of the remixes is available to order from Merok…
Love Saves the Day’s comeback at Micro was utterly joyous, a dancefloor packed with people spinning in the pink mist to the sweetest sounds of the disco diaspora. Well, it’s happening again this Saturday at Micro, 11-3AM, drink deals and stuff, get in cheap via the Facebook collective. Ours is a broad and inclusive church…
Image by Tommy Boy In it’s original incarnation Give Me Your Love by Barbara Mason is a seductive slab of classic string drenched disco soul that sounds like it’s being sung by a woman who can barely contain herself, reduced to a trembling lustful whisper, and which circles your heart with all the sensual intensity…
If it is cool to have a pencil mustache, is Midge Ure now cooler than John Foxx ? As no one is old enough to remember the 80s, except with rose tinted aviators, is it ok to sound like Berlin ? Funny how things change and you end up thinking some hilarious tasteless overblown meaningless…
With synthesized cacophony, thundering forwards, rolling over hills under a shadow of witch-hour darkness arriving in an impenetrable fog that usually brings with it a wave of unexplainable death and destruction, White Ring emerge from the ether with true dark hearted disco intent, like a sister of Salem who’s rocked back and forth for endless…
After the barbarian tide of punk rock hit the grey walls of reality and rolled back, leaving behind a battlefield covered in tabloid headlines and furious music, there came post-punk. Grim-faced kids stared at the evil spires raising in the toxic mist, and realising that the demolition of existing structures was nigh impossible they decided…
I’d like to imagine that everyone reading this out there has seen Crash, father to us all David Cronenberg’s epic (anti)pornographic meditation on human compulsion and the aesthetics of sexual obsession, wherein a group of rather insane individuals make a series of quite literal connections between erotic satisfaction and motor accidents with unsurprisingly grisly results….
Psychic Ills’ Mirror Eye is the spooky echo of a murky nightmare and the shapeless forms lurking in its periphery, reverberating steps down cobbled ways, a Walpurgisnacht happening in the forests of the Twin Peaks soundtracked with a ghostly psychedelia that reminds us of Wooden Shjips at their codeine-intoxicated best, or even Hawkwind’s dizzying spirit…
I was in the office on Wednesday and people were smiling more than usual. Many were paying an American girl who works there a visit, to congratulate her, and also to say thanks What happened in the US Presidential elections wasn’t just the end of what will be probably remembered as some sort of dark…
Having recently signed with Michael Gira’s Young God Records, Larkin Grimm’s haunted tribal folk, her darkened honey lullabies which with clawed hands and rabid eyes consumed by a bloodlust of the most primal kind, often owl screech to the high Heavens of the erotic should finally receive the attention it’s so deserved ever since she…
Vote for Obama Barack kids. Otherwise it’s the end. Sub Pop’s single clubs scores again with hyperkinetic LA DIY ladypunk gang Mika Miko, who in their new 7, Sex Jazz, slow it down a bit, and spread it sideways the densest we’ve heard them yet, murky DIY peanut butter toast for yummy styles flip out….