Archive for October, 2009

• Thursday, October 29, 2009  12:51 pm 

  It wasn’t a nightmare

  I can’t write this because I have no fingers. I have trouble thinking too. Words and images are like pollen floating in the wistful wind, I try to pick them up but it is hard. I have no fingers. But I think about how it all was before everyone went sick. I think about how [...]

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• Wednesday, October 28, 2009  9:51 am 

  Raw Patrol

  One of your 20jazzfunkgreats scribes is rocking those motherfucking epistemological styles, you know how it goes. Paul Feyerabend, dark polemic master of methodological anarchism blows some minds in Against Method: the real scientist improves the theory of Genesis until it challenges evolution.
  Behold Foot Village doing that with dance music- first we had African drums. Then [...]

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• Monday, October 26, 2009  12:01 am 

  The Arpegiator Exhibition

  Time For Dreams hail from Melbourne but apparently this track was mostly recorded on a plane (to Basel).  Which if they hadn’t told me, I’d have probably made up.
  Cooing Sally Shapero-isms echo round the midnight synths.  The very early hints of destruction evident in the distortion on the first chorus.  A soft analogue fog obscures [...]

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• Friday, October 23, 2009  1:00 pm 

  The craft of his engines surpasseth his dreams

  Two bands return to the pages of 20JFG today each bringing their own assimilation of machine music to bear on a suspecting world. Each responding to the past with snatches of sounds from machines long dead, arranged, repurposed and re-slaved to the beat.

  Excepter return to beguile with their ghostly scrapings and primeval techno. [...]

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• Thursday, October 22, 2009  1:22 pm 

  The Littlest Frankestein

  Sorry for being bad of late. We’re on the way to getting things sorted…For now, here you have another awesome post from Brian, getting ready for Halloween as we do.

  Living here in California, the whole mystique surrounding the Cali-Lo-Fi-Tropical thing has a been a little lost on me. Best Coast sounds great, but I’m not [...]

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