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…
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….
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…
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. Castle…
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…
I recall teasing you about the eventual presence of one of Philly’s finest, King Kong Ding Dong, in the pages of this your most dedicated blog. Well, here you go, they have a new album out, it goes by the name of Youth Culture Index and you can download it for free here. Do it,…
Dreaming Tiger does what it say in the box- first person exploration of a luxuriant jungle, layers of green across which you slide like the ghost of wind, dodging high definition pits of light where the sun stamps it burning foot, hallucination of seeing yourself from the outside as a powerful beast raising its head…
image by Jon Bennett Time moves along a mobius strip in the echoing halls of 20JFG’s leaking Victorian haven. It was back in 2005 that we first posted Antifamily’s Staring at a Point. When we finally took possession of their debut LP in early 2007 it turned out to be a deadpan dub infused masterpiece…
Brian DBA scores again! Natty stuff, get on it! While techno may be the country music of Europe, here in LA it is usually just the music of douche-bags. Then the punks got their hands on it and things really got fucked up. Enter King Ahab (Twitter). Punk in attitude, but still a virtuoso that…
You might have noticed that in the past weeks we have posted tunes only for streaming. This is the case today, but no more. We have decided that our policy from now on will be to post songs only as mp3 for download. Although we understand labels preferring to have tunes only for streaming, we…