Archive for November, 2009

• Monday, November 30, 2009  12:05 am 

  Throwing Crystal Shapes

  Inside the crystal dome of the snowglobe that the Gods shake with childish abandon rises a pyramid of Jodorowsky tarot cards, at whose top you will find your animated 20jazzfunkgreats miniatures dancing in the midst of the blizzard, Christmas is coming and we shall enjoy it in our own special ways. Let the pagan celebrations [...]

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• Friday, November 27, 2009  12:14 am 

  The Last Hunter

  Knights of Vipco struts through its martial streets, the red dawn poking through unforgiving edifices.  Unpeturbed by the increasing use of dutch angles to track it’s progress and oblivious to the Bernard Herman Noir-horms that encircle it like sirens…it rounds a corner and runs straight into the pulsating Old God of euphoric 8-bit title music.  [...]

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• Tuesday, November 24, 2009  12:01 am 

  I live in the Tower of Flints, I am the Death-Owl

  You know of that talented gentleman George Quartz, well he’s got together with Personal Victories to deliver a cracking piece of tribal sturm and drang the likes of which we hadn’t heard since Excepter turned the stompbox on, acid concoction of industrial ghost dance poison injected into our hearts with a rusty seven inch long [...]

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• Monday, November 23, 2009  12:05 am 

  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Neon Field

  Another smooth breath of class from that imagined Paris where champions of good taste such as Joakim, Cosmo Vitelli or Dirty Sound System keep it happening. It is the latest crew who are behind the project we are telling you about today.
  Sport Hit Paradise is the imaginary soundtrack for an exhibition opening on the 11th [...]

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• Thursday, November 19, 2009  12:01 am 

  Go Forward Into Dark Again

  Packages from France focussing on historic moments in European history and featuring Swiss Industrial musicians covering German composers are something I receive too infrequently.  Contained within the 2CDs of Berlin 61/89 – Wall Of Sound is an almost distracting quantity of amazing music quite a bit of which we’ve covered on 20JFG over the years [...]

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