We have been testing PsyMage, a prototype hot from the workshop of our in-house skunkworks one man band Jimmy Chombo. It is quite a simple concept really- a suite of virtual reality helmets built with the detritus of an abandoned research programme which, when activated, generate an interactive visualisation of the swirling maelstrom which is…
Assassins is a displacement from the West German brutalism and Cold War bleakness – industrial wastelands and all – that’s usually associated with low key synthesisers and half buried hyperactive drum machines (muted by their very energetic nature). Here the aural aesthetic is tied to the story of the Hashshashin, the Nizai Ismailis tarred by…
And we’re back. You’re tuned to 4.6 on the Thetha lobe of the Telepathic Network, and it’s time for the second half of the Afrofuturistic Interdimensional Entertainment News, brought to you in association with ZhupaDrei ‘zero gravity’ antiperspirant – now available for all 3 sexes. It’s about that time, so here is the news in Audio…
Copy’s Hard Dream, out soon in Audio Dregs sounds like several three-dimensional astral planes intersecting in a cube whose faces reflect visions of rapture for the readearship of das 20Jazzfunkgreats. If you manipulate this glimmering artefact in your holo-deck, you will hear Faberge bleep music devised by that doppelganger of Wendy Carlos that was raised…
It is true. They do have a party. After so many years of working hard they decide to have a party. They say to each other, “We are such happy doctors, and that is rare. We have seen so many terrible things, yet we are still happy. Let us have a party.” And that is…
Now don’t say we never give you nothing. Here follows the entirety of side A from Secret Circuit‘s Cosmic Capers DJ psych mix tape, recently coming out on the Teenage Teardrops label. If you like to hear Balldelian passages of cosmodelia recited through the drums of Venusian savannas, then seemlessly beatmatched into compressed astral dropouts broadcast from the…
If the remake of Clash of the Titan’s had shifted its preconceptions about which particular brand of hyper-masculinity its teenage target audience desired, had instead relocated its mishmash of ancient myths to the basement clubs of hades and, oiled up boys in tow, had unleashed the Kraken upon an unsuspecting dancefloor…it’d sound something like the…
Greetings fellow transdimensional beings and welcome to this evening’s installment of the Afrofuturistic Interdimensional Entertainment News, brought to you in association with LightSPEED ‘liquid energy’ buzz capsules. It’s the 7th portion of the 243th anisphaer, and if you’ve just joined us, here is a quick recap of today’s top stories. Jeno Scrarisia, one of the…
As you well know, we have been splashing on the murky waters of romantic entrepreneurialism through our 20jazzfunk dates service. In this brokerage role, we have learned much about the courtship and mating rituals of certain freakish variations of the human genome, as well as several alien, technological and institutional ones- we pride ourselves on…
As mentioned, Italian label Mannequin have utterly jacked the 20jazzfunkgreats space with an onslaught of different flavours of darkness, from 4AD style ruminations to romantic machine music, vacuum valve introspection, twisted cabaret shenanigans and beyond. Alessandro, who runs Mannequin, put together this absolutely cracking mixtape for us, including choice cuts from their repertoire (basically tune…
Things have been pretty quiet in the 20 Jazz Funk Dates office since we launched a few weeks ago. The phone rings never with the silence of a firing squad’s post-coital epitaph, and our inbox is deader than the crims they just shot. What’s wrong with people these days? Is everyone shacked up already? Were…
My favourite cold wave tunes are the soundtrack for a boss fight against abstract concepts that manifest themselves in daily grief: alienation, commoditisation, urban loneliness. It is Josef K on the hero’s journey, crisis and change as processed by a soviet bureaucracy (in triplicate). Hence the alluring clash of beauty and decay, exaltation and depression…
Shallow researches on the existential opus of the 1990s technomystics gave those cruel socio-technocrats that arbiter society’s incentives schemes the idea for their latest punishment mode- if found guilty, you spend your time in a virtual jail of your own devising (A ‘Stationary State Paradise’), which through tedium eventually teaches you to hate what you…
Arp’s latest album The Soft Wave is released on Monday and attempting to select a representative track or even a single track that suggested an mp3 accompaniment on these pages proved…hard. The Eno (circa Another Green World) love letter of From a Balcony Overlooking The Sea is delicate and nostalgic and a glorious send off…