We close out 2010 with a series of shout outs to the great and the good that have a special bond with 20JFG. From guest writers who’ve put out spectacular albums to alumni that have hopped the fence and started their own labels, with this post we salute you because we love you and we…
It was as if, glimpsed from the right angle, all of the attempts at categorisation had but cascaded into one. Moving the three lists back into their proper position temporarily solved this issue but the great list-master remained disturbed. For what could this mean, he thought. What were the semantic implications of this perilous discovery?…
Lo and behold the starwanderers as they continue their ramblings inside a box of black space lined with gold thread, chronological boundary for the holy year that was 2010. Here we report the risky explorations that over this period tore asunder the walls of reality to fetch from the amorphous manifold beyond nutritious morsels of quantum pop which which we watered our garden and fed the livestock. Such were the…
What vinyl platters could wake 20JFG prematurely from its cryogenic slumber in 2010? What repetitive beats could make its unconscious and partially thawed corpse shuffle towards the nearest dancefloor? What warm-hearted heaters could possibly defrost that heart of stone and illuminate that mind of disillusionment? What songs offered comfort when we were sat down and told that our plan to…
As we approach thee end of 2010, we open the gun locker, gaffer tape a flashlight to our pump action shotgun and slide into the vietcong tunnels of what went on this year. There be monsters there. Being the all encompassing unstandardised weirdoes that we are, we make no attempt at ranking our choices, or…
Not much is know about the last few years of Preston G Parallax‘s murky existance. After we found the floundering Sci-Fi hack in a Berlin backsreet, trying to proclaim the intermingled co-existence of rubber-masked energy beings to a red Volkswagen Polo, he seemed to be suffering from some form of amnesia. To say that this amnesia was selective…
The cultural marketplace has been stirred by a digital fever over the past few years, creating speculative bubbles that put to shame the Dutch tulip craze of the 17th century. Bullish traders place bets on unproven stocks, and talk them up before exiting, leaving the suckers who come behind with little to show for, little…
We wrap up Gatekeeper week on day 5 with the video for Storm Column. The tracks arpegiated, gated, EBM dread gets the Outer Limits treatment in a video that begins with a suitably portentous track around the Statue of Liberty before quickly wrapping its stock footage into universe building spheres. Got that? While we’re dwelling…
Gatekeeper day 4 marks a return to the bloodbath most grizzly. This one is most definitely not suitable for work, small children, vampophobes or hemophiliacs. If you are from New Line Cinema and you are watching this, rest assured that the original footage was taken from a movie called ‘Sword’ starring Wallsey Snips as a…
Deep in the eye of the swirling bloodstorm, it’s day 3 of the Gatekeeper video unsheathing. ‘Mirage’ is ‘X-Mix 3 – Enter Digital Reality’ as re-shaped by the peyote-fueled visions of the cleric in a tribe of psychic desert beings. It’s soundtrack an environmental catastrophe where the Na’vi’s homeland is nuked by the remorseless machinery…
Day 2 of the Gatekeeper video premier week brings the ‘Oracle’, and a terrifying depiction of what happens when a group of teenagers in Hackney try to order pizza using their weird Uncle’s ouija board. Press ‘Play’ and ye may pass through to the next day…. (A couple of weeks into the future) The King…
This week 20JFG is suitably honored to unveil to you five tales most chilling. Gatekeeper, those darkest overlords of surrealist EBM have conspired with Thunder Horse Video on a mind-bending video anthology, which accompanies their new EP ‘Giza’. Due to extreme gore content and dimensional rippage, the only place deemed suitable to unveil these dangerously…
Image from Astronomy Picture of the Day. Drifting along among the fractured radio transmissions that have danced out into space over the last 104 years we find ourselves extending a claw into the liquid stream of abstract noise that gently buffets our celestial bodies. Vast shapes move before us as complex gravitational patterns are enacted…
The chasers of the secret lore are a shady tribe who collect analogue relics from a bygone era, align their intricate switches in certain configurations like a gilded key into invisible lock to open the gates of humanity’s dream-state to all sorts of wonderful reveries and visitations. Food Pyramid are part of the crew, the…
Whilst it is everyday that 20JFG receives myriad packages of incredible trax tied with binary strings of love, it is not everyday that they come accompanied by extensively researched and elaborately written tales such as the one beneath. So it is with great pleasure that we let Dramatic records take over the blog, and share with you the intriguing and…