continued from last week

Preston’s next victim was über-powerful publisher – John C. Criris. Now, having knelt fruitlessly at the throne of the publishing industry many times before, Preston knew he had to watch himself here – and so came with a different tack. One of the most coffee-stained and tattered pieces retrieved from his dank cave of ideas, was that for a self-help book.

Called simply ‘Marketing Your Own Madness’, the 466 page tome would describe, in the most excruciating detail, how a range of minor psychological ailments could be turned into cash. The book would be divided into two sections. The first section would give the reader implicit instructions on how they could turn their ‘madness’ into a series of objects or ideas. The second would offer advice on how they could promote and sell these object in a range of different markets. When asked by John C. what kind of ‘objects’ Preston had in mind, he told that sometimes, when he was feeling a bit crazy, he would make a song or write a poem or something – and as it sucks to feel a bit crazy sometimes, it would just be nice to make a little money out of it.

Rather than tell Preston that his book proposal merely described a process know as ‘the creative industries’- a process that had already existed for 100 of years, John C. Criris told Preston that he would ‘think about it’, made his excuses and quickly sauntered off the the toilet.

Preston’s swansong pitch took place at the buffet table. Mega powerful film producer Brenda Thompson thought the food was off until she turned around to find the acrid source. The acrid source had an idea for her. It was an idea for a UK Rom-Com that Preston had long dreamed of. Starring Hugh Grant and with a working title of ‘Listen to Nelson’ the story begins with a couple leaving a classical concert at Royal Festival Hall. They fight and argue till eventually they decide to break up. A dejected Hugh Grant takes a seat opposite the Nelson Mandela bust that lies outside RFH and suddenly hears a voice – which apparently no-one else can here. The voice offers him comfort and advice about his break up. Eventually he realises the voice is coming from the Nelson Mandela bust (which is actually voiced by Nelson himself). Hugh Grant asks the bust if can help him get back with girl and it agrees – and so follows a heartwarming tale of love and reunion centered around Royal Festival Hall, Hugh Grant and a psychic Nelson Mandela bust.

Preston was forcibly ejected from the building.

We’re going in deep today. Captcha records have already blinded us with releases by Ga’an (featured last week), Mahjonng and Chandeliers, and this week’s release by Chicago’s onYou welcomely shines a laser into the retinas of our taste in similar manner.

OnYou – Sight/Seen

OnYou make incredible low-slung motorik propositions, that 20JFG of course readily accepts. Imagine Neu! if they were a bunch of country slackers, abducted and reprogrammed by aliens wishing to know more about the human psyche. Sight/Seen is like a lost version of HalloGallo that transmits into your dreams like the apocalyptic future in Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness – what it tells us on the surface is unclear, fluctuating – but on a another level guides and comforts to our inevitable destination. A place of increasingly undulating syncopations.

The White Waste EP is out this week on Captcha records.

Let us take a stroll though the audio junkyard scavenged by Yearning Kru.

Yearning Kru – Ryad

Maybe 20JFG doesn’t explore the genre know as ‘outer limits’ as often as it should. Yearning Kru is the project of our pal Chris, who has indirectly been responsible for a couple of 20JFG unearthments from the past year, and despite exploring territories that may lie sometimes outside 20JFG’s of jurisdiction, the DIYADH ep is totally awesome and deservedly posted here today. ’Ryad’ is the most conventionally narrative structure contain therein. The possible outcome of an alternate reality where James Ferraro produced the latest Autechre album (could happen), it describes a terminated battlefield where borg warriors exchange their battle legends around a datamoshed fire.

DIYADH is available as a free download from the Yearning Kru Tumblr.

Last minute annoucement!

20JFG (in association with our pals at Bananamania and DONUTS!) are very proud to be putting on the awesome Teengirl Fantasy at Raum 20 in Berlin this very sunday……..

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