In the old days rebellion was about being yourself, dressing how you wanted, dancing in a field, sleeping with who you wanted, reading what you wanted and any other actions that the main stream deemed to be outside the norm. These days being a social rebel isn’t some fashion stance punk thing of wearing that nazi shirt…
Standing alone in the desert, pre-dawn. A chill wind whipping up dust devils that catch the bright moon light. For a moment. Then the focus is pulled to the great spires that fill the horizon. Glimmering against the deep blue sky. Their windows filled with fire, their structures reconfigured by the light emanating from their…
Preston G Parallax – 20 Jazz Funk Great’s very own non-existant Sci-Fi author and pseudo-alter-ego, once himself came up with his very own non-existant Sci-Fi author and pseudo-alter-ego. A huge fan of the writer Kilgore Trout (although he hated Vonnegut), Preston was inspired to pepper his novels with appearances by his fictitious second self – Prestwick L. Parallox. In…
We stare aghast at the dynamics of nerd media convergence, and in particular a modern zombiggedon that has not managed, over several years of rotten meat barrage and hick vernacular, to produce a single moment worth a footnote in the original opus of Master Romero (the exception being Left 4 Dead and its sequel). Or…
The pit is a wormhole shield that conveys emotional energy into a frozen vacuum where it floats in stasis like the discoloured specimens of a crippled race. The pendulum is the razor-sharp condensation of molten dreams flowing inky from the alcove at the pinnacle of the witch house. Mushy brandishes both weapons deftly, deviant chanteuse…
The first 20JFG Podcast of the year is a real smasher. Kruton is the DJ alias of our pal Milo, AKA Binary Chaffinch from the Dissident posse AKA Milo from the Chrome Hoof posse. Heavenz Gate, his most recent release on I’m a Cliche is a remarkable voyage through pretty much every style of dance music known…
On a warm Iberian island under purple skies. On the gentle cliffs above the glistening midnight blue sea. On the flat roof-cum-balcony of a white washed villa. On a wicker chair, padded with soft white cushions. She sits. And watches the stars unfold. They twinkle infinitely in patterns of such astounding beauty that the only…
Recently, Macintosh users may have noticed a new symbol unexpectedly appear upon their dock like a pimple appears upon your face before a hot date. Seruptitious and illicit, many have tried to ignore this new icon at their peril – for it burns upon your desktop like a cigarette through ancient newsprint. Throwing it in the…
Last Friday, your 20jazzfunkgreats explorers slipped into a sensory deprivation chamber connected to a High Definition TV set and flicked between BBC’s factual psyche-scientific repertoire and bouts of carnage in the windswept taigas of the Hellghast world. The unlikely collision of theoretical physics and relentless headshotting released a myriad diminutive particles which were meticulously collected…
Fielded‘s Lindsay Powell hangs out on the balconies of a galactic parliament chamber, singing out a monologue over the epic processional music accompanying the opening of a new session of the star chamber. Hidden behind a Venetian mask and shrouded in a black cloak Broadcast’s shadow looms over the ensuing ritual. Fielded – Late Come…
Once again we open up 20JFG to the Endless House Foundation and Dramatic Records. If you’re unfamiliar with this occasional series then it begins here, and other episodes can be caught scattered around the rest of the internet. Today we feature an excerpt from their forthcoming book – “Sketches Of The Endless House” – a…
Expectations about the Dirtbombs cover album of Detroit electronic music classics, ‘Party Store’ (in In the Red), recently reached fever pitch in the camp of the believers where your 20jazzfunkgreats aficionados frolic. We are happy to report that the promise made in the early leak of ‘Sharivari’ is in fact fulfilled in this triple vinyl…
The 20jazzfunkgreats Intelligence Unit has been parsing some historical trends in the accumulation of inhuman capital in the American population between 1950 and 2010 using US Census data. We witness peaks in the number of enrolments in witchcraft colleges during the 1970s, probably associated to the high levels of experimentation with psychedelic drugs, the embrace…
Nickodemus Nathaniel Plyers could have spent an erasmus year perfecting his French, in the majestic city of Paris. He could have spent it continuing his studies in psychology, in the beauteous city of Budapest. But instead, he chose to spend it in a self-induced coma on the fourth floor of Northwick Park hospital, Harrow, Middlesex. Forgetting to tell his distraught family where he…
(photo by Nicola Kuperus from Adult.) Adult. were that blinding beacon of paranoia awaiting at home after a cocaine-fuelled night in the Electroclah Babylon. The half glimpsed hallucination of a Bauhaus tiger with stroboscopic eyes snarling from your surgical looking chaise longue. Their greatness, never doubted, hit us again while we were picking some tunes…