This is what happens when our malevolent monarchy grants us the day off. We post, not in our natural habitat of one minute past midnight (GMT), but in the bright light of day. Oh dear. 20JFG hasn’t been paying close enough attention to the wonderful Digitalis Recordings over the years but we hope to change…
Over the last few months Aria Jalali of Railcars fame has been dropping jewels all over the cobbled streets of the 20Jazzfunkgreats dominion, thus creating a glittering path for our brightest and most magically attuned children to follow doe-eyed, and the pro magpies that infest our sturdy trees to invigilate for the sparklingest of catches….
Ideas for sacred cows and discourse: The term krautrock is itself a derogatory and racist category invented by English music journalists. Tangerine dream is the music your dad/weird uncle/granddad made in their bedroom and kept trying to make you listen to. Faust were signed by Richard Branson, and their song Krautock is an in-joke on those who…
Here at 20JFG we quite obviously find music an incredibly evocative experience. We dabble in what appear, quite often, to be ludicrously extended and intricate metaphors — but what are in fact despatches from our hyperactive subconscious…that also serve as ludicrously extended… Occasionally, a nameless force reaches out to us. My Frozen Spirit begins with…
20JFG ain’t Justin Lee Collins, but do you remember that episode of Knight Rider where KIT changed his name to Regard Daggermath, becomes a sociopath and goes on a killing spree. No? The one where he suffocates David Hasslehof with a slightly too tight seatbelt, before decapitating several passers with his scalding LED display, spilling…
As you know by now, uncle 20JFG likes to regularly dismantle this VR headset we call the entertainment industry, offering you an absurdist instruction manual on how not to wake up in a ditch wearing a Fratellis t-shirt, with 5 hours of your memory missing and a 2 Fast 2 Furious DVD in your back pocket (this…
We were lucky enough to behold Mi Ami riding the dance storm last week, after said show we ran to acquire every single bit of vinyl displayed at the merchandise stall, including a conspicuous (and rather sold out) Bored Fortress Single featuring Psychic Reality and Daniel’s side project Sex Worker. Well, here you have the…
The 20jazzfunkgreats Interstella class cruiser is currently trapped in a solipsistic nebula that isolates it from terrestrial communications. That doesn’t daunt us, if it was the human limelight we craved, we would have chosen another line of business. We project audio-sonar pulses into the unknown, and wait for a reaction from the powers that are…
20jazzfunkgreats and Gatto Fritto go waaaaay back, as in 2008, when we first featured him via the triumphant psychedelic explosion that was Bursting the Bubble, one unimpeachable hit that always accompanies your trusty jazzfunk banditos in their disco excursions (it’s utterly unreal that there are still copies going at Juno, seriously, sort it out least…
Emerging from their Vault Tec certified living quarters clutching two pre-war cultural artefacts, AVANT! Records’ representative patiently waits while 20JFG’s fumbling hands try desperately to claim their precious gifts. Able only to consume in the form of half-remembered lists and feature comparisons this partially feral 20JFG creature desperately attempts to contextualise these: Contrepoison Cold Wave…
Hi, and welcome to the first of this years 20jfg livewatch specials on the joys of the wildness we can witness in this season. Today we’ll be taking you on a journey in sights and sound of the spectacular wonders of nature you can see around you in xxjfgland – island of wondersTM. Lomardean As…
Behold 20jazzfunkgreats retrieve from the back of the anti-narnian wardrobe immaculate 1980’s David Foster Wallace indebted tennis outfit for some sweet times under the sun. Is that a smile in their pudgy, depraved visages? You can be sure of that you snarky cultural prosumers, for it is springtime, what better way to celebrate than a…
The house dips in and out of the frenzied waters of the late 20th century property market like the obstinate detritus of a calamitous shipwreck. If you examine its contractual life, you will find a recurring pattern over the decades: property title found in the state of the late A, bequeathed to B, and eventually…
We’re once again graced by Digits‘ presence, rolling up Lost Dream (which we posted earlier this year) with new tracks and a remix to form the Lost Dream EP. One of the new tracks is Pale Green Morning, a haunting early House jam, replete with Alt’s soul-flecked vocal. A trip through a night-history that escapes…
“Hi there, yes you, standing on a corner of the big metropolis on a Saturday night, in the throes of despondency, you dilettante who longs for adventures in a never-ending tunnel of black sateen, all dressed up and nowhere to go, you, daydreaming of slender bird-men and angelic vixens gliding over a chessboard of gold…
Today we are rather excited to turn the posting duties over to our compatriots The Outer Church, Moon Wiring Club & Pye Corner Audio. The Outer Church The Outer Church was founded in 1975 and lay dormant until circumstances conspired to make its manifestation a necessity. During the early winter of 2009 it became abundantly clear that a…
(Image by Viktor Pivovarov detected at 50 Watts) The mixtape awaiting for you at the end of this merciful handful of lines was arranged by our beloved Mueran Humanos, it unsettles like a collage of the eeriest mysteries and aberrations off Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World stitched upon the morphing walls of the corridor through…
Opening inside the belly of a rusting container ship. Percussion rebounding from the dark metal bulkheads. Strings descending from girders overhead and tied taunt to the rivets below. EMA‘s Marked unravels its denialist-pop heart in the form of bold confessional. With a voice at first breathless, scratchy and raw but — over the course of…