Jonas Reinhardt return to these warm zones: constantly maintained by solar winds and the unfathomably complex gravitational dance moves of the planets. Speeding through the heavens of blue refracted light that bounce freely off of vast glassed worlds, before slowing to take in the cresting of a sun over its many orbiting bodies. Eos, the…
Like some drumless-techno-titan stalking the sand blasted bazaars of a near-future, eastern city, You Ain’t Reeling reveals itself. Played out on an Indian Harmonium and fed through the requisite nest of effects — be they tape or pedal — we’re gifted what sounds, to all the world, like the intro to some club-banging-beast. The drones…
Once every 2365 years, when the Arc of Gothanzus enters its penultimate cycle, the wretched lump of rock known as 20 Jazz Funk Greats converges briefly in the sky with the shining beacon at the centre of our galaxy, blocking its illumating and everlasting light for just long enough for us to see the true colour of…
With open arms, 20JFG welcomes nutjob business consultant Hans Tanza and his parents at Dramatic Records back to the blog. This week he’s introducing his finest creation – The Insight Generator. We received another correspondence from Hans so we’ll let him explain his machine – and say only that the accompanying track is a board…
20JFG doesn’t normally run interviews, but when they’re conducted especially for us by Daniel from Mi Ami (aka Ital) who are we to uphold the rules? Especially when they’re with the awe inspiring entity know as the Hieroglyphic Being, who is also giving 20JFG some exclusive new tracks, Does it get any better than this!? Over to you guys…….. Jamal…
The machines awaken. Instead of transforming planet Earth into an ugly radioactive waste through the indiscriminate deployment of nuclear warheads, they simply turn technology off and watch mankind slide back into feudalism. The ecological pyramid stretches one level further, into a pinnacle of superior intelligence around which hover silver machines of mostly indifferent grace, powered…
Our good friend Ital suits up and strays into the the irradiated zones of Minimal Techno to retrieve the Detroit archives, once held as sacred tablets by the mid-00s hordes but now in danger of falling into a state of disrepair. With percussion ripped from an agitated Geiger counter, Ital wades into a landscape scared…
We have been preparing for the arrival of the Goddess of Death, she who unmakes all structures with a cold entropic wind, transforming signal into noise and magic into nonsense, draining the things we relish of their true substance, threatening the very existence of our tradition with a tidal wave of crud. Her followers are…
(You know which Boris) Arthur C. Clarke once said that ‘Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Undistinguishable from Magic’. Let us work this aphorism backwards, and apply it to Zombi’s corpus, as manifested and further advanced in their latest release, ‘Escape Velocity’. For what does something that sounds like black magic tell us about the technology…
We are once again thrilled and regailed to bring you some more half baked ideas and muddy prose, typed straight from the malfunctioning Brother WP-80 of Preston G. Parallax. During the cold, grim winter of 1986 Preston’s controversial short story ‘Reggae Against Communism’ was deemed too dangerous for inclusion in his unreleased collection ‘Glaucoma of God and other…
Over the last handful of months, Mannequin records have experienced double-digit rates of growth in the impossible market exchange for hot record labels peddling beautiful and corrupted synth-wave. Having had privileged access to the fine output from Sixth June, the latest addition to Mannequin’s repertoire, your 1980s oversized spectacle wearing 20jazzfunkgreats Wail Street analyst has…
Last Wednesday, the Chief Scientist Officer at the Keck II Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, informed the press of a breach in the Doria Russell (DR) mainframe, a parallel computing cluster that is usually kept offline for security purposes. A computer virus introduced in DR with a corrupted USB stick (the same technique used in…
Destruction Unit bring a titanic dirge to the yard. And I have a fair feeling, it’s better than yours. Beginning with a deep space hum and the cracking blue corona of a distant star, Listen navigates patiently through the vast galaxy of the slow-build. An in-flight soundtrack to Discovery One‘s glide towards the infinite. Ryan…
In these days of such recording trickeries, where lo-fi records made on $4000 Macpros are re-recorded into tape recorders bought at cash converters, and Daniel Bedingfield makes a number one hit in this bedroom (how did he get that string quartet in there?), it becomes increasingly difficult to tell with what means a record has…
Those Dramatic Records guys are at it again (you know them what was responsible for the Endless House archives). This time they’re regaling us with the fruitbat antics of derailed business consultant Hans Tanza – a typical London corporate entity with a very atypical line in business practice. But enough waffle from us, why don’t…
(“A New Divinity” above by Kris Kuksi via 5magazine) 20jazzfunkgreats use many divergent techniques to write their drafts and select their music. These include Brian Eno’s renowned Oblique Strategies, esoteric derivations of the Fibonacci sequence and energetic hurling of Aleister Crowley’s tarot deck. Today, we have applied standard cabbalistic transformations to excerpts from a contested…