(Post title nicked from William Gibson, like many other things) Let a thousand antennas bloom towards the sky and thrive in its mysterious whispers, a menagerie of diligent secretaries sort through them, instinctively identify one particular snippet whose enigma is most seductive, and forward it in a high priority valise to a Spartan hut where…
Louis Niebur, author of a book on the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, reveals how in the 1950s, the advent of electronic sounds allowed programme-makers to use sounds that frightened people because they didn’t know what made the noises. 20JFG has always quite enjoyed it when we didn’t know what made the noises. This may explain a…
120 Megabytes – Episode 9 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
(TagliaMani illustration via 50Watts) (Unedited copy of an expose of Dean Castoriadis, owner of The Cube Club, the Gazzette, 19th of XXXXXX, 20XX). There is much to digest in the Coroner report for the ‘Disco Bloodbath’ case. The analysis of DNA suggests at least 35 victims. The causes of death include lacerations, stabbing, bludgeoning, ripping…
(Amei Ozaki painting via 50Watts) (Unedited copy from an article in the Gazzette, 9th of XXXXXX, 20XX) No one has been able to explain the events at the Cube Club on the First of XXXXXX of 20XX, between 3am – when the security guards shut the doors and told the crowd queuing outside to leave…
Hi, and welcome to another old dark matter whistle test. ‘Whispering’ 20jfg here with a selection of music and cultural reference that only a rather small percentage of our readers will actually read, listen to, or understand. mock rock :) 20jazzfunkgreats mixtape – The old dark matter whistle test Just for fun, there is no…
Ripped from music and sutured to the banal hooting of streets, deadening of flats and cold hum of offices, leaves you slightly overwhelmed when plugging back in. The music that we tend to gravitate towards on these pages acts like a wormhole to the strange lands these artists conjure. Kinda’ like Jarvis’s scented candle if…
120 Megabytes – Episode 8 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
Art has an incredible power to bring back a feeling, a ghost, a forgotten fragment you didn’t consciously know you had in your memory. At this moment we were travelling on a couch full of purple & poker-dot covered girls from Liverpool to Manchester for a concert by Prince. This post, despite all appearances, is not…
(Continuing Alfred Tessier-Guilleme’s reports from the future. The ‘good news’: we are still here. The bad news: everything else. Including that we are still here). Today we suffer death by a thousand glitches, infrastructural breakdowns and invasions of personal space, organisational frustrations, fashion faux pas and privacy embarrassments. If our capacity for pain is fractal,…
(Where we share some bits from the diaries of future curmudgeon extraordinaire & gallic cyber-problematiser Alfred Tessier-Guilleme, moaning about what life is like in 70 years or so. We can totally get away with it because he hasn’t even been born. All hail H.G. Wells!) We have reconstructed the concept of love for our new…
20JFG seems to spend most of its time dreaming about some version of the future. Be it the futures imagined by the Old Gods (Dick, Ballard, Le Guin et al) or futures suggested by our teachers (P.E. with Cerrone; driving lessons with Neu!) we spend a lot of time there. These ephemeral quests into a…
120 Megabytes – Episode 7 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
Where a bold pack of neutrinos slide in their custom-made, heavy weaponry packed DeLoreans, and accelerate from the sterile white surfaces of CERN towards the centre of the Earth. They have a bucketful of attitude, these neutrinos, they are the baddest-ass bunch of particles in this quadrant of the galaxy, only they would dare to…
We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here said the bartender. 20jazzfunkgreats mixtape – Slower than light A neutrino walks into a bar.
120 Megabytes – Episode 6 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
“Hydrogravitional-dynamics (HGD) cosmology of Gibson/Schild 1996 predicts that the primordial H-He4 gas of big bang nucleosynthesis became proto-globular-star-cluster clumps of Earth-mass planets at 300 Kyr (thousand years). The first stars formed from mergers of these 3000 K gas planets. Chemicals C, N, O, Fe etc. created by stars and supernovae then seeded many of the…
On Plough Tuesday, a Straw Bear marches down the streets of Whittlesea and dances in front of its houses in exchange for gifts of money, food or beer, not that different from what many bands do these days, same as it ever was. This is another of those millennial English folk traditions that the 20jazzfunkgreats…
This mixtape was produced while reading Arkady & Boris Strugatsky’s ‘Roadside Picnic’ (famously adopted by Tarkovsky as Stalker), and it may have been influenced by it. although not consciously. We’ll let you to it to sort our the tracklist once again. Whoever names the most gets a nameless price. Tips: it begins with Rene Hell…