Like that fixer extraordinaire Finn from 20jazzfunkgreats very own Silicon Bible, Chevalier Avant Garde curate their exclusive store with artefacts ransacked from a variety of periods. In each of these converge powerful vectors of technological possibility, historical context and cultural imagination, they are combined within the insurrectional black box to define new possibilities full of…
Deep Earth return to the pages of 20JFG with a track from their split with Food Pyramid (who took the time to leave a lengthy comment on Monday’s post — both post and comment are well worth reading). Kontraband teases as a synth led Miami Vice Balearic stormer, all mid-2000′s slo-disco swagger. Yet the Bladerunner…
120mb is taking a break this week for some American thing called thanksgiving. Instead we present Adam Curtis’s The Century Of The Self. Essential viewing. Happy holidays you US of A people!
Having sond-mined our e-mail archive yesterday, let us now slip into the visualisator, a scanner developed by VizViz, a recently spun out gem from DARPA’s venerable portfolio of black swan investments. Visualisator transforms the ebbs and flows of our sickly subconscious into lurid imaginary. We hear that Apple has now acquired VizViz, and the next…
(He has all the answers) 20jazzfunkgreats has applied a sound-mining algorithm to its e-mail intake and established that, after filtering out the trash (90% overall), 45% of what remains falls within the loose boundaries of new age-new kosmische-new minimalism-new ambient or combinations thereof (this is after accounting for the longer average length of songs within…
Jimmy Savile sat on the train to Leeds, his head in his hands. The night before he had been playing records at the Roxy in Bradford. It had possibly been the most life changing experience in his life. After a particularly heady does of acid while playing a rather long version of some Engelbert Humperdinck song…
Been wanting to use this image by TagliaMani for a while — thanks to the ever wonderful 50 Watts. Quickly (in 20JFG time*) following on from last week’s post about Peepholes‘ laboratory-fresh detour, Tunnels, comes the Moon Gangs remix. Combining a decaying Techno drum sequence — seemingly heard from beneath midnight-black ocean waves — with…
120 Megabytes – Episode 12 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
Recently we have been delivering quite a few mixtapes into the blogosphere via this portal. This has both delighted and dismayed some of you, dear readers. The delight, we are happy to hear, is from your enjoyment of the mixtapes. The dismay is from our probably rather mean habit of making you guess the tracklist…
So here we are, caught up in an epileptic epiphany lighting up James Brown’s drug-addled brain as he dances around the burning wreckage of his automobile like a Balinese finger puppet lucubrated by a Dionysian necromancer, police sirens Doppler-effecting closer and closer. And what does this epiphany concern, you ask? It concerns the realisation that…
Another WT Release, another retro gaming reverie. This time, with Momentform, whose frozen tornado of synthetic romance delivers us into the elegant halls of a Persian vizier’s palace, whose pixelated gray-scale we traverse in a quest for love, or rather, revelling in our own loneliness and the idea of love, key out of a prison…
We’re all for returns at 20JFG and friends of the family Peepholes have made many, many returns to us over the years. Like prodigal siblings returning to our bleak and unforgiving farm to be subjected to biblical metaphors…remorselessly. Having lapped up their last EP on Upset the Rhythm and it’s epic closer Carnivore we feel…
120 Metalbytes – Episode 11 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
On a Sunday Morning this Autumn, Z. sat in his kitchen and sipped on a mug of sour coffee. He planned his day. He leaned his dirty feet on the kitchen table. He scratched the back of his head. He stared at the empty ashtray in front of him. He tried to get going. And…
Ray & The Prisms, Hans Tanza’s foremost competitors in the field of analogue-cryptic management consultancy, recently launched ‘astrograph’, a distraction channelling API for business service providers in the creative industries – particularly product design houses and boutique architecture studios. Astrograph transforms the flow of information generated by social media networks, e-mail systems and behaviouralist web-browsing…
Questions? If the devil has all the best tunes, why is gospel so great? Can music really be good or evil? Is it different for different listeners? Do such absolutes exist at all? This compilation tape – Azreal – attempts to answer none of the questions above. 20jazzfunkgreats mixtape – Azreal Tracklist? As normal, we…
The (now) UK based Digits returns to the pages of 20JFG with his new side project Bad Passion. Alt brings his old flatmate Lesley with him to dish out some slow-core R’n’B jams. Given Alt from Digits constant incursions into the fortress of Pop, it’s perhaps not surprising that Bas Passions manage to pull of…
120 Megabytes – Episode 10 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
You may have heard about the galactic federation. They are the equivalent of the UN in our segment of the universe. They resolve boundary disputes between alien civilisations, pre-empt xenocide and provide alien aid when cosmic catastrophes occur. Planet Earth is on their watch list for several reasons, not least the risk of self-destruction by…