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 weird spin and momentum.  These are not songs but the stuff that songs are made of – the cheeky melody of a Throbbing Gristle lullaby, the poetic cycle of a Kraftwerk automaton, Chicago’s soul machine code.

They haunt our present like the ideas of long defunct philosophers.

And they simmer with energy from the shelves of Chevalier Avant Garde’s  exclusive store, ectoplasmic echoes of an awesome exercise in post-punk feng shui. We are trapped within their invisible web, we await for the spider.

Chevalier Avant Garde – Canyons

Canyons is included in CAG’s ‘A Difficult Whole’ cassette album, which you can get from Where to Now (chop chop, there are only 50 of these beauties available globally). We are celebrating this launch with a special podcast on Saturday.

If we were to update the naughty shenanigans of the teenage coven that terrorised the English countryside in Blood on Satan’s Claw to our inadvertently cybernetic present, we would stumble upon a situation akin that which is portrayed in ATM’s cavernous Slow Fade cassette.

In Bad Blood, the opener, we find our darkly protagonists chasing elusive effluvia of carnage in an abandoned abattoir, and in the process awakening something in between Christopher Lee’s gurning Dracula, the big satanic goat of medieval lore, and Henry Ford’s forbidden techno-erotic fantasies. It crawls like one of This Heat’s 24 loops, it howls like the forlorn followers of Crash Course in Science’s religion, it is damn sexy too.

ATM – Bad Blood

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