The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists,…
Whether your with Dunbar on music and dance evolving as mass social grooming, Darwin and his strutting peacock, or feel dancing and music is tickling the brain in ways nature cannot, dancing is a part of our humanity and has been for a very long time. 2011 was a good time for music you could…
Given our name, it’s no secret that we gorge on electronic sound, be it discomforting or transcendent. Guttural or sublime. We’re forever wary of confirmation bias but this year does seem to have seen wave upon wave of synth based music. Not just music that features a synth but music that’s built around the synth, great…
Welcome, welcome, to 20JFG’s fantabulous end of year round up. Once again we’ll be raiding the year’s archives for the tracks that made permanent homes on our digital/analogue devices. We’ll also be posting a few things that we loved but didn’t cover at the time: music that had already been blogged to death or music…
Image taken from HMV’s flickr via Voices of East Anglia And so, with the nights drawing in and Skyrim sitting in our collective DVD drives it’s time for the 20JFG original content machine to spin down. Over the next few weeks we’ll be doing our annual round up of the things we liked this year. …
120 Megabytes – Episode 15 A Best Of / recap / wrap up / selecting our favorite videos from the past 14 episodes of 120 Megabytes brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
20jazzfunkgreats has been delving into the early history of computer graphics and animation – the way in which digits give life to moving images that eventually, touched by the finger of genius, are imbued with an illusion of intelligence and soul, arguably artifice for now (although who knows what those cowboys and astronauts get up…
A mix specially compiled to mark the first appearance of Ye Ye Fever on 20jazzfunkgreats. We rarely stray into Disco territory at Ye Ye so this was a nice chance to air some fresh tracks. Ye Ye Fever – December Disco Selection Tracklist Shina Williams and his African Percussion – Agboju Logun (Don’t Rely on…
Today’s guest post comes from the people of Ye Ye Fever, so without delay, over to them! It’s been a whole year since the first Ye Ye Fever & we’ve loved every minute of it, i still remember that beautiful moment at the Green Door opening night party when you all went crazy to Pepe…
120 Megabytes – Episode 14 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
There exists a city atop a hill. Like all good cities it’s grown in a chaotic fashion. Street drilled through street, buildings reaching up towards the sky in a constant struggle for light. Competition and vested interest mingling with egalitarian dreamers and poor cynics. This city grew high and grew rich, until the those at…
Via 50watts via Yugodrom. Futuristic roll call William Gibson, Greg Egan, Charles Stross, Philip K. Dick, Hannu Rajaniemi, Neal Stephenson, Cory Doctorow, Walter Jon Williams, Ted Chiang, China Mieville. Nuclear fission, nanotechnology and 3D printing provide a technical fix for our environmental quandary. Over-supply of material things renders their accumulation meaningless. Intangible ownership becomes the…
Dear 20jazzfunkgreats uncles, How is everything going your end? I hope that you are in a better mood than when I last saw you, and that you managed to bring back the cat from the Black Place. That will teach you to be more careful when you attempt to rapport with the Ancient Ones. It’s…
“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games. In early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks” pontificates the Sony. You Sneer. You log into the a nightlife simulator. It kicks like a mule, it induces spasms like a wizz-pumped telepath. We are leaving you a tracklist because it’s not us. It’s Goitia…
Diving headfirst into the (now, finally, rainy) month of December, 20JFG is soon greeted by the incongruous, shinny citadel of the Well Rounded Housing Project. And how very shinny it is. Given the world of endless, music induced metaphors we inhabit it’s often weird to come up against a ‘summer-y’ record on the down slope into winter….
120 Megabytes – Episode 13 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome