Someone left us a comment the other day correcting one of our posts.  This happens from time to time (ok, a fair bit), we’d like to thank people for noticing and helping to correct the great record of (occasional) navel gazing that is 20JFG.  They also left, as their URL, a link to the Wikipedia page on journalism.  Which, dear lord, I hope none of you lot think we practice.  Anyway, it got us thinking…

[cue vaguely pompous theme tune, both pacey and modern whilst full of gravitas]

20JFG loves journalism.  This week we were reminded of the very real sacrifices of journalists: the untimely death in Syria of reporter, Marie Colvin along with the French photographer Remi Ochlik.  This is not our area of expertise but we can’t help but be in awe at the dedication that would draw you to report from an area drifting towards civil war.

[the 20JFG news anchor switches her view to camera B and attempts to change gear]

20JFG loves journalism.  We’re even occasionally known to read the odd bit of music journalism.  Indeed, our former editors at Altered Zones, Emilie and Ric, are attempting to raise some money to start Ad Hoc, a new site/zine that’ll be chock full of music journalism.  We think it’ll be good.  They’ve got a Kickstarter with loads of lovely incentives*.  They don’t tolerate factual inaccuracies.

[the 20JFG anchor shuffles her papers and stares earnestly back into camera A]

20JFG is not a journalistic organ.  We don’t tend to report facts (quite the opposite), we don’t report news and we’re not a reliable distributor of information.  We do kinda’ like music though and this whole tentacled enterprise is an attempt to explain why we do.

Now, back to our scheduled programming.

Bubble Club return to these pages, the sounds of The Goddess still ringing in these ears.

Ex-Voto — the last track on the new 12″ — lulls you into a false sense of New Age.  A Badalamenti sustained chord; some synth washes from the house of Vangelis.  And then a tempo change, up into the stratospheric wake of some enormous Techno monster; just out of phase.  It stalks the land in some other song, but here it’s only its reflection, orphaned from the ‘big room’.  Moments of Piano House compete with an exile from the New Order before the entire fragile arrangement fades under the weight of its many experiments.

Or maybe that’s just us?

Bubble Club – Ex-Voto

This is ‘out soon’ on the wondrous International Feel.  Our joint favourite gift from Uruguay.

*Unfortunately Emilie and Ric did not make Grim Fandango.

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