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• Saturday, July 31, 2010  12:05 am 

  20JFG Podcast: Next thing you know you are painting Lord of the Rings figurines

  Once in a blood moon the 20jazzfunkgreats dudes themselves deploy their primitive mixology technologies to spawn some disfunctional beast such as the one that stares at you, cross-eyed yet hopefully beautiful in its necromantically assembled parts, from below. The theme is always love, splattered and dying over the window screen of some Nova-class cruiser destination [...]

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• Tuesday, June 8, 2010  12:05 am 

  Hounds of History

  The Hounds of Tindalos leap across the angles connecting temporal dimensions lean and athirst. They truly are truculent beasts who have put a ghastly end to the career of many a chrononaut, yet they can be house-broken with a thick enough edition of the Great Race of Yith’s newspaper, and a powerful purpose. To kidnap [...]

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• Thursday, June 3, 2010  12:05 am 

  The Angle of Death

  We were recently lucky enough to take our summer holidays in the margin of non, just past the corridor of fear, a few miles from the land of no mans dem. You know the place, the no zone between worlds where the playful presence of diminishing apparitions can only be told by their warm and [...]

  Featuring >> dj elmoe, mr666, patrick kelleher, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, June 1, 2010  12:05 am 

  Give it to me raw

  “For centuries, the Jemaa El Fna (Rendezvous of the Dead) has remained the stage for one of the most spectacular social forums on the planet. By day, this central square in the city of Marrakesh, one of Morocco’s great imperial cities, fosters a kaleidoscope of entertainment for its local inhabitants; storytellers, acrobats, magicians and snake [...]

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• Wednesday, May 26, 2010  12:05 am 

  Back 2 Life

  The advent of the first synthetic life-form is welcomed by 20jazzfunkgreats not because of the contributions it might make to our energetic self-sufficiency, via the operation of stunted proletarians algae whose production function transform industrial detritus into biofuels (thus distracting us from further explorations in the field of nuclear fusion, which is the way to [...]

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• Tuesday, May 25, 2010  12:05 am 

  Tactical Seaforces

  In the same way in which one can speak of Renaissance men, one can also refer to Industrial ones. Our Hamburg-based pal Ben Atkins is one. He’s our guest today, and after you check out the below, you’ll want him back. Check out Set in a Distant Present to find out what’s going on. The [...]

  Featuring >> Borghesia, DAF, Terrible Eagle, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, May 18, 2010  12:05 am 

  Texas Never Whispers

  Nick Cave turned down an offer to direct the film adaptation of Blood Meridian because he didn’t want to be the one to fuck it up. We hear it’s going to happen anyway, someone else will have to try and translate into images Cormac McCarthy’s  description of the pilgrimage across derelict wastelands through which child [...]

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• Monday, May 17, 2010  12:02 am 

  Heart Shaped Blues

  In a recondite corner of the Galaxy through which Mario bounces in his latest adventures hides a diminutive planet the colour of infinite tonalities of sand, small and forlorn trees populate its surface surrounding a lonely looking cabin which, as you descend, you realise encircle it in the shape of a childishly scribbled heart. U.S. [...]

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• Tuesday, May 11, 2010  12:05 am 

  Xenoclassic Studies

  Good morning friend, open your eyes and awake into a world where all sounds have been mashed together into a nutritious drone that makes the plants grow tall so they can tingle the magenta sun with their powerful sentient limbs, and endows three out of every four children with a wide array of psychic powers, [...]

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• Wednesday, April 21, 2010  6:09 am 

  We were never postmodern

  Everyone who’s been exposed to it acknowledges that Ariel Pink and His Haunted Graffiti’s new album, ‘Before Today’ is one of the best things to come out this year so far. You know that 20jazzfunkgreats like to be contrary bitches, but in this case we have no other option than surrendering to join the shoal [...]

  Featuring >> Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti, Blank Dogs, Sally Shapiro, low motion disco, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, April 13, 2010  12:05 am 

  60+/-

  Just as the dawn broke on a cold January night of 1982, the red telephone rung strident from its hidden niche in the gargantuan pastel bedroom where president Ronald Reagan slept, one exact metre separated from the android-like stiff and cold body of his wife Nancy. Californian dreams chewing tobacco in the hills that overlook [...]

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• Saturday, April 10, 2010  12:05 am 

  Pod 167-42a is Missing

  Hello fine sirs and sirettes. Normally the weekend pages of this readily expanding tome are intentionally left blank, so that you may ponder the many errors of our ways. Whilst you are doing this, we covertly fill our knapsacks and check our mantraps for sustenance that we might gorge upon at the bloody feast that [...]

  Featuring >> Genuine Guy, Podcast, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, April 8, 2010  12:05 am 

  Popular Fiction pt. 2

  As the sun finally warms this beautiful yet infallible behemoth known as Berlin, it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine that this place was once the realm of the apocalypse. A city that was once a fitting backdrop for the brutal emotional separation of the expatriates in Possesion is now, for some, little more than a [...]

  Featuring >> cccandy, einsturzende neubauten, kolonne müller, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, April 5, 2010  12:05 am 

  Lux Aeterna

  Anthony Moore harvested many mutant seeds for the fertile ground which was the Kosmische Deutschland of the early 1970s, and brought them home to rainy Britain. Here they would spawn and intermingle with the local species, through the hybrid vehicles of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, the rest is weird, more or less occult psychedelean [...]

  Featuring >> Anthony Moore, Back to the Future the Ride, arp, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, March 31, 2010  12:05 am 

  The Trained Ear

  The Raga is most ancient, and spiritual of practices. Passed down from master to pupil over many centuries, it takes several years to master its enlightened intricacies. According to the liner notes of 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat, ‘a typical Raga ensemble consists of a vocal or instrumental soloist, a percussionist on the tabla [...]

  Featuring >> 16 BIT, Charanjit Singh, Genuine Guy, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, March 23, 2010  12:05 am 

  The Rats in the Walls

  Terror Bird’s ‘Shadows in the Halls’ lends itself to a couple of different interpretations. On the one hand, it could be a lovely portrayal of the way in which sharing your bed can work to assuage the terrors which flow and ebb in the night when it is at its darkest, evil poison oozing from [...]

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• Monday, March 15, 2010  12:05 am 

  The sky that wraps the world round, past the blue and into the black

  If Lindstrom’s ‘Where You Go I Go Too’ was a love letter to Steve Reich written from a Balearic beach circa 1981, Prins Thomas’ forthcoming self-titled album out in Full Pupp shows the Scandinavian maestro bounding all his warm influences together with muscular motorik lasso. It all sounds like dub edits of Fletwood Mac covering [...]

  Featuring >> Beaumont, prins thomas, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, March 10, 2010  12:05 am 

  Nu World Order

  2012 is a coming y’all. Not long now before the global grip of the Fourth Reich is slid around our fragile necks and Xenu enslaves us all. The moment when you will have to apologise to the stoner conspiracy theorist that you scoffed at all these years, only to watch his bong-stained body spliced in [...]

  Featuring >> Captain Ahab, Claude Arto, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, March 9, 2010  12:05 am 

  I have no mouth, and I must scream

  Human Resources have been echoing on repeat across the convoluted labyrinth of tunnels which stretch like the blood vessels of the evil Hydra which is the bunker where we dream our evil dreams, a corrupted Mt. Rushmore carved with the faces of the Great Psychodelians, Delia is there, and so are Mark E. Smith, Blixa [...]

  Featuring >> B.W., Human Resources, Tri Angle, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, March 8, 2010  12:05 am 

  The lord strolls in view

  At the end of ‘All that Jazz’, Bob Fosse, the king of lizard dancers which was obvious inspiration to our favourite late moonwalking alien bids life goodbye in the most grand of manners, surrounded by rotating Metropolis mannequins, a band of feline KISS-lookalikes, dancers clad in catsuits tattooed with a constellation of blood vessels, and [...]

  Featuring >> B&Gs, Miracles Club, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, March 5, 2010  12:05 am 

  Pop Cops

  While most of the world suffers due to global warming, Los Angeles is becoming more tropical in the summer and now gets rain in the winter. So no more droughts and Hawaiian vacations for all. Already the land where fun music like the Beach Boys and Mötley Crüe came from, the propensity for catchy tunes is [...]

  Featuring >> Brian Miller, Girls in the 80s, Kid Infinity, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, March 3, 2010  12:05 am 

  ∆ SLOW GHOSTS ∆

  There are times when you put on a record and a song rings out with an uncannily different tone than the rest of them. You can’t quite put your finger on it— it is arresting, ecstatic, horrifying, and otherworldly– it as though a portal has been opened to the spirit world and you find yourself possessed [...]

  Featuring >> Beach Fossils, Cosmetics, Prince Rama Of Ayodhya, Slow Ghosts, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, March 1, 2010  12:05 am 

  20JFG hath fears

  The Long Goodbye is the soundtrack for Dexter if Dexter had been for real, and not some quirky sitcom about the pros and cons of living a secret life as a psycho-killer in sunny Miami. Think instead of an apres garde symphony for that classic moment when Michael Mann brings out the knives. Hypnagogic vision [...]

  Featuring >> Blissed Out, Madden, Melanie Houston, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, February 24, 2010  12:05 am 

  Virtues of the Tweenage

  Long gone are the shocking days of the unauthorized remix. Z-Trip’s work is done as mashups have gone from underground to the driving force of mainstream radio (at least here in Los Angeles). Even the video game DJ Hero only makes sense in a post-mash up world. Cultures no longer clash, but rather swirl together [...]

  Featuring >> Black Ivory, Brian Miller, Genuine Guy, John Oswald, Sickboy, v/vm, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, February 23, 2010  12:05 am 

  Heavenly Zork

  Pional’s Another Room is minimal techno for a world with an alternative history where instead of adopting its proverbial reactionary stance, the Catholic Church had embraced all that’s cool and all-encompassing and nature loving about the old time relijuns, leading us down a totally different evolutionary path where hedonism became not the last refuge of [...]

  Featuring >> Burnkane, Pional, fur, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 22, 2010  12:05 am 

  The Virgin Homicides

  Agape’s Autocathe has been bidding its time, scratching with 8inch curved claws the walls of the corridor where the greasy detritus of last year piles up, growing, breathing through its shiny nostrils so that oxygen can be transformed into energy infecting blood  pumped from a vicious heart and through a fractal spiderweb of capillaries into [...]

  Featuring >> Peepholes, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 15, 2010  12:05 am 

  Rolling & Scratching

  Well Rounded Records keep going from strength to strength, after Deadboy’s luminous future soul shuffle, enter Ultrasound with a chunky piece of jacking Chicago proto-house with a British twist. This is our party music: primitive drums pummelling like a crack squad of voodoo phuturists, or Armando’s gremlins at the height of their perfectly logical madness, [...]

  Featuring >> Sully, Ultrasound, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, February 10, 2010  12:05 am 

  Popular Fiction

  Hi there. Genuine Guy here. On occasion, my merciful masters at 20jfg allow me a self-indulgent, first person persona in order to recount to you the real life yarns of my missionary adventures, and to bringeth ye the musics of my real life friends. When not firing around their hive mind as series of electrical [...]

  Featuring >> Genuine Guy, clunes, daphne oram, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, February 9, 2010  12:05 am 

  Shake & Punk

  In the No Wave book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, there is a photo of Glenn Branca and the dudes from Liquid Liquid trying to squeeze into a rickety lift and up to a house-party in some controlled rent loft in Manhattan circa 1979. This is what happens after: Skinny hip urchins as they [...]

  Featuring >> Cold Pumas, Trash Kit, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 8, 2010  12:05 am 

  A blade run for your money

  Patience, patience dear reader, there are so many things you could do in 20 minutes, you could capture the secrets of the Zeitgeist in your feeble fist, like an ephemeral firefly whose wings are loaded with the power of the now, indeed, you could skim the surf bubbling at the top of the wave before [...]

  Featuring >> Brassica, Iblis Kotor, Teeth of the Sea, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, February 5, 2010  12:05 am 

  Dreams of the Witch House

  Parallel to the crowded streets runs a secret network of back alleys, cul-de-sacs and labyrinthine corridors  that would make you believe, upon stepping on them, but a few yards from the worldly bustle, that you have suddenly been transported to a different city altogether. Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft were masters of the ghost drift [...]

  Featuring >> Mater Suspiria Vision, Pink Priest, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 1, 2010  12:05 am 

  Sniffing Chrome

  World Class People’s fierce stomp and power horns getting down like it was 1992 etch a crypto-constellation of neon voodoo signs in the back of your skull, glowing graffiti containing the address of a post-apocalyptic Baltimore Basement party you can’t possibly miss. It is the primitive tech soundtrack for an alluring video game sitting in [...]

  Featuring >> Passions, these are powers, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, January 29, 2010  12:01 am 

  Ship Shape

  It’s back to the rain slick streets of future garage once more. Those crumbling Victorian buildings giving up their neon secrets as we pass. Over a century of water pouring over their environs. Bass notes rising up from the harbour depths in concert with the glittering blimps above, carrying the sinister advertising for ‘a new [...]

  Featuring >> Hyetal & Shortstuff, Sticky, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, January 21, 2010  12:05 am 

  Peace Reenactments

  What is the future without the past? Give me a simple answer to the question, “What is time?” Lovely all these nonsense shapes that words can form, isn’t it? Let’s slow it down a bit then. Focus. A bunch of “stuff” happened in the past. Some of that stuff is music. After letting that music [...]

  Featuring >> Brian Miller, Nothing People, VNC, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 20, 2010  12:05 am 

  Hurricane Batman

  When you hear the banshee coming from down the mountain, she is still only a whisper. Surprise surprise (and much to your delight) when you find out that the banshee is always so gentle. How about an added bonus: The banshee loves MC Hammer! Yeah, it doesn’t get much sicher. So acts like Universal Studios [...]

  Featuring >> Bermuda Triangles, Brian Miller, Coyote Clean Up, Miguel Mendez, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 19, 2010  12:05 am 

  Wiley Peyote

  There are magicians in this world, who in their lifetime dip many different toes into the pools of creation, creating ripples that vary in wavelength, yet are similar in signature. As parched travelers crawling through the desert of popular culture, where ravenous vultures attempt to lead us astray so they may feed off our dry [...]

  Featuring >> dada munchamonkey, secret circuit, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 13, 2010  11:24 pm 

  Fountains of rad

  This post goes to the memory of Jay Reatard, his time was too soon and we are sad we will be missing many heartfelt fucked up party jams in the future. Blood Visions For Ever Upset the Rhythm prevail a bastion of goodness in the midst of the turbulent winds agitating the modern music industry. [...]

  Featuring >> Former Ghosts, Gentle Friendly, Upset the Rhythm, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, January 11, 2010  12:05 am 

  Days and nights of a ghastly white

  Nite Jewel floats in a sorcerous space of her own making, witch master of an ice palace resting under the white hand of a terrible albino giant. Every hall glitters with the glamour of a thousand diamonds, sparkles in the eyes of dead kings that willed this to her. The Kamera Song, a cover version [...]

  Featuring >> Nite Jewel, fur, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 5, 2010  12:05 am 

  2000 Zen

  Everybody gets exactly what they want. While I can’t explain why in the world we wanted 2009 to be so bad, this metaphysical law is fantastic now because everyone wants 2010 to rule. Anyone with a twitter or facebook account knows what I’m talking about. “2010 is gonna rule!” is the quote of the day [...]

  Featuring >> Brian Miller, Internet Forever, tik///tik, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, January 4, 2010  12:05 am 

  A Reverie of Bones

  A princess of crimson dress and black mane of hair roams halls of a darkness thick as ink deep down in the forgotten heart of the castle, illuminated by the light of a feeble candle, following chalk symbols scribbled in the walls by an exiled hermit who will tell her of the end of her [...]

  Featuring >> Amen Dunes, Los Massieras, xxjfg

  
  

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• Saturday, January 2, 2010  6:22 pm 

  the adventures of little cthulhu mixtape

  20jfg adventures of little cthulhu mixtape

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• Thursday, December 31, 2009  8:10 pm 

  For all you seekers out there

  A New Year begins, a New Year where 20jazzfunkgreats will continue treading the echoey halls deep in the heart of the rocky mountain where a wealth of holy grails rest, of all sizes and materials, overflowing with pristine water, scented wine and translucent liquids over which glittering fairies hover with an emerald twinkle in their [...]

  Featuring >> Florene, Miracles Club, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, December 24, 2009  12:16 am 

  Best of 2009 #5: No Face

  Trying to figure out what the labyrinthine UK dance scene was all about this year was like trying to figure out what the man with no face might have looked like. Basically, an interesting diversion, but a rather pointless one nonetheless. More so than ever dubstep sounded like a hyperactive mutant techno hybrid, the Autonomic [...]

  Featuring >> Darkstar, Hyperdub, LHF, Subeena, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, December 21, 2009  12:02 am 

  Best of 2009 #4: Love you bastards love…

  The beast that is 20JFG has always had one head with an abnormal taste for that which its other heads should conventional abhor.  Yet the 20JFGbeast cares not for convention.  And so it is then that we continue this end of year round up with a survey of that which could or most definitely should [...]

  Featuring >> Digits, Petit Mal, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Saturday, December 19, 2009  7:55 pm 

  Pink Stallone-20jfg Mixtape

  Pink Stallone – 20jfg Mixtape Recorded live at the reception of our unholy union to the cold blooded chicks of the summer, we lost the scroll containing the tracklist after a scuffle broke out between one of us and a rather unconvincing man in a lizard costume, who turned up claiming to be one of [...]

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• Friday, December 18, 2009  12:00 am 

  Best of 2009 #3: All is Love

  In this post we celebrate the many savants of rhythm who look into the prism of the past, and see the future. In a year emulating the grotty and overcast economic climate of 70′s New York, where we were continually perused by a string of cosmetified gangs for a murder we did not commit, our [...]

  Featuring >> Pink Stallone, Terminal Twighlight, Todd Terje, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, December 9, 2009  12:05 am 

  The Reunion Special

  Hello. My name is Genuine Guy. One day, whilst lost in the dark forests of Neukölln I encountered a wise sage who entrusted me with a password. It was the password to a realm I once inhabited but had left behind, drawn away like a magpie, by the treasure of another. The treasure proved to [...]

  Featuring >> Comanechi, Genuine Guy, Hype Williams, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, December 8, 2009  12:05 am 

  Close Encounters of the Infinite Kind

  It seems to be the week of psychedelic awakenings at 20JFG’s White Castle, what better way of getting the ball rolling than by the gold and ruby beringed hand of Prince Rama of Ayodhya, one of our most favourite bands and last victims of the iniquities of the world, i.e., they had their totemic instruments [...]

  Featuring >> Many Mansions, Prince Rama Of Ayodhya, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, December 7, 2009  12:02 am 

  Lightning Bolts of Truthful Beauty

  In More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon posits the next stage of human evolution, one where those endowed with psychic powers blesh into each other in a Gestalt process where different capabilities become functions of a single living being: telekinesis for hands, telepathy for mind, teletransportation for legs, poltergeist for speech, Aspergers style awesome computational power [...]

  Featuring >> Pantha du Prince, S U R V I V E, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, December 3, 2009  12:05 am 

  Shrill House

  Dance music was never supposed to be classy. Nevermind Italo. MVSCLZ’ music sounds as if, knowing everything he knows now, Michael Mann travelled in his Testarossa space machine back to 80s Miami, shacked up in a minimalistic condominium, left keys, wallet and pocket change configured in an esoteric arrangement over a mantelpiece of blinding white, [...]

  Featuring >> Leno Lovecraft, MVSCLZ, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, November 30, 2009  12:05 am 

  Throwing Crystal Shapes

  Inside the crystal dome of the snowglobe that the Gods shake with childish abandon rises a pyramid of Jodorowsky tarot cards, at whose top you will find your animated 20jazzfunkgreats miniatures dancing in the midst of the blizzard, Christmas is coming and we shall enjoy it in our own special ways. Let the pagan celebrations [...]

  Featuring >> Lindstrom, Munch Munch, xxjfg

  
  

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• Saturday, November 7, 2009  6:05 pm 

  20jfg November drone mixtape

  Sometimes November last forever. 20jfg November drone mix Other times it ends too soon.

  Featuring >> Podcast, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, October 5, 2009  10:30 pm 

  God’s Payback

  You might have noticed that in the past weeks we have posted tunes only for streaming. This is the case today, but no more. We have decided that our policy from now on will be to post songs only as mp3  for download. Although we understand labels preferring to have tunes only for streaming, we [...]

  Featuring >> SETH, Steve Moore, xxjfg, ΤΗΞ LΔΖΣ

  
  

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• Thursday, August 27, 2009  12:05 am 

  Marriage in heaven

  Imagine friends, Professor Genius’ mighty flights of synthetic fancy colliding against Speculator’s dusty psyche twang. Rejoice friends, the soundtrack for your pilgrimage towards the epsilon vanishing point has been finally delivered. Headbang friends, because if our insectoid overlords raided the pantheon of rock gods with berserk zest, they wouldn’t be able to come up with [...]

  Featuring >> King Sunny Ade and his African Beat, Speculator, mixtape, professor genius, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, August 3, 2009  8:44 am 

  Never say DIE

  A monster roams the streets of Sacramento, you need not worry much, because it is not primarily the tender flesh of teenagers or the sour spleen of caffeine pumped policemen that it craves, nay, this beast of brutal muscle and solid shadow feeds on broken glasses and abandoned tires, and drinks from rancid pools of [...]

  Featuring >> Mayyors, Mazes, cough cool, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, July 17, 2009  8:12 am 

  Doom Doom Doom goes the Beat of my Heart

  When we first heard Lucifer Rising by Darktown Strutters, aside from the fact that we all flipped our collective shit, one of us managed to compose ourselves long enough to remark how much it sounded like Kiss Me Again by Dinosaur if Arthur Russell and Nicky Siano’s dream-team collaborative effort had been remade by the [...]

  Featuring >> Darktown Strutters, Ultron, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, July 16, 2009  12:05 am 

  Step by Step

  Bands bereft of ambition, watch how Mi Ami continue taking it to the next level, and repent of your sinful ways. When you start down the path of creation, you shouldn’t dare settling for less, least the furious Gods decide to reincarnate you into a wingless insect in a garden full of hungry birds the [...]

  Featuring >> Foot Village, Mi Ami, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, July 10, 2009  12:50 am 

  DanZe XtraVaganZa

  Azari & III already made one of our favourite tunes of the year with the growling sexual menace of their malfunctioning, Voguing android, machine anthem, “Hungry For The Power”, and they continue to astound us with their latest high precision dancefloor killer in the making. Around these parts anyone who sees fit to unleash the [...]

  Featuring >> Antoni Maiovvi, Azari & III, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, June 22, 2009  12:05 am 

  Sister Electra’s ballad

  It is the fate of some stars, when they die, to reincarnate here in this planet, or perhaps elsewhere, it’s not for us to say. A child of features faded like a watercolour blur was born the day Electra, brightest of the Seven Sisters, collapsed into itself in the absolute silence of the constellation of [...]

  Featuring >> A Gal, Married in Berdichev, Pink Priest, gavin russom, mixtape, vibes, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, June 11, 2009  9:03 am 

  Pink Fog

  If Ariel Pink was to one day awake from the 1980s dizz-ney landscapes that inhabit his semi comatose mind where the sunbaked California streets lined with friendly faced anthropomorphized apple pie trees are alive with bleached, drooling beach bunnies in black ray-bans and pink scrunchies hitching rides with perma-tanned creeps in white suits driving busted [...]

  Featuring >> Babe Rainbow, Golden Birthday, SO BONES, mixtape, salem, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, June 10, 2009  12:10 am 

  Some are Diamond, others merely Zircon

  Though we have not visited them for a while, Glass Candy are still leading the IDIB pack into further uncharted territory of moonbeam disco prowess, with Desire forging a new companion galaxy where planets take the form of giant stalactites spearing an orbit around a chrome sun. Remixing Glass Candy is much like remixing LCD [...]

  Featuring >> Diamond Vampires, Glass Candy, Lazer Crystal, Richard Sen, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, June 3, 2009  12:05 am 

  Tension in the Alpha Quadrant

  The Emperor Machine return with album number trois with much rippling of synths, bulbous polymorphic cloudscapes punctured by the stabbing points atop the Martian radio masts and sonic batshit accounts of the interstellar clashes of lunar violence between moon-monkeys and the giallo Saturn marshalls, lost in space and time forever where no-one can hear them [...]

  Featuring >> Gatekeeper, faze action, mixtape, the emperor machine, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, May 27, 2009  12:07 am 

  Glasslands

  Ghostape ensnares an unsuspecting listener in a snug realm of smokey spectral exotica, like turning a flesh and bone body into rice-paper and setting it down on a bed of morning dew where it can melt into the blades of grass on a field in front of a strange formation rendered in black glass and [...]

  Featuring >> Ghostape, Space System, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, May 13, 2009  12:05 am 

  It came to the Sea

  Your 20JFG dudes will be roaming around where the good stuff goes down at this week’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton, we would elaborate on the bands we are planning to see and whatnot, but hey, we are too busy with the preparations of our Shamanic prayers for a weekend of sun and joy, and [...]

  Featuring >> Fan Death, Telepathe, Thick Business, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, May 11, 2009  12:05 am 

  Tinsel Bitches

  But the third sister, who is also the youngest- hush! Whisper while we talk of her! Her kingdom is not large, or else not flesh should live; but within that Kingdom all power is hers. Her head, turreted like that of Cybele, rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not, and her eyes, [...]

  Featuring >> Brassica, indian jewelry, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, May 6, 2009  12:05 am 

  Amazing Grace

  Listening to a Finders Keepers compilation is like stepping in one of those invisible cities described by Italo Calvino, a confabulation of sounds from all over that at first might feel chaotic, the outcome of the whimsical pointing of privileged fingers/finders, but it is rapidly that order emerges, you can recognise similar themes shining through [...]

  Featuring >> Onna, Parva, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, May 5, 2009  12:05 am 

  Higher State of Shazam

  As the summer approaches, olden genetic memories of dancing around bonfires under the aegis of Dionysus, Bacchus and the like are resurrected in the thick blood that surges across the nicotine-clotted arteries of your spaced out 20jazzfunkgreatsters, what better way to celebrate this sunny day that thee Lord has beckoned upon us than listening to [...]

  Featuring >> Abecedarians, Klaus Schulze, xxjfg

  
  

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• Saturday, May 2, 2009  4:33 pm 

  Professor Genius-2OJFG Mixtape 2OO9

  Professor Genius delivers a super mellow and droney mix recorded live: Professor Genius – 2OJFG Mixtape 2009 Tracklist The Pipes of Pan Yves + Alan Laurent: Arc en Ciel Duermo: Canoas Para One: Sunless Professor Genius: Piramide Terry Riley: M Music Dave Ball: Sincerity Professor Genius + Speculator: No Title One Liaisons Dangereuses: Peu etre [...]

  Featuring >> Podcast, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, April 14, 2009  12:05 am 

  Broken Window of the Soul

  We have been staring in awe at the febrile glue wave moth spiralling around an incandescent flame where timeless melodies dance & tinkle frail like undead muses always prettier under a few shovelfuls of noise and fuzz, as the good ole ancestors of the first shoegaze revolution taught us , well, it’s Eat Skull who [...]

  Featuring >> Eat Skull, Wooden Shjips, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, March 30, 2009  12:05 am 

  cul de sac

  Sudeten Creche’s Dance is the soundtrack for a Walter Hill opium nightmare, poisonous smoke and twisted mirrors and an almost unbearable feeling of foreboding, like peeking over the shoulder of a filthy raincoat as the hand slides into the pocket fingers blind animals twisting against the ebony handle of the switchblade, feeric lines twist from [...]

  Featuring >> Poni Hoax, Sudeten Creche, principles of geometry, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, March 19, 2009  1:32 pm 

  Dizzying Descent

  You know we’re all about the gilded dancefloors of the discotheque, but you should also know that we’re even more about the winding staircases behind blood red velvet curtains hidden away in the dark corners of the disco that lead us down to the seedy, murderous places where red lights guide your way through a [...]

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• Thursday, March 12, 2009  11:08 am 

  In Polar Bear Skins

  The sun may have been shining over parts of this haunted isle of ours for the last few days, but that hasn’t stopped Winter’s icy grip from loosening up it’s stranglehold on us all which actually hasn’t been all that bad considering here at XXJFG towers we’ve been bathing in a gloriously seasonal, pixelated bath [...]

  Featuring >> Heartbreak, La Roux, clubs, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, March 3, 2009  12:05 am 

  Soiled sheets

  We have been a bit bad lately, what with all the joyous disco, synthetic fear and versicolor reconstructed pop, we have perhaps neglected the other leg supporting  the ‘it’s so not art’ bed where your 20jazzfunkgreats gaunt ghouls wallow, roll and frolic frenzied like brain fried commuters crashing onwards in a southern rail carriage destined [...]

  Featuring >> BRIDEZ, Ganglians, Human Hair, Pillow Talk, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, March 2, 2009  12:05 am 

  Brian’s Trip: Nite Crimes

  Another postcard from Brian Miller at Deathbomb Arc HQ, another chance to rejoice. Pretty awesome. / / / / / \\\\\\\\ Some lovely sounds from Los Angeles this time, both of the ragamuffin sort and the prim and proper. Although both camps represent a distinctly working class, far beyond Hollywood, urban pop mentality. The duo [...]

  Featuring >> Brian Miller, Father's Day, Knight Rider, Oth, We are Dios, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 23, 2009  12:05 am 

  The arrival of the spring

  In spite of what you might think, we are normal people who revel in the rays of sun as they shine across the derelict halls of our forsaken manor, the bad things that crawl across them retreat back into the shadows, and, feeling safe for once, we cuddle in the crimson gold-gilded sofa behind the [...]

  Featuring >> Jeremy Jay, Whitest Boy Alive, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, February 17, 2009  12:05 am 

  Fizzy shit!!

  How cool is cool italo, precisely because it is the antithesis of cool? Just check out the two nuggets by Marzio Dance and Baby’s Gang we bring you today- self-improvement choruses to get a whole dancefloor pumping raspberry fists in the air *check* unhinged//overblown progressions packed with weird sci-fi effects and Jane Fonda on speed [...]

  Featuring >> Baby's Gang, Jackpot, Marzio Dance, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, February 13, 2009  12:01 am 

  Prehistory

  For the last few years Ghost Box have been releasing unto the world a steady stream of mysterious and intoxicating records dedicated to sound tracking a quintessentially eccentric British past saturated in Tomorrow’s World technology and ancient pagan traditions that may have never actually existed. Consequently Ghost Box have undoubtedly emerged to be one of [...]

  Featuring >> Belbury Poly, xxjfg, zombi

  
  

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• Wednesday, February 11, 2009  12:01 am 

  Blood-soaked Southern Magnolias

  Whatever We Want Records stealth releases more circular shapes of awesome in this humble beginning of ‘O9, slipping these under the radar discs into stores, only for them to be snapped up double quick by as many real music fans as eBay renegade charlatans. Snap the Food of the Gods 12″ up before you have [...]

  Featuring >> Food of the Gods, Maserati, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, February 6, 2009  12:05 am 

  The Battle of the Bulge

  ‘Dour post-punk music with a german mock accent which I guess isn’t mock after all because the singer is actually German’ is the genius comment that DJ Rick had to make about Siltbreeze’s finest, Teenage Panzerkorps. Theirs is one of those rackets we get understandably excited about, being as we are obsessives of Chrome and [...]

  Featuring >> High Castle, Reading Rainbow, Teenage Panzerkorps, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, February 4, 2009  12:05 am 

  Eye Can Dance Too

  Boredoms are actual magicians spewing forth unto the world rainbow acid oceans of spazzed out, foaming mouth free jazz noise and haywire tribal drum workouts that sound and feel like the threat of legions of stampeding war elephants charging towards you in endless waves of destruction, and so we hope you can relate and understand [...]

  Featuring >> Danielle Deneuve, Lindstrom, boredoms, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 21, 2009  12:05 am 

  Blood Money

  We didn’t sleep this weekend. We spent it chasing a coven of witch CEOs across the streets of the City at night. You know how the master puppeteers of the world share membership in a dense cobweb or secret societies and the like? Well, some of them are about more than secret handshakes and wearing [...]

  Featuring >> Gatekeeper, Rude 66, drums, forests, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 20, 2009  12:05 am 

  Leisure Suit Class

  We have the best tunes, man. And the best images, thank Tommy Boy for that. The gentle folks at Six Degrees Records have sent us one piece of balearic heaven, or an advance from their upcoming release by some people called Pacifika, as remixed by those magicians Quiet Village. Go on holidays somewhere warm and [...]

  Featuring >> Bottin, Bumrocks, Soft Rocks, quiet village, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 14, 2009  12:05 am 

  Sleep To Dream Of Waking

  Not too many moons into the near future the good people at Absolutely Kosher will be releasing Revenge, The Rollercoaster Project’s debut album which has seriously knocked us all for sixxx. A positively awesome mindmelt of crystal chamber compositions, bleeding wire computer balladry, and shards of black metal noise filtered through the mind of Hans-Joachim [...]

  Featuring >> Ben Butler and Mousepad, CP, Cosmic, ghosts, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, January 9, 2009  7:19 am 

  Behind L.E.Ds At Night

  Remember when Jason Voorhees was shot into space and re-animated like some kind of psychotic, cybernetic Frankenstein, half machine, half scar tissue, to wreak bloody havoc on a crew of gormless idiots who were so faceless they probably defined divine retribution having their faces split in half by the full force of a Goliath sized [...]

  Featuring >> Brassica, Rose for Bohdan, Savage Fantasy, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, December 31, 2008  12:05 am 

  20JFG Best of 2008: Love

  Epic post! Epic because Love is Disco, and Disco is the one genre that has united all 4 horsemen of 20JFG in agreement that 2008 was an awesome year for said musical style. Disco hit hard this year with Chicago House making a welcome return to the forefront of dance music and the act of [...]

  Featuring >> Glossy, Hercules and Love Affair, In Flagranti, Loud E, Maelstrom, Messalina, Pink Stallone, grace jones, professor genius, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, December 30, 2008  12:39 am 

  20JFG Best of 2008: Daze

  What links and binds all the music that’s dazzled and dazed us and forced us like an unseen entity to fall to our knees in wide eyed rapture like wailers in a temple, is that no matter how abstract and dizzying so much of this stuff appears to be on the surface of things, ultimately [...]

  Featuring >> Nite Jewel, Rory Phillips, Telepathe, Zomby, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, December 29, 2008  12:05 am 

  20JFG Best of 2008: FEAR

  Amongst the seasonal activities in which your humble 20JFG scribes indulge, there is the odd film screening in the home cinema that our tycoon grandfather has set up in the cellar of his rural demesne. Crimson draperies and decadent gold gilded statues of Pan and Astarte, you can picture the scene. Well, for this year [...]

  Featuring >> Brain Machine, Fever Ray, Zola Jesus, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, December 17, 2008  12:05 am 

  Totally Upset Trip

  Chris sent us a parcel, and we opened the parcel and in the parcel there was a shovel and with the shovel we made a hole and through the hole we found a passage and past the passage we found a world and in the world there was a party and in the party there [...]

  Featuring >> Death Sentence: Panda!, Future Islands, Upset the Rhythm, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, November 28, 2008  8:08 pm 

  Devil’s remix pt2 – Teengirl Girl Fantasy & Mark Brown

  Greetings Jazz Mutilators, My name is Mark Brown and I’m a video and new media artist from Baltimore. I want to thank 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Merok for putting this project together, all the remixes are fantastic and it’s been incredibly exciting to see what my peers in the video-dome are up to. I [...]

  Featuring >> cex, mark brown, sixteen, teenage girl fantasy, telepathe video, thrust lab, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, November 25, 2008  12:01 am 

  Devil’s remix pt1 – Planning to Rock & Darío Peña

  The good people at Merok records and one of our favorite bands, Telepathe, were nice enough to ask 20jfg to curate some remixes of the Telepathe song, Devil’s Trident.Firstly we need to thank all the artists who responded, the results were amazing.A Vinyl 12″ of some of the remixes is available to order from Merok [...]

  Featuring >> Darío Peña, Hidrogenesse, planning to rock, telepathe video, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, November 24, 2008  12:05 am 

  Love Saves Soon

  Love Saves the Day’s comeback at Micro was utterly joyous, a dancefloor packed with people spinning in the pink mist to the sweetest sounds of the disco diaspora. Well, it’s happening again this Saturday at Micro, 11-3AM, drink deals and stuff, get in cheap via the Facebook collective. Ours is a broad and inclusive church [...]

  Featuring >> Divine, Lullabies in the dark, Pink Stallone, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, November 10, 2008  12:05 am 

  When the black bird sings…

  Psychic Ills’ Mirror Eye is the spooky echo of a murky nightmare and the shapeless forms lurking in its periphery, reverberating steps down cobbled ways, a Walpurgisnacht happening in the forests of the Twin Peaks soundtracked with a ghostly psychedelia that reminds us of Wooden Shjips at their codeine-intoxicated best, or even Hawkwind’s dizzying spirit [...]

  Featuring >> Psychic Ills, Rolo Tomassi, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, November 7, 2008  12:05 am 

  Regarding how we roll

  I was in the office on Wednesday and people were smiling more than usual. Many were paying an American girl who works there a visit, to congratulate her, and also to say thanks What happened in the US Presidential elections wasn’t just the end of what will be probably remembered as some sort of dark [...]

  Featuring >> Gyratory System, mahjongg, onwards, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, November 4, 2008  9:01 am 

  Sex and more

  Vote for Obama Barack kids. Otherwise it’s the end. Sub Pop’s single clubs scores again with hyperkinetic LA DIY ladypunk gang Mika Miko, who in their new 7, Sex Jazz, slow it down a bit, and spread it sideways the densest we’ve heard them yet, murky DIY peanut butter toast for yummy styles flip out. [...]

  Featuring >> Yussuf Jerusalem, mika miko, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, October 22, 2008  12:05 am 

  Love isn’t a four letter word

  Love Saves the Day (facebook group here) is back on Saturday at Micro, just by Digital in Brighton’t Seafront. Dan Nixon is the man leading in this glorious return, with the 20JFG crew eagerly involved, and excited. Some of the most joyous dancing your caring ‘n’ sharing nerds have subjected the world to this year [...]

  Featuring >> Fitzcarraldo Variations, Johan Agebjorn, Lindstrom, Love Saves The Day, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, October 16, 2008  10:05 am 

  Skull Soul & Birds of Paradise

  We go together Like sex and violence Like death and silence Listening to the grimly seductive funereal balladry of Prince and Pearl is like wandering through silent woodlands at night without any real purpose, only to come across a ramshackle old wooden cabin, barely standing buckling under the weight of it’s ghosts, wherein upon opening [...]

  Featuring >> Congregacion, Prince and Pearl, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, October 15, 2008  12:05 am 

  A post so smooth it could be made of baby skin

  (Tommy Boy, wonderful stalker of our hallucinated unconscious, where would we be without you?) There are more maths to the disco than you’d think, a precise language of rhythm which unfolds over the blackboard of a dance floor punctuated by melodic twists, the loving and caring bassline curvaceous loop of an integral function binding this [...]

  Featuring >> Phantom Slasher, Woolfy vs Projections, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, October 13, 2008  12:05 am 

  Jesus digs Glue Wave

  We have been going on about Times New Viking since the invention of sliced bread more or less, you know they did it with mangled melodies, burning wire and serrated peaks of distortion, a sonic field of love fever, a mattress in a bedroom crammed with memorabilia and grainy posters from legendary shows only ten [...]

  Featuring >> Catatonic Youth, Los Llamarada, Times New Viking, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, October 6, 2008  12:05 am 

  Interior decoration

  DJ Rick is so totally DJing at our collective wedding. So I left this tune on the record player while I was shaving and when I came back to my bedroom it was all fucking trashed, even the paint stripped off the walls, sweet baby Jesus playing chess with Alejandro Jodorowsky on the top of [...]

  Featuring >> Mayyors, Sexy Prison, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, October 3, 2008  12:01 am 

  La Mort Tranquille Dans L’espace

  Whether it’s been Orion Rigel Dommisse’s terrifying bad seed lullabies infiltrating our fragile minds at night and warning us of the dangers of encountering girls who wear pretty-as-a-doll dresses whilst wandering the woods alone, or the claustrophobic intimacy of Ilya E Monosov’s scratch in the ear whisperings, or Ex Reverie’s Renaissance Faire maiden musings potent [...]

  Featuring >> Gerard Manset, Silver Summit, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, October 2, 2008  12:15 am 

  The White Void

  Chicago macabre squad GATEKEEPER fulfil your 20jazzfunkgreats’ thirst for the nocturnal with another black morsel of thrills and kills. Their music embodies all that we like about 1980s cinematic suspense, paranoid hallucinations, a phantasmagoria of green lights and ectoplasmic mist seeping through multiple fracture lines on the thin walls of reality, you can of course [...]

  Featuring >> Gatekeeper, Oneohtrix Point Never, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, September 30, 2008  12:05 am 

  Tally Hope!

  It’s not that often that I come across a band that I am at a loss to describe in terms of honourable influences, or scenes of a film, snippets of a conversation overheard in a club or a fragment of a book. Gyratory Systems are one such band. Their music sounds like the pulse of [...]

  Featuring >> Agaskodo Teliverek, Gyratory Systems, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, September 29, 2008  12:05 am 

  Pretty lights in my pocket

  Hello there, you looking all miserable under the neon lights of the tube, you perusing through vacuous magazines while the screens of Oxford Circus and Victoria Station announce the imminent apocalypse, you lost in the trebly vibrations of an ipod configured to switch the world off, you kicking mangy pigeons off your way, advancing through [...]

  Featuring >> Internet Forever, little claw, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, September 23, 2008  12:01 am 

  Crystals on winds from heaven

  Nite Jewel hails from the stratospherical miasma that floats over, and sometimes through, the citadels of Los Angeles, covering all she touches in a shimmering film of glittering beauty that cascades in droves across the tundras of the ecotone, where chrome wolves slink along the edges of the city to snatch away stray victims, sinking [...]

  Featuring >> Fox The Fox, Nite Jewel, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, September 15, 2008  12:05 am 

  The old magic strikes back

  Woe is me! That Xbox 360, which has given me so many hours of delightful bloodshed and merciless sniping was recently afflicted by the loathed Red Ring of Death. So, after the initial shock and wondering about what to do with my life, I decided to climb down the stairs of my video game manor, [...]

  Featuring >> Rob(u)rang, medicine and duty, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, September 11, 2008  12:51 pm 

  The Dark

  Its too exciting a prospect that Salem will be recording new material, fact. When this is we do not know, but soon it will come, like impending nightfall when your stuck in the old cemetery in deepest, darkest Dunwich – its all about the fear of the unknown/that advancing noise in the cold black air? [...]

  Featuring >> Nico, salem, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, September 8, 2008  12:08 am 

  Transcend the here and now

  Ah, Vangelis, where would we be without you? Surely we wouldn’t have danced with gods and demons over portentous clouds of a blinding blue, or roamed the streets of hallucinated eastern bazaars where weasely merchants display their strange wares in a most ramshackle manner, baroque pieces of analogical technology blessed with spells of a sublime [...]

  Featuring >> Popol Vuh, high places, xxjfg

  
  

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• Saturday, September 6, 2008  4:15 pm 

  20jfg Commemoration of good times mixtape

  20JFG – Commemoration of good times Mixtape Commemoration of good times mixtape tracklist 1- Ennio Morricone- Theme of Ali 2-Soft Rocks- Black Magic 3-Alain Goraguer- Deshominisation I 4-Black Devil Disco Club- With Honey Cream 5-Venise- Playboy 6-Jellybean Benitez- The Mexican 7-Tom Tom Club- On the Line Again 8-Bostro Pesopeo- Falls (Hercules and Love Affair Remix) [...]

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• Thursday, August 28, 2008  9:00 am 

  Death of the Hunter

  (image supplied by Tommy Boy) Whilst Ciara single-handedly continues to bring to life the Arabian Prince, chrome plated Janet Jackson collaboration of my electric dreams, I await with a foaming mouth and bloodshot eyes for Cassie to emerge from the vapour mists once more with a record which if the faint callings that have so [...]

  Featuring >> Cassie, Fan Death, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, August 26, 2008  12:01 am 

  Future bliss

  Where up and coming master of the cosmic oscillator Gatto Fritto creates, in his remix of Subway’s Simplex, a warm epic to awaken to as twin stars dawn over a Terran colony in a galaxy far away, reflecting refulgent on the shiny surfaces of a crystal architecture built by people wiser than us. Many dudes [...]

  Featuring >> Gatto Fritto, Subway, Weird Tapes, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, August 15, 2008  12:05 am 

  Yo, Tanhauser Gate

  It is with an apocalyptic feeling of anticipation that we await for the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Of course our puny brains cannot even start to elucidate the sort of physics involved in the experiments that are to be conducted there, so we have decided to think about all [...]

  Featuring >> Ron Geesin, Steve Moore, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, August 11, 2008  8:25 am 

  Love your hunter

  I asked the incredibly talented Chris Pell for some of his awesome illustrations, and lo and behold the astonishing triad he has summoned specially for us as they illuminate these black spaces in all their sublime and twisted glory. The strength of their psychedelic imaginery has dispelled the pseudo-writer’s block that afflicted me, imagine my [...]

  Featuring >> Plastique de Reve, Sun City Girls, Zach Hill, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, August 5, 2008  12:05 am 

  Fuck sweet summer of 69

  This Saturday the 20JFG shall be going up to London for some more adventures in Victoria Park, it is Field Day. We intend to sit down in a certain area identified after careful analyses of secret manuscripts and the casting of the runes over esoteric cabbalistic texts, which led to the retrieval of a corpse [...]

  Featuring >> The Emergency, emperor machine, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, July 23, 2008  7:33 pm 

  Epic does it

  As you would expect, of all that Services’ new album, ‘Eat Prey Love’, has to offer, 20JFG likes the 6 minutes long proggy instrumental best. The rest is all very enjoyable Ballardian disjointed electro-punk that will undoubtedly add a few well needed ounces of serrated steel to the clockwork mechanisms regulating the operation of thee [...]

  Featuring >> Jay Reatard, services, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, July 22, 2008  7:05 am 

  And

  And the dam broke with a mighty crack, and the water precipitated free like crazy horses, and a thousand birds took flight covering the land with shadows, and a sound as if the gasp of a thousand hearts had melded into one, or as if God had gasped at hearing the mighty crack, look at [...]

  Featuring >> Arch M, El Guincho, U.S. Girls, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, July 17, 2008  12:01 am 

  Welcome to the Jungle

  Our beloved true magick star Mrth told you about this particular tune with drawings we couldn’t even try start to describe, least be us forever vanquished to the asylum for psychedelic glosolalia motherfuckers, alien code spilling out of eyes bulging boiled and all that this entails. Well, Mi Ami infiltrate our interstellar space with a [...]

  Featuring >> Capablanca, Mi Ami, grackle, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, June 30, 2008  12:05 am 

  Cowboys

  The image of Snake Plissken advancing stealthy down the mesas, sliding in between the small flows of life that flourish in the desert at night like a shark tracking down the scent of his prey in the air so still, desert foxes, coyotes and wild dogs staring on his wake like a visitation from a [...]

  Featuring >> Ass, IGETRVNG, Wade Nichols, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, June 26, 2008  11:12 am 

  Get real!

  Vivian Girls’ S/T album  encapsulates all that made C-86 great, that fortunate connection between Spectorian Pop and Post-Punk lo-fi, topped up with a good dose of cavernous feedback which makes us think of the ‘Girls in the Garage‘  compilations, i.e. teen turmoil unfurls over a spanking 60s psyche beat, natty! This is an In The [...]

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• Monday, June 16, 2008  12:09 am 

  The Stars My Destination

  The Thinker knows everything that goes on this side of the Galaxy, and most of what goes on the other side as well. We arrange to rendezvous in one of those lawless bars set-up in the basement of a building somewhere in the ruins of Lower Manhattan, which I should find through a guide-pill that [...]

  Featuring >> Discodromo, Photonz, SciFi, roland sebastian faber, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, June 12, 2008  12:02 am 

  Psyche kaleidoscope

  The beautiful guitar melody with which Mirror Mirror’s ‘New Horizons’ begins contains in the revolution of its tones the complete structure of what is to come, like a strange flower slowly unfolding its crimson petals to reveal a wonderful piece of psyche-folk that seduces us with the scent of the United States of America, Syd [...]

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• Friday, June 6, 2008  12:16 am 

  It was the best of times, it was the beast of times

  20jazzfunkgreats returned to Primavera Sound in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago, and it was like a bit of a comeback home after harsh times at small-hours Sonar last year (not that we didn’t enjoy some frankly fantastic stuff there!). This festival fits most definitely the scattershot taste of your 20JFG nerds, both in terms [...]

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• Thursday, June 5, 2008  12:01 am 

  The arrival of the summer pt. 2

  Where we continue our adventures into the lands of quiet and mellow, leaving behind the uncertainty of an English sky for aural landscapes where the sun shines bright filling our hearts with primordial cosmic energies the colour of blue, like the sonic equivalent of Wilhelm Reich’s orgone accumulator, if only it worked and shit. 20jazzfunkgreats [...]

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• Tuesday, May 27, 2008  12:01 am 

  Alexis & Alonzo take it back to the old school

  Where two good men and excellent friends of thee 20JFG with an awesome taste on all things, of course music, take us on a trip back to the old school warehouse/discotheque whence all good things came, and to which we pay homage on a daily basis from this humble zine of yours, say hello to [...]

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• Friday, May 9, 2008  12:01 am 

  I’ve missed you

  You never send me those lovely letters any more That time you dreamt of dreaming of being taken up by the birds surfing over the capricious spirals of a wind drawn with delicate lines rising to face gaping clouds dissolving into faces telling you of things you ought not to forget, of things that needed [...]

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• Tuesday, May 6, 2008  9:26 am 

  The Bloodening

  Reality bites us, but you know how we roll. An international team of biologists travel to the barren lands of London to investigate the impact of the electoral catastrophe in the life-forms of the area. Picture this- a charismatic and rugged Kurt Russell type, a nerdy quantitative analysis guy with empathy deficit issues, a blonde [...]

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• Monday, April 14, 2008  11:05 pm 

  Fun and passion rupture the tepid walls of fashion and commerce enforced plus ca change boredom. And now here’s Tom with the weather

  I can’t remember when is the last time I bought a 7” by an UK indie-rock band, I swear, I don’t remember when, but I have thought a lot about the why*. Perhaps it is that the dynamics of the music industry in this country where so-called indie (aka indie schmindie) is the scene du [...]

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• Wednesday, April 9, 2008  12:08 am 

  African drums

  As part of our preparations for Love Saves the Day, and also in order to shape a worthy mixtape for the awesome El Guincho gig we were involved with a couple of weeks ago, we did some researches on African music, here you have a couple of gems unearthed in the process, as well as [...]

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• Wednesday, March 19, 2008  12:01 am 

  We Love Gonzo Fools

  You know the ones. Those gifted harlequins that prance wide eyed with devious smiles through napalm filled swamps of writhing horror and sparkling synthesized glitter bursts, past neon outlined mountains where confetti falls upwards and all around the sounds of madness are melting away all the boredom as if Cillit Bang became a day-glo purple [...]

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• Thursday, March 13, 2008  12:05 am 

  A walk through the woods

  I just went for a walk, and I found these songs. I saw a tree shaken by the wind furious, its branches stretching feeble into the air like the bony hands of an emaciated white witch begging for a miracle from the elements. A trembling ray of sun was granted, and in the pool of [...]

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• Wednesday, March 12, 2008  12:22 am 

  Studio 2O54

  Codek are fast becoming a label with liquid gold running through its cyborg veins, a label so awesome that its disco releases transcend sound itself and become feelings and colours. Here is something black and blue: Harmonika Lyder – Siegfried Der Drachentoter The Sounds Superb 12″s are both 4 track discs of pure Studio 54 [...]

  Featuring >> Cosmic, Coyote, In Flagranti, Richard Gateaux, disco, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, March 11, 2008  12:00 am 

  A mystery inside an enigma

  A synth spell, or a velvet fist cast in analogue electronica sends your puny 20jazzfunkgreats types spinning into another dimension of mystery, magic and romance noir slash murder, you know how blood and sex are tightly interwoven and the suchlike. Life is a bitch, heh? The new cloud edits 12” comes packed with analogue delights, [...]

  Featuring >> Mogg and Naudascher, al usher, loose control, synth wizardry, vangelis, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, March 6, 2008  4:00 pm 

  Rave Vikings

  Across seismic tidal waves on the most dangerous oceans in any parallel universe you may care to mention, Captain Dandi Wind sails her neon viking boat to lands ripe for plundering. Her fearless crew of indie-brute oarsmen row to the crisp beat of a Korg drum sequencer. Dandi stands fast at the helm, fluorescent tube [...]

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• Tuesday, March 4, 2008  12:59 am 

  Ice Tempos

  In an icy cave in the deepest forests of Canada (forests where the leaves have all long gone, but are instead replaced with dangling icicles that chime to an incessant beat), there lives a creature with bright yellow spherical eyes and pale blue skin, wrapped up all snug in a pea-green parka jacket. He sips [...]

  Featuring >> Arcade Lover, Mindless Boogie, disco, dreams, ghosts, italo, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, March 3, 2008  8:32 am 

  Destroy death & party

  So we come to that time of the year when the wild hordes head down to SXSW for a few days of revelling in the excitement and dopeness of the underground sounds, or at least that’s the way we imagine it, a bit like that exotic bazaar where Conan of Cimmeria knocked out a camel, [...]

  Featuring >> Captain Ahab, Casy and Brian, Foot Village, Nero's Day at Disneyland, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, February 29, 2008  12:38 am 

  boom-tchk-a-boom

  Because rhythm speaks one tongue The stunning psychedelic power of Ozo’s Anambra envelops you like shadows projected by a solid canopy of majestic trees raising in the deepest recesses of the heart of darkness. It resonates with the enigmatic echo of a secret hidden behind a door you can only open with the key of [...]

  Featuring >> Kelley Polar, Los Zafiros, OORUTAICHI, Ozo, Prince Language, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, February 28, 2008  12:12 am 

  Lines Disappearing to the Centre of A Circle

  Praise to Lovefingers, the vast all-encompassing knowledgeable ones, who float through cyberspace like a giant orb of malevolently humming eyes, searching for the best disco and cosmic decadence ever committed to humble vinyl. Then, sometimes they edit them to achieve maximum enlightenment: Nitedog – Mars (Nitedog’s Lunar launch) It’s Nitedog, not Lovefingers! Yeah I know, [...]

  Featuring >> Lovefingers, Zzzune, emperor machine, ghosts, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 25, 2008  9:01 am 

  Past your bedtime

  It’s late kid, go to bed. And dream of A vast frozen tundra in the midst of which a lonely chanteuse opens up her heart & melts the snow surrounding her with the pastel glow of her amazing soul. Sally Shapiro- Jackie Jackie (Spend this Winter With Me) (Dylan’s Subzero Nocturne Remix) Sally Shapiro’s new [...]

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• Wednesday, February 13, 2008  11:14 pm 

  Disco dot disco

  Because we know where our hearts are. I have just placed an order for LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Confuse the Marketplace’ US-only 12” release and I am sure you’ll do the same after listening to Freak Out/Starry Eyes. Actually this came out on December last year and I cannot fucking believe it isn’t sold out. Come on [...]

  Featuring >> Antipop, Argento Family, disco, lcd soundsystem, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, February 11, 2008  10:30 am 

  20Jazzfunkgreats review of the fantastic, the weird and the improbable yet possible

  Where 20JFG give you brief reviews of horror and sci-fi books, films and video games as part of our training programme for those Telepathic Inter-Dimensional Wars we expect to erupt any time soon, and also as a way of introducing some fucking awesome music in a suitable nerdy way. Visit here for further information. Artwork [...]

  Featuring >> Boris, Galaxy Toobin Gang, salem, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, February 7, 2008  12:01 am 

  House of Ice

  It might be too early in the great cosmic scheme of things to make such grandiose statements but maybe, just maybe, a revival of Chicago House will be the new Blog House (*spits*) for 2008. As evidence, The Juan Maclean’s “Happy House” is so super hot with iconic Nancy Wang vocals soaring into space across [...]

  Featuring >> Chaz Jankel, DANCE, Hercules & Love Affair, Kevin Irving, house, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, February 5, 2008  10:28 am 

  Holy Mountain

  20jazzfunkgreats watched the digitally restored version of Holy Mountain at the cinema last night and thoroughly enjoyed it in a holy fuck how did this film get made (cheers John & Yoko), and holy cow thank Jodorowsky this film got made, on top of The Christian imaginery, gas-mask clad troopers carrying around the crucified corpses [...]

  Featuring >> Acid Mothers Temple, Film, Japanese Psyche, los llamaradas, prog, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, February 1, 2008  7:35 am 

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  Martha-Beat Part \\\\\ 2 ///// The Ark – Patronus Winter The Ark myspace page ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- Mi Ami – Ark of the Covenant Mi Ami myspace page ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- No Age with David Scott Stone – Switches No Age myspace page ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- ¬|- [...]

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• Thursday, January 31, 2008  7:01 am 

  /<./<./<./<./<./<.

  Part 1 of another Martha-Beat post, tell her how awesome she is here Sex In Dallas – Everybody Deserves To Be Fucked Sex In Dallas myspace page /<./<./<./<./<./<. Toecutter – Best Party Ever (12 Minute Dub) Toecutter myspace page /<./<./<./<./<./<. Ata Kak – Obaa Sima No link, this instead

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• Wednesday, January 30, 2008  8:32 am 

  They live

  Demon Seed was a based on a real story, our planet is a stage where the computarised conspiracy led by Proteus, the love-child of, erm, Proteus and Julie Andrews combats rabid hordes of meat-obsessed humanists, this of course inspired most of Philip K. Dick’s opus, particularly Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (that guy sitting [...]

  Featuring >> Darshan Jesrani, Mock and Toof, Syclops, The Green Men, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 29, 2008  6:52 am 

  The Synth That Dripped Blood

  After being criminally dropped from DC Recordings for being “too commercial” (wtf? surely about 2/3′s of the current DC roster is not what you would term as commercial?), Italian masked killer of scantily clad women, The Giallos Flame, is self-releasing an album of chic 70′s horror-homage on his very own label Analogue Screams. Said album [...]

  Featuring >> Dunwich, Giallos Flame, Horror, demons, disco, forests, glimmers, padded cell, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, January 28, 2008  8:33 am 

  Remote, Unfriended, Melancholy, Slow

  A ghost has been haunting DJ Rick’s radio show, bewitching us with otherwordly melodies we might have dreamed of if we had dreamt of an abandoned farm in the midst of the ochre prairie in whose entrance the old porch swing creaks, ever so subtly in the absolute absence of wind or weight, silver under [...]

  Featuring >> U.S. Girls, folk, ghosts, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 22, 2008  8:31 am 

  You don’t need to be a ghost to come alive.

  You know we love indie, we are always complaining about indie schmindie this, and indie dance remixes that but then we are being lazy and incorrect with our terminology, you know that what we slate, that indie, is not really indie but revivalist fashion driven corporate Middle of the Road derivative crap, actually almost everything [...]

  Featuring >> Loto Ball Show, abe vigoda, real indie, roadtrip, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, January 21, 2008  7:00 am 

  Vaster than empires, and more slow

  There was quite an interesting debate in one of the darken spaces that thee 20jazzfunkgreats roam regarding the extent to which the trend towards tunes of 10 minutes or longer which has become growingly common in certain genres you know we dig, such as kosmische disco, is a good or a bad thing. We pray [...]

  Featuring >> Mahavishnu Orchestra, SciFi, kosmiche, krautrock, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, January 18, 2008  5:06 pm 

  Didn’t they used to be dinosaurs?

  False Energy never really broke through at the end of last year, maybe a re-release is in order? It’s an elongated corker crossing the beams between Escort, Spektrum and The World of Conny Plank (specifically Zero Set). Binary Chaffinch – False Energy But how can such magic be achieved you ask? Its simple really. Binary [...]

  Featuring >> cybernetic, disco, grackle, musiccargo, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, January 17, 2008  10:10 am 

  Horror Hause

  Are Excepter the techno Liars? Maybe Excepter are Liars, doing some wicker-tech-house on the side wearing man-suits to conceal they’re true identities, Buffalo Bill style – cos after all, theres only so much deep, dark forest prancing a fine fellow can take before the damning isolation drains any ounce of humanity from him and all [...]

  Featuring >> Excepter, Kevin Ayers, Nico, demons, forests, ghosts, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 16, 2008  11:53 am 

  James Nascent’s Irregular Column

    So, what you been listening to? James N’s  guide to getting back on the wrong tracks. Been neglecting the noise of late due to the overwhelming abundance of seriously brilliant cosmic/baleric/nu-disco/space-house. You can’t blame me/you/us for getting all caught up in the faux glitz and glam but not everyone has a Prins Thomas/Studio/Joakim/Rodion remix [...]

  Featuring >> Magic Johnson, Talbot Tagora, Teeth Mountain, UW OWL, noise, real indie, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 15, 2008  12:07 am 

  Hey Ladies

  Thee 20jazzfunkgreats myspace has started receiving a deluge of add requests from scantily dressed women with breasts bigger than our heads and strange coloured skin, probably a mutation brought forward by an excess of tanning lotion, it’s we guess exciting for some to see the prostitution industry getting on with the times and joining social [...]

  Featuring >> 10lec6, Ebony Bones, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, January 11, 2008  1:55 pm 

  pschcomania in the red

  Started this post about the great In The Red Records, got lost in the middle somewhere, as you do, and ended up stuck on old favs Lost Sounds – but first off more from masters of unreality Human Eye on Disordered Records. Human Eye – Rare Little Creature Is there something already eerily familiar about [...]

  Featuring >> Jay Reatard, human eye, in the red, lost sounds, mudhoney, synth punk, xxjfg

  
  

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• Thursday, January 10, 2008  6:55 am 

  Fossil Music

  We are not sure on the official release of this amazing new Nemesi 12″ via Relish. Its on iTunes, its been and gone on Juno and its expected on Picadilly. In any case check it out real quick kids cos its got the seal of approval from every warlock DJ and mixtape alchemist who isn’t [...]

  Featuring >> Cosmic, disco, joakim, krautrock, nemesi, principles of geometry, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, January 9, 2008  9:20 am 

  More epic

  We picked up Videohippos‘ new album Unbeast the Leash just before Christmas after a cursory listen in Edgeworld, having being admonished by Colin about their similarities with Dan Deacon, who digs them very much, here we have a hyperkinetic indie with a penchant for the motorik and the super-focused craziness required to deliver it the [...]

  Featuring >> Videohippos, narctrax, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, January 8, 2008  8:23 am 

  More power

  We like fantasy role-playing games. We also like Americana, both of the old kind which brings tears to our eyes, and of the new kind which keeps the spirit of real folk music burning laced with a mess of wonderful influences, let’s see our heroes battle in the middle of a night they illuminate with [...]

  Featuring >> Flexxehawk, Times New Viking, Valerie Project, spells, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, January 4, 2008  6:42 am 

  2008 Addendum

  More 2008 fun! There are a few albums coming out in the next couple of months that are long awaited and so exciting a prospect that all we can do is sit in our dusty basements rocking back and forth with anticipation at finally getting them and seeing exactly what they are all about. Without [...]

  Featuring >> Channels 3×4, Hercules & Love Affair, crystal castles, synth punk, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, December 31, 2007  12:54 am 

  The end of the beginning is nigh- we shall be devoured in 2008

  We bid farewell to this 2007 of great hecticness, haulage of goods from one place to another and much good music, we do this by peering into the future hopeful and confident like chthonic seers with an ace in the hole, discussing things that shall be hot in 2008. As an epilogue we also deliver [...]

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• Monday, December 24, 2007  10:30 am 

  If music be the food of love, let us drink its blood and grow stronger- What went on in 2007 pt.3

  2OO7 – WHERE DISCO PREVAILS!! Music can take you to strange places. From vast deserts of echoing purple and grey prog drones, to industrial estate robot body-pop raves backlit by showers of sparks from car construction. In the case of this new infinitely awesome wave of Cosmic Disco that has spread across the red earth [...]

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• Friday, December 21, 2007  4:30 pm 

  If music be the food of love, let us drink its blood and grow stronger- What went on in 2007 pt.2

  As we were saying the other day, if our life had needed saving during 2007, it would have been saved by music. As it is, it didn’t, but knowing we had this bad-ass aural bodyguard watching our spiritual backs, ready to run in our support should we start feeling disheartened by the state of affairs, or [...]

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• Wednesday, December 19, 2007  12:34 pm 

  If music be the food of love, let us drink its blood and grow stronger- What went on in 2007 pt.1

  You know how 20jazzfunkgreats are a bunch of happy-go-lucky jesters living in a constant spiral of delights, ah, what new kitten will be grinning at us from the delightful feed window every morning, will the Great Cthulhu have awakened today to bring this vacuous society down while taciturn packs of Cenobites chase celebrities down the [...]

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• Tuesday, December 11, 2007  7:13 am 

  Flying through heaven and hell with you

  ‘Sorcery and sanctity’ said Ambrose, ‘these are the only realities. Each is an Ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life’. Arthur Machen is the man. Last Friday’s Upset the Rhythm shindig was fantastic, all the bands were in a hyper-celebratory mood and the outcome was an uplifting Christmasy celebration featuring a good-vibes stage invasion during [...]

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• Wednesday, December 5, 2007  8:59 pm 

  More Nostalgia for the better remembered 80s

  Why do we go so much for the 80s? Besides the fact that, at least in my case, those were childhood years about which I reminisce with much emotion, it is also that it was then when many of our fave things like disco and new wave, as well as all the crazy experimental synth [...]

  Featuring >> Chaz Jankel, Coyote, Eddie Murphy, Lindstrom, aeroplane, nostalgia for the unremembered 80s, xxjfg

  
  

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• Monday, December 3, 2007  7:31 pm 

  Floating across the desert with a fine Arab charger

  Intense debate, or maybe just a few email exchanges during supposed work hours, was created in a cloud of confusion as to where this fearsome edit by In Flagranti originates from. Some though Abba cos of the fancy piano lines, but Stu came through with his knowledge of disco-era Rolling Stones, with elements of ‘Emotional [...]

  Featuring >> In Flagranti, SOS Band, gladio, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, November 30, 2007  1:40 pm 

  Heaven and Earth

  The people from the hills inhabit the range of blue crags lying at the north, no-one knows very well what they get up to in such inhospitable places of surfaces polished into mirrors by shards of merciless ice which reflect fierce the portentous glare of the sun blinding those foolish enough to stare into them [...]

  Featuring >> black mountain, fuck buttons, xxjfg

  
  

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• Wednesday, November 28, 2007  12:55 am 

  2.O Jazz Funk Greats / Commemoration

  This place is about surprises, aliens stranded in the white beach of the Hawaiian islands decide to throw a party under the umbrella of a neon reticule powered by the last functioning lasers protruding from the silvery hull of their crashed spaceship, it might sound a tad strange to some of you tinfoil hat wearing [...]

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• Tuesday, November 27, 2007  10:41 am 

  Post found in a petrol station

  We live in a constant tension between the space above, away from gravity, which is the first force of reality we have to contend with when we are dragged out of the womb, and the Earth below, full of shit and pain but also warm and alive, let us take the latter route today, tread [...]

  Featuring >> Wooden Shjips, merzbow, mixtape, roadtrip, xxjfg

  
  

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• Tuesday, November 6, 2007  1:15 am 

  Cloud

  Reissues are about as common nowadays as a purple American Apparel hoodie on a skinny indie kid. The Cloud label are putting out some of the best in 20JFG’s humble opinion, releasing two-track 12″s of hot cosmic disco and balearic love, while the parent company, Supersound, puts out the disco stomps and italian fine tailored [...]

  Featuring >> Cosmic, Venus Gang, disco, mixtape, xxjfg

  
  

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• Friday, September 14, 2007  9:00 am 

  Charisma is between 8 and 17, phew – i’m an Elf.

  Quite how Chrisma (later Krisma, erm why??) came across their 80s German sound is anyone’s guess but it seems likely they jumped every band wagon, and tried every scene in musical history at one time or another. Most of it you would rather listen to a George W speech than, but for some very very [...]

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• Thursday, July 19, 2007  3:01 pm 

  How we got here

  TV on the Radio- Dumb Animal We fled from our planet after realising that as long as the Gods kept freaking out about each other’s fandoms’ lifestyle choices/ diet/ interior decor tastes we were going to need to walk around making constant small jumps to avoid stepping into vast pools of blood, or maybe sew [...]

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• Wednesday, July 4, 2007  11:34 pm 

  the real jazzfunk

  So I don’t have that much of a clue about funk or jazz, soz kids, you know how the name of this blog is taken from a lovely album by sex magick gender noise terrorist unit Throbbing Gristle and whatnot, which is both jazz, funk and everything else that is or has been deemed to [...]

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• Monday, June 4, 2007  3:17 pm 

  Strong characters

  We like people who have strong characters, not cardboard copies of the ‘throws the TV out of the window’ school of rock documented by Yo la Tengo in their lovely video for Sugarcube, wannabe thugs driving their tank into a swimming pool surrounded by booty shaken Ladyez after watching Scarface for the zillionth time, or [...]

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• Monday, May 28, 2007  3:00 pm 

  Slang Teacher 3: Wine and roses

  We were hanging out downtown as we do each night, you know mano, watching the papis singing songs from la tierra with tears in their eyes, playing pinball, staring at las senoritas, drinking cerveza under the moonlight and being super bad-ass when this pendejo who looked like Tony Montana’s boss stopped by in his white [...]

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• Friday, May 18, 2007  6:36 am 

  This is what a ghost told me

  Slide into this weekend like a recently departed soul into the world of shadows beyond, Brighton is going to be packed with music industry types down for the Great Escape, we hear a few demons hide in their ranks, so beware, don’t let anything get in between the silver charm from the Goddess and that [...]

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• Saturday, May 12, 2007  9:13 am 

  Down and out from Hove to Paris

  20jfg down and out from paris to hove mixtape

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• Tuesday, May 1, 2007  3:06 pm 

  Dapper Gentlemen

  The main tip for the season is the following: have fucking class, style’s in, fashion’s out. On top of being a true legend of Enlightened Synth Disco (I just made that genre up but I hope you know what I mean), Daniel Wang looks hot yeah? Anyhow, if you haven’t listened to his classic Berlin [...]

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• Monday, April 23, 2007  3:02 pm 

  Slang Teacher

  We are the baddest gang of bravos to ever roam the barrio, we watch over from our vantage positions like hawks, on the look out for the fuzz or chingones with enemy colours, nothing happens here without us knowing, and getting paid, nada. This ain’t no explotation thing, we are just taking care of our [...]

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• Thursday, April 19, 2007  3:41 pm 

  Claws & fangs can break your nose, and music will enchant you

  One moonlight night, your humble 20jazzfunkgreats monk was preparing to sleep in a field adjoining a cemetary. By the light of the moon he saw three wild panda bears placing on their heads skulls and some whithered bones, go through several mysterious movements, and then deck themselves out with grass and leaves. Presently the bears [...]

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• Tuesday, April 17, 2007  3:51 pm 

  We Love the Egg Lady

  Self improvement had always been the motto of Edith Massey, and one day all her dreams came true. Sure she had her fun, earning dimes in every which way you can, living from trash can to sofa but just like all girls from Denver Edith dreamed of being a movie star! As Cinderella stories go [...]

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• Monday, April 16, 2007  3:39 pm 

  Love//Death//Nice

  Where the 20jazzfunkgreats one who loves spiralling tongues of acid fire and noise brimstone stops 4 a sec, looks into the mirror down the corridor & sees wistful eyes staring back oblique bouncing zig zag zig zag slide doubtful like tears down the smooth curves of an innocent face, not his unless he looked straight [...]

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• Sunday, April 15, 2007  3:01 pm 

  when clouds form great snakes in the sky

  August is four months away, but a month is a year for 20JFG kats who are eagerly awaiting albums. Glass Candy’s is preceded by two 12″s, one being the just released ‘I Always Say Yes’, then ‘Etheric Device/Computer Love’. Glass Candy – The Chameleon (Acappella) The proper 12″ version of this is a menacing blood [...]

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• Tuesday, April 10, 2007  3:01 pm 

  Legends of 20 Jazz Funk Greats

  Haters talk shit, here is the Demi-Gods-honest truth, dispelling the rumours about the 3 Superhero Horsemen of the Acid-Kraut Apokalypse: Juan-San In Monster Land III Juan–San is a computer game character, therefore he is entirely pixelated. He comes in 2D platform game mode or full on 3D polygonal zombie-smashing killa-megabyte-rate beat-em-up warrior mode, depending on [...]

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• Monday, April 9, 2007  4:40 pm 

  Beaster

  One of your 20JFGsters has spent this Easter of delight banging on things. It must be the soul reverberations coming from his country, where, in the past days, lots of people have gone into the streets dressed like the Ku Klux Klan but with better quality fabrics, carrying massive candles and colossal statues of the [...]

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• Wednesday, April 4, 2007  4:42 pm 

  Expressing with your full capabilities

  So we have reached this fantabulous moment in the history of mankind when the position of the DJ is finally democratised: there’s tunes galore to do it, free to grab through your filesharing network of choice, or perhaps just the hype machine if you want to cut to the chase and play what people really [...]

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• Monday, April 2, 2007  3:02 pm 

  Postpunkpost

  Ah, welcome to the Post-punk bash, leave your pre-conceptions at the door buster, in this party you have moody avant garde motherfuckers rubbing shoulders with chain-smoking Geordie poets who spill ash all over the drinks of pale S&M fetishists whose satanic medallions have attracted the mischievous attention of those new wave teenies who just popped [...]

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• Sunday, April 1, 2007  3:01 pm 

  The Skulls Have Eyes

  Our main man Steven was packing for a trip to the Lake District last week and he asked us if we wanted him to bring us a sheep skull. Apparently there are many of those over there, as a consequence of a Sheep apocalypse Aeons ago. Or at least that is what we thought. But [...]

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• Thursday, March 29, 2007  3:32 pm 

  FEIRCE

  I HAVE HURT MY IINDEX FINGER TYPING SO GOTTS TO KEEP IT SHORT. LET THE MUSIC TALK ECT. I’M WRITING IN UPPER CASE TO CONVEY THE SHEER LOUD HARDCORENESS OF THE TUNES I’M POSTING FREINDS. IT’S ANNOYING AS FUCK BUT BEAR WITH ME. OR JUST LISTEN TO THE TUNES & BUY THE RECORDS, WHICH IS [...]

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• Tuesday, March 27, 2007  4:09 pm 

  Exorcise the badness with goodness

  Gotta love the record industry: it appears that the album format is not selling that well with the advent of the ‘digital revolution’ and all, you know, CDs are overpriced and most of the stuff in them is filler, people just buy a couple of tracks in iTunes and give the finger to the bundling [...]

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• Monday, March 26, 2007  10:01 pm 

  get minimal.

  Bernard Fevre is loved by 20JFG for his stellar work as Black Devil Disco Club where he conjures satanic black-light shimmering disco from his wizard-like fingers. But his solo work takes a different route, minimal and delicate sounds not music to dance with the devil in the pale moomlight to. 20JFG faves Quiet Village have [...]

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• Sunday, March 25, 2007  3:01 pm 

  A frozen postcard from Robin

  When I uploaded the rather nicely packaged, all-in-one, brand new reissue of Nico’s seminal albums, “The Marble Index”, and “Desertshore”, into my iTunes, I noticed that in the genre section it had registered as “unclassifiable“. iTunes has a habit of getting the genre identification thing a tad wrong from time to time, but in this [...]

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• Thursday, March 22, 2007  6:32 pm 

  jazzfunkgreats2.0

  Ok so we have been thinking about the 2.0 revolution and everything it means for the world. Everyone knows how any movement is just hype until 20JFG gives it its seal of approval, it’s all a bit like, if a tree falls in the forest and 20JFG haven’t posted about it in their lo-fidelity blog, [...]

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• Wednesday, March 21, 2007  4:25 pm 

  Beings of the Future

  2O12 AD: AUTOMATONS MADE FLESH, SPEARHEADING TOWARD EARTH FROM PLANET CYBER-FOLK This, they have said, is ADULT.’s folk album. No really. Check out the video on the official site that casts them as film noir Liars hacking up the forest ground with high heels and blood splattered spades. ADULT. – You Don’t Worry Enough So [...]

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• Monday, March 19, 2007  5:11 pm 

  The Old Ones Spring Special

  (Lo and behold, down the yellow road cometh Lord Nuneaton Savage, please do visit, and do bookmark, his new log on all things swirling, ‘The Savage Word’ because his penmanship defeats anything you’ll find anywhere else in the serendipitous lands of the information highway, this, dare we call him, MAN, is a genius and whenever [...]

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• Sunday, March 18, 2007  11:00 pm 

  Manuscript found in Hove

  When the weak child that I was first saw the light of day, my father took me in his arms, raised his eyes to heaven and said, ‘Oh almighty power, whose exponent is immensity, oh last term of all ascending series, oh my God, behold another sensible being projected into space. If he is destined [...]

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• Wednesday, March 14, 2007  4:18 pm 

  inspiration is a bitch, but so am I

  I’ve always wanted to draw like Paper Rad kids. I also want to sound like them, or their drawings. You know how everyone is doing the Oizo Crunk Skunk Saraband these days, and painting it in pretend pixelated dayglo? Well, except Justice I guess, who have decided to take the piss off Larry Levan’s standing [...]

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• Thursday, March 8, 2007  4:06 pm 

  We don a viking helmet and feast on the corpses of our friends because we don’t like stuff to go to waste (Nerd Caveman post 2)

  Last time we saw him, 20JFG was lost in the Freudian caverns of Nerd-Dom enjoying noisy thrills in his walkman, trying to accumulate some energies for the final fowdown against his fatal foe. Shame against doesn’t start with an f. Neither does show-down, we just like to break the rules cos we’re so punk. We [...]

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• Tuesday, March 6, 2007  4:00 pm 

  We throw poetic spells of death for fun (nerd caveman 1)

  After several defeats in the neuronal field, the 20JFG one who never hurt a bee retreats into the caves of nerd-dom to gather energies, he whistles posts like a 1920s Depression hobo remembering better days of stock exchange bonanza and nights down at the cabaret, wha, you say, cut to the chase you overgrown baby, [...]

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• Thursday, March 1, 2007  4:40 pm 

  Miami Thrice

  What prey tell has our favourite debonaire Zombie-about-town been upto since the unleashing of the ‘Teddy Boy’ EP last year? Kavinsky has been hard at work with the ’1986′ EP, which has just been released by the lovely Record Makers. Kavinsky – Grand Canyon We love Zombies, its the surest thing, and we love cartoon [...]

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• Friday, February 23, 2007  5:45 am 

  Oh so quiet and nice

  After last weekend, which was total carnage and included the Do on Friday (followed by a Jungle party where we danced to Shy FX & UK Apachi w00t), 20JFG on Saturday with Superstar Robin DJ and Mr. James Hines of Nascent & best t-shirts in the land fame rocking the house like only good people [...]

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• Wednesday, February 21, 2007  1:38 am 

  SMUV

  So we at 20 Jazz Funk Greats like extremes, we like to put things together that plainly and ever so blatantly do not go. If you have been to our DJ nite extravaganza (every 3rd saturday party kids! *big grin*), you will know that the general flow and ambience and good hard earned mixing skills [...]

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• Monday, February 12, 2007  4:02 pm 

  Faster, Faster.

  The other day I saw these kids playing so fast they finished before they began, they totally sounded backwards. WHAM! You know how 20jazzfunkgreats posts a bigger share of 8+ minute long tracks than most other blogs out there, excluding mixes that would only demonstrate our non-existent DJing ‘skills’/artificial Ableton skills. But we like it [...]

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• Wednesday, February 7, 2007  3:12 pm 

  Game Theory

  Imagine you find yourself pitched against another dot in space, an actor defined by an utility function if you will, whatever, yep, in front of the two-dimensional grid of a matrix, with nxn cells each of which contains an outcome (in terms of pay-outs and losses, say money earned or lost for you non-numerical types), [...]

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• Sunday, February 4, 2007  5:13 pm 

  We Are Brothers In The Struggle

  Today we visit our trusted friends DC Recordings, you know, the fear-disco label that pretty much ruled last year and will no doubt rule this year too. Will there be a Padded Cell LP, chances are good seeing as a new track from the 3rd single was heard a few weeks back on Beats In [...]

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• Thursday, February 1, 2007  4:28 pm 

  waxxx

  Excuse me man, 20 jazz funkgreats is not out there, it is in here, and if you don’t wanna believe this, pay some attention, you better get some muscle to back you up because when you fuck with us you’re fucking with the best, we’ve got the heavy artillery, it’s loaded and ready, I’m just [...]

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• Wednesday, January 31, 2007  5:01 pm 

  Bisexual Kat Spaceship

  2 cosmic gems today from the outer reaches of space, beamed down via a sophisticated contraption we have (it would take too long to explain) and fed through filters to turn them into mp3s. Oh no, how could anyone miss this? It came out on 12″ from Down Low Music in 2OO2 but no blog/pooterzine [...]

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•   3:58 pm 

  20jazzfunkgreats talks about no rules pt. 6

  You know how music is a form of expression, it’s just this thing people do and there’s no reason for it, humming when you’re alone is music in its purest form. Yelling when someone steps on your foot can be music, at least the way Punk did it. There you have a reason. Then there’s [...]

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• Monday, January 29, 2007  5:19 pm 

  SPEEED

  Lord Nuneaton Savage is back from his lair, and he’s got some…erm, SPEED. When he characterises his writing as ‘infantile’, the adjective rises to Nietzschean dimensions (in a good way). Anyway, bring it on… PART 1: The robotic pleasure principle ‘Let’s go!” I said. ‘Friends, away! Let’s go! Mythology and the Mystic Ideal are defeated [...]

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•   5:34 am 

  20JFG vaguely talks about the 8O’s, Part 435

  Deep within a dank dungeon full of shifting shadows, you can part thick cobwebs to find a corner hidden in pitch black cold. Suede lay dead on the stone floor; they’ve already been dealt with. An old record player crackles out the sound of an LP by The Cure, the title track, a ranting mess [...]

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• Friday, January 26, 2007  2:05 pm 

  blog dis

  Yeah, I’m losing my edge. I’m losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind. I’m losing my edge. I’m losing my edge to the kids from France and from London. But I was there. I was there in 2002. I was there at the first fluxblog post. I’m losing my edge. I’m losing [...]

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• Thursday, January 25, 2007  3:21 am 

  my connection is still faulty so might have to give up tonight but we’ll see….

  Sam is one of the most intelligent people we know, he’s a good person and he knows his stuff, do you need any more information? He’s writing for us today, and this is awesome, so say ‘hi Sam’ and ‘thanks Sam’. Hope you’re buying, cos we’re buying… ///// Drums are the new guitars. They were [...]

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• Wednesday, January 24, 2007  1:55 pm 

  She rap attack

  Let me paraphrase my man Beto and begin by saying, this is Hip Hop, where guys are guys and ladies need a sense of humour. 20jazzfunkgreats love it when the girls rock the mic you know, Hip Hop sometimes can get a bit too serious for its own good, you know, consciousness and its polar [...]

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• Tuesday, January 23, 2007  4:01 am 

  Tales from the Crypts

  Okay, close your eyes and imagine the scene: A group of children frolicking around in a forest on a crisp Spring morning. The leaves are still wet with dew, and the sunlight is penetrating through the tree tops, reflecting on the glistening cobwebs. The footage is grainy and silent, and the camera judders from time [...]

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• Monday, January 22, 2007  4:34 am 

  Happy monday

  The sun is shining and the birdies dance with each other in front, behind and around the shaky trees, fey characters in a peripheral act of the play of life, the coffee wasn’t too weak, but it wasn’t too strong either, just enough to boost your 20JFG’s level of energy in the direction of the [...]

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• Friday, January 19, 2007  1:54 pm 

  We just sorted your night out

  You have to choose one of these plans Idea number 1 Buy some cheap whiskey, start drinking it while writing all sorts of sleazy things in a piece of paper. Put it in an envelope with your address in it, go down to the mailbox and put it inside. Go back to your room and [...]

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• Tuesday, January 16, 2007  4:01 pm 

  Where were you in ’82? Scandinavia, mate.

  We think we are obssessed with Scandinavia. Is it the new Canada? Who can say at this early juncture of 2OO7, but all we know is that The Knife, Zeigeist, Sally Shapiro, Skatebard and Moomins hail from this fair land, and that fucking rules! Check these 198O’s-a-like gems for referencing purposes: Miss Sally Shapiro has [...]

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• Sunday, January 14, 2007  10:47 am 

  Acid Porn

  Ceephax Acid Crew is G.O.D. and we are all but figments of his melodies. In the Crisp Chronicles he soundtracks a gangster story starred by, erm, crisps. They get mashed…You know, this is a Chelmsford Film Society endeavour and as such we endorse it wholeheartedly (check this and stay away from the K). The music [...]

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• Thursday, January 11, 2007  1:58 pm 

  Do the right thing (this Friday)

  I was gonna do a noise one but then I recoiled, hold on pumpkin, there’s all these nice people throwing parties and stuff on friday, perhaps I should tell our dear readers about them because these are good people doing things for the love of it and everyone should go. So avast, I am going [...]

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• Tuesday, January 9, 2007  4:01 pm 

  Goblin Forest

  So Justice’s “Phantom” has slammed into the blogosphere (hate. that. word.) like a crucifix-shaped comet covered in white fire shot forth from the Hell that exists on Mars. Though I am sure you already have, you can pick it up at Skull Juice. Its good, yes of course, but lest we forget where that vocodered [...]

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•   1:22 pm 

  THIS IS ALL TRUE

  20jazzfunkgreats found some rayban wayfarers in a box and got themselves in this total ‘They Live’ situation, welcome to their wacky adventures in a world of mind manipulating robots that lurk hidden in the shadows controlling all the echelons of the government and the economy, scientists have framed the question wrong my friends, it’s not [...]

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• Thursday, January 4, 2007  11:13 pm 

  What’s a Skinned Girl to do in the Wintertime?

  (Remix)? By who? Why be so secretive Cristina, what do you have to hide young lady, huh? Cristina – What’s A Girl To Do? (Remix) This sorry tale of weary friend-loathing in (presumably) trend-fuck-city New York circa Punk Funk (the first time around), is a chaotic electro shambles with a white Grace Jones doing a [...]

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• Wednesday, January 3, 2007  7:14 am 

  Start the rapid spazms

  So you have recovered from New Year’s Eve hangover, hah? Well, I didn’t need to because I didn’t have any! I didn’t get beat up by thugs in the cold streets of my town either, although they called me gay, which is always a compliment. I’m always down with being hated by that kind of [...]

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• Monday, January 1, 2007  9:00 am 

  Start the Slow Heartbeats

  Happy New Year readers! 2OO6 is dead DEAD! Stabbed to death! We hope you had fun spinning around to jackin’ EBM or feral no wave yelps, whatever is your bag for NYE, we hoped you liked it. We are looking forward to 2OO7, waiting feverishly for new stuff from Justice, Michael Dracula, Crystal Castles, Animal [...]

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• Wednesday, December 27, 2006  12:47 pm 

  NY Excuse

  So we said we’d see you in the new year, A-HA we were lying, nah, we found ourselves in this Arthur Gordon Pym style situation, chased by feral cats and having to hide in the pooter room. Since we are going to have to stay here till some unsuspecting visitor comes in the house, true [...]

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• Thursday, December 21, 2006  3:44 am 

  2OO6 – a year of jaded Jazz Funk Greats? Nah it was fairly cool actually

  Here’s the moment everyone was waiting for, right, 20jazzfunkgreats bunch of 2006 lists and stuff, records we dug, things we have felt, reminiscences, cries, silly dances and the like. Befitting our non-competitive approach to music and life, generally, we’re not ordering the lists, how the fuck do you compare these records? would you feel comfy [...]

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• Tuesday, December 19, 2006  4:01 pm 

  XXJFGMas at the Interdimensional Ice Rink Dungeon

  In a parallel universe where maniacal barbarian mothers out Christmas shopping (or, slaying street walkers with their flaming brimstone prams) do not exist, 20JFG kids swan about like dandy divas across vast hallways. These hallways freeze into glistening ice rinks in the winter months and we can be seen amongst the ghouls, banshees and spectres, [...]

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•   2:09 pm 

  Nascent!

  Ok so this post is a big high five to James Nascent aka King of Dude who, from a few years back has been animating Brighton’s cultural life with all sorts of exciting endeavours: Nascent Nights club (together with Genuine Guy and Ben Caton, word), Nascent gigs (The Locust, Coughs, Magik Markers, Yeborobo, Shimmy Rivers [...]

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• Friday, December 15, 2006  11:07 am 

  GET SILLY & DANCE

  Say you thought of having this New Year’s eve party but now you are doubtful about what to play. Say you told your friends it was going to be a dance party, and by dance you didn’t mean whatever, as in do people do their ironing to Les Georges Leningrad, we hope they do, but [...]

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• Wednesday, December 13, 2006  7:33 pm 

  2OO6 – a year of jaded Jazz Funk Greats?

  A regular annoyance of the late half of 2OO6 has been the dreaded ‘New Rave’. It actually started as a nice idea by Joe Daniel to discibe The Klaxons, but then rapidly nose-dived into journo-Hell with certain magazines hailing everyone from The Knife to New Young Pony Club to Shit Disco to Metronomy as New [...]

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•   11:31 am 

  It’s a sad end.

  We were thinking like, yeah, this wi fi thing is fucked up yeah (not wii, wii rules blud), wi fi is like, man, all those vibrations going, brap brap like gunshots in Compton, I wonder, can’t you see it, I mean, you can’t see it but you dig what I say, electromagnetic vibes criss crossing [...]

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• Monday, December 11, 2006  11:04 pm 

  Moderne Liebe

  Somewhere in a dark forest in Germany there is a shaft like that one in Lost that goes down for miles ‘n’ miles and under the ground near the warmth of the Earth’s core is a network of tunnels housing Fraggle Rock-like trolls, Orcs and Shapelings that make music like Gorilla Aktiv. Gorilla Aktiv – [...]

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•   11:06 am 

  Anti-requiem

  So general augusto pinochet died, ah, kids, what a…party. As Lord Nuneaton would say, he doesn’t deserve the fucking capitals. I mean, he didn’t. Oops. Cristian Vogel- General Arrepientase The title of this track by Barcelona-based UK-raised son of chilean exiles Cristian Vogel means ‘Repent, General’. I suspect the bastard didn’t, and hope he’ll burn. [...]

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• Friday, December 8, 2006  1:37 pm 

  20jazzfunkgreats beauty tips

  ‘You can increase your Appearance using cosmetic surgery- A +1 in the Appearance attribute will cost you 500 Euro$’ ‘How much does it cost to decrease my Appearance?’ ‘You can buy a razorblade for 20 cents’ (Vaguely remembered quote from the Cyberpunk RPG manual) Botox has changed 20Jazzfunkgreats’ yeah-call-it-lives- ever since we discovered it we [...]

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• Thursday, December 7, 2006  12:56 am 

  Silence is Sexy

  So hush little robot. Einsturzende Neubauten- -Feder Vice Liars say people with the Neubauten t-shirts always stand at the front in their gigs. I reckon they also know how to lose it at Kompakt raves, just check out this esoteric drumtraxxx, Steve Reich v Vitalic anyone?. Liars- Don’t Techno for an Answer We know Liars [...]

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• Wednesday, December 6, 2006  12:17 pm 

  Pro Weird

  uh, yeah, welcome to the freak out halls dude, where the spirit of the inspirational coyote roams frolicsome, forever free to mess with the heads of the heads and make their mouths speak tongues. Sit in that psychedelic improv rug where Dan Van Vliet’s mongrel pooch used to chill. Gotta give it to you dude, [...]

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• Monday, December 4, 2006  5:48 am 

  Easy one

  Back in the days, strange conceptions drove your small 20jazzfunkgreats guy astray. Confused by a rather twisted vision of a past that perhaps existed for 10 minutes in the retrofuturistic den of an italian dilettante, he naively thought he’d start wearing white sta-prest trousers and cream turtlenecks, move with suave confidence down the imaginary decks [...]

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• Friday, December 1, 2006  3:20 pm 

  Dance! Music! (Pt. 5 Raging in the plague age)

  Go to that lovely christmas work do, watch your respectable colleagues become bubonic bats spreading sickly black wings, black blue bloated veins holding on to a drink, sneaking surreptitiously around the body of a wide-eyed victim, angry drooling mouths supurating toxic saliva and baring yellow teeth, close your eyes. We hope you weren’t looking into [...]

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• Wednesday, November 29, 2006  8:44 pm 

  The NO. 4 / Diamonds. Rubies. Saphires. Crystals.

  We are today in a pretty mood, our hearts are filled with warmth and our heads with glitter and spangles. We do not feel the cold of the great winds screeching in from the seas in our fair land of Brightonia, as the bands and artists that we hold dear are making such great aural [...]

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•   1:42 pm 

  Dance! Music! (Pt. 4 roxy garage time travel warp)

  Listen with attention, I’m going to read now from the holy book of Wack-O and tell you the Truth, how dance was invented by Adam and Eve as they tumbled down Eden’s Garden back 10.000 years ago, the angels observed in awe and imitated them on top of a pin, we don’t know how many [...]

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• Tuesday, November 28, 2006  8:14 am 

  Childhood traumas

  It’s complicated being me. When I was a wee chap my dad threw me around the swimming pool too much so I ended up becoming a bore and a dullard, I hate unexpected things happening, except on the stereo. What’s with Hella? They went from being the gentleman’s choice for polirhythmic math-rock (say it 10 [...]

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• Monday, November 27, 2006  4:37 am 

  Dance! Music! (Pt 3. remix friends reunited)

  Sweet!! There is a network of 20JFG friends who can do no wrong, and we love their warrm guts. They are spread across the world like subversive cells doing their own thing, working in the corners of the system or wholly outside it, where monetary concerns are tangential and fads the fast blur of some [...]

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• Friday, November 24, 2006  2:30 pm 

  Dance! Music! (Pt. 2 Ghetto tech studies)

  (We are featuring, for our second instalment of the Dance music post series none other than Professor T.D. Coleman from the University of California at Berkeley talking about Ghetto Tech. I find it hard to express our pride at having such a luminary of cultural studies writing a small review for us. If you don’t [...]

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• Wednesday, November 22, 2006  4:02 pm 

  Ah fuck, we were born at the wrong time.

  Yeah, it pains me to think that we are socially wasting away in some lame two-bit indie-disco hovel, sneering at shit like Hadouken! and groaning as the opening bars of ‘Never Be Alone’ are blasted out for what seems like the 2,498,365th time. Geez, instead we could have been super-trooper italo renegades striding from one [...]

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•   1:22 pm 

  Dance! music! (Pt 1: Intro & kitten kick)

  ”If I have to play records like (*) to connect to a young crowd, quite frankly the young crowd can go fuck themselves” Some people in Glasgow rule. After leaving all the darkness behind, one of the 20JFGees is going to concentrate, during the next few days, on the noble art of dancing. Hold on, [...]

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• Monday, November 20, 2006  4:01 pm 

  Studio Klaus

  Joakim is a part of Tigersushi and therefore a god amongst men. So it was a delight to hear the new LP ‘Monsters & Silly Songs’, due in January, and to hear loads of nice things within its dense layers. Joakim conjures up the atmospherics of Goblin (check out ‘Sleep In Hollow Tree’ over at [...]

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• Sunday, November 19, 2006  4:01 pm 

  lack of sleep produces monsters

  Horror is not Dracula coming to bite your neck that’s sex. Not Zombies coming to devour your flesh that’s revolution. Not a devil sliding up your throat to cuss your mother that’s bad manners. Not a ghost in a shroud staring at you from the other side of the corridor that’s growing up. Horror is [...]

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• Friday, November 17, 2006  1:44 pm 

  Blip in the cocaine prices!!

  It’s the UK Music Hall of Fame!!!! God. Come back to the UK for this. Nevermind. As Mike Patton said… I was having some quality time with my dad the other day and he was going on about how if Mozart had been born these days he would have been Max Tundra or Andy Jenkison [...]

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• Wednesday, November 15, 2006  3:26 am 

  it’s kitten time

  Liliental – Wattwurm Wattwurm is the little krautrock kitten first let out to play in the snow at Christmas. While your uncle and niece laugh and play our little Wattwurm gazes in wonder at the new found land of what looks like solid substance, but on the press of a paw becomes wet and disappears! [...]

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• Tuesday, November 14, 2006  12:34 pm 

  We love car

  We never told you because we were afraid you’d think we are like those sad types out there who drool over chrome pipes and fake leather seats and think that purchasing ‘the ultimate seduction in compact format’ (Audi A3 BMW Series 1 apparently) will make other drones envious and improve their puny chances in the [...]

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• Sunday, November 12, 2006  4:03 pm 

  come away with 20JFG

  ESG invented drums. No really, it says so in The Bible (page 237, line… er… 21). It wasn’t Neu!, and no it wasn’t Can either, it was ESG. We feel it is our job to educate you on these historical religious events in music and we know you don’t read your Bibles you horrid little [...]

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• Thursday, November 9, 2006  4:46 pm 

  oral confusion

  Kano – it’s a war Kano is perhaps best known for his cutting hedge uk post grime give me the fucking money and I’ll sing over Phil Collins style rn’b, but a little known fact is that at the tender age of -10 our pimp riding uk sell out star made some great disco records, [...]

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• Wednesday, November 8, 2006  4:01 pm 

  A Cultural Exchange

  Synth cyber dalek humanoids from 2525 AD, Suicide, turn synthesisers into sex crime victims. In a good way of course, but nonetheless they rape them into a yelping ravaged frenzy. Synthesisers were not invented before Suicide practiced in a loft in New York city, if you have heard of synths before this time its a [...]

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• Tuesday, November 7, 2006  12:46 pm 

  The Reign of Heliosexus

  Yes, I have been gone a long time and the story of my dissapearance is strange indeed. I will, however, regale you with it should that be agreeable? It is? Excellent… Dark were those first months in the belly of the mighty whale, Seskolath. He who’s stomach is the size of a hot air balloon [...]

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• Sunday, November 5, 2006  4:01 pm 

  we know how to have fun.

  Yes we do. It was only last week that we went to see two robots fucking, in-out hardcore style, yes? After the robots had fucked, the lady robot sauntered off to a dark place to sleep and the gentleman robot stumbled around bumping into things – just like real humans! You don’t believe us? Well [...]

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• Thursday, November 2, 2006  4:00 pm 

  RATTLE N SHAKE

  Those of you who missed Coughs last night in Brighton, well…LOSERS. Gig of the year with Boredoms in Barcelona and Liars at the Hippodrome and Curzon Theatre. Big high five to James Nascent for putting them up. Catch them and send them our love in the following places in the following dates Nov 3-Milton Keynes [...]

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•   1:25 pm 

  The Velvet Underground’s messianic trip

  20JFG has a bit of a bad reputation in certain quarters, they say we’re a bunch of bitter nerds and that we hate everything except the odd gem of putrefact noise that sounds like Thom Yorke’s face, or weird stuff we dig just because it’s weird and wacky and gives us hipster cred or whatever [...]

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• Tuesday, October 31, 2006  4:15 pm 

  tubular balls

  Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Bands – Floral Dance JUAN: parp parp…STEVE: Ommmmmm om om ommm …..JUAN: I’ll tell you something, er, that um pah horn reminded me of something.STEVE: Ommmm …..JUAN: Did you, did you see that, er, TV coverage of the, er, the dj when he was lying in state? The-, the last dj, [...]

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•   6:25 am 

  There is a darkness that never goes out

  TRICK OR TREAT!!! Happy Halloween dear readers! Don’t fear we have lost it, we’re always losing it! But there’s lots left…enjoy, just read this small zine the way you’d watch a controlled demolition in delightful slow motion, small crumbs of sanity falling from our flanks like spiritual dandruff, until the great collapse happens, in two [...]

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• Monday, October 30, 2006  4:32 am 

  Listen upp

  You NY hipsters, you know how Tussle can do these magnificent Liquid Liquid ESG Konk style jams, yeah, I love ‘em, they’re great. You can hear Tiny Sticks and Scraper throughout, which I guess makes them punk-funk, but in a good way, without that dreaded lowest common denominator standard disco-punk beat which makes us spit [...]

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• Thursday, October 26, 2006  10:00 pm 

  Discoball with 666 carved on it

  The resurfacing of Space Disco in the last couple of years didn’t really come as much of a suprise for this Italo obssessed 20Jazzkateer. We had electro and synthpop, then acid, (i’m ignoring Neu Rave) so its obvious that another form of dance music from yesteryear would be wheeled back in. Figurehead Lindstrom is thought [...]

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•   2:23 pm 

  Flipping is caring

  20JFG work not network We would have loved to come to your fabulous house party but we lost the flight back after a sleepless nite running zig zagging criss crossing the wet streets of the Berlin-rotterdam-Amsterdam-Ghent Euro-day-neon-glo industrial terrordrome with Miss Violetta Beauregard while chased by a pack of nazi rave acid bee frothing pitbulls, [...]

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• Tuesday, October 24, 2006  10:00 pm 

  He had come bearing the gifts of the sun and the quasars

  Soul Jazz could be called something annoying like ‘tastemakers’ with ‘their fingers on the pulse’ but these shitty terms actually hold true. The ‘New York Noise’ compilations rule as its well difficult (and expensive) to find some of the artists on vinyl and Soul Jazz fill them with brilliance. Volume 3 has just dropped and [...]

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• Monday, October 23, 2006  3:22 pm 

  Natural history

  Deerhunter – Spring Hall Convert When we first declared our unrequited love of Bradford Cox and the geek miscreants Deerhunter it was at that age of the Buck when they had to stop playing together as friends as their furry antlers emerged. It was the loss of innocence and the coming of the rut. Heatherwood [...]

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•   1:32 am 

  Paper submitted to the Journal for the Studies of the Adolescence

  In this post we demonstrate the importance of a rapid creativity-driven development approach to musical composition and performance through case studies of three successful ‘bands’, Grabba Grabba Tape, Cutting Pink with Knives and Das Wanderlust. We demonstrate how models for musical creation which disregard genre boundaries, make use of available technologies (instead of trying to [...]

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• Thursday, October 19, 2006  3:02 pm 

  Saturday friday etc.

  One day we were thinking it would be amazing if we could, besides promoting the stuff we love and respect, also demote what we loathe and despise, you know, like fucking Moby. I think he’s a synthetic. Someone smack his face. Blood or milk? Let us know. 20jazzfunkgreats is a zine written by peace-abiding individuals [...]

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• Wednesday, October 18, 2006  3:21 pm 

  No we don’t get tired of saying zombie, and sometimes we say goblin too. yeah, what.

  A nation of zombies!? Nah, we aren’t that lucky (though some say its already happened), apparently this is going to happen instead. But alas that is in a katrillion years time so none of you fuckas will see it, we will of course as we are supreme eternal beings from a parallel dimension that dwell [...]

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•   12:20 pm 

  Putting the caring back into scaring

  Bobby Beausoleil is a bad man. A cohort of the Manson Family he was ‘allegedly’ responsible for the fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman in 1969. The following track is from the soundtrack to Kenneth Angers “Lucifer Rising”: Bobby Beausoleil & the Freedom Orchestra – Movement The Fifth Beausoleil gets convicted of the murder, but is [...]

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• Monday, October 16, 2006  3:01 pm 

  Haters!

  Fuck your fancy recording studios and your fifteen takes to get those vocals right, fuck your high production values and your proficiency, your virtuoso solos and arrangements processed twisted and contorted through an n-track recorder, fuck your snobbish attitude towards anything that’s loose and fresh and doesn’t conform to your pathetic standards of professionalism, fuck [...]

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•   12:36 am 

  it bites!

  (This is slightly adapted- erm, actually mostly ripped off- from ‘the Preserving Machine’, a short story by Philip K. Dick, you can find it in his beautiful ‘Beyond Lies the Wub’ anthology). Dr Labyrinth was worried about the collapse of civilization. He thought of the art, the literature, the music, everything that would be lost. [...]

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• Thursday, October 12, 2006  3:01 pm 

  The Knife are planning to rock…

  (…sorry, worst title for a post ev-aaah) The Knife are touring they’re live show to the UK this weekend, which means that 20 Jazz Funk Greats and assorted companions will be staring wide eyed at the double video screens of Swedish robo-enhanced day-glo-goblin rave. But before the prancing silently shouting pygmy-skeletons serenade alongside the happy-hardcore [...]

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• Wednesday, October 11, 2006  3:01 pm 

  Fuck ‘Night Of The Living Dead’

  Yeah you read right, fuck ‘Night of the Living Dead’* its shit, as zombie films go its tame and boring. ‘Zombi 2′ (or ‘Island Of The Flesh-Eaters’, ‘Zombie Flesh Eaters’, whatever they call it in your country) is by far the best undead opus that your living eyes will feast on, unless your in Norway [...]

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• Tuesday, October 10, 2006  11:45 am 

  Evil and mysterious arts

  which we learned throughout the dark weekend at the cost of a couple of layers of skin and 20 points of sanity…this is only the beginning Have now refin’d my Method, whereby I may cease to take heed to those Nu Rave fools who trouble mee. The recording dungeon is fit (id. est, v. dense, [...]

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• Friday, October 6, 2006  1:03 pm 

  Edgeworld post

  A couple of weeks ago when Brighton was sunny I went to Edgeworld on a record-shopping errand and Colin was there, he was like, hey dude how are you doing, I was, yeah, it’s all cool Colin, how are you doing yourself, he said, yeah, cool. I browsed through the new albums and there were [...]

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• Wednesday, October 4, 2006  8:13 am 

  Winter Music

  From time to time props need to be given to our godfathers (the virgin sacrifices are a bit risky and some of these sacrificial “virgins” have been lying to us too). Chris & Cosey, or Dad, are Lords of the New Wave, so join us in respect and let us pray… Chris & Cosey – [...]

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• Tuesday, October 3, 2006  1:20 pm 

  New rules to dodge the rules:

  Hoot like an owl and rowche like a rumbleDo something magical and disappearScratch the above and write new rulesThese rules autodestructed 5 minutes agoAnd don’t forget to lick the mustard from the hand We love these bands: Just when you thought defeat was imminent, Yeborobo fly from their laundry bags with magical signs painted in [...]

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• Monday, October 2, 2006  1:04 am 

  Sparse post

  A moth is sitting there staring at me malignantly as I type this, this is what I am doing on a sunny saturday morning. The moth hasn’t moved for two hours, mind, I haven’t spent two hours typing that sentence, I’m not that good, I guess since there’s light everywhere this moth doesn’t know where [...]

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• Thursday, September 28, 2006  11:00 pm 

  A Space Odyssey (A True Story In 3 Parts)

  Alien, whos name cannot be spelt out on a puny Earthling keyboard, is bored of his home planet (again too impossible to spell), so he is on a one way trip to Earth, hitching a ride to our fair planet on the back of a passing meteor. He hurtles through quasars and nebullas until he [...]

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•   1:38 pm 

  A computer screen to escape from our sad lives, please

  Thanks (the above is dark castle btw, there goes our geeky purist cred, sheesh, mixing up text adventures and videogames you guys weird) [[[Opening credits]]] FTSE100- Hail Hegemony Welcome to 20JFG. Release 12 / Serial number 990623 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/7 East of House This is a small room with white walls and a [...]

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• Wednesday, September 27, 2006  10:51 am 

  20jazzfunkgreats’ answering machine

  Monday 8.10 PMHi guys, this is Sasha calling from Drug magazine, we have Sex Fuck, a super-sleazy gay electroclash trio coming over from Paris next week. They have been getting rave reviews from all our taste-maker DJs and friends and their debut single, ‘baisez votre frere’ is a hot hit. Anyway, to cut a gak [...]

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• Tuesday, September 26, 2006  2:24 am 

  Let’s have a big 20jazzfunkgreats love-in

  That’s what you thought cunts. Apologies for the expletive, but I just got up early in the morning to pick up a parcel from the post office, I was expecting some fancy delivery from a place far away, the scent of adventure and an exotic disease, perchance, but do you know what I received instead? [...]

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• Sunday, September 24, 2006  3:00 pm 

  What is the difference between ‘Music’ and ‘Dream’?

  The difference is frequency (or the specific speed that energy is vibrating at) apparently; according to Ida No in her slightly scary conversation with the inquisitive but logically agnostic Robot on the intro to the new Glass Candy tour CDR ‘Music Dream’. We’re just energy perceiving energy anyways. There is no opposite to energy as [...]

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• Thursday, September 21, 2006  1:58 am 

  A letter from the tower of power

  (tis a sublime message a raven delivered from lawrd Genuine’s manor by the sea where the fish swim and the octopi twirl and the jellyfish somersault and some assholes go skinny dipping and GET EATEN BY MECHANICAL BADASS SHARKS WE DIRECT WITH SOPHISTICATED REMOTE CONTROL DEVICES) Gosh, there seems to be an awful lot of [...]

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• Tuesday, September 19, 2006  4:00 am 

  Tractor Beam

  ‘New’ Arthur Russell LP ‘Springfield’ collects together alternate versions and cuts from the unreleased ‘Corn’ LP. It also features a remix of the title track by the DFA. ‘Let’s Go Swimming’ is a personal Arthur Russell favourite and it too gets an overhaul: Arthur Russell – See My Brother, He’s Jumping Out (Let’s Go Swimming [...]

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• Monday, September 18, 2006  2:40 am 

  Fear and Loathing in R’Lyeh

  One day, while lounging around in the lounge, I noticed a fancy plastic case tableing around in the table. I picked it up and realised this was no less than a little videogame, one of those artifacts people like me use from time to time, mostly for cathartic purposes or when hangover, they are usually [...]

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• Thursday, September 14, 2006  3:13 pm 

  20 Jazz Prog Satellites

  FLASH POST: New LP from The Emperor Machine is killer, but of course, and it comprises the previous Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise 12″s plus totally new stuff that is equal parts epic, discopic (is that a word?), rumbling and thumping. Space disco at its best: The Emperor Machine- Monkey Overbite ‘Monkey Overbite’ is what [...]

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• Tuesday, September 12, 2006  10:27 pm 

  one of those audio flyer things

  Self promotion is not lame*, its a neccessity, therefore it is time to promote like a motherfucker and give you nice free hot-action music too cos thats what we are all about in the end, yeah. The Do is this friday and it has two fuck-off cool bands that will slay and charm in equal [...]

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• Monday, September 11, 2006  4:32 pm 

  Chains is all I’ve got to look forward to.

  Have you ever been tempted to slap some booty during Assault on Precinct 13? We are not giving away if 20jfg ever have or not, but we are real sure them good guys would have been helped out by a suspension shifting car with bass system to give the bad guys the brown sound while [...]

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• Sunday, September 10, 2006  3:01 pm 

  Care Lady Funeral Disco

  Why do some people find music that isn’t all happy-clappy 4/4 beats depressing? Some of the best, most amazing heartbreaking sound can come from people like H T R K, a band who don’t feel the need to keep you dancing and smiling, no, they operate on higher plains, their concern is not for your [...]

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• Tuesday, September 5, 2006  1:49 pm 

  The question is not why am I me, but why am I me and not you

  Hello people, apologies for the lack of posts but Juan’s pooter was finally taken by the creepy guy who lives with all the spiders down the corridor after he refused to give him his babies (the creepy guy took the babies anyway), and Steven is finishing his teletransportation to Genuine Towers with an exorcism of [...]

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• Wednesday, August 30, 2006  3:01 pm 

  the animals will inherit the stars

  We lowly creatures at 20JFG adore anything Emperor Machine-like, and they never fail to impress with remixes of artists dodgy or brilliant (does not matter either way): Markus Kienzl – Dundy Lion (Version Emperor Machine) ‘Dundy Lion’ comes from Klein Records (the proud lion image beats the faceless 12″ cover anyday), and features a Mars [...]

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• Monday, August 28, 2006  3:01 pm 

  Turn off your mind, relax and kick someone in the face.

  Remix albums tend not to be that great an idea in general, more a ‘lets squeeze out the last few drops of cash from the last album’ kind of thing. There were a few of them last year (goodie: Justice, Erol Alkan and Test-Icicles’ Sammy Danger tearing up Death From Above 1979 (who have fucking [...]

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• Friday, August 25, 2006  1:53 am 

  DieDie

  Deranged no wave demons Die Todliche Doris once recorded two albums that were the same length (each track the same duration over both LPs) and were meant to be listened to simultaneously to create a mystical 3rd LP. We don’t have those LPs and the track we are posting doesn’t come from either (yeah yeah, [...]

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• Wednesday, August 23, 2006  11:49 pm 

  How do we explain this

  ‘Music is like a dream. At the same time it is, on the contrary, like a more distinct form of conciousness than that of our normal waking hours’ (Yukio Mishima) Sometimes it is both, sometimes we are hit by sonic rays of loving grace coming from an unexplored universe, of a mysterious beauty which is [...]

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•   1:09 pm 

  Won’t someone please think of the Children

  Yep, poor them, subject to all those pernicious influences out there, dodgy Wicker Man remakes (someone bring us the head of Nicholas Cage), Star Wars DVDs where Greedo shoots first, shoulderbags with Jim Morrison’s face in them, bourgeoise new era caps, Ableton, Rockstar game characters way realer than MTV rock stars, those evil multinational entertainment [...]

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• Monday, August 21, 2006  3:36 pm 

  Space Race Lego Rave

  Brighton is sunny, apocalyptically rainy and stormy all at the same time today, with a hairstyle destroying wind that shears through the streets like invisible bullet trains. I am inside packing boxes moving from xxjfg Towers to Genuine Heights, listening to Lego rave ballads: XXJFS2 gave the heads up on Thrust Lab, Baltimore based 8-bit [...]

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•   10:37 am 

  Message found in a tin can

  I stole my sister’s boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road We drove down South. And this is what happened. 28th AprilA concert of horns and then deferent silence, the metal worm shut up under the neutral gaze of a kakhi brick wall, [...]

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• Thursday, August 17, 2006  3:06 pm 

  Those who are anxious to attack

  Searing laserbeam death from robots constructed in junkyards PEEOW! SebastiAn, French king of glitched up rusted 1985 electro, has a brand new EP awaiting release from Arcade Mode. A taste, pour vous… SebastiAn – Walkman Title track ‘Ross Ross Ross’ is all well and good, but as with the previous 12″ ‘Smoking Kills?’, it’s the [...]

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• Wednesday, August 16, 2006  3:20 pm 

  A Modern Dance

  Quick post with some modern dance music, you know, like what kids dance in the discotheque, you know, not traditional, no jigs or (as beautiful Leonora Carrington sez) Catatonic Sardines or morris dancern, it’s all a bit ‘blog’ if you know what I mean but super nice as you’ll see/listen, trust us, we care for [...]

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•   11:55 am 

  EAT MIKES > SENS DAN U ZINC

  All the tunes in this pretty post are secretly interconnected like those channels under Venice where little red riding hood midgets chase Indiana Jones and rats dance inside skeleton eyeballs or the subconscious diagonals of a Thomas Pynchon novel. If you discover the nature and direction of the linkages, well, fucking hell, you just scared [...]

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• Tuesday, August 15, 2006  11:34 am 

  Pre-2O12 sounds from 2O12

  Whilst firing off flaming arrows at haters from high up in the turrets of xxjfg Towers I noticed a curious sound that kept repeating across the lands. It wasn’t the sound of hater-flesh being simultaneously sliced and sizzled by my be-quivered fire bolts of vengeance, for I know that sound all too well, and it [...]

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• Monday, August 14, 2006  10:00 am 

  Ok ready for some chaos

  Let me quote Winston Niles Rumfoord: ‘There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the mafia’. Well, do you remember how I got lost in [...]

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• Friday, August 11, 2006  1:52 pm 

  So you say you are a weirdo sir?

  Do sit in that sofa and hand your tape to trusty Silas, he will slip it in the ornate stereo player hidden in that medieval armour, yes, in its helmet, how ingenious, and press the ‘play’ button at once, Stuardo, Stevonius and me will light our pipes and listen intently to the distillations of your [...]

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• Thursday, August 10, 2006  11:02 am 

  A disco odyssey

  Good evening argonauts, Tonight I’m gonna take you on a tour, the mediterranean clubs where all the adventurous kiddies go and try to leave their bodies by various means and methods, anything necessary, some things that you quite won’t be acustomed to, so I think we’ll fit each and every one of you with your [...]

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• Tuesday, August 8, 2006  3:02 pm 

  soniK bOOm POST

  Christ, we are fucking busy kids y’know, hence the shortness of this post – making up for it by having three tracks though, one being 18mins long so no bellyaching you damn fools, here you go: Arpanet – No Boundry Condition First up from the recent 12″, ‘Reference Frame’, comes a track by Arpanet, yet [...]

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• Monday, August 7, 2006  1:35 pm 

  Now that’s cabaret punk

  I guess The Blood Brothers can be a bit of an acquired taste (if you’re over 17): a pure ADHD rollercoaster of grindcore razorblade sharp plunges and piano led power ballad peaks, if mathrock is beardy rock and roll guys showing (off) their jazz influences, then they are lethal hardcore punk kids throwing up their [...]

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• Thursday, August 3, 2006  4:33 pm 

  Masterful edits of Krautrock classics

  Propulsive ghostdance german funk monsters we love it. CAN or a drum thrust towards the innerspace white hot flame without hesitation. NEU! or a relentless trip down a magical mystery psyche autobahn. Timeless stuff, songs to end your night with the bang of a metronomic supernova: as James Murphy once said, if these bands were [...]

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• Wednesday, August 2, 2006  3:03 pm 

  Is it all over my Atari? I’m in Love & Caring.

  ‘Shining Violence’, the new Chromatics LP, the LP that may halt production of all other bands future LPs for fear of constantly being second best, has been delayed. Yeah, fuck, I know, it sucks but there is good reason. They are taking their time to perfect it, maybe getting some guest vocals in and they [...]

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• Tuesday, August 1, 2006  3:01 pm 

  12:01 am

  Many eons ago in the distant past of 2OO3 your humble narrator was slouched for endless days in a smelly flat in Whitechapel that housed me and two friends. It was nice enough, if you ignored the barrage of old McDonalds packets that prevented you from opening some of the doors cos they were piled [...]

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•   1:23 am 

  Most of our heroes don’t appear in no stamps

  The world is in great danger, evil clones march on from music-boxes everywhere, like most boring common denominator chrome wasps ready to sting the spirits of the youth and turn them into mindless cool-obsessed drones willing and happy to devour the latest glossy fad churned out by the entertainment factories, music becomes another fashion accessory [...]

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• Sunday, July 30, 2006  9:00 pm 

  "Like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now"

  Wheras boys can grow funny little beards and rock the wizard look or go full Horrors and look like girls wanting to be goth boys with deliberately slap-dash make up, its really down to the fairer sex to go full schizo-gonzo on our collective ass. Check out Dandi Wind for example, a deranged feral performance [...]

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• Friday, July 28, 2006  3:07 am 

  >SHALL WE PLAY A GAME_

  Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ would be here right at the top if only it had not been posted already by both Moistworks and The Number One Songs In Heaven. It would be at home today with its glamorous snynthetique disco-porn thumps. Its Italo day! First up comes a jaunty little number by Digital Emotion. What they lack [...]

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• Wednesday, July 26, 2006  11:33 am 

  Wolf being a wolf for the wolf

  Hi Kids, apologies for the lack of posts this week but we’ve been fighting the heatwave and the black bugs that started appearing in the periphery of our vision as soon as we stopped smoking cigarrettes after the busy gross weekend. We have also been ‘absorbing’ the new Wolf Eyes album, ‘Human Animal’, released by [...]

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• Friday, July 21, 2006  2:47 pm 

  Do something

  The political music I like doesn’t have any sloganeering in it, it’s not a pamphlet, it’s not about easy solutions to hard problems, it’s not about rules to live all lives by, it won’t try to impose any commandments in my brain because that’s not the way to convince my heart, and I know there [...]

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• Wednesday, July 19, 2006  3:57 pm 

  What time is hell

  Neu-Rave will not fuck off will it? Pookie and I have just this very nite witnessed Rother & Moebius blast out some at Komedia (actually it was equal parts squiglly Neu Rave, Miami Vice, holiday TV program theme tunes and actual Neu!) to a basement of bearded folk who kept talking loudly (hello? legends in [...]

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•   4:19 am 

  Tales of the unexpected

  Allez Allez – Allez Allez Allez Allez is the sound of an organic Brazilian Associates. As nutty as new wave squirrel shit, but with a firmish grasp of a groove, you’ll be surprised to here this tune was actually made by contemporise of The Associates in the early 80s in Belgium. Maybe not that surprised [...]

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• Monday, July 17, 2006  5:31 am 

  man sandwich

  Neutral Mute – Engine You know the bit in an LCD Soundsystem concert at the opening of Movement, when the crowd of indie, dance and electro kids suddenly turn into the front row of an Anthrax gig in 1987? The controlled ranting turns into a primal outburst, and James looks like he’s having the most [...]

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• Friday, July 14, 2006  10:29 am 

  Beat it like’s it an omelette

  20jazzfunkgreats is a dance music blog. That the tunes we like to rave to tend to contain shiteloads of white noise, weirdoes yelling gnarly obscenities and cyclopean basslines that literally do bring the house down simply proves that those years we spent locked in a basement wallowing in our own filth, watching Lon Chaney movies [...]

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• Tuesday, July 11, 2006  10:30 pm 

  Holy Spirito!

  Remember last time I said I had a favourite band? They were from Toronto and went by the name of Crystal Castles, their Nintendo no wave blitzkrieg is blasting sharp window bytes off those stupid London skyscrapers to chop airheads’ heels off like, two minutes ago dude, check them out tonight in Delete Yourself at [...]

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•   9:55 am 

  If you’re not a wizard how come you be writing about music like this?

  I don’t think I know or am what it’s needed to write about these songs the way it should be done but I can’t help it, because even though my spirit is weak, its roots buried and dead in grey concrete and clogged waterpipes criss crossed by sly rats, the white light white heat of [...]

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• Sunday, July 9, 2006  9:00 pm 

  Six o’clock already, i was just in the middle of a dream

  Digitalism have never really blipped up on my radar (xxjfs2 has had them on his for a while) in the past – so-so remixes of stuff, ok-ish solo things that didn’t really grab me. They just seemed like another electro-house by numbers DJ duo that thought, ‘Yeah, let’s make some tracks!’. That was until I [...]

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• Friday, July 7, 2006  2:24 am 

  LISA’S WORLD OF HARDCORE

  ‘Wotcha. So I was round my bredren Bob Marley’s house the other day watching the Da Vinci Code on bootleg. After he’d made me sit through the entire Mad Professor back catalogue for the umpteenth time he started playing me this track by some geezer called Silverlink. Fuck me. This is way better than any [...]

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• Wednesday, July 5, 2006  4:20 pm 

  White belts white belts!!!!

  The Horrors – Count in fives (demo) The Horrors sound like a bunch of old men from Manchester/Medway/Milton Keynes or one of those places of ledged, and if they were we are sure they would be held in great respect by the masses. Because they are a bunch of young overdressed upstarts from Southend on [...]

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•   12:15 pm 

  Los asesinos de la luna de miel

  Honeymoon Killers were a belgian new wave band who got in all the 80s hit-lists with an efervescent cover of Charles Tenet’s glorious tribute to paid holidays Nationale 7, which Stereo Total also did in their hit n miss (too long) Musique Automatique album, they sounded like Devo if they had featured J.C. Vannier on [...]

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• Monday, July 3, 2006  4:04 pm 

  On Crystalpixelvania gonzana

  An article at Wired suggested today that video-game journalism will one day find its ‘language’ and this will be ‘some crazy, unruly spawn of sportswriting, gonzo journalism, analytic philosophy, memoir and investigative reporting’. Sounds interesting to me, and it makes sense, after all, aren’t video-games more or less complex, interactive worlds the player becomes part [...]

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• Thursday, June 29, 2006  4:00 pm 

  i’ve seen a million faces

  Wanted: Job for Stuart xxjfg Stuart from 20jfg has graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Although presently employed writing regular expressions all day long he would like the opportunity to work at something he can really get his teeth into, preferably in Sussex, but London for [...]

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• Wednesday, June 28, 2006  10:36 pm 

  No huskies.

  Purveyors of Noise and stuff that is ‘experimental’, Excepter, have a new LP out next month. It’s a bit more coherent, nay, dancey than previous efforts too. Its not exactly Crystal Castles Rave! But y’know, you can bop ya head to da beat. Do the quirky jerk-jerk: Excepter – Rock Stepper So yep, bit more [...]

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•   11:43 am 

  We r banging the box r u banging the box

  DJ Godfather- Bang the Box [OMFG](funny sound) bang the box [DJ GODFATHER] bang bang the box bang the box bang bang the box bang bang bang bang bang bang bang (funny noises) let’s go (pounding techno beats) bang the box bang bang the box bang the box bang bang the box bang bang bang bang [...]

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• Monday, June 26, 2006  4:47 pm 

  Love Bloody Love

  We aren’t always playing gnarly stuff at 20 jazz funk greats villa, no, it’s not always no wave and no rave and no ise and schyzoid electro-techno beats from hell, we know robots have a heart, but it beats to a different drummer. No, have you ever tried to think about that erm, significant one [...]

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•   2:52 am 

  2 kindsa bass

  Today we are going to talk about bass grammar kids…the bass is a flexible tool you can use in different ways when you are making a song, here you have two examples: Bass as verb In this case the bass is the glue bringing all the different elements of the song together, it takes it [...]

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• Thursday, June 22, 2006  4:06 pm 

  Money has no smell

  Kirk Degiorgio Presents Esoterik – Starwaves Today is a day for stars and to say its good to laugh and cry. Starwaves sets out on the time trip path of future disco with an air which may date the track to The Orbit in Leeds but soon takes it further back to the late 70s [...]

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•   9:00 am 

  Zarpa Beat

  So we didn’t get to post that awesome ghettotastic remix DJ Funk Justice remix, and it’s too soon to unleash a HOT Crystal Castles butchering of Atlantis to Interzone number which is gonna make you shit your dayglo bermudas, Merok’s got the key, it doesn’t matter, we’ve got some synthetic banging raving toons to keep [...]

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• Tuesday, June 20, 2006  10:30 pm 

  Girls Rock Like Dorks Won’t

  Standard. Witness the nite ladies putting all the wannabe leather jacket clad assholes to shame (later on in the week some exceptions). Yeah, we won’t cringe if they pull those guitar worshipping poses. We’ll smile and write a thesis about it. Always check Sympathy for the Records Industry albums, not that you will be able [...]

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• Monday, June 19, 2006  3:15 pm 

  [Senza Titolo]

  So 20 Jazz Funk Greats blew up big on Friday, didn’t blow the speakers mind; crank volume = loss of nite. While XXJFS2 pranced around the lake district with TwenTinaJazzFunkGreats and 1FG handled business at The Do, XXJFSt3ve played alongside extra soopa great guests Benedict, who played equal parts grime, EBM, hip-hop and Post Punk, [...]

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• Thursday, June 15, 2006  12:41 am 

  We read scary important wild books

  ‘According to custom, the man had brought a black hen in a brown canvas; he blindfolded it, then cut its throat over the fire whilst looking to the east. The hen’s blood did not put out the fire; on the contrary, it seemed to make it burn more fiercely: tall blue flames shot up, and [...]

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• Wednesday, June 14, 2006  1:44 am 

  Two from BCN

  Ok kids, I am writing this at my (fancy and ample, admittedly) new house with no internet connection, so I’m going to put whatever crap I manage to churn in a floppy disk (I’m a cassette player videotape etc. kind of guy) and do the html and publish malarkey at work. It’s a swag arrangement [...]

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• Monday, June 12, 2006  3:08 pm 

  Planning to knife the Dog

  PTR was kind of a mystery to me but once this track turned up on Ivan Smagghe’s and Chloe’s new compilation, ‘Dysfunctional Family’, I now know of her mad one woman brains-on-sticks show. Planningtorock – DeathDream So Chicks On Speed dig her so much that they put her on their pretty little label (home of [...]

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• Sunday, June 11, 2006  3:06 pm 

  Cock-Suck / Fizz-Fuck

  Hey readers, sorry for the lack of updates last week but we’ve truly been up against it what with holidays, moving house, losing internet connections, battling wasteman internet companies for access, yeah its excuses I know, but thats the deal. We will improve and stop being bad, promise. Lately we’ve been getting hot for some [...]

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• Tuesday, June 6, 2006  3:11 pm 

  Pookie and Genuine Do Barcelona

  Despite an avalanche of crawling n prancing n gurning n chair throwing hick (in a bad way) techno-monkeys at the dance tent on Friday (DJ Rush fer chrissakes), Primavera Sound ruled: I saw the best gig of my life (BOREDOMS) and one of the best 5 gigs of my life (ESG) and some that would [...]

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• Monday, June 5, 2006  3:17 pm 

  Death By Stereo

  XXJFSt3ve winds up in Brighton after being pulled apart by art-skool fiends and Shoreditch vampires in East London and barely surviving the terminal boredom of village life in Surrey. He sets up a blog (To Here Knows When – no link it ain’t there anymore) cos he has a fast broadband connection and too much [...]

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• Friday, June 2, 2006  2:17 am 

  no-werk

  It’s the weekend! Woop! Friday in Brighton we have When I plugged her in she just blew up with the delectable Miss Pain and Miss Heidi Heels in a Heavy Metal fancy dress special at The Penthouse. Aerial Pink at the Freebutt. Pink Grease live and The Horrors dj set at TheDoClub at The Core [...]

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• Wednesday, May 31, 2006  3:03 pm 

  an XXJFG summer

  Its the summer, its actually sunny and hot (ish) in Brighton! So here, erm… is Dark Day: Dark Day- Chameleon Yeah ok, this is a bit morose and if its raining where you are, sorry if you feel the need to cry when listening, but we never said 20 Jazz Funk Greats was all rollercoasters, [...]

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•   5:01 am 

  alt.bible relatives

  Michael Rother – Sterntaler My favourite uncle of 20jfg, sure to give us a Worthies Original on every visit, is Michael Rother. With Sterntaler you get that initial opening sweetness which soon swells into a rich multi layered caramel, not in an overwhelming way, but just right. Jaki Liebezeit keeps the rhythm steady while Conrad [...]

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• Monday, May 29, 2006  3:30 pm 

  When the going gets weird it’s weird

  Have you ever fantasised about Mike Patton and DJ Scotch Egg getting together to compose an alternative soundtrack for Suspiria? Do you leave your room often? Don’t worry dear reader! We 20jazzfunkgreat kids understand you have eccentric worries, and that’s why we are bringing you this track from the thrilling power & blood & silver [...]

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•   12:40 am 

  E.S.GEEK

  Hawnay Troof has just released Dollar and Deed, one of the albums of the year, maybe to make up for his super-short releases of the past (usual tune clocking at around a minute, is Get Up resolution love an album or a maxi?), fancy speedlines and dayglo sneakers, aerodynamic tube socks make up for superrapid [...]

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• Wednesday, May 24, 2006  3:23 pm 

  Cosmic Joy C > Galactic Joke D = Galactic Supermarket D

  HTRK- Ha Slow and filthy, thats the way we like it. HTRK manage to record the missing semi-industrial dirt soundtrack to that Richard Kern film you know he has in the private stash of him and Lydia Lunch getting to ‘know’ each other while watching David Lynch movies. HTRK share the scent of “this is [...]

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• Tuesday, May 23, 2006  3:35 pm 

  Extraterrestrial Tones

  Silver Apples are what we stand for, a weird beat you can dance and go WTF to at the same time, all in a tune, Program is but the archetype (Hallogallo, Kiss me Again, Mother Ski, Sister Ray, Ruckzuck, Windowlicker, U.F.O. would be other examples). ‘Why do people bother doing music after this?’ asked Massimo [...]

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• Monday, May 22, 2006  3:03 pm 

  bring out your dead

  20 Jazz Funk Greats had a go at being professional DJ’s on the weekend at The Great Escape, courtesy of the nice guys at Adventures Close To Home- our thanks go out to them! Evil tyrants MTV2 fucked with our shit so we only got to play a small amount of records before Metric’s intro [...]

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• Friday, May 19, 2006  5:30 am 

  It’s The Arockalypse on the day of Rockoning

  The Emperor Machine – Bodilizer Bodilsizer God like genius award winners The Emperor Machine return with some new Vertical Tones And Horizontal Noise taking the shape of a track so gloriously infectious and Old Grey Whistle Test it hurts. For those of you who are unlucky enough not to know The Emperor Machine have been [...]

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• Thursday, May 18, 2006  1:11 am 

  thee post

  We at 20jazzfunkgreats know about the rules of argumentation and taxonomy, so we have decided to put up three bands that begin with a d. And one that begins with a w cos we feel like it. As Milan Kundera would say, you’re gonna have to put up with it guys. The first two are [...]

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• Monday, May 15, 2006  4:11 pm 

  \\\\\ \\\\\ \\\\\

  Are we giving you a Fox N’ Wolf overkill on 20JFG? No, it would be overkill if they sucked but they don’t so its an overload!!! 3 tracks this year so far, you lucky bitches! Partly inspired by a recent viewing of Teenwolf (don’t bother with Teenwolf 2, but check the last 10 minutes for [...]

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• Thursday, May 11, 2006  3:15 pm 

  Gnnnnarly

  From time to time, once each two months or so, your 20JFG kids need to release all that tension accumulated doing research on the way people do things online (you’re our guinea pigs dear readers), plotting to undo the western economic system, programming code trees of extreme complexity that unfold multidimensionally like origami chicken printed [...]

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• Wednesday, May 10, 2006  3:24 pm 

  Before the alter of Rave I will bow

  Rave! We promised more rave before but didn’t deliver but now we are so fuck off with complaints! Some old some new (or neu), its all good whichever fickle fashion music cycle it spawns from, nineties or nauthies (I fucking hate that term). Hands in the air, all ravers: Rather than give you some random [...]

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•   12:15 pm 

  Hope it’s sunny tomorrow!!!!!

  Ok I was going to write a post about the transilvanian doom metal invasion coming to carve Satan’s real name in your forehead with a meat cleaver, you know all the sludgy witchety evilness etc. but then the sun blinked at me (even though it’s 9.00 PM on the evening oh well) and I thought, [...]

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• Tuesday, May 9, 2006  9:19 am 

  Dream Captains

  (This was supposed to be posted yesterday but our macpage thing blew up, apologies for the delay, bless our star kid Steve for a solution…enjoy!) Can Oneida do no wrong? They have been releasing consistently mindblowing albums for a few years, I guess they should start a subscription business where you pay a fixed amount [...]

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• Thursday, May 4, 2006  3:14 pm 

  Something New

  Aah, the split 7″, such a wondrous creation. Recent great: the Silver Daggers/Death Sentence: Panda split, part of the Bored Fortress series, with its brown card, glitter paint and stuck on paper leaves. Thats how you make a record sleeve, none of this photoshopped to the nines shit. Bleugh! Uber-label Kill Rock Stars put this [...]

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• Wednesday, May 3, 2006  3:03 am 

  When the DJs came

  Listening to good coca-disco might make you feel a bit weird, especially if you are out on a stroll around town with your headphones on, you know, just check out the high drama high octane synths and the reaganomics robodisco beats, whoops, suddenly you’re not walking, you’re making moves, that guy over there in the [...]

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• Tuesday, May 2, 2006  2:01 am 

  Clara

  Too many people have written too many things about Scott Engel and how he gave up boy band career ect ect. I do not find Scott fascinating, just his music. All I can see is like any good micro organism, adapt and survive. As a performer Scott is one of those rare kind attempting accelerated [...]

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• Friday, April 28, 2006  1:15 pm 

  CIRCLE SQUARE EGG: Massimo’s post

  This is a post by Massimo one of those people who’s pushing the ‘scene’ forwards which I guess means doing his own thing with passion and excellent taste, because people are wise and pay attention, wait, maybe I’ve been reading too much Rousseau, anyway, Massimo has also been making it hard for your 20JFG kids [...]

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• Wednesday, April 26, 2006  3:05 pm 

  ///// ///// /////

  Two totally unrelated and opposing tracks today, just doing it random, no themes, no loose ties, just . . . meh. ‘Begegnungen’ I & II and the Plank-less ‘After The Heat’ were kindly rereleased on Water in October of last year. Yeah we’re super lame for being so late, but we’re bringing it now, and [...]

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• Tuesday, April 25, 2006  4:48 pm 

  Pick the right rule to break

  I Was going to write an erudite super-long post about Hawnay Troof’s sexual politics and such but then I started playing Sissyfight2000 (I’m hardcore) and spent way too much time, you know, bullying people around the playground and saying that emo sucks big ballz lol. So it’s late and the evil agressive instincts that usually [...]

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• Monday, April 24, 2006  3:50 pm 

  Are zombies mutants?!

  Is this one of these posts where the 20JFG guys don’t write about music but about made up movies with zombies and bikers and nazis and surfers and shoegazers and monkeys wearing leather trousers blah because they don’t know that much about music and anyway it’s more fun to bullshit, Lester Bang’s school of rock [...]

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• Thursday, April 20, 2006  3:12 pm 

  Robots vs Monsters!

  Whoops, its Friday and we’ve only done two posts! Sorry! But don’t playa hate, its been all about bank holidays here, throwing sickies, forest-dwelling, buying the best 12″ (top left) of the year and various other shits and giggles. Back on track next week, sure thing, with some more of this new-fangled rave business, and [...]

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• Tuesday, April 18, 2006  4:23 pm 

  this is not horror, we don’t come from Hell

  Sucking on helium and then talking is funny when you’re like 6 (or stoned) but when you record a song with it, that’s soopa doopa good! DAT Politics have made one of the craziest bonkers albums of the year, ‘Wow Twist’. ‘What’s Dat?’ is maybe the cutest thing on there, and we like cute sometimes, [...]

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• Friday, April 14, 2006  2:47 am 

  Down w Jesus

  After kicking off their Easter Genghis Khan Overkill style with the soundtrack to ‘Kittens eating Babies’ by GG Allin as performed by Wolf Eyes, and shaking down and dirty with the Bug (highlight: Ras B riding Jammer’s Merkle Man riddim), your 20Jazzfunkgreats kids are getting sacramental now, witness the meekness. First there’s the passion, none [...]

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• Thursday, April 13, 2006  1:20 am 

  There bleeds Concorde again

  Hey, we have been going about all dis rave shit indie dat blah blah don’t take us seriously dear readers, never ever, but especially when we get down with the trend business cos i-D we ain’t and we don’t wanna we no wanna. But if you wanna see what we are talking about come to [...]

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• Tuesday, April 11, 2006  3:12 pm 

  heading Neverland

  What’s the new sound the kids dig? Grime was the new Indie and then Neu! Rave is the new Grime, but fuck all that shit its Neu! Techno Trance Lullabies from The Knife! The Knife! Live! Oh my. While its kind of easy to just want it to be the most amazing life affirming EVENT [...]

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• Monday, April 10, 2006  10:45 am 

  90s revival pt 1

  So there’s an indie rave happening! It’s got a myspace profile and we have even mentioned it in our magnificent The Do press release: it’s happening! And how does it sound? Like this Ceephax Acid Crew- Camelot Fossil plus this Retro Spankees- My Sonic Driver Or them of course. Watch the 20JFG kid who was [...]

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• Friday, April 7, 2006  4:39 am 

  and now you are dead

  Silver Ninjas – Night Wars You are bleeding because we stabbed you! God those ninjas are sneaky, don’t let them anywhere near your fucking precious heirlooms. These ninjas are a bit different cos they don’t go in with shinobi, they are setting the score right for those decades without record when ninja secrets were passed [...]

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• Thursday, April 6, 2006  2:58 pm 

  nice cup of tea?

  Occasionally you have these times. After going to ‘Touch Me I’m Sick’ the other week and doing a bit of jiggling to ELO and Starship alongside Tiga and Daft Punk you have, as Dave Unpop would put it ‘the 80s in my head’ kinda attitude. Its nothing to do with being cool, ironic or even [...]

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• Wednesday, April 5, 2006  5:10 am 

  Happy otter/Sad otter

  Happy otter likes it that it’s spring and stuff. Happy otter likes the Heavy Meckle mixtape by Sheen and Matt Shadetek because it’s badass as hell and mostly sounds like the evil bass at the beginning of I Luv U by Dizzee Rascal only all the time. Happy otter is not sure about the social [...]

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• Tuesday, April 4, 2006  10:50 am 

  things ain’t what they use to be…

  Grumpy old men that we are we often complain that things are not as good as in the old days. The fact that we were either not born or knee high to a grass hopper in said old days has never stopped us, so it true Last of The Summer Wine style grumpy old fucks [...]

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• Sunday, April 2, 2006  3:10 pm 

  do the devil dance

  Clouds lift, but then descend once more, night creeps in, you fire up the speakers, this comes to mind. Just. Press. Play. Padded Cell – Signal Failure Black Magic DisKo! DC Recordings gave us The Emperor Machine which we bowed down in adulation for, but Padded Cell too? Spoilt! But where as The Emperor Machine [...]

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• Friday, March 31, 2006  1:24 pm 

  Spread your legs!

  In the spire of a gothic church in a dimension beyond the worm hole a young Nick Cave contorts, knots of black oily muscles react to the synaptic firework expanding and retracting beyond what’s natural, blood shot eyes shoot satanic if only not, agnostic death-rays. ZAP ZAP ZAP no interventionist god, or devil in this [...]

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• Wednesday, March 29, 2006  5:36 pm 

  hoover boys

  Noise Boys – miniminiminijupe Stephan Eicher is one of the people from Grauzone so we got to love him really. His first recorded music project we know of is Noise Boys. I was going to write all the things about fun lo-fi French punk that sounds like a 4-track and Suicide and stuff but then [...]

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• Tuesday, March 28, 2006  2:31 am 

  Like it was the 80s all over again

  Fuck prog-disco let’s prog! Zombi would rock my world with the strength of Skeletor after a sack of green-beret grade amphetamines even if they were shit, I mean, how cool does it get, a duo playing imaginary soundtracks to Dario Argento, George A. Romero and John Carpenter movies, Corey the Huss introduced me to them, [...]

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• Sunday, March 26, 2006  11:58 pm 

  wonder-ful music

  That’s where we at, I know in the past we have said we were doing ‘Noisy fucked up music you’re not supposed to dance to but you can’t help it momma, momma, what’s happening’, ‘all that’s left of what the hipsters try to hijack’ (left as in left-hand) and ‘the music they play at Fraggle [...]

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• Friday, March 24, 2006  6:30 am 

  bad acid

  Channels 3 and 4 – The Queen demo One good reason to leave the house is obviously to go see some of the amazing bands on Summer Lovers Unlimited . I think we blogged almost all their artists before we new about the label, so they must have good taste. The Queen is here and [...]

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• Thursday, March 23, 2006  2:31 pm 

  kick some shit

  Oh god, the return from London last weekend was hellish, we had been warned about tribes of cannibals armed with crossbows roaming the roads in their customised dragsters, Stuart laughed confidently and raised slightly his Slayer t-shirt to show our concerned interlocutor a gold-plated colt python hanging from his waist. loaded with silver aconite flavoured [...]

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• Wednesday, March 22, 2006  6:44 am 

  like this?

  Well, London was shoddy chaos on our behalf. Thanks to Den and Glyn (aren’t they lovely??) for putting up with us and Twitch, Tim and Tim for the great music, but mostly thanks to everyone who came to witness, to those who danced to Lightning Bolt and Kraftwerk and to the guy raving with his [...]

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• Thursday, March 16, 2006  4:20 pm 

  kids today are right to make a fist

  One of the lucky few bands that escaped the nuclear fallout of Electroclash, A.R.E. Weapons have a new EP out! We love the Weapons cos they come on like a group of Escape From New York prisoners that live underground fronted by none other than 1FG (judging by the picture), or maybe a biker gang [...]

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• Wednesday, March 15, 2006  1:48 pm 

  Silver Apples r Yummy!

  I am such a fan of the Silver Apples I have made a colourable poster of them for the next Do zine. Just listen to any of their tunes and feel the power of a drum, or a brotherhood of drums being played by a single body with a beat and a drone that will [...]

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• Tuesday, March 14, 2006  1:48 pm 

  Dark Carnival

  We live in Brighton and like to go to the Pier for the lunatic ambience of lost love, everywhere old people die in the summer sun marooning in multicoloured deckchairs and those fooled with a passion take their try at the karaoke, so we go to watch the freaks…. Jamie T- Salvador Whether its charm [...]

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• Monday, March 13, 2006  2:59 am 

  keep on keep on living

  Everybody seems to be bored/sad/not very enthusiastic about stuff these days, is it seasonal people? spiritual? global? local? physical? I don’t know folks. What’s clear is your small 20JFG won’t get any sexual healing heh heh. GALS? Not unless they’re on tape. Anyhow, we wanted to help those of our readers feeling a bit whatever [...]

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• Friday, March 10, 2006  11:58 am 

  Save yourself from Dracula and Satan

  I’ve done my share of fear posts and you people don’t seem to give a shit. But I don’t care, cos as HPL (second quote on a week and I’m not even a member of his church) said, more or less, in his introduction to ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’, fear is the oldest and strongest [...]

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• Thursday, March 9, 2006  3:20 am 

  Black Goo Flicked Pop

  Here at 20 Jazz Funk Greats its not all drones from dark dimensions and John Carpenter worship, no, sometimes we like to show our poppier side! (*flashes poppier side*) Not too poppy though, we need some sort of black goo flicked across it to make it more vicious and apocalyptic, and today that black goo [...]

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• Wednesday, March 8, 2006  3:28 pm 

  Great music

  Sometimes we like it small like faint memories of that bite a mouse took from the pale cheeseball in grandma’s country house when we were little. Sometimes we like it small like young atoms floating in a space that wasn’t space, but nothingness, a second ago, yet how can you measure that second if time [...]

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• Tuesday, March 7, 2006  1:23 pm 

  Lord Nuneaton Savage’s Old Gods March issue

  He’s started a blog!! But now…putting the jazz and the funk back into the jazz funk. Archie Shepp- Money Blues pt. 1 No apologies for highlighting this particular track from Soul Jazz’s awesome ‘New Thing!’ compilation despite making it one of the reissues of last year. This Mother needs some extra special attention. Also no [...]

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• Friday, March 3, 2006  1:32 pm 

  There can be no more divisions among the living!

  Meanwhile, in Brighton, the kids were shaking their tails in a dirty basement. The amp shook and rattled, alcohol soaked mother giving birth to a yelping baby, a baby born on the floor, contrary to what you might have heard this baby didn’t cry the same, its blood was black groove and its little muscles [...]

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• Thursday, March 2, 2006  5:25 am 

  Delphine kann schwimmen

  Wooooo . . . breaking you’re foot isn’t so bad you know? Laying in bed all day, robot slaves cooking up the meals, fetching the records delivered by the postman . . . yeah, its ok. Especially when you have these fun little painkilling pills too . . . making the world seem like its [...]

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• Wednesday, March 1, 2006  1:09 pm 

  PEOPLE CHANTING ENTHUSIASTICALLY

  I know the TV on the Radio album leaked over the weekend so it must have been blogged to death by a thousand beautiful geeks out there, but it doesn’t matter to me, I’m covering my eyes with my feet and shouting ‘nanananananana’ as I type (hence the braindaamgd spelng) because I’ve got an ‘angle’, [...]

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• Thursday, February 23, 2006  4:30 pm 

  some old new wave and the new new new wave of no wave

  Staying up late can expose you to terrifying things. Like Late Night Hollyoaks and Channel 5 in general, or the hideous sounds of flatmates having ugly sex, ack! (no link for that, sorry). But it can also be incredibly beneficial. On P2P networks, the small hours of the morning in the UK means that the [...]

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• Wednesday, February 22, 2006  7:42 am 

  100% Random But True / Fuck the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

  Ok, so yesterday we talked about drums, today, let us listen to…drums. CEEPHAX ACID CREW IS BACK! Squarepusher’s lil mentalist brother (yeah, Tom is the normal one you see?) puts most dubstep geeks, drum and bass dancing clowns and warp backpackers (hum, do those Maximo Park fools wear backpacks?) to shame with a full machine [...]

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• Tuesday, February 21, 2006  3:22 pm 

  Drum’s Alive & kicking

  Yep, the new album by our beloved Liars came out yesterday, monday, and it’s a pretty sight. Thing is my vinyl copy seems to have some sort of defect and the second cut (Let’s not Wrestle Mt heart Attack) prances and bounces rather upsettingly. I have decided not to listen to it any more and [...]

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• Thursday, February 16, 2006  9:40 am 

  Myspace ate my face, I looked at the mirror-ball and I was a lizard

  I smiled. Myspace…oh, I could go on about myspace for ages. (Skip the next paragraph and do something worthwhile with your life mate) ((I could go on about ‘emo-haircuts’ and how the difussion of digital cameras has changed the fine art of portraiture, about stalkers and lame bands, about spam from lame bands (‘hey cool [...]

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• Wednesday, February 15, 2006  6:56 am 

  never never band

  We all know how there is only so much madness collected in one place in one time and levels slip and rise in patient/staff relations, so it all gets a little blurry who the patient is and the professional line goes wooo yeh, quantity theory of insanity, and the party gets a little wild. You [...]

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• Monday, February 13, 2006  2:20 am 

  slow

  The Screamers – I Wanna Hurt The internet is great and filesharing fucking rules. There is no chance on the planet someone like me born in the wrong country a little too late would be able to track down anything by The Screamers and not pay through the nose for it. Punks in Liverpool used [...]

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• Friday, February 10, 2006  12:57 pm 

  No squirrels were harmed in the typing of this post, but a few rock stars died, sorry

  Did we ever tell you we love Kill Rock Stars? We’d also like to kill a few ‘rock stars’ like Bono emperor of the world (Playlouder are right, he is starting to look like the Predator), but nah, we’re talking the excellent record label and we’d never kill anyone save for that evil narnia queen [...]

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• Thursday, February 9, 2006  2:06 am 

  Your mother cooks socks in Hull

  Free Blood – Never Hear Surf Music Animal Collective are not really known for having the funk. If they did it might come out like what we thing Beck should be doing these days (bit harsh, we liked the 8-bit stuff).!!! really do have the funk, like an army of it Napoleon Dynamite dancing down [...]

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• Wednesday, February 8, 2006  12:45 pm 

  The Sound of Terror

  I have a special playlist in my twat-pod just for when I face horror, that is, when I have to go to Churchill Square Mall, it includes Wolf Eyes, Burning Star Core, Sunn O))), Fushitsusha, Xinlisupreme and from tomorrow, this. Haddonfield, Illionois- La Rebelion de las Muertas In which a bunch of scary masked types [...]

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• Tuesday, February 7, 2006  3:08 am 

  ‘Have you gone down in the dark, where none is welcome?’

  Robin Crutchfield’s Dark Day- No, Nothing, Never Well yes, I have actually, now that you mention it. Gary Numan was there, sitting in the corner writing ‘Replicas’ while your track was playing, and the cast of ‘Liquid Sky’ were trying they’re hardest to look elegantly wasted and hide the fact they have zero acting talent. [...]

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• Friday, February 3, 2006  11:58 am 

  Dance like you shouldn’t

  You know how at 20JFG (and the Do) we kinda obsess with a number of things that include dario argento, artificial intelligence, ninjas, old school sneakers, heavy metal grafitti, stupid keyboards, bright colours, rammellzee’s outfits, cats, dan clowes, mythical creatures, bruce campbell, h.p. Lovecraft and daft punk toys (wait, that’s robots). And Divine. We also [...]

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• Thursday, February 2, 2006  9:04 am 

  Computers are precise and people can be too

  Zongamin’s debut a couple of years ago was a total blinder, a collection of playful electrofunk toy symphonies composed by a smart and gentle bass wielding gentleman, who, when asked by me to autograph a copy, covered it with a drawing of an honest abe wearing a stovepipe hat smoking a, erm, pipe, and a [...]

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• Wednesday, February 1, 2006  1:20 pm 

  techno death metal remixes is cute

  Test-Icicles bring the Devil’s noise, we all know this. Their album ‘For Screening Purposes Only’, has enough death-metal-grime-schlock-hell to knock you straight over if you play it loud enough. But there have been some pointless dodgy dance remixes that really should be banished back to the studios from whence they came with a ‘PUT THE [...]

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• Tuesday, January 31, 2006  1:25 pm 

  Can one play chess without the queen?

  Today we’ve got Sam Wander who guested with Benedict at 20JFG a couple of months ago (and totally killed it) writing about a couple of Brighton bands from a thriving noise/underground/industrial/folk/always DIY as fuck scene that got started at bedrooms, house parties, little theatres and the Psykick Dancehall club/gig night that Ben and Hannah run. [...]

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• Monday, January 30, 2006  3:15 am 

  A broken song and a broken heart

  Nascent have been putting great gigs in Brighton since the good lordy knows when, last night it was Pheromones (non musical band which features James Nascent, James from the Sticks, Russel who sadly moved to london and a guy I don’t know, the style is a bit the Shaggs meets NEU! meets Fall or sth [...]

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• Friday, January 27, 2006  1:45 pm 

  Bad Blood/The Old Gods Number 1

  Matthew E – Bad Blood! Just searching the internet to find some more stuff out about lovely people over at Skint Records artist Matthew E (erm,one half of Radioslave it turns out- he famous) when I found this comment on a dance music record site about my favourite track off the 12” check it ‘Bad [...]

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• Thursday, January 26, 2006  11:26 am 

  Our brains have been destroyed by violence and saxophones

  …but we ain’t gonna sue anyone… Ninja Scroll! ninjas fighting demons! First time I saw a hardcore sex scene on TV! (Doggystyle wOOt!??) So much blood and arms being torn apart and this ninja who kills people by having sex with them! tattoos which are snakes that become snakes and bite a poison bite! a [...]

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• Wednesday, January 25, 2006  9:11 am 

  Don Johnson is undead and producing killer electro

  I guess you might have noticed the xxjfg beast bot has reproduced and spawned another head. We are proud to announce a new addition to the collective of Steve from one of our favourite blogs of last year To Here Knows When. Steve refused to accept the reprogramming we gave him and will continue on [...]

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• Tuesday, January 24, 2006  11:12 am 

  Beat the january blues with a baseball bat

  Alright, so this will be up on tuesday but was written on monday, which was supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, it’s the january blues, a grey sky, debts mounting, no escape like good old mummified Sky Saxon said, well, why don’t we just…fuck it? Yeah, fuck it with a good [...]

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• Monday, January 23, 2006  2:36 am 

  If you go down to the woods today…

  Caribou – Marino All the things you want to say about Caribou have already been said. The Silver Apples psych sound obviously leaves xxjfg drooling over them while the album made many peoples top 10 ten lists last year which we were very glad to see. Marino – the dvd seems to have slipped out [...]

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• Wednesday, January 18, 2006  5:41 pm 

  indie!

  If indiepop is about running around and falling around with the face painted in dayglo colours while wearing a strippy everything, and climbing in the merry-go-round with creatures ten years younger after an all night bender and sending text messages full of lil faces and wearing those colourful badges with pride of being silly but [...]

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•   9:43 am 

  Human vs Lizard

  Human Eye – Age For anyone who ever drowned themselves in the psychic apple barrel of Chrome and the world of Helios Creed but wished somewhat to have more of the skinny limp-wristed punch in the face of Stiv Bators at the throat, screaming his best non-sensicle hope I die before I get old (well [...]

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• Tuesday, January 17, 2006  7:57 am 

  Dance this mess around (once again!)

  Going out can lead you to despair. The 20JFG kid finds himself lost in a scary forest of boring half assed half baked acid, crappy 4×4 electro-house made with PVC beats, worthless remixes of indie disco crap and generic disco-punk nothingness. DFA please release something and deliver us from the drudgery of the early 2006 [...]

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• Monday, January 16, 2006  1:20 am 

  You know what those are? Those are sun dogs

  Copy – It’s a Little Too Late Pure self indulgence for me on this one, just to ease you into this week in Winter for our hemisphere. Slippers, log fire and some electonic goodness to warm the barnacles in the led glow. Right from the start we are witnessing the missing link between Isolee and [...]

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• Friday, January 13, 2006  1:50 pm 

  How we like our beat on a friday the 13th

  Ok, we said we’d normalise the situation and then we disappeared. Bear with us. We have been fighting spiders, throwing up on top of grannies, representing gay rights, we’ve been attacked by viruses and spit blood, we have made friends with dragons and tigers and slept with Cassette Playas, we have read Kurt Vonnegut and [...]

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• Friday, January 6, 2006  1:56 pm 

  You made us gay, boys

  Tis a hit n run post Scott and Juan try to breakdance manically when geekdom answer’s to Bubba Sparks and Ying Yang Twins hit da club. Shitkickin banjo playin booty shaking soul diva chantin you Hawnay Troof are hot you. Hawnay Troof- This is Our Invite (feat Mika Miko) From the community ep out in [...]

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• Tuesday, January 3, 2006  4:48 am 

  Music that sounds like the echoes of a dying race’s last words

  …or like the whispers of a new race’s first*. Yep. We have decided to begin the year with a super fun post, lots of pop for you inhabitants of die 2006. I didn’t know about three of the bands I’m writing about until a couple of days ago. The underground is fun and all those [...]

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• Tuesday, December 27, 2005  6:14 pm 

  NYE 2006 20JFG party

  (we are posting this with some time so you have time to come…) Welcome to our party, is gonna be fast and dirty and everyone is going to have such a good time you should give us a prize or at least a sweet kiss. You know how sometimes everyone tries so hard to have [...]

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• Sunday, December 25, 2005  3:25 am 

  Presnts

  Brief xmas prsents post for you Santa Claus worshipping people and other victims of cultural globalisation. You people who follow other traditions don’t read this or do the right click save as routine until the day your God chose for presents to be given n taken. Also ask yourselves if you are flexible enough for [...]

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• Friday, December 16, 2005  11:22 am 

  your reality ain’t more real than my reality, for real

  (Lessons on postmodernism learned watching Amityville Horror 3) I am 1FG and I am a person. I also happen to like records. This is going to be my last post for a while. Flying to Madrid on saturday. Come to 20jazzfunkgreats at the Penthouse (7-1AM, free entry, cheap drinks, Massimo guests) and the Do at [...]

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• Thursday, December 15, 2005  11:39 am 

  Lord Nuneaton Savage’s Reissues of theYear

  Ok fellas, our comrade Matt has made a few write-ups of his re-issues of the year, listen with attention because he knoes his shit. Also, of all the white people I know, he’s got the best way of saying motherfucker. That’s quite important too. Jean Claude Vannier-L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches This has been a superb [...]

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• Tuesday, December 13, 2005  4:15 pm 

  Pop musik

  We know almost nothing about Multiples except they did a great song on a compilation our friend Mags was nice enough to get called “Raising mental health awareness in scotland” 20JFS2 played it at the ArtSchool Dropouts gig with Pro Forma and Fujiya and Miyagi where Russel Warrior like it, so we get him to [...]

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• Monday, December 12, 2005  6:09 pm 

  Psychic ghoul dance hall

  Telepathe – Blind Mouths When you’re doing homework its difficult to listen to stuff that just goes “rahhh!” so you end up listening to a lot of ambulance music and exploring your interest in classical. Country and Folk would be perfect but it has too many lyrics about stuff you suddenly find yourself deeply engrossed [...]

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•   11:05 am 

  some nice 2005 albums according to 1FG & 20JFS2

  Ok, no tops or anything, just a lil’ list of things that we enjoyed this year… -The Animal Collective- Feels (you listened Grass here and can enjoy Purple Bottle at Kill All Artists and Banshee Beat at Motel de Moka). -Black Dice- Broken Ear Records (the DFA remix of Smiling Off, one of the tunes [...]

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• Wednesday, December 7, 2005  1:43 am 

  1FG top10 gig’s of 2005

  1-Liars @ the Kilburn Luminaire Ok, you know, we are obsessed with Liars, I shelled 10 quid for the three songs in ‘We No Longer Knew Who We Were’, I saw them make it night in Barcelona, one of the main reasons I had for starting a night was getting somewhere to play their stuff [...]

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• Monday, December 5, 2005  12:16 pm 

  Back from busyland

  People! People! Sorry for leaving you in the wilderness for such a long time but we’ve been stoopid busy, went to London to see Liars blow up the Luminaire in the best gig 1 has seen this year (we’ll bring you some bits of the new album later this week, fingers crossed), Celebration were aces [...]

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• Monday, November 28, 2005  4:52 pm 

  Wax on wax off

  Clearlake – Good Clean Fun (Caribou mix) Brighton! Brighton! Brighton! , yeh we love this town. Here we watch Clearlake’s vocal harmony layered indie tribute to xxjfg favourites Loop transformed into something (almost) friendly loop(ed) guitar space rock out that doesn’t nearly last long enough for our tastes, but you cannot have cake and eat [...]

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•   3:39 am 

  3D Disco Krup Clowns

  Hella – Madonna Approaches R&B Blonde Wreckages What is she approaching them for? Is she dumping Stuart Price already? Who the fuck cares, this is Hella and they are playing in Brighton on December 7th at The Engine Romms and we are going to be there come Hella high water ……………..(ow, stop hitting me). When [...]

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• Friday, November 25, 2005  1:52 pm 

  20jfg has a cosmogony going, and it’s the shizzle

  It’s not always underground comic books and music journalism that we read at the 20JFG towers, nah, sometimes we have fun with Edgar Allan Poe, but mind, not the ‘pop’ (or maybe better, goth) stuff, which is real cool, of course, no, we read Edgar Allan Poe’s Essays on Physics, namely, Eureka, included in a [...]

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• Wednesday, November 23, 2005  11:56 am 

  Jesus was a tree

  It’s not always monster guitars and stomping disco beats at 20JFG towers, nah, nah, sometimes I wake up in the morning and each tiny spec of dust floating in the smokey air of my chamber is a little sharp blade cutting the skin and making my soul bleed, oh lord it hurts. Those days which [...]

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• Tuesday, November 22, 2005  11:49 am 

  video games are violent and their music is fun

  (what’s there not to like?) In anticipation to my possible participation in a research project about learning processes in the video-game industry I have decided to take a look at three different eras in the history of this form of entertainment, art, if thou wilt. Let us begin with the dark knight himself, yes, Batman! [...]

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• Friday, November 18, 2005  9:54 am 

  wolf post

  How many good bands with wolf in their name…Wolf Eyes, We Are Wolves, Raised by Wolves…we’re not so hot on Wolf Parade but Dan digs ‘em so they’re cool with us, like. What’s the thing about this beautiful and bloodthirsty animal that makes adopting its name such an attractive proposition for restless souls? Maybe the [...]

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• Wednesday, November 16, 2005  1:42 pm 

  Split your white pants

  Ok, first, apologies for the dearth of posts this week, it is hard, yeah?? Anyway, there we go. Stuart played this in the last Do. I played it in the 20JFG before that. Stuart played it in Unpop the month before. I even posted it already in this blog ages ago. It’s Caesar’s Column by [...]

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• Friday, November 11, 2005  2:44 pm 

  Shake like a neon snake

  Not that sure about the new Gossip (or Goxxip) single, too indie disco and formulaic for me. And then there’s the awful remix, why does it seem that everything Le Tigre touch these days turns, well, into rubbish? I used to love them, seriously. Anyway, I prefer old school Gossip, well fucked up, like Coachwhips [...]

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• Thursday, November 10, 2005  11:23 am 

  We live by night

  Thanks to Scott I’ve got this new computer at home and I can write about music and listen to music and stuff, its belly makes this fun noise which is kind of hypnotic when you stop and listen with some attention, last night after some hours of HUMMMMMHUMMMM I felt like grabbing a kitchen knife [...]

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• Tuesday, November 8, 2005  3:28 am 

  Sacred pitch

  We have enough noisy bouncy stuff to fill two weeks of 20JFG agony, but let us do a quiet one first, you know, like hush-hush, Autumn has finally arrived and ochre leaves accumulate outside and the wind bites, let us curl up in a foetal position in the little den we have made with our [...]

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• Thursday, November 3, 2005  1:46 am 

  Bands from Japan that start with Z (and some other stuff too)

  A big thank you to Liars Club for letting us play records in London at the weekend and go see The Long Blondes, Zongamin and White Rose Movement who were all great in there own ways. Send us photos if your reading Ricky. Especially enjoyed Midnight Mike bopping away on his own at the side [...]

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• Wednesday, November 2, 2005  6:28 am 

  Superpep

  Ok fellows, this has to be a fast one, Stu is learning how to land flies (this is true, he’ll explain some other day), I am at work, busy, and going to London in a bit to witness the fitness (Gonzales), the freakness (Jamie Lidell), the glitchness (Jackson and his Computer Band) and the miceness [...]

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• Tuesday, November 1, 2005  2:17 am 

  Dance to the Rodeo

  Here comes the man, hell yeah, he dee-jayed in Japan and got shot at in Korea, he taught Phil Spector the studio tricks, he made the twangy guitar respectable, he is the reason Gram Parsons didn’t sing in Sweetheart of the Rodeo and the reason Nancy became more than the daughter oh the voice, he [...]

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• Thursday, October 27, 2005  7:33 am 

  20JFG vs London, it’s a Halloween Beetroot thing

  You know the story… ‘A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried’…It happened to me yesterday… Yay, it’s Profondo Rosso, it’s the original master of [...]

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• Wednesday, October 26, 2005  2:31 am 

  pretty indie things

  Today it’s a 20Jazzfunkgreats do the indie pop thing issue, it’s just a coincidence that Pitchfork have an extensive dossier on twee stuff. By the way, when did Pitchfork news stop being funny and get quite annoying, as if they were written by a dude, or something? Maybe when they started trying to be consciously [...]

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• Monday, October 24, 2005  5:29 am 

  Faustcisco

  Faust – j’ai mal aux dents When an engineer managed to bumble together Faust’s removed from reality home recordings (made to amuse friends) then master the lot in a studio a bright spark at Virgin records thought it would be a great idea to put it all on an album and sell it at the [...]

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• Friday, October 21, 2005  7:27 am 

  Disco 20JFG Do Ladyfest busy friday!

  Three part post today cos there was nought yesterday… To begin the first instalment of what might become a little series in which we pick tracks we like from good dj mixes and post ‘em in their original version. Who’d thought it?? we’re so inteligint! Anyway… When I think disco it’s always Carlito’s Way by [...]

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• Wednesday, October 19, 2005  3:58 am 

  Italian Masters of Horror

  Argento – Milano Gospel Rock rock it’s a planet rock, or is it? I mean what’s with the kinda creepy flutes and stuff? Well we couldn’t really expect anything less from the son of Dario Argento(we might have made this bit up) on this late 80s world music italo outing could we? Apparently he likes [...]

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• Tuesday, October 18, 2005  9:15 am 

  Texan mambo mixtape

  Benjamin Theves- Texas (SebastiAn Mix) Oh dear. Ed Banger Records SebastiAn who released the very nice Dolami does not know what he has let himself in for. Didn’t he read the sign? DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! SabastiAn has messed with Texas. Oh boy. They will probably make him go pick up litter from the streets [...]

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• Friday, October 14, 2005  8:40 am 

  70s Japanese Heavy Metal, yess.

  I got Matt to record me a compilation, but he’s a wizard so music’s trip from record to his stereo to tape to my pocket to my stereo to my ears couldn’t be straightforward, nah. Straightforwardness is for losers. So he channeled his record collection through the uncertain and magic world of fate (is our [...]

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• Tuesday, October 11, 2005  3:19 pm 

  One two, one two mic chicken

  Mushi Mushi – Chicken So we have Daft Punk meets Lightning Bolt played by Spanish white and pink furry aliens and xxjfg favs Grabba Grabba Tape. It’s unsurprising then that we also have 808 State meets Add n to (x) playing songs about chicken (which seems quite popular at the moment) in the form of [...]

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•   10:25 am 

  Sugogo and Whiteheart

  So Glass Candy have a new single out! We got the cd on the mail, cheers to whoever sent it! We love Troubleman! And you know we love Glass Gandy, it sounds lame but… RAUURGHH Still, to be honest this humble 20JFG kid is not 100% convinced about the A-side, Iko Iko, I find Ida [...]

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• Friday, October 7, 2005  11:07 am 

  FASTER, FASTER IT’S THE DO TONIGHT FRIDAY

  Core Club real close to Dr. Brighton’s/Pool Valley 5 squid with a flyer drink promos and no less than 8 people playing records for you, that’s around 50p per dj how cheap are we? The Do is your new favourite night if your into noisy edgy where the fuck did that come from music by [...]

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• Thursday, October 6, 2005  11:04 am 

  saturday nite, sunday morning

  Duchess Says – Cut Up We have been laying off Canada for a bit but Duchess Says got me. Hello! were back in Montreal. Everything I read about Duchess Says says they are Goths, but it sounds to me like they got the same overcharged buzz dance friendly sound championed by Whitey and made so [...]

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• Tuesday, October 4, 2005  3:15 pm 

  25 minutes!!!

  Gosh this has definitely done it. You wanted it? there you go, i think this is the best remix of the year so far with Emperor Machine’s rejig of ‘Human After All’ by Daft Punk but that’s got a motorik beat so it’s kind of cheating. Black Dice- Smiling Off (DFA Remix) There’s a certain [...]

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•   1:50 am 

  Moteros Mexicanos

  HA HA HA NOISE MINDFLAYER’S EXPEDITIONS TO THE HAIRIER PEAKS IS THE HAIRIEST RECORD OF THE YEAR WITH CONSTANTLY TERRIFIED BY HAIR POLICE WHO ARE LIKE GOBLIN DOING GRINDCORE MY MOM SAYS I HAVE TO POST EM SOME DAY. IT’S FUNNY THAT BANDS THAT HAVE THE WORD HAIR IN THEIR NAME OR THEIR RECORD MAKE [...]

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• Monday, October 3, 2005  7:40 am 

  I want to CHICKEN

  Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To (Max Tundra remix) Max Tundra has a good sense of humour and knows how to have fun. So do we. (Juan would like to add that he’s a fucking great DJ, guess that’s in the ‘having fun’ part. He dances well too. Hey, I sound like a fanboy) [...]

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• Thursday, September 29, 2005  5:30 pm 

  We built this city on hard naturally formed mineral or petrified matter and by moving forward along a surface by revolving on an axis.

  Audio Flyer alert : It Came From The Sea Soundsystem appearing at b’lo this Saturday with kicking k and nikon driver at the helm playing lots of songs with CAPITAL LETTERS. Last time they played this place the computer friend Daisy (R.I.P. tears, snuffle) blew up. It will be sweaty mayhem and they even play [...]

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•   9:58 am 

  Sun Song

  Another one that went past us on its day and fuck it’s good!!! This song should be played in any club I attend or I’m gonna start wasting people seen? Caesar’s column is our favourite track by Oneida and one of our favourite tracks ever (actually if anyone has the White Pants mix or the [...]

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• Tuesday, September 27, 2005  3:03 pm 

  The power ov love

  Chromatics – Nite (demo version) How did music began? After the quality that is the Chromatics tour CD available from Troubleman Unlimited we were wondering what would come next from the further recordings in Glass Candy’s studio. The answer blew our mind. Traditional song structure and chorus are yet again thrown out the window in [...]

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• Monday, September 26, 2005  12:26 pm 

  Wave of mutilation!!

  The Velvets shot drugs (poor Kate Moss) on young rock and roll and dragged its twitching body to a den of white noise. No Wave insects feasted on its corpse and synthetised small rusty iron toothpicks that when aligned in the right configuration turned into siege engines that brought down not their enemies but their [...]

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• Thursday, September 22, 2005  6:35 am 

  Man Deuce Death Ray

  Judy Nylon – Room Without A View The legend goes that as Brian Eno lay convalescing from an accident, Judy Nylon brought him a record of 18th-century harp music. While listening to it half awake with the volume turned down low, he discovered the magic of the space between sounds, of ambience. Judy went on [...]

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• Wednesday, September 21, 2005  11:01 am 

  Dancey songs for a robo-pirate

  The other day I was hanging out at 20JFG villa while minding my own business when Wakamaru (pictured) came trailing behind me, o, little yellow creature…and so it said with its monotonous voice… -Ahoy Master, have ye realised you haven’t posted a hornpipe barnacle in ye little hull for a full moon, arr? I was [...]

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• Tuesday, September 20, 2005  2:43 pm 

  Wolf Boy Jet Girl

  It rules to have friends who have good taste but sometimes disagree with you and think that x band you like is crap and you thing that y band they like is crap and then you check band y and they’re quite good actually, no surprise cos your friend had good taste to begin with, [...]

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• Monday, September 19, 2005  5:27 am 

  These guys rock

  Today we’re taking a break from the writing and leaving it in the hands of, first, a true and tested Fall fan, Mr. Love from SHRAG (who will be playing with Art Brut in the Concorde on Thursday, by the way). An open letter to Mark E Smith: Dear Mr E Smith Please do not [...]

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• Thursday, September 15, 2005  5:56 pm 

  ourdisco

  Neon Blonde – Barbados Nights Why are terrible drum machine toms and congas like sweet sugar to our ears at the moment? When some guy is screaming his lungs out over the top like a Robert Plant wanna be from a hair metal band it gets even better. Is that like two wrongs make a [...]

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•   9:40 am 

  Believe the hype

  Ok, NEU!’s vinyl reissues are being re-released. If you have read this blog for more than a week you’ll be aware that NEU! is one of those bands that makes us feel all warm and weird inside like watching the sun come out with a loved one and birdies chirping around. We have decided to [...]

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• Wednesday, September 14, 2005  12:03 am 

  Flexi Tourism in the Wasteland

  A.R.E. Weapons – Who Rules the Wasteland? As chat up lines go ‘I cruise through the wasteland on a collision course covered in the blood of an animal corpse’ probably isn’t an easy line to sing with conviction unless you really are Mad Max, Snake Plissken, Glen Danzig, Tom Waits and Jim Morrison all rolled [...]

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• Monday, September 12, 2005  4:06 pm 

  Instrumental musak

  Rolling around on the floor at Detournement in some odd drunken breakdance/air guitar hybrid style move seemed like an appropriate way to spend the weekend. This post is an apology to the three guys three times bigger then me who I tried to start a fight with after one of them trod on my head. [...]

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•   1:20 pm 

  How I quit smoking

  (with Pain and fear) I’m not quiting, I’m just cutting down massively, but I feel it. I used to smoke a lot when writing these pieces, well, no more, no more. The prose was crap, now it’s probably going to go to the dogs. Tell us if it gets real bad and I will light [...]

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• Thursday, September 8, 2005  7:35 am 

  Hott bolts!!

  Hot R.S. – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Act 1,2 and 3) It seems like only the other day we were talking about concept disco albums like Rinder and Lewis Seven Deadly Sins and Tantra Tarot Suite. Anyone know anymore, let us know in the handy little comments box below. I think this one beats the shit out of [...]

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• Wednesday, September 7, 2005  11:00 am 

  AD & D

  It’s all about monsters and fantastic creatures today y’all Whenever I ask someone about how does such and such band sound and they reply that it is…’angular’ I go…yucks! It’s been overdone kids, everyone is angular, my dad is angular, euclidian geometrics are angular, fuck it, c’mon, haven’t you read the Hounds of Tindalos? Maybe [...]

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• Monday, September 5, 2005  5:54 am 

  Lord of The Riffs competition!

  Here’s the facts- I woke up this morning in Stu and Tina’s lounge. They had gone to the beach to have races n pick up stones with holes in them and swim around in white Marks and Spencer undies (well hot). I had consumed a small amount of formerly legal drugs before falling asleep so [...]

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• Friday, September 2, 2005  2:06 pm 

  Sightooiooings

  My brother and me used to share a room and when the lights went off he would tell me about all these monsters lurking in the shadows and the wardrobe and under the bed, I would look intently into the murky walls and see the scariest stuff, that stuff you can’t really make out, for [...]

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• Thursday, September 1, 2005  10:55 am 

  Ruff n Smurf

  It had to be Load records! Fucking mentalists! dance label of the year, 20JFG sez so! They released ‘I’ve visited the Islands of Jocks and Jazz’, last album by The Hospitals! They play like werewolves and bite your ass like antrophagous roaches with rusted iron cuirasses! The kids hold their hands and spin in circles [...]

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• Wednesday, August 31, 2005  6:44 am 

  Tarot is lies.

  We know you all lie sleeplessly in bed at night wondering what does the future hold for xxjfg? No tea leaf reading, crossing palms with silver or crystal balls can tell us only through the Tarot. We could just be dice men, yes yes yes men or puppets of the fat controller designed to fulfil [...]

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• Thursday, August 25, 2005  11:55 pm 

  Green Blood

  A fast one for the party dudes and the party gals. We at 20JFG have always advocated sexual abstinence as a way of channeling your energies into worthy pursuits such as the development of highly complex imaginary worlds, The Novel or Boxing. Well, now we have Green Velvet on our side! And the guy surely [...]

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•   8:38 am 

  Library Music

  The Hip Place to be! Dodge the geeks with heavy metal t-shirts, long oily hair and poly-faced dices jingling from big silver chains and enter the horror section. I was always a Call of Cthulhu/ Cyberpunk 2020 bitch. Why go out, the world is a sick place and I want none of it, as George, [...]

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• Wednesday, August 24, 2005  2:29 pm 

  Song to end summer. Bip bip.

  Let’s get down to bizza. I think that Brooks’ Red Tape was one of the most sophisticated, seductive and slept on (not with as much as it deserved) albums of last year. It came out in Soundslike and sounded like (heh) the English answer to the Soft Pink Truth (they share labels), classy glitchy (male) [...]

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• Thursday, August 18, 2005  11:45 pm 

  Fuck Faithless

  Medieval chicken YEAH- ..tonight at the Penthouse 7-11 20JFG… Plug a gameboy, a casio and a mic to some decks. Drink cheap beer and wear funny clothes. drink cheap bear. Play noise music. Throw some techno in the mix. Play Black Dice. Dress whatever…do some E MC Square. Drink cheap beard. It’s Battlestar Gallactica! —with [...]

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•   2:06 pm 

  WE AROSE A YEAR AGO!

  (we don’t know that girl at all but she insisted on being in the photo and we didn’t want to argue…you can see us behind her) Well, actually 20JFGs birthday was almost two weeks ago but we forgot, we are busy and stuff. Oh those days of innocence and server crashes… After last nite’s postathon [...]

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• Wednesday, August 17, 2005  2:29 pm 

  Only one post this week so lots of stuff

  Yep, another post with a handful of amazing yet badly described tunes from your stressed hyper jazzfunk coffeine kids. Doing flyers for this club we’re gonna start with some other cool brighton people, will keep you posted on that, one member of the team is getting married, send your presents before saturday, writing phds, any [...]

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• Wednesday, August 10, 2005  8:49 am 

  Freak the Folk Away

  Ok, so we’re in semi-stasis, so what? it’s August for christ sakes, get off your computers and take a walk to the beach, play with the frisbee non-competitively or something… If you go camping make sure you don’t forget these tunes though (I missed Devendra Banhart playing in Brighton with Espers yesterday because I am [...]

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• Monday, August 8, 2005  2:14 am 

  Happy Monday

  I woke up today and there were roaches eating the bread crumbs that covered the crusty sheets of my bed. Another morning here. Another day which would be good if I didn’t have to use my AK. I got up and stood by the window. I could hear the yelling of the neighbours through the [...]

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• Wednesday, August 3, 2005  11:21 am 

  Dawn of da teddies

  Hey, no gonzoid ranting from us this week as we are busy fighting for freedom and the way of life. The fast-spreading robotic zombie benson and hedges smoking teddy bear plague is keeping us busy and in loathing (see above for a photo of the horrific mutation). Three of them critters escaped from the contention [...]

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• Monday, August 1, 2005  12:08 pm 

  geekBeetwoBeeat

  I’ve been pedalling through muddy waters with a flat brain-tire since saturday. Tonight I will visit Z-Z-Z-Zs repair workshop and have it fixed. So apologies for the brief post, but there are things that need to be said so you know, eh. This thursday at Club New York in Brighton it’s Geekbeat, from 10 to [...]

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• Thursday, July 28, 2005  11:28 am 

  shake those geometriks

  Hey! Why hadn’t anyone told me about this band?? They are called Antifamily and this song is in their self titled EP released last year by Difficult Fun which is the name of a Slits song. Antifamily- Staring at a Point It’s got it all!! offish postpunkgirl vocals!! blambapblamblam monster Metronomicon beats!! Nicely recorded dumdumdum [...]

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• Wednesday, July 27, 2005  12:54 pm 

  Aliens of Invention

  Felix Kubin- Hit Me Provider Hit me provider (Internet sadist song about te wholes in tissues of flesh. ‘Hit me Provider, I lost my mouse, oh no, I’ve got a Loch im Gewebe.de’) according to his website. Brutalist synthpop I say, and genius at that, Felix Kubin, ruler of the Syndicate of Counter-Noise, scrawls the [...]

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• Monday, July 25, 2005  2:15 am 

  For the gz’s and the hustlaz

  Last time I saw Snoop he was in Live8 sporting two very cute ponytails… I was like…WTF? I mean, the guy who turned my brother into a hustler with doggystyle, probably the apex of Gangsta Rap (with Straight Outta Compton and the Chronic), the guy who had this routine where gangbanging, smoking dope, smacking people [...]

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• Friday, July 22, 2005  8:55 am 

  Motown Philly

  Special guest post today from mr Gary 11 on, well Motown Philly. We will let him explain. “DMM-DMM-DMM DAAH DAAH, DMM-DMM-DMM DAAH DAAH, BAA-EY-AAH-EY-AAH-EY-AAH DAH!” etc.. I could go on. But I don’t think that would be a good idea now, would it. No, I’m not even going to think of trying to preach to [...]

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• Thursday, July 21, 2005  2:39 pm 

  Indians

  Indian is a long time favourite look down the local discotheque. You got to be brave(no pun intended) to pull it off. From The Sweet, The Village People, Pow Wow of Soul Sonic Force, Adam Ant through to Anthrax and now the latest bunch Tussle are all rocking the Indian too. Nothing turban based, just [...]

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• Wednesday, July 20, 2005  5:21 am 

  sex with ex-models

  We at 20jazzfunkgreats like to tread those fuzzy areas between what you can call (proper) indie and avant garde (whatever), Artrocker would be the ‘pop’ extreme and Wire the ‘leftfield’ one. We get lost in the edges, where things get messy and interesting, we like fucked up noises we can groove to and noisy grooves [...]

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• Monday, July 18, 2005  10:11 am 

  Transmission

  First things first, thanks to Fujiya and Miyagi and Steeple Remove for letting us dj at their gig at the Sussex Arts Club last night, we fucked things up a bit as usual but with panache, and both bands were ace. They’re working on some rather mind blowing stuff, we’ll make sure to keep you [...]

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• Thursday, July 14, 2005  2:37 pm 

  Audreyctricity

  Plant Life – The Last Song (Chicken Lips Remix) Plant Life give us a small hint in the lyrics like Bootsy, like Sly, like Jimi, like Prince, like George apparently and yeh, we can go with that. We would like to add Chromeo, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Daft Punk and Les Rhythm Digitales when it comes [...]

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• Tuesday, July 12, 2005  10:27 am 

  it’s dark out there, there’s monsters

  It’s all about the dark forest… Two years ago Phil Elverum disappeared in the woods of Mount Eerie, he came back carrying a beautifully hand-sewn piece of cardboard full of black vinyl that was dark poetry flowing with the subtle strength of an unseen stream. The spirit of Mount Eerie possessed and transformed the Microphones, [...]

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• Sunday, July 10, 2005  11:38 pm 

  The Sounds of Science

  Karl Popper was the founder of falsationism, a methodology for scientifical validation that stated that scientific theories cannot be proved ‘true’. According to him the only possible criterion for their acceptance is that they are not proved wrong, that is, contradicted by empirical evidence. He proposed that a scientist, when developing a theory, should present [...]

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• Friday, July 8, 2005  12:42 pm 

  Go to this

  Very briefly, today, just had to say… Circle are playing in Brighton on Sunday. They are this amazing Finnish kraut-prog-rock outfit who sing in a made up language called Meronian and rule quite a lot (so much they are playing in Kosmische’s birthday tomorrow). We missed them last year, and apparently they gave the best [...]

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• Thursday, July 7, 2005  11:34 am 

  No words

  I haven’t really been able to do anything today, just feeling weird and spaced. No-one I know, and no-one anyone I know knows have been hurt, still. It was the same with Madrid last year. It feels shit to think that way. That’s what it makes to you. What I wanted is to come back [...]

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• Wednesday, July 6, 2005  7:34 am 

  My Hi-Hank!

  Hank – Defreeze & Top Gal Today I have been mostly gyrating around like I was in a surfer b-movie. Sand in my Brylcreem barnet. So what’s causing this 50s throw back go-go beach happening you ask? Did you get Sisters of Suave by Thee Headcotees in the local charity shop? Nope. It’s simply. The [...]

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• Tuesday, July 5, 2005  7:30 am 

  Swimming Lazer Norse Vorsprung Durch Technik

  An Albatross – I Am The Lazer Viking An Albatross play that kind of stop start hyper energetic children of Devo noise we are so fond of at xxjfg, usually made by our Japanese friends like Melt-Banana. As a result they won a place in our hearts and set lists for quite some time now. [...]

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• Monday, July 4, 2005  5:16 am 

  You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.

  Danava – Silver Shock You know you really want Danava to all be 7ft drag queens from Uranus who thought Hedwig was false metal. Aparently they are not though, Danavas are the sons of Danu, a daughter of Daksha. Their father is the sage Kashyapa, who is a wish-born son of Lord Brahma. They are [...]

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• Friday, July 1, 2005  9:51 am 

  Connect the dots

  I am tired so let me write a lazy review, if thou wilt. I’m gonna connect Klaus Kinski and Kevin Bacon, no, sorry, Klaus Kinski and John carpenter, no, sorry, Kinski and I-F. Sorry. Please. Kinski is a band that does very beautiful, mostly instrumental rock that sounds a bit like a soundtrack to the [...]

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• Thursday, June 30, 2005  7:29 am 

  I’m covered in Beeeees

  Snuten – Crazy B (Lindstrom Remix) Any one who heard the 2003 album Welcome To The Jungle by Snuten on C+C records will know that they are indeed crazy in Norway. Check the oddski-opera electro of Rollerboy, it’s an experience. This Crazy B mix is on Hi-Phen and sees Snuten shake a tail feather like [...]

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• Tuesday, June 28, 2005  3:54 pm 

  Put one finger in a keyboard of water

  Cristine – I Freak Yay! One finger! Best type of keyboard playing. You could probably get a whole genre out of it. Numan got a few songs out of it. Ok so you got lots of people with keyboards, all playing with one finger, but its still just one finger! Feel the power of the [...]

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•   10:40 am 

  White Drizzian

  The other day a bunch of us were having delicious mexican food Julie had cooked and Dan slapped this into the…erm, i-pod. And I was like, wow, I want to post that in 20JFG…then I thought hum, maybe it’s not like, erm, 20JFG stuff. Then I thought…but what is, like? Old school no kraut wave [...]

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• Monday, June 27, 2005  6:08 am 

  Acid-botox-freak-out, dude

  Ok, let’s check my knowledge about Hawkwind… Lemmy Kilminster played with them. Angels of Death makes me feel good and B.A.D. (Bad Ass Dude) at the same time. Stuart and Matt and Michael Moorcock dig them a lot. They could be the definitive Games Workshop band. Optimo put ‘Hash Cake 77′ in their ace Psyche [...]

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• Wednesday, June 22, 2005  3:32 pm 

  Turing Test

  Happy Birthday Alan Turing Alan Turing is England’s greatest hero ever. Alan Turing was the founder of what you are viewing this blog on, He described the ideas that have become modern computeing. Give it up for Alan Turing! Today is his birthday, and as a respect to Alan Turing we are going to propose [...]

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•   1:47 pm 

  Isi F

  Prog breakcore is the way forward That’s what I thought after seeing Jason Forrest do his thing at Wrong Music the other night, it was quite fantabulous to enjoy his not-quite-gig-not-quite-dj session completely sober, geeking out with Scott while the rest of the crowd shook in a tribal druggy celebration. Beats dropping on top of [...]

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• Tuesday, June 21, 2005  3:30 am 

  Friend of Dorothy

  Motiivi:Tuntematon – 1939 1939. Slow beating of monkey’s wings. Attack ships pulsing energy signals. Bombs dropping. What kind of sick reality is this? Take me home! Hear that bellowing in the background? That’s Prince Vultan. Motiivi:Tuntematon takes the same principles of Throbbing Gristle fighting a War Of The Worlds, and applied them to some Wolf [...]

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• Monday, June 20, 2005  11:27 am 

  We go the streeeet, SUCKERS!

  If there’s been a time when I wanted to form a gang, not a band, is after watching the Warriors again for the third time. Afro? there! Leather waistcoat? Easy to find! Chains? Will nick some at the next Wolf Eyes gig. Attitude? Ha, sometimes my brain is like that helicopter scene in Apocalypse Now. [...]

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• Friday, June 17, 2005  2:24 pm 

  we buried tom jones years ago

  Ok my friends, it’s super-stealthy like a ninja turdle today, and very short cos it’s late and I’m tired, just wanted to say, hush hush, Zea- We Buried Indie Rock Years Ago (Actually you can download the track here, I was gonna link to the mp3 but then thought it’d be rude. If I was [...]

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• Thursday, June 16, 2005  11:22 am 

  WORLD BZRWWING FEDERATION

  THOSE STRANGE CREATURES!!!! Maybe civilised society is better off without them. They spat and farted and crawled around the floor and hurt themselves and bled and broke windows and scared the shit outta grannies (not of cool grannies, of course) and wore space-age shirts and moustaches and fringes that hid devilish eyes criss crossed with [...]

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• Wednesday, June 15, 2005  8:52 am 

  Brand new, your retro

  Norwegian Lady – Dance Champion This is a tiny ode to the glory of being the hero and bestest dancer in your town (ahh, sweet). Like a good mod face you wear the sharpest clothes, dance the finest moves, get all the girls (cos every girls crazy bout a sharp dressed man). With that much [...]

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• Tuesday, June 14, 2005  9:42 am 

  IT’S ALIVE! (Easiest post ever)

  (On friday I spent, no, it would be more accurate to say, sublimated, a respectable sum of money on Minimum Maximum, the 4 vinyl box set that contains this, and listening to it made me happier than a robot with an olive oil overdose). Kraftwerk- Home Computer (live at Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw) (This one goes [...]

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• Monday, June 13, 2005  5:13 am 

  Chelsea Girls Song for Europe

  Michaela Melian – A Song for Europe *If you have just lost or broken up with someone don’t listen to this song. *Just don’t alright, skip to the next song. I’m sure Brian Ferry wasn’t the international jet setting glamorous star with the world as his oyster when he scribed the lyrics to A Song [...]

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• Friday, June 10, 2005  1:10 am 

  Schrodinger’s Egg

  Autokat – The Driver Undying unrequited love is such a perfect conception of tragedy. I don’t think I could deal with it in real life. I would quite happily watch a middle class French film “To learn to live to love with no return” and cry at the pathos of such a strikingly heart wrenching [...]

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• Wednesday, June 8, 2005  3:16 pm 

  Japanese plastic banana fencing

  En garde! Today I am a spirit emerging from the woods like the girl turned assassin to avenge her honour in Baby Cart in Peril, my favourite lone wolf and cub movie. I’ve got the tattoo of a baby in one breast, I flash it, just to distract you… There, the Plastics, sweet as toddlers, [...]

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• Tuesday, June 7, 2005  2:08 pm 

  Ministry of Loud

  Oh, another noisy post…what a bore!! Let me ask you a question… Could Load Records be (with DFA) the best dance record label right now? I say…Hell yes! I say Load but I guess I could also refer you to Troubleman or In the Red. Why? Let us remember that Dance is a verb and [...]

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• Monday, June 6, 2005  7:02 am 

  Bear to Right Arms

  Animals must be liberated!! The name Death Sentence: Panda! was inspired by the Chinese government’s ‘actions’ to save panda bears from extinction!! Death Sentence: Panda!!- Wild Thing (…) You can hear the animal army marching up the street in perfect formation as this track pounds and crashes you into oblivion!! They are bringing a little [...]

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• Friday, June 3, 2005  4:11 am 

  slick american haunted graffitti & art star wars

  (ilustration by Shephard Fairey) We all know and love Slick Rick, he’s the gold-teeth original UK MC stealing hearts with the smoothnes of Rodolfo Valentino let loose in da Club. And an eye-patch! I’ve always been obsessed with pirates, oh yeah, it was never dinosaurs in my case, you see? And stormtroopers and wookies and [...]

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• Thursday, June 2, 2005  2:39 pm 

  Don’t wait, go and see X-Wife, then to the Sea

  Plug 1- Go to It Came from the Sea on saturday at the Joint (not the Sussex Arts Club, it’s being refurbished), they are our mates and they play some ace stuff there, it’s a ball! As pretty as the flyer… And as good as this… Tiefschwarz – Wait and See featuring Chikinki Ahh….. cop [...]

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• Wednesday, June 1, 2005  1:24 pm 

  I think I’m gonna throw up…

  Had to post this picture of the anorexia sponsored heiress. Check out what it is holding. They actually showed her the video too Mu- Paris Hitlon Yoof tv is a wonderful thing (ok, maybe that’s a lie). Perfect chance to post this absolute classic, just in case you missed it. Mu and Maurice Fulton-Let’s Get [...]

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• Tuesday, May 31, 2005  1:23 pm 

  I am the Spranish Sping chicken!!

  K homey, there ya go, Primavera. Nasti tent was the place were 20Jazzfunkkids saw !!! last year, the only reason they didn’t cry is they had sweated all their tears already. This year Nasti was somewhere else, we mean, a different venue, but the spirit of madness and moon-atic dancing stayed, and not only cos [...]

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• Monday, May 30, 2005  10:37 am 

  Sallow Faced Hoods Blast Off Into Science!

  Crash Course In Science – Cardboard Lamb Bit confused about the lyrical meaning behind this track. Luckily Crash Course in Science were nice enough to provide us with a video which helps explain it in much clearer terms than I could. I’ll name that song in 10 say those of you who are trying to [...]

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• Friday, May 27, 2005  3:22 am 

  Eurobus hand luggage

  First things first an advert: X-Wife are playing in England (yay!). May it be the first of many appearances. I cannot urge you enough to go see the live show. 30th May – London, Notting Hill Arts Club with Selfish Cunt 1st June – London, Karma Club, 2-4 Hoxton Square 21:00 2nd June – Brighton, [...]

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• Tuesday, May 24, 2005  1:02 pm 

  20JFG goes sunny

  JuanFunkGreats is going to Barcelona for this so besides some random tracks left hidden somewhere, this is all you’ll hear from him until next week, pray for his soul yada yada. Sorry the writing is a bit shite, but there wasn’t time for moe… Oxford Collapse come from New York and manage to fuse, in [...]

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• Friday, May 20, 2005  8:08 am 

  C’mon baby ride my psychedelic van to the retard disco

  To end the week of teenage rebellion, toupees, drugs, violence, blasphemy and carnival outfits (which will culminate with an outburst of nervous energy taking place in the Penthouse above the Freebutt tonight friday from 8 to 11, free entry, cheap drinks, trembling record players, cheap discmen, sungeek kid and bitch cassidy not-djing and the mighty [...]

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• Thursday, May 19, 2005  4:23 am 

  Well son, a funny thing about religion is that its better to regret something you have done…

  Dandi Wind – Balloon Factory We all know about the face of The Virgin Mary in the skirting board, The statue of Little Baby Cheeses and the Twiglet / Potato / Haphazard root vegetable effigy of Christ your fanatic neighbour brings round every few weeks, so when Dandi Wind told the tale of being the [...]

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• Wednesday, May 18, 2005  2:40 pm 

  Pet Sounds

  Sexton Ming and Billy Childish – Muscle Horse Sexton Ming the legend was part of the whole Medway Scene along with Billy Childish and although primarily a poet, artist and bloody awful woman (10 points style, 0 points convincing) recorded music with Steady, Thee Headcotes and a large list of other luminaries und nose pickers. [...]

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• Tuesday, May 17, 2005  1:33 pm 

  Iceing on the Fake

  Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (Icelandic Version) Nathan Fake is not a dj. Glad to hear it. He still managed to get to do the remix for Tiefschwarz – Isst which is no mean feat. The original of The Sky Was Pink is made unlistenable by some terrible drums, but this Icelandic Version [...]

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• Monday, May 16, 2005  6:26 am 

  No shit monkey T-shirts in 20JFG town

  We’re not talking James Lavelle-Nigo-Paul (shit) Frank Bathing apes, or yob apes, we’re talking prog-punk Apes motherfuckers who live in the mountains of Ozzy Osbourne’s imagination (gorillas in the mist!) and record fuzzy bassed heavy organ-loaded concept albums about magic, headtrips, wandering around mountains full of monsters and stuff. They hang out with Oneida and [...]

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• Thursday, May 12, 2005  3:31 pm 

  brush your teeth kids!

  Mahi Mahi – He No Wa(The End) Ever wondered what it would be like if your dentist was the funky drummer? You sit down to relax in the chair, how’s your mother in law ect and then driiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllll, and biff bang pow he’s getting a bit funky on the drums, I mean you only came [...]

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•   1:00 am 

  to the wisdom of palace through the broken drumsticks of the way

  ‘You have to be very dumb not to realise that you have to be very smart to make music that sounds this dumb’ someone said about the Ramones. We love our raw chops, our fuck it, let’s play bands who just grab their instruments (in some occasions, other people’s instruments) like an awkward teenager with [...]

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• Wednesday, May 11, 2005  12:44 pm 

  No, seriously dude where’s my Autobahn?

  Ellen Allien returns (in LP form) after 2003′s Berlinette and she still sounds like a robot arrived in a time machine from a distant future where emotions have been erradicated because they are not efficient and just make us sad at the end, have you ever read the Elementary Particles? (well, there they got rid [...]

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• Tuesday, May 10, 2005  6:04 am 

  Love is a washing machine

  White Rose Movement – Love Is A Number White Rose Movement have been getting a hella lot o attention from London’s taste maker community, and the first single shows exactly why. A bit of a Joy Division bass line, tasty keyboards and soaring vocals reminiscent of Dex Dexter or if you got really bad taste [...]

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• Monday, May 9, 2005  1:47 am 

  Every baby plays the game

  Goto80 – Comsten We have covered stuff from the computer game music scene before like Teamtendo and Paza with good feedback (hey the kids just dig it!) and it seems to be getting more attention after its influence on the last Beck album. Goto80 manages to break a bit more of the mould on his [...]

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• Friday, May 6, 2005  4:55 am 

  Ride the white horse

  Grace Jones – I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (DJ Hell & Jochen Schmalbach’s Berlin mix) For some people life is art. Leigh Bowery, Warhole, Amanda Lepore, Divine and all of the other marvalous Cockettes, Dee Snider, Micheal Alig, Cindy Sherman, Tommy Lee you name it they are all just freaking out there. DJ Hell [...]

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• Thursday, May 5, 2005  9:42 am 

  In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream

  It’s nice music today, non of that loud stuff I’m feeling sensitive.And no Canadians either. Gus Kay – Stereo Gus was nice enough to email us this track, which made us smile a lot. Gus Kay is not from Canada (I think he is Greek) and makes music off his own back without any label [...]

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• Wednesday, May 4, 2005  7:25 am 

  Furry losers of the world

  We are Wolves – We are all Winners Wow, i never win anything. Goldkixx has been my portal into the world of what seems to be the most vibrant music scene I’m so jealous of. Canadians are uber cool this decade, its official. Goldkixx was nice enough to point us in the direction of We [...]

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• Thursday, April 28, 2005  6:03 pm 

  Out with the new, in with the old

  Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben – I’m ok, Your ok Hey Ho, Let’s Go! is a chant shared by all my impatient pinhead loving brothers and sisters in this multiverse. Its also a nice sample the body and mind sharing Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben have adopted in this p2p open source part of the mulitverse we live in. Unlike the [...]

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•   9:38 am 

  who put the ramalama with the devong ding dong

  People, people, ok, let’s start with the bad news, Coachwhips split up. Boo-hoo. Their gig at the Freebutt will be a legend. But you know how it is with bands, meet ‘em, fall in love with ‘em, fall out of love with ‘em, hate ‘em, send ‘em threatening letters… Anyway, the world keeps turning, as [...]

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• Wednesday, April 27, 2005  5:27 am 

  Meronian Acediast

  Circle – Takaisin Meronian is the language Circle invented to sing in. How fucking wikid is that! Inventing your own language! Ok, its going to exclude you from radio play in certain territories (like all of em who don’t speak Meronian) but what the hell. Its made up of lots of other bits of language [...]

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• Tuesday, April 26, 2005  12:07 pm 

  Primative Cuteness

  Cuteness in nature a form of natural defense for the young. It is recognized by lots of species including humans and makes the parent form a bond with the child. From Gators to Vultures to Lemmy, we were all bonded with because of our cuteness. When animals look after other species young it’s caused by [...]

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• Monday, April 25, 2005  5:22 am 

  Another blow to our indie hipster credibility?

  Cos yeah, we be posting… …a Missy Elliot song, produced by those Neptunes and featuring, I think the one and only trekkie fingered Pharrell Williams jet set teenage millionaire, on moaning duties in addition to the deck ones (used to love him when he was a studio n*e*r*d). Anyway, Missy Elliot in 20JFG you will [...]

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• Friday, April 22, 2005  6:38 am 

  Are You ready for an organ, Solo?

  Ok, now that our indie hipster credentials have been endorsed by the Pope (he is a fan of Kraftwerk, y’see?), we can start setting trends. The new wave of the new wave is…DOWN!! Dirty crazy synth bands are…….UP!! People like Mr. Quintron, the coolest werewolf mo-fo ever to emerge from New Orleans. Fashion tips… -Get [...]

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• Tuesday, April 19, 2005  4:13 am 

  Knuckles trailing on the ground in a pool of our own drool – not mongaloid, just very metal

  Within three seconds I’m feeling like Cliff Burton never died and Dave Mustaine never had an asshole problem. Its not just DFA1979 who are coming on like the new wave of British heavy metal didn’t die when man of leather and studs Rob Halford declared that letam si yag (The Revolting Cocks already new I [...]

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• Monday, April 18, 2005  2:33 pm 

  Demented Angelblood Colossal Goblin Comatose Pijama Party Post

  Hey Colossus – Take It Hey Colossus did a split single with Brighton’s own wonder boys Phil Collins 3 so we got to love them really, but aren’t they just another one of those loud shouty bands? Take It is straight into the heavy prog riffage that treads dangerously close to Voivod doing Astronomy Domine [...]

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• Friday, April 15, 2005  6:38 am 

  Get physical!

  I think that the technical weirdness that you people are experiencing when visiting this blog is not our fault but Apple’s, so hopefully it will be sorted out soon or something… …In the meanwhile, just wanted to say that those of you in Brighton would be very welcome if you came to the Penthouse above [...]

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• Wednesday, April 13, 2005  1:19 am 

  Secrets of Essex

  (In the absence of 20jazzfunkStuart, kickin’ k keeps helping J out, with these friends who needs heroes? Btw the photo illustrating the Rogers Sisters is not them, but it’s also the Rogers Sisters) I know this is a listening blog, not a reading blog, but fuck you, pay me- and while you’re at it, go [...]

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• Monday, April 11, 2005  5:33 pm 

  Exile in Maim Street

  Pussy Galore- Sweet Virginia I’ve got a good idea instead of covering one of our favourite songs, cos we so good, lets just do the entire album. Fuck Yeh! Thus Pussy Galore ambitiously tried to covered the entire of The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street. This album is a genuine oddity, and its existence [...]

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• Sunday, April 10, 2005  6:59 pm 

  Pixie magic

  Simple Minds – Changeling Like a great deal of English bands that formed in the late 70s Johnny And The Self Abusers were a punk rock band who had listened to a fair bit of Low and Heroes Bowie, acquiring a penchant for Kraftwerk along the way. Obviously when punk became unfashionable they changed their [...]

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• Thursday, April 7, 2005  9:38 am 

  It came from the K

  (this is a guest post from our mate Neil aka Kickin’ K from It Came From the Sea / Plan B fame and legendary pukickin’ 20JFG guest who cut it against all bodily odds in our lovely night, now he’s bringin’ some tunes, and as Scott sez, some tunes!) Note: looking for info on Cantankerous [...]

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• Tuesday, April 5, 2005  7:32 pm 

  Parental advisory- explicit post

  Wayne County & the electric chairs – Fuck Off Has anyone who lives in New York not met Jayne County? Every motherfucker I meet from there has a photo of him or her with Wayne or Jayne. I live in Brighton, England so I haven’t. The nearest I got was reading Man Enough to Be [...]

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• Monday, April 4, 2005  7:49 pm 

  Scaggot Brain

  The White Sport – Scag Lover Andrew Aveling is a very nice nutter and one of the eccentric founder members of Add N to X. With The White Sport he managed to take that Rogue Moog and twist it into his disconcerting vision of avant-pop. This track comes across as if Nathan Barley was co-writer [...]

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• Sunday, April 3, 2005  6:44 pm 

  Dark side of the autoonbahn

  Baron Mordant – Dark side of the Autobahn Personally I don’t go in for bootlegs much any more. Sure Boom Selection still has it going on, but most of the bootlegs you tend to get nowadays are Jive Bunny for your local house club Pat Sharp (see The Charts). If you give me a mash-up [...]

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• Friday, April 1, 2005  12:59 pm 

  Pop goes the Gang?

  Yep, after the highly praised ‘Revival of the Shittest’ comp/reissue last year, Gang Gang Dance are back with ‘God’s Money’ (out in the always great Social Registry label). And they are doing it ‘pop’ now! Check dis out!! Gang Gang Dance- God’s Money VI Yay, looking forward to seeing them at cd:uk! Now, I reckon [...]

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• Thursday, March 31, 2005  2:52 pm 

  Tom of Finland can Do It all night long

  Nid and Sancy – Sleaze Boogie (Manic Twin Dub) (oops with thanks to Rolf) Erm, very familiar vocal lyric from a certain PiL song gets re-mixed by our favorite Teutonik Disasters Gomma records maestros Munk. Munk rework Sleaze Boogie into an awesome slow harsh dirty funk which builds into something that should have been done [...]

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• Wednesday, March 30, 2005  1:17 pm 

  Nice line in cravats and the incompleteness theorem

  Pink Grease – Peache Grease Remix by Peaches The original of Pink Grease – Peaches is on of my favourite almost balad since The Ramones – Baby I Love You which it pays tribute to, and can easily bring a tear to my eye. A heartbreaking tragic love tale that i’m really hopeing gets radio [...]

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• Tuesday, March 29, 2005  1:34 pm 

  Hella Good

  WHO? Hella, that is, Spencer Eim (Guitar & Vocals) and Zach Hill (drums), a what the fuck maybe guess we can call it rock duo from Sacramento. I must say that I knew next to nothing about them before getting my hands in their last album (more about it later gators). I had read about [...]

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• Monday, March 28, 2005  1:52 pm 

  Pagan Weaster

  Hi people, to celebrate the end of Easter we heathenic 20jazzfunkgreatsters have decided to bring you a song from the Wedding, the new album by our favourite Stoner-Psyche-Noise-Rockers, Oneida. What can we say about the Wedding? it’s a more cohesive, expansive affair than their last effort, ‘Secret Wars’, and it might well be the closest [...]

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• Thursday, March 24, 2005  2:57 pm 

  Add (forests) to (machines)

  K, I’ve done lotsa machine dance modern music for r****s lately, and the nature spirits have got angry, the leaves that caress my window pane have whispered an ultimatum in my ears, ‘some forest music or we pull a Poltergeist on you’. I’m weak and small so I’ve given up to their demands with the [...]

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• Wednesday, March 23, 2005  3:02 pm 

  Noise for the Lizard Lounger

  Sightings – Sugar Sediment Sightings have taken the gentlest distant drift of a psychopathic nursery rhyme and welded it down under a wave of crunching noise distortion. It screams and whales in response and claws its way up, climbing and then tumbling back down. The drums beat faster with your heart, will it escape? Won’t [...]

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• Tuesday, March 22, 2005  3:30 pm 

  Order of PiLs? Go get em Tiger!

  PiL – The Order of Death John Carpenter is so jealous of this shit I bet. Seriously, I recon he swore like an Irish protestant minister when he heard it. By all rights it should be from Scarface but no, this fantastically atmospheric electro goth mantra was used in the cinematic masterpiece that was Miami [...]

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• Monday, March 21, 2005  3:46 am 

  Poison the man

  Ok, fast post tonight, just arrived from a gig: Miss Pain opened with class and were true stars over the stage, another step more towards world domination (and Caught My Eye is a blinder, one of these days we’ll put it up here). Gravy Train!!! gave the goofiest, sexiest in a shag in the club’s [...]

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• Thursday, March 17, 2005  2:55 pm 

  TV Personalities

  Blogger is behaving like the Smoker in X-Files, trying to thwart your good jazzfunkgreatsters’ attempts to get through with some tunes, and we don’t have time to write anyway and things ain’t good and we don’t feel inspired. But we’d do anything for our readers, so with the last drop of coffee-soaked blood we write, [...]

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• Wednesday, March 16, 2005  3:46 pm 

  War of Glass

  O God, when, when are Glass Candy and The Shattered Theatre going to get theirs? The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Roger Sisters, what about Glass Candy? (and these are respectable bands, I won’t even get into discussing Kings of Leon or the Killers or Jet or The Vines, I shouldn’t even be mentioning those…gits…in these [...]

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• Tuesday, March 15, 2005  4:30 am 

  Tanzmusik Comatose

  Have you seen this advert featuring a baby with a jaunty woman’s voice? Gross!!! I’m talking about babies cos I don’t want to mention robots…and the song we’re posting today is like the likkle kid, the ‘Boogie Boy’ if you will, of the LCD Soundsystem hermaphrodite monster. Kaos featuring Captain Comatose-Boogie Boy It’s like a [...]

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• Friday, March 11, 2005  12:24 pm 

  Fast post!! Fast song!! Fast!!!!!

  WOOZERS!! Faster than a little horsey being chased by a man with titties!! Band with a situationist name and dodgy armbands (oh my) start this really dancey groove in a ‘escaping from the mental ward’ vein, reminds me a bit of Liars Mk. 1 but with a hardcore bent, or meatier Ex-models. And enough of [...]

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• Thursday, March 10, 2005  4:27 am 

  Aquatic Numanoids

  This morning I was looking from the bus at the people walking up and down Western Road and they all looked so grey and miserable and so sad, their skins were the same colour as the sky, which was actually like the screen of a TV with a broken aerial (image kind of adapted from [...]

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• Tuesday, March 8, 2005  2:23 pm 

  Robot Cottaging

  The rules of Robotics as rewritten by Alden Tyrell. 1- A robot should enslave as many human beings as possible or, when not possible to enslave them, bring harm to the human beings. 2- A robot must obey orders given it by Satan except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3- A [...]

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• Monday, March 7, 2005  10:04 am 

  Mountain of Fanny

  No artificial flavour? Who are they kidding. FannyPack are just a bunchy of kids with attention deficit disorder who just ate all the sour sugar coated candy (that makes your mouth go urgh and you pull a funny face) in the entire lucky bag from Woolworths, and downed it with Sunny Delight. As such they [...]

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• Friday, March 4, 2005  1:12 am 

  A Bass to win the US election

  I’m re-reading ‘Fear and Loathing in the campaign trail’ as a little tribute to Hunter S. Thompson (and because it’s an amazing book). When talking about the disorganisation of the McGovern campaign, this is what he had to say… ‘So it is probably not fair to mock Shriver for marching to the beat of a [...]

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• Wednesday, March 2, 2005  3:16 pm 

  99 tears

  Off the Hook could well be the best song E.S.G. (see yesterday) never wrote, it’s got that perfect combination of earnest amauterism, unlikely tight-ass funkiness and disarming sincerity that you find in the Scroggins sisters at their best (almost always). It turns the Rolling Stones original into something else. Y Pants- Off the Hook It’s [...]

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• Tuesday, March 1, 2005  3:45 pm 

  My Robot Dance

  Robots are not your friends, haven’t you read any science fiction? They are made to protect you from yourself with their superior intelligence in subtle and devious fashion. My Robot Friend – I Am The Robot is the opener on Hot Action! the latest album by My Robot Friend on Proptronix. Hot Action! also contains [...]

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• Sunday, February 27, 2005  4:05 pm 

  Introducing…Offspring!!

  Yeah, you know, this band, they’re real cool dude, and they got tattoos and all, really sick tattoos, you know, with skulls and bones and chicks, and dreadlocks, and they play like, punk rock, yeah, man, theyr radd!! I listen to them while Im in my crib hangin out with my buddies and smoking spliffs, [...]

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• Friday, February 25, 2005  6:15 am 

  Old man take a look at my life/bingo card

  Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music did lots of albums which incorporated the talents of his friends. Naturally this included a certain Mr.Eno. Inspired by a No Sweat Nights post we looked into the Phil both as a guitarist and song writer and found this Diamond Head of a tune by him and our baldly with [...]

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• Thursday, February 24, 2005  3:00 am 

  It’s yr. sofa rock!!!!

  Fill one like this up Throw for luck, fumble, it looks cold out there, that shitty wannabe snow falls gently, as if it was mocking you… Get into the kitchen without hitting the door (throw for agility, failed, down two hit points). Moan and disentangle yourself from those dreams still clawing at your legs (throw [...]

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• Tuesday, February 22, 2005  5:57 am 

  Jesu don’t Fear Satan (bread and loafing in Sussex Uni)

  Hunter S. Thompson died like he lived: the way he chose. Is there a better song to bid him farewell than this quasi-funeral march of drug addled king-hell heaviness? Yeah, Jesu’s in da house. Jesu- Your Path to Divinity This ain’t no White Rabbit, but it comes from the same expanded conscience twilight zone, kickstarting [...]

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• Monday, February 21, 2005  9:09 am 

  Escape from planet jazzfunk! (with bent Teletubbies)

  Today I was going to write a lengthy dissertation called ‘StoStoS: From the Shangri La’s to the Slits to Shystie’ but I won’t cos I’m tired and actually not feeling really inspired. So I’ll do the easy thing, which is posting this motherfucker of a tune by the master of all things B, both visual [...]

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• Friday, February 18, 2005  3:18 pm 

  We put a spell on you

  Look at me eyes Look at me eyes. It’s spinning. Tonight Friday the 18th, at 7.30, you will head towards the Penthouse above the Freebutt in Brighton, where the masters of mesmerism Juan and Stuart will be performing one of their rituals from 8 til 11. After a history of messy sacrifices and legal prosecution [...]

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• Thursday, February 17, 2005  1:32 pm 

  Stereo Types

  Ah, stereotypes, Stereo Total , continental europe…sophisticated people with good teeth and lifelong jobs who wear berets and stripy tops and in their spare time play with vintage keyboards, drink coffee and wine and eat croissants without ever getting fat, fall in and out of love in the midst of a cigarrette smoke cloud that [...]

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• Wednesday, February 16, 2005  5:18 am 

  Assault her jazz

  Dear readers: we at 20JazzFunkGreats are geeks. We are totally against misogyny or any sort of sexual violence except when it’s against Jar Jar Binks. We are geeks. We do not even endorse sex. It’s messy- there should be a better way of reproducing the species until it evolves and becomes pure thought travelling at [...]

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• Tuesday, February 15, 2005  4:01 am 

  Straight Out of Compton Avenue

  That’s where our supa-doopa friends Natasha and Lucy live, word! Anyway, I’ve been away for a week and a bit as my computer, which had become the proverbial ‘can of worms’, was being exorcised, purified and so on. Apparently the cyberpunk who took care of the poor thing found pieces of banana inside it. Wow. [...]

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• Monday, February 14, 2005  3:49 pm 

  Temple Temple

  Temple Temple are featured on the new compilation Le Nouveau Rock n Roll Francais. Sean McLusky of Sonic Mook is one third responsible for the compilation along with Ludovic Merle and Jean-Baptiste Guillot. As with the Future Rock and Roll compilations we have the good, the bad and the oh dear. Some bands signed and [...]

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• Thursday, February 10, 2005  3:58 pm 

  Tigerbullshit

  Panico first came into our hemisphere with the Ice Cream EP a while ago. The people with great taste over at Tigerbastard (hence forth the new name for Tigersushi, thanking to Mu) have also noticed them and put out a lovely little 7″ for this Chilean noisy voodoo bullshit band. I must admit the sound [...]

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• Tuesday, February 8, 2005  3:41 pm 

  Teachers pet….

  These are my teachers… Bernhard Reus Dan Chalmers David Young John Carroll is in the house, yeah With some help from ilXor (special thanks to Si Carter, JoB, Alienus Quam Reproba and tylero) and the Trash Message Board users (special luving to zrookovian at gigabytepicnic , giorgio who also gave us the Mu video link, [...]

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• Monday, February 7, 2005  3:23 pm 

  Yellow Devil

  Coco Electric do these great free mixes every month if you subscribe to there mailing list. This months features the classic ‘Magnifique’ by Magnifique, which is a good excuse to post this classy as hell Moroderized (trust me, it’s a doing word(copyright Shrag)) update by Jersey Devil Social Club. This is big gay disco which [...]

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• Thursday, February 3, 2005  5:03 pm 

  Spaceman Odyssey

  I am not a fan of the 20-20s but luckily Jason Spaceman (aka Jason Pierce) is. Mr J.Spaceman has turned Hold On into a gratuitously stereo panning Velvets drone of zone out blues psychodelia, or possibly the longest intro to any song ever! 20-20s – Hold On (J.Spaceman Remix) Is this the sound that Spacemen [...]

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•   3:11 am 

  Oh my, Robbie the Robot is in the hospital

  Ok, just writing to apologise for the shortage of posts this week, the computer of one of the conspiracy members (‘Robbie the Robot’ aka ‘Robbie da Robot’ or Ar-Ar after playing GTA San Andreas) has suffered from influenza and has been taken to the likkle computer hospital, hopefully it will be healed before the weekend [...]

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• Tuesday, February 1, 2005  3:24 pm 

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  Being huge retro nerd we are naturally suckers for music made by big people on tiny old machines. bleep 736F206973206C6974746C6520736F756E6420646A00 160165163163040141162145040141143145(not working at the moment) It used to be a dis in the dance music scene to say your music sounds like it was made on a playstation, but then the tide turned and the [...]

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• Monday, January 31, 2005  9:50 am 

  Origin of the Greasys

  We get to hear and see a lot of weird bands at xxjfg, actively seeking them out for you is part of our job! One of the oddest species we have encountered over the past few years is The Pink Grease. This normally shy and retiring creature can be seen skulking into the second hand [...]

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• Friday, January 28, 2005  2:28 am 

  Hug a machine today

  Here at xxjfg we have on numerous occasions been known to get quite deliriously excited by multilayered abstract electronic music that oddly seems to be mostly made Germans. M83 really confused us by not being German (not even a German grandmother or aunty as far as we are aware). Jeans Team are German (phew not [...]

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• Thursday, January 27, 2005  5:56 am 

  Dave Clarke’s guide to DIY

  1. Don’t do it yourself, build robots to do it for you, they can hammer and grind and drill much faster, and you don’t bang yourself on the thumb or anything nasty. 2. Play them DJ Hell’s track Let No Man Jack to inspire the workers and keep them from revolting. In a weird 3 [...]

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• Wednesday, January 26, 2005  10:28 am 

  Johng ma Mum

  Mahjongg RaYDONcoNG 2005, out in Cold Crush- March Kinda like AVALONches – Go! Team but PoSt PunK, some. PouNding SnAcks or SnAkes of Rythm they hit-bite-beat-hard hard hArd and PASSionate gLyTchy cAsio synth Guitars like RAPTure on Opium. Not cut and pAST but kinda you TrickstERS, deconsTRUCTIONists, you! cut and furTHer and hit the DRUM [...]

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• Tuesday, January 25, 2005  2:58 am 

  Hangedup

  Last year saxophones and cowbells were rescued from the dungeons of ‘uncool’, will it be violins this season? Well, Patrick Wolf’s got a bit of that in in his new single, the Libertine. Some other people (sorry, forgot the actual link) bet on flutes on account of Dungen and Caribou. What do you think dear [...]

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• Monday, January 24, 2005  12:44 pm 

  Battle of the Bands

  On the Left hand Corner- Coachwhips City- Providence, Rhode Island. Gym- Narnack. Weight- 10.99 Pounds Special Moves- The Vaporiser (bone-crushing drum headbutt), the rotorblade (mutilation with a rusty bass), Satanic whirlwind (chaotic keyboard spiral), the geekscream (disorientation through authoritarian nasal yelling) Dirty Trick- Illegal loudness! School- of deranged blues garage rock cranked up to 11, [...]

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• Thursday, January 20, 2005  3:15 pm 

  Road Movie

  So Lula and Sailor jumped in the car and drove away from town faster than the fox after dinner at a survivalists’ camp bin. He lit a cigarrette and said ‘wow Baby, that was close, eh? I thought those mo-fos were gonna get us, can’t believe you ran like that with those heels on, hon, [...]

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• Wednesday, January 19, 2005  5:26 am 

  Adonis sold my soul to Out Hud

  Out Hud return after the awesome S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D., and oh Baby, it is a blast, a short odyssey cruising through waters that are cool and hot at the same time, the shy mysterious sister of that party monster !!! shows that she knows her moves too, the glitterball starts turning and yeah, you will never be [...]

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• Monday, January 17, 2005  5:14 pm 

  Push the Button

  Ha ha ha ha ha!! Love it! When Suicide were on methadone they obviously managed to regress to 17 year olds and record a version of Van Halen’s Jump. No, not really. I’m talking about “No Romantic” ( new one on me ) band Tender Buttons obviously, and although they seriously have recorded Van Halen’s [...]

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•   8:41 am 

  He gives me head

  Just like normal I was confused. I didn’t know who ripped off who. Plastic Bertrand (real name Roger Jouret) in punk pop international smash hit Ca Plane Pour Moi or unknown nearly formed The Damned but then moved to Belgium (??) Elton Motello (real name Alan Timms Ward) in gay no radio play (cept John [...]

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• Friday, January 14, 2005  5:09 am 

  Caribou

  After yesterday megapost, short quick thingy today. Last night I went to the Bad Place which is the main cheap midweek indie night out in Brighton where ‘DJs’ spin all the boring flat music that corporate ‘rock and roll’ bands make these days. Anyway, I ended up talking with lovely Jack and James Nascent about [...]

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• Thursday, January 13, 2005  2:56 pm 

  20 Jazz Funk Greats Confidential

  (this communication between members of a North American Security Agency was intercepted by one of our collaborators two weeks ago, we can’t say which agency it was cos then we’d had to kill you. ) The Make Up: A briefing Adressed at XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Past Record(s) Three of the subjects (Ian ‘El Gato’ Svenonius, James Canty [...]

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• Wednesday, January 12, 2005  12:28 pm 

  Are we not men?

  We are all mutant. Mutants rule the earth. XXJFG mutation means we have to wear Domes to collect energy that escapes from the crown of the mutant head. The dome pushes energy back into the Medula Oblongata for increased mental energy. On all other occasions XXJFG must wear a Pomp to avoid Megula Oblongata depletion, [...]

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• Tuesday, January 11, 2005  3:50 pm 

  I am the Git

  I love Wire , it’s probably the band I’ve listened to most last year, I love their elegance when they are dangerous and their frailty when they are pop. I love the fact they make me feel mysterious all the time. Worst thing I’ve ever done in a festival (music-wise) was missing them in Barcelona [...]

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• Monday, January 10, 2005  8:19 am 

  Electric Trucks

  Just like American bloggers see European stuff as exotic and attractive we Europeans have the same mystical attraction to the American rock and roll myth. Just look at the Stones obsessions (best read The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth) from that wide open space that resides by Route 66 next to [...]

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• Thursday, January 6, 2005  8:19 am 

  Au milieu de la route

  Phoenix have already proved how great middle of the road French rock bands can be. Scenario Rock are French quite astoundingly aor, and they do rocketh!. Shake in some good old fashioned XTC, a pinch of International Pony, and add Mike D’s shouty raping for white punks (on dope). There a kind of Paul’s Boutique [...]

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• Wednesday, January 5, 2005  5:04 am 

  School of Hardknox (Grange Hill)

  Sometimes you go thorough your records and think, why the fuck did I buy that? and how much money can I get for it now?, cos I’m never going to listen to it again. I nearly sold C J Bolland – The Prophet t’other day cos it’s a large piece of poo. Then I listened [...]

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• Tuesday, January 4, 2005  11:50 am 

  Lcdslwxrmx

  If in ‘Losing My Edge’ The LCD Soundsystem spelled out a hipster musical mythology combining wisely respect and irony, in ‘Daft Punk is Playing in My House’ they dissect geeky fandom, with its enthusiasm and a slight hint of creepiness (‘never never let them go’). Of course that is the postmodern part, the music is, [...]

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• Sunday, January 2, 2005  12:55 pm 

  TCHKTCHKTCHKMEEKMEEKTCHKTHCK

  Castanets- Industry Snow Sebastien Tellier- Zombi Two songs for today, listen to one after the other for an emotional carousel, fast, before I go to play pictionary and watch B movies, one is a velvety dirge by the best band of last year I listened to today, Castanets , murky folk from the swamps and [...]

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• Thursday, December 30, 2004  5:59 pm 

  Happy Neu! Year

  Twas the night before New Year and nothing moved in the house, nothing except some feeble neurons in the frontal lobe of a 20 JazzFunkGreatster. He was trying to write something about one of his favourite songs, ‘Fur Immer’ by Neu!. He had decided to avoid the evocative angle, he had already used it when [...]

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• Saturday, December 25, 2004  1:25 am 

  20 Jazz Funk Greats XMas End of the Year message

  Ok, we at 20JazzFunkCakes are not going to have an exciting best of 2004 list with a countdown and everything…why? because we are rubbish and we are two and we don’t want to fight each other to decide which of the featured artists gets to be number one…and we are too lazy to devise one [...]

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• Wednesday, December 22, 2004  5:42 am 

  Murciana Japones

  We Love travelling… Murcia, Spain: Schwarz are a band from Murcia, in the south-east coast of Spain, and they are quite weird, which is of course something I love. I have caught up with their stuff quite late (living in the UK etc), so the only thing I can say is that their last album, [...]

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• Tuesday, December 21, 2004  8:20 pm 

  Electronic Northern Soul

  Stazi – World of Temptation So this man walks into a bar and says Stazi come across like Soft Cell with a little bit of Phoenix Nights magic. My mother in law saw Stazi and said they do a hefty bit of Wigan casino (no bingo) but with the electronic beats of The Human League [...]

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• Monday, December 20, 2004  6:09 pm 

  Neurotoxic shock treatment of the Plankster

  Optimo have remixed All Repro from Moebius,Plank,Neumeier’s Zero Set. I’ll give you a bit of a rest to contain your excitement. Take a deep breath and count to eleven. Ready now? Then I’ll begin. Betty Botox presents Kraut was an obvious for us at xxjfg. It’s like our very own Christmas present or something, some [...]

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• Friday, December 17, 2004  9:18 am 

  Woof – Woof

  Listening to Stylus magazine’s Stypod show on the Kompakt label, which is so funny, mainly for there attempts to pronounce the names of the tracks and artists. They are much braver than me. Rex The Dog – Frequency Loved Rex the Dog since Prototype, Frequency is his second single. Pushing the pitch wheel of his [...]

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•   3:07 am 

  Geelamour!!

  Japanther- Super Loser Had to love ‘em: first, their name is one of these hybrid words like ‘Liger’ (featured on that Napoleon Dynamite film and in Spain’s dodgiest circuses), ‘rat’ (half rat half bat) or ‘brat’ (half bat half rat). Then the track is called ‘Super Loser’ with ‘Super’, that gives us a hint of [...]

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• Wednesday, December 15, 2004  8:09 pm 

  Tripple Trouble

  Jad Fair is a genius. He (in his own words) ‘started (along with David Fair and David Stansky) what has now proven to be the quintessential power, punk, allstar, rock and roll band in the history of the universe. Half Japanese, the name itself is music. Too beautiful, too beautiful, too beautiful.’, he makes amazing [...]

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• Tuesday, December 14, 2004  5:12 pm 

  Macabre noire

  Electroputas- Never Been More in Love In the third (non planned) instalment of New York City bands this week we visit the wonderful Social Registry manor once again to bring you Electroputas, a trio by whom we already posted a song during the Monster Days preceding Halloween (they were Leatherface in it, by the way). [...]

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• Monday, December 13, 2004  6:42 pm 

  Fear of Music

  Slint-Nosferatu Man Nosferatu was a creature of chalk and slate with a spidery shadow. Slint filled its cold and rigid body with boiling blood and bloody muscle, Brian McMahon gave it a raging voice. The guitars in this song tease, pierce, rip and tear, the bass is made of the same stuff as nightmares and [...]

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•   8:30 am 

  Don’t wait for the man with the odd name

  Man Man- Man Who Make You Sick This song by Man Man is in ‘The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face’, recently released by Ace Fu Records, and is a little oddysey where Can go to a cabaret and decide to jam with the Greasettes or maybe Deerhoof, Don Van Vliet observes intensely [...]

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• Friday, December 10, 2004  8:37 am 

  Scott’s Test-icicles

  Today’s post comes from guest geek Scott of Nascent Zine. Genius. A band who cover all the genres on your cutting edge indie club flyer but who are more influenced by Homorap and UK Garage (i believe the adults are calling it Grime nowadays) whilst simultaneously managing to have a proper Teenage Jesus/Contortions style nihilism [...]

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• Thursday, December 9, 2004  5:50 am 

  Born to run too fast for love

  Well I finished my homework and now I’m ready for a night on the town, who better to do it with than Adam Green from The Moldy Peaches and Bruce Springsteen from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (like there is any other Bruce). Adam Green – Born to Run Boy it will be [...]

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• Wednesday, December 8, 2004  3:59 pm 

  Post from the future lcd loop

  I am writing from the future, I can do such a feat thanks to the machine above, discovered by Stuart…anyway, further into what’s to come…(no lottery numbers, sorry)…Next Year… …Next year starts with a bang, i.e., the LCD Soundsystem album in DFA, which contains lots of nice stuff, some of which we already knew (Movement, [...]

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• Tuesday, December 7, 2004  5:06 pm 

  No More

  No More – Suicide Commando This German new wave one hit wonder seems to have dated rather well. Not that it was a hit anywhere, but you know what I mean. It could easily have been inspired by the classic drug information film Christiane F Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo, or a 50s B movie [...]

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•   3:12 pm 

  Reborenning man

  Warning- we will be 10Jzfnget until later in the week as one of the members of the team has been abducted by the forces of the neon reticle and is now fighting for salvation in a tron-like environment. Please pray for his physical and spiritual well-being, the song being posted today is nothing but a [...]

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• Monday, December 6, 2004  12:34 am 

  On the meaning of Doppelganger

  I bumped into the doppelganger reading one of those Advanced Dungeons & Dragons gamebooks, the Werewolf one (the best ones are the Ninja and the Ravenloft ones, by the way). Although according to old lore, this creature is a ghost that attachs itself to a living being, like a shadow or something, and follows it [...]

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• Thursday, December 2, 2004  11:22 am 

  Faster Faster Captain Cat Kill Kill!

  Must write post. Got 10 minutes. Sip Coffee. Sip Sip. Go for the Stream of Consciousness thang. La di La. Gotta get ready for Lightning Bolt. Die Monitr Batss. Second Album, Girlz of War. Related to the Gossip. In Troubleman Records (one of our favourite labels like, ever). They wrote this amazing song called ‘Spread [...]

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• Wednesday, December 1, 2004  5:04 pm 

  Sir Alice don’t give it away

  One of Kill The DJ resident record players Sir Alice has recorded vocals on with Avril on the new album Members Only and works with Marc Collin of Volga Select and Nouvelle Vague. This is no reason to be impressed, but this certainly is. Sir Alice – Bouda is a Material Girl In England at [...]

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• Tuesday, November 30, 2004  5:16 pm 

  Dance, devil!

  Einsturzende Neubauten- Tanz Debil Their name stands for Collapsing New Buildings, maybe another strain of Situationist Architecture’s revolt against modernism. But they are not intellectuals, or at least not of the usual sort… (slight detour) The child starts striking the walls of the building closer to him, the walls of society, with his red hot [...]

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• Monday, November 29, 2004  5:03 pm 

  Mobius vs Conan

  Moebius,Plank,Neumeier- Pitch Control I have no idea how to describe this track. It is from the album Zero Set. I could tell you this track is !!!s latest remix by Maurice Fulton, released next week and most of you would believe me. I could tell you this track was recorded in 1982 by Juan Atkins, [...]

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•   3:13 am 

  What do you mean it’s not the 80′s ?

  Eon is usually Ian Beta (who used to do stuff for Rhythm King Records), J Saul Kane of Depth Charge and some other luminaries. An Idiot’s Guide to Dreaming have some Eon mp3s for you, and a nice little story too In this case they blow the whole cool thing off using the name Ignition [...]

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• Friday, November 26, 2004  7:21 am 

  Budget post

  Today I bought a couple of records from the budget section of a record shop in my town, they were ‘Paradiso’ by Kamerakino and ‘Calling Out of Context’ by Arthur Russell, less than 8 quid altogether. So… Kamerakino- Metall Auf Eis These guys are another of those wonderfully weird/weirdly wonderful bands that tend to come [...]

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• Thursday, November 25, 2004  5:33 pm 

  Music to watch robots cry, errr, sorry, fight

  Yeah, it was geek heaven Madrid, they even had robots running around the hallways! not security dogs as Stuart was wondering, but little white plastic dogs (the size of half a big cat more or less) that will compete in this rather remarkable event (apparently the rest of the members of the Telematics team in [...]

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•   9:13 am 

  ‘text: kicking_k’

  As Juan is in Spain being a nerd, we have a guest and honorary nerd the one and only kicking_k of It Came From The Sea fame and Plan b magazine. Life Without Buildings – The Leanover “If I lose you, if I lose you, if I lose you, if I lose you, the huh [...]

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• Tuesday, November 23, 2004  5:45 pm 

  Big Gay Bobby

  Selfish Cunt blow me away live. Martin has the whole Lydon/Osterberg “I’m on stage and I’m gonna show get me as much attention as possible” thing going on, while Patrick kills his guitar with so much passion it gives me the fear. Intensity is at a max. This is for real. I don’t know how [...]

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• Sunday, November 21, 2004  2:40 pm 

  Plastic donkey posse

  20JazzFunkgreatsNite IV, a New Hope, was great actually, and the drinks were cheap and did their job and our guest Verity was amazing. Thanks to her and to those who were there and to those who feel the whole thing! Juan’s playlist (as far as he can remember: drinks were cheap) The Emperor Machine- Emperor [...]

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• Thursday, November 18, 2004  5:21 pm 

  20 Jazz Funk Greats Night! Fun! Chainsaws!

  We not men we are 20 Jazz Funk Greats. Using the name of something cool to appear cool ourselves. (association, implication) It’s not Jazz Funk it’s not Great and there are not 20 of us. Naughty school boy humour from Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle – Something came over me Also… minimal mystery song with a [...]

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• Wednesday, November 17, 2004  12:57 pm 

  Four steps towards an empire

  The Emperor Machine- The Emperor Machine After releasing a string of 12′ which come close to perfection, a classy yet utterly alive (or undead?) collection of disco-dub informed by moroderian dynamics and replete of eerie electronic droning (think of The Carpenter), The Emperor machine (Andy Meecham of Chicken Lips) doesn’t disappoint with his formidable debut [...]

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• Tuesday, November 16, 2004  10:38 am 

  Master the Minimal (Walk Alone Between Heaven and Hell)

  Let’s talk about Glenn Branca’s Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar. I can’t say much, I know next to nothing about modern composition. Of course this is a void I hope to fill at some point in the future, but for now I can’t really get into the theoretical aspects of this song, the classical/minimal [...]

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• Thursday, November 11, 2004  3:58 pm 

  Je bats du tambour, Vous bats du tambour, Nous tout le tambour.

  As anyone who reads this blog regularly knows, we are suckers for inappropriate drumming. This track has a tiny little girl with a tiny little music box in it too. Vitalic – Fanfares Much the same concept as Jeremy Deller’s acid brass meets The Battle of Orgreave in one, Vitalic take the massed marching bands [...]

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• Wednesday, November 10, 2004  1:21 pm 

  A Vigil

  (Our reporter from the spiritual front, Matt, sends another chronicle, as brilliant as always, but in this case tinged with the sadness of another untimely departure) The Monks: A shamanic appreciation. What possessed them? The first thought that comes into your head when you see a picture of The Monks. What possessed them? What possesses [...]

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• Tuesday, November 9, 2004  3:49 pm 

  Black Disco Dub

  Every Black Strobe release or remix is held up by young whippersnappers and old dj farts with great elation as the saviour of dance music. I keep falling for it too, and looking though my collection I see I have shit loads of remixes and tracks by them. I don’t think they live up to [...]

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•   3:16 am 

  Let’s Deconstruct a Building

  The Barcelona Pavillion- New Materiology Let me quote Derrida at some length (my translation), after all, in 20JazzFunkGreats we’re all about Monster Music… ‘…they nick the start of the song from the Fall (Rowche, Rumble, Rowche, Rumble, it’s Valium XS XSS, Valium XS XSSSS…doesn’t get any better than this eh my friend?), the infectious videogame [...]

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• Sunday, November 7, 2004  5:41 pm 

  italo – not just for gay men…Migala- not just for spanish people

  Want to know about Italo? Ask Woebot here and here, and Jahsonic. My knowledge pales in significance to this thesis like research on the subject. Fonteyn and Marika at computer blue are so hot on it at the moment, and don’t cringe at some of the more MOR moments and cliched production style. Computer Blue [...]

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• Thursday, November 4, 2004  10:36 am 

  Song w story

  So in this review I can’t say much about the band themselves, but I can tell a story… Some time ago my friend Mark and me ended our Hunter.S.Thompsonian night at 6.00AM in his house drinking coffee (don’t ask!)…he asked me to play something off my 20JazzFunkGreats record box (we had held our night a [...]

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• Wednesday, November 3, 2004  10:49 am 

  Where were you on the 2nd of November?

  I hope you were where you had to be, doing what you had to do, I’m sorry it wasn’t enough, their tide is rising and everything looks ugly. Just one song, anger, some hope maybe. Sonic Youth-Youth Against Fascism It’s a shame we have to post our first Sonic Youth song in these circumstances, but [...]

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• Tuesday, November 2, 2004  2:50 am 

  If You Want Death from Above

  DFA Compilation #2, is an indispensable artifact for anyone interested in modern electronic music and classy dancefloor mayhem. It includes two CDs of great stuff ranging from the crazy post-punk adventures of J.O.Y. to Black Dice’s blissful ambient noise (in between, amongst others, Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom’s synthetic odisseys, the Robotic Psychedelic Funk of [...]

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• Monday, November 1, 2004  12:40 am 

  Shark Attack

  Iain and Pete are members of the amazing Shark and great music conoisseurs, as the setlist they played when guest djing for 20JazzFunkGreats last month demonstrates… Tracks Iain played: Art Ensemble of Chicago- Rock Out Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band- When Big Joan Sets Up 5 Amp Fuse- Power To The People Whirlwind Heat- [...]

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• Friday, October 29, 2004  1:36 pm 

  End of the Halloween candown

  Ah, yeah, it’s friday and your 20jazzfunksters have to go back to their lairs to dust their capes and shine their fangs (a shout out to little fang from here!!) before the Halloween wick-end… …so yeah, we leave you with two tracks that don’t need much of a comment, one of them is by Can, [...]

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• Thursday, October 28, 2004  1:35 pm 

  Lost bolts

  The Lost Boys might well be one of the ultimate 80s movies, with its blend of terror slasher and kid fantasy, US high school social struggle, leather jackets, a bonkers grandpa, nerdiness (one of the definitive comic bookshop scenes ever), brat packers, Corey Feldman, silly comedy and lots of hairspray. If the relationship between the [...]

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• Tuesday, October 26, 2004  5:50 pm 

  I see you shiver in antici… pation.

  (it feels weird and in a way wrong to keep posting songs here as if nothing had happened yesterday, because yesterday John Peel passed away, and he meant so much to us and many others, so let us keep silent for a respectful moment before continuing with the music, which is what he would have [...]

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•   5:45 am 

  John Peel 1939 – 2004

  Undertones – Teenage Kicks John Peel was my best friend. At school he made me feel like there was something else out there and other people who were into the same thing as me. John Peel died of a heart attack last night while on holiday in Peru. We were very lucky to have you. [...]

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• Monday, October 25, 2004  5:19 pm 

  Human, fly away!

  Mum and Dad- The Human Fly Total evil riffing stunt rider music from Manchester. Ok, so The Cramps did a different thing about a Human Fly(available here at bubblegum machine, Help me help me….). Sonovac did a good cover. Gregor Samsa first awoke to find himself as one, and Wire wrote about the annoying one [...]

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• Sunday, October 24, 2004  4:45 pm 

  Monster is Bigger than man: The Halloween week starts here

  BOO BOOOOO Hallowe’en is coming, and almost at the same time as the US election, creepy eh? Who will win? the forces of evil? the forces of not-so-evil? Is dumb evil? Is the Religious Right right? Ah, we won’t declare our allegiances althought you can imagine them, suffice to say i’ve read the whole of [...]

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• Saturday, October 23, 2004  2:13 am 

  Matt’s Trip

  (He fights on our side and we’re lucky cos he’s got more ammunition than Robert Duvall’s Huey and more attitude that Lobo when the hairdresser gave him a toupee…Yei, Matt’s back with a double posting that goes into deep space (9mm) and comes back with the goods. Nah, your PC isn’t shining now, it’s just [...]

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• Thursday, October 21, 2004  2:54 pm 

  Late entrant to the Suicide competition

  Sonic Boom- Rock and Roll is killing my life Spacemen 3 devastated the 80s landscape with a firestorm of abrassive drones and drug addled perversion. Then they split up and Jason Pierce discovered God in the thickest vein of his arm, extracted Her from there with a rusty air pump and launched Spiritualized, a zeppelin [...]

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• Wednesday, October 20, 2004  2:43 am 

  Love Thy Chicken

  Mahjongg- Countdown (The chicken) Konk bump into Add (n) to (x) in a crowded Berlin bar. But neither Konk nor Add (n) to (x) are individuals, they are bands, collectives, post-punk latin percussion obsessed freaks the former, decadent very well educated northerners in a transition to full robot state the latter. You could imagine them [...]

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• Tuesday, October 19, 2004  2:26 pm 

  The birth of a nation

  DJ Grand Wizard Theodore- Military Cut B-Boys stealing from Kraftwerk the same way Can stole from James Brown and Fela and Miles and the rest of the black presidents, avant garde concepts such as detournement and cut-up and musique concrete inadvertently introduced in the sound of the streets, block party crowds bouncing to Burroughs and [...]

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• Sunday, October 17, 2004  4:14 pm 

  Mock rock

  Josh Smith, Tim Green (a former Nation Of Ulysses)and Tim Soete are C4AM95, The Champs, The Fucking Champs, and now (together with Trans Am) TransChamps and The Fucking Am. I cannot tell if they are trying to do something brilliant and original to an overblown cliche riddled genre, or if they are having a huge [...]

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• Thursday, October 14, 2004  5:02 pm 

  That’s the way she likes it

  Pixeltan – That’s The Way I Like It Phoenix used to this thing live were they played the riff from Yes- Owner of a Lonely Heart in the middle of their song Funky Square Dance. Here is an entire song based on (almost) the same idea. Was it Lennon who said to Bowie before they [...]

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• Wednesday, October 13, 2004  4:53 pm 

  We love fun!

  Kreidler – Coldness (Sunroof Mix) In which German men sing with the delicate beauty and refinement, which makes women (not girls) think they are sexy in that sophisticated European way. Helmut Newton has taken there photo and it is forever preserved in the loft. I got really confused when I first saw this video. Kriedler?? [...]

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• Tuesday, October 12, 2004  5:00 pm 

  New Age Nihilism

  TV On The Radio – New Health Rock A guy with these huge great big pair of maracas which he was using to cut his toes , Lee Ranaldo, and Andre 3000 once jammed together in the hope of forging a new era in sonic art, but couldn’t get a good song out of it. [...]

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• Monday, October 11, 2004  4:52 pm 

  Free November

  3rd Face- Canto della Liberta As a child on my first summer holiday abroad I was shocked to discover the local kids didn’t speak the same language. What was this strange sound coming from there mouth, all fierce and gutural! I was a bit scarred. This soon changed into fascination and the inevitable swapping of [...]

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• Wednesday, October 6, 2004  4:03 pm 

  Paint it Red (or white)

  I only got into the Red Crayola (or Krayola) recently, Jim O’Rourke and Pere Ubu (fans/collaborators) introduced them to me (I mean, not personally, I read about stuff they had done together, it’s not like I’m mates with Jim O’Rourke…yet) plus I really enjoy painting with crayolas so I thought, ok, let’s see what this [...]

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• Tuesday, October 5, 2004  4:32 pm 

  Summer time blues or Autumn days boom?

  Pere Ubu – Final Solution Taking the bass line straight from Blue Cheer’s summertime blues ain’t a bad place to start for a 1976 pre-punk garage band with a power fuzz peddle. We all know there is no cure for the summertime blues, so instead David and co suggest the Final Solution. Pere Ubu were [...]

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• Monday, October 4, 2004  4:08 pm 

  Bela Lugosi’s alive and dancing

  The Vanishing – Lovesick Are Goths allowed to do dissonant jazz analogue disco? I think Bauhaus may have but without the synths. The synths on this track are what renovate it from some Slits/Ze Records funk into something entirely darker. On there own they could be from Riz Ortolani’s score to Cannibal Holocaust, and in [...]

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• Friday, October 1, 2004  1:08 pm 

  nicely Matt

  (these are review that our fellow conspirator Matt wrote as part of his jazz funk greats participation- he’s been the first Jazz Funk greatster-night-guester and he did amazingly, it couldn’t have been any other way. All our respect and love to him, we hope he writes more for us because this is simply brilliant!) Nick [...]

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• Thursday, September 30, 2004  12:05 am 

  burthday post

  I can’t believe it! it’s our blogrthday and my manager hasn’t given me a day off to celebrate properly, write a fan letter to the Bavarian Illuminati (yep, did you think it was a coincidence that all those bands came from Germany? nah, it’s all a big conspiracy, half of them are aliens!) and the [...]

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• Wednesday, September 29, 2004  9:20 am 

  But we love life!

  Fly Pan Am – Pas a Pas Step Until Did anyone mention the Boredoms ? I’m sure the canadian people were listening and here is the result: Pas a Pas Step Until is a joyous riot of noise, kerrazy rhythm and tribal chanting, krautrock that left Germany and travelled East in a blitzkrieg of peace [...]

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• Monday, September 27, 2004  5:31 pm 

  We hate music

  Yeh today I was going to post Death in Vegas, but I changed my mind. The new album “Satan’s Cock” or whatever is a reviewer’s wet dream in terms of the references to classic music and all that, but although it talks the talk, has all the right sounds (and some good tunes) it’s just [...]

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•   2:00 pm 

  Suicide Tribute Week Winners

  Your all winners! all of you losers! A big thanks to everyone who contributed. So after long thought and deliberation, we decided to give the Suicide week prize to a newer band. We had loads of entries and obviously realize the value of Spacemen 3, DAF, Relaxed Muscle, Sisters of Mercy and loads of others [...]

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• Thursday, September 23, 2004  10:04 am 

  Country Blood

  (Smog)- Bloodflow Talking about playlists…last friday we had our second release of 20 Jazz Funk Greats at the Penthouse in Brighton, and it was great. quite busy, the people there seemed to enjoy the noise and the weirdness and the greatness. Matt Djed like a true lord of The Drone and The Riff. I played [...]

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• Wednesday, September 22, 2004  4:34 pm 

  Brakes non dance party

  Brakes – I Can’t Stand To Stand Beside You Brakes are: Guitar & Vocals: Eamon (British Sea Power) Guitar: Tom White (Electric Soft Parade) Drums: Alex White (Electric Soft Parade) Bass: Marc Beatty (The Tenderfoot) Indie Shmindy (ok maybe thats a bit evil on British Sea Power) boys sound like they been listening to a [...]

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• Tuesday, September 21, 2004  12:50 am 

  Dexter vs A-Leigh

  Villalobos- Dexter (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix) Here the legendary Swordsmen create a post-rock-post-punk doppelganger of Dexter (one of the highlights of Ricardo Villalobos’‘ masterpiece, ‘Alcachofa’), replacing its intrincate click house beats and synthetic melodical progressions with head nodding metronomic drums, neu!-ish guitars and a bass-line straight off Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR (my flatmate Marcos also hears [...]

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• Tuesday, September 14, 2004  4:20 pm 

  Roxxy

  Brooks- Roxxy Brooks could be an English version of Ellen Allien or The Soft Pink Truth, his album, ‘Red Tape’, out in Soundslike, is a first class carrier of sophisticated electronica which is romantic yet robotic, sexy, even raunchy (check out ‘Man-Size’), but never devoid of elegance. It sounds futuristic as fuck (the glitch, the [...]

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• Sunday, September 12, 2004  4:14 pm 

  Oblique god play strategies

  Brian Eno – Third Uncle Where Brian Eno starts post-punk even before there was punk, we are talking 1974 here. The guitars scratch, the bass is really black and the sparse tinny percussions, ah, the percussions, they are madness, you can see a direct line going from them into the African jungle the Talking Heads [...]

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• Friday, September 10, 2004  4:45 am 

  Fridaycide

  VVV- Red Lights Down Suicideness scale: -Completely evil/Completely innocent lyrics This is called ‘Red Lights Down’ and apparently was sung by the last survivor of a nuclear holocaust. 5/5 -Monotonous lo fi beats The aforementioned mutant survivor had developed some extra limbs as a consequence of his exposure to radiation, he used them to hold [...]

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• Thursday, September 9, 2004  9:30 am 

  Thursdaycide

  Big Black – L Dopa Suicideness scale: -Completely evil/Completely innocent lyrics Remember kids, we are talking about Big Black here. In this particular song the fragmentary lyrics (I got a sickness sweet as a love note, I got a headache like a pillow etc) might refer to drug addiction, mental disorder or suicide. Not nice, [...]

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• Wednesday, September 8, 2004  4:14 am 

  Wednesdaycide

  On this wonderful Wednesdaycide of Suicide Tribute Week Gutterbreakz brings you a Cassette Pets Suicide special. You can enter the competition here. And then… Secret Weapons – Bumps Ryan Noel the guitarist from ARE Weapons just managed to kill himself with heroin which is pretty bad. They were shaping up into an awesome rockin bunch [...]

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• Tuesday, September 7, 2004  1:54 am 

  Tuesdaycide

  Dead Combo – You Don’t Look So Good At first listen this is perfect. But it’s got some cracks. Or maybe it hasn’t, and that’s the problem. Dead Combo sound a bit like black rebel motor cycle club doing Suicide, if you know what I mean. On record it’s a bit clean. There is a [...]

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• Sunday, September 5, 2004  5:22 pm 

  Suicide Commando

  So this old guy looking half dead stumbles onto the stage with these glasses blind people have, a combat jacket and a beret. My Girlfriend asks me if he should be in a home or something as he starts screaming…. Afterwards we rush to the basement of Sonic Mook to drop acid, throw beer cans [...]

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• Saturday, September 4, 2004  9:19 am 

  Colossus

  Rammellzee – Pogo I’m hangover today so I have decided to go for the easy option, which is to write a review for a song by Rammellzee. And why should it be easy to write this review? Because Rammellzee has a story that writes itself. Yeah, the guy is one of the founding fathers of [...]

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• Thursday, September 2, 2004  7:12 pm 

  Units to shift

  Ok, so this should probably be on Lost Bands of The New Wave Era but to hell with all that classification stuff, I want it as my own baby. Units – High Pressure Days I don’t really know enough about Units, but would like to know more(hint – show off your musical knoledge in the [...]

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•   12:46 pm 

  Giorgio’s Cat People

  Add (n) to (x)- The Orgy of Bubastus Bubastus means “Realm of Cats” and is the name of an Egyptian city built as a tribute to the cat-god Bast. We’re cat lovers here, just check the kittenz on the side, so just for its name this song has a place in our blog. We’re synthetiser [...]

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•   6:13 am 

  Something about having a big cock??

  Les Georges Leningrad – Supa Doopa When les georges leningrad released the crazily entertaining album – Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou I soooo much wanted to see them live, but they never came. Boooooooo. Ok, they are about to release a new album Sur les traces de Black Eskimo on alien8 recordings and are touring [...]

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• Wednesday, September 1, 2004  4:04 pm 

  This one is a bit more difficult

  Read an article in wired about how blogs are not really interactive, and the writers never respond to comments. Almost all the blogs I go to, the writers answer questions or respond to comments. We put a set list up, as requested by many readers, and someone complained about the bouncing bear suggesting cats are [...]

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• Tuesday, August 31, 2004  9:57 am 

  Stop, halt…

  All the music is being moved to another server, normal service will be resumed within 48hrs (apparently). Apologies 20JazzFunkGreats. Some people have been asking about tracklisting for what we play at the club. Matt is guest DJ at the next one, here is the tracklisting for his tape that got him the spot. “The Ace [...]

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• Wednesday, August 25, 2004  12:38 am 

  "Tonight Matthew, I am Damo Suzuki!"

  The Fall- I am Damo Suzuki… .And the Drums Coming Fast sez ominously da hip priest, and do the drums come fast and furious, do they. Jaki Liebezeit would approve. Here The Fall, who have always said that their only explicit influence is Can pay their debts to the original German funksters. And they do [...]

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• Monday, August 23, 2004  2:33 pm 

  Tilted Youth

  Mumps Rubella – Fountain of Youth Apparently some people have found “Louden Up Now”, !!!‘s second album, slighly underwhelming, probably because it contains only one Giulliani and not 10 or 13. Personally I’m quite happy with it, I find its meandering drones and synthetic crescendos fascinating, Nic Offer’s druggy blasphemous barking really engaging and the [...]

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• Saturday, August 21, 2004  4:15 am 

  The wonderful gift of giving…

  Giving away a cdr at the club of stuff we played. Any track nominations for the next one?

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• Wednesday, August 18, 2004  4:46 pm 

  So come and prance with me Michael…

  Michael Nyman – Anglefish Decay When i was a poncey English lit/Drama student the only good English movies being made were by Mike Leigh and Peter Greenaway (dear Derek Jarman and his beutiful garden, but Jubilee …wow Adamant about this). Through Eno and the Peguin Cafe Orchestra i started going to more avant garde stuff [...]

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• Sunday, August 15, 2004  1:32 pm 

  When I Say I’m in Love you Best Believe I’m in Love L-U-V

  The Nation of Ulysses – Today I Met The Girl I’m Going to Marry When I Say I’m in Love you Best Believe I Mean I’m in Love L-U-V The Shangri La’s and The New York Dolls said it earlier, but they didn´t say it louder than the original yeah yeah punk rockers from Washington [...]

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• Wednesday, August 11, 2004  4:14 pm 

  Kick out the neu! (motherfuckers)

  Munk -Kick out the Chairs What no JAMS? , well MC5 are shit now anyway, i’d rather go to Ikea than see em with Dave Vanian, Ian (i’m jim morisson don’t you know) Astbury and whatever other losers thay got singing with em. (DISCLAIMER – i actually thought the bloke from The Hellicoptors did a [...]

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• Saturday, August 7, 2004  8:41 am 

  Genesis

  Throbbing Gristle – Hot on the heels of love September 1979 produced something odd and less difficult to digest than previous gristly. Perhaps more Chris and Cosey than Genesis. A hypnotic electronic Love to Love you, was this the inspiration for Lil Louis – French Kiss? It sounds similar to being tied up, blindfolded and [...]

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