Archive for the 'italo' Category

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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008  12:21 am 

  2OJFG’s Italo Disco Day, no.3835

  20JFG are once again lost in the haunted starfields of discomatic space, and is it any coincidence that Strut is resurrected and about to release a compilation entitled “Disco Italia”? – no, it was always written in the heavens! This compilation should just be the most awesomest, hitting the listener with one rare gem after [...]

  Featuring >> italo, mc1, number one ensemble, pollyester

  
  

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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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• Wednesday, December 12, 2007  7:12 am 

  Larry Levan and his Crystal companions visit Mars

  If 20JFG were allowed to script and subsequently direct the 3rd series of Heroes we would chuck out all the square jawed and blond-beautiful actors and actresses and employ our beloved musicians as Godsends. Damo Suzuki as Hero, naturally, then maybe Sally Shapiro taking over Claire’s role as the cheerleader and for the Petrelli bothers [...]

  Featuring >> Miami, italo, larry levan, nite

  
  

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• Monday, October 8, 2007  11:23 pm 

  Jolene (Covered In Blood)

  Round these ‘ere parts we love a bit of Dolly Parton. There is in fact nothing we like more than knotting a pinny to our torsos and skipping through the house doing chores, cleaning, vacuuming, watering flowers, um, filing away mp3s in the correct folders. We do this whirlwind of housewifery to the dulcet tones [...]

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• Wednesday, August 15, 2007  3:14 pm 

  Science Fiction Double Feature

  That crazy sound from the 70′s/80′s, Space Disco (or Cosmic as it is mostly known) is coming on in leaps and bounds with many artists championing vintage synthesizers (or vintage synth plug-ins for Ableton maybe) and setting course for the nearest milkyway. Lo Recordings are releasing ‘Milky Disco’ in September, a collection of comets and [...]

  Featuring >> Cosmic, disco, electro, italo, satellites

  
  

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• Thursday, August 9, 2007  10:07 pm 

  Robin’s VH1 broadcast from the Forests

  VH1 presents Divas! Live, for one, magical night only from a wishful, imaginary place located somewhere in my brain, and hopefully yours too. On the bill tonight… Amanda Lear. A perfect pop star. An enigma, shrouded by folklore, wrapped up in a mystery, tied up within a myth. She may never have existed at all. [...]

  Featuring >> Robin, disco, italo

  
  

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• Tuesday, July 24, 2007  3:03 pm 

  Istambul Rock Terror Disco Dub Club reprise

  Do you remember the Istambul Rock Terror Disco Dub Club? Yeah, it’s this place where all your momma’s nightmares become wishes fulfilled. There are many ways to get here, secret passages blink luscious in the darkness of the night if you look in the right place, a puddle of dirty water outside the place that [...]

  Featuring >> cosmic rnb, italo, mystery movie club

  
  

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• Wednesday, June 13, 2007  3:01 pm 

  Draw for the ting in the Tesco’s bag, n’ I’ll make your silver moon suit look like a Japanese flag

  So when making the 20JFG Italo mix earlier this year, Genuine Guy asked the question, “Why don’t more hip-hop artists sample Italo Disco?“. He has a good point. Some of them do it already in their own special way: “Me & U” by Cassie rocks the Italo sensibilities with every new synth line heralding the [...]

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• Sunday, June 3, 2007  10:13 pm 

  War! What is it good for? Dancing.

  A few years back, the underground popularity of Electroclash and its plundering of all things 8O’s, helped to beam Italo Disco back into the limelight. Unlike Punk Funk, its stood the test of time and not been forgotten or replaced with The Next Big Thing. Its been spirited into darker, colder places by Chromatics and [...]

  Featuring >> cybernetic, italo, space, war

  
  

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• Thursday, March 15, 2007  4:33 pm 

  20JFG is floating on vortex

  Chromatics have been stepping up their game in the past few weeks, rumblings of new music posted on the myspace page sending out ripples of sound across the internet. These ripples reverberate off of us and we share the dark egyptian-disco love. They also are featured in the latest edition of Dazed & Confused too. [...]

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