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 as mighty a collection of abstract riffs as the ones that will crack open the cage where your soul dwells. Dance the ghost dance friends, because if Black Meteoric Star gave us music to wage cosmic warfare to, Professor Genius and Speculator’s collaboration project out in Echovolt Records is the gamma radiation rain of religious propaganda designed by a secret cult of hooded ancients. It is called Motorik and it soars like blood spraying off the moist heart of an aged analogue cyborg as it is squeezed with loving fingers. It rules.

Professor Genius and Grackle- Jive

A friend of a friend came to visit the other day, and he played this on the stereo. This the sort of synchromystic event that makes your 20JFG pals trust the deigns of the pyramid bonnet wearing maker. King Sunny Ade and his African Beats, a Nigerian music mogul and global star of the Yoruba Juju scene (yeah, I checked Wikipedia) doing his thing, and what does thing sound like? It sounds like a graph made of muscle with Can on the Y axis and Manu Dibango on the X axis, a whole country banging on stuff marches martial from the intersection into the positive quadrant, and beyond, leaving on their wake a trail of seeds that will grow into mighty forests. Very powerful stuff. Get it here.

King Sunny Ade and his African Beats- Synchro System

Illustration by Bob Pepper via Sci-Fi-O-Rama

And just because you were asking for it, here you have a new 20JFG mix dedicated to Steven. The levels are all over the place as usual, but it’s made with lots of good music and much love. Enjoy you crazies.

20JFG 13 is Love Mixtape

1- Magical Power Mako- Open the Morning Window, the Sunshine Come in, the Hope of Today is Small Bird Singing

2-Telepathe- Standing in your Line

3-Detachments- The Flowers that Fell (Thee Four Horsemen Remix)

4-A Mountain of One- Innocent Reprise

5-Public Image Ltd.- The Order of Death

6-Darktown Strutters- Lucifer Rising

7-Pictureplane- Dark Rift

8-Sorcerer- Chemise

9-Ultron- Master Mind

10- Ris- Love ‘n’ Music

11-Azari & III- Hungry for the Power

12- King Sunny Ade and his African Beats- Synchro System

13-Demis Roussos- Love Is (Dimitri From Paris Sunday At The Loft Remix)

And if you are in London on Friday, do go to the Huntley and Palmer’s Launch Party. It’s going to rule.