Archive for the 'mixtape' Category

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Monday, September 14, 2009  12:05 am 

  Def Episteme

  Activate liminality drive, slide like a knife through matter butter into the vast theatre where the alt molecules perform their geometric dance, drawing baroque patterns of unfolding complexity as lines bend into curves, strings vibrate to accommodate your favourite conceptual framework re the birth of the universe, shapes coagulate and order emerge and expands, it’s [...]

  Featuring >> Eric XVI, Krikor and the Dead Hillbillies, Pictureplane, mixtape

  
  

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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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• 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 20, 2009  12:01 am 

  My Girlfriend was a Victim in an ’80s Slasher Movie

  And now she’s dead. Girlfriend Records heralds from the USA and is a sweet label full of nostalgic Atari aural attacks, a label that lounges on the same beach that spreads across a degraded bitmap sunset landscape where Ghost Car and Valerie collectives are busy building crystalline sand citadels and working on their tan. Head-honcho [...]

  Featuring >> Girlfriend Records, Parallels, Pelifics, Sferro, The Sweeps, mixtape

  
  

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• Thursday, May 7, 2009  12:20 am 

  Wizard’s Utopia

  For whimsical mood-music that further enhances warm but breezy summer days you can always rely on the French. Whether its the soft focus porno music and midnite drive jazz groove of Karl-Heinz Schäfer’s “Les Gants du Diable” soundtrack, or the Nico-esque melodies plucked from icicle clusters of Brigitte Fontaine, or the rolling and diving strings [...]

  Featuring >> Erol Alkan, Ilous et Decuyper, Oneohtrix Point Never, Supercharge, The Time & Space Machine, mixtape

  
  

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• Tuesday, April 28, 2009  12:28 am 

  Fantoms

  Think Joy Division as remade by Chromatics – ah, but its so much more than that! Twisted Wires are a raging storm reflected in the retina of a solemn shoegazing guitarist, coiling a mournful down-tuned motif from his spidery guitar strings. In the 80s. With The Horrors making like the spectral shadows cast by The [...]

  Featuring >> Twisted Wires, Yura Yura Teikoku, mixtape, professor genius

  
  

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• Tuesday, September 2, 2008  12:05 am 

  My fair lady my ass

  Like the Wu once said, it’s all about the labels. Gotta love Ghostface’s moccasins. And this music, coming from those underground stalwarts who are claiming back the dancefloor for the freaks to boogie tres classy. The arrival of a Permanent Vacation promotional device to the halls of thee 20Jazzfunkgreats curmudgeons is celebrated with the kind [...]

  Featuring >> Bostro Pesopeo, Elitechnique, IGETRVNG, Jacques Renault, The Detachments, mixtape

  
  

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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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