An xxjfg archive for posts featuring professor genius.
A hazy black and white television, freed from it’s cheap veneer housing sits awkwardly on a fragile brown table, its cathode ray tube naked and blaring. Through a dust caked window, Attack Ships perch on their gigantic scaffolds, cloistered beasts awaiting an electronic impulse that will signal their initial, sluggish roll away from their moorings. …
Assassins is a displacement from the West German brutalism and Cold War bleakness – industrial wastelands and all – that’s usually associated with low key synthesisers and half buried hyperactive drum machines (muted by their very energetic nature). Here the aural aesthetic is tied to the story of the Hashshashin, the Nizai Ismailis tarred by…
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…
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…
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…