Two bands return to the pages of 20JFG today each bringing their own assimilation of machine music to bear on a suspecting world. Each responding to the past with snatches of sounds from machines long dead, arranged, repurposed and re-slaved to the beat.

Excepter return to beguile with their ghostly scrapings and primeval techno. Castle Morro drifts in among a thick mist of clattering percussion, slowly giving way to shaken static and the propeller throb of looped electronics. The Gristlised tones drawing steadily nearer, enveloping, until they’re upon you at which point, from the deep, a bulkhead thudding beat surfaces. Synths scatter down through the ether dragging the sea-level throb towards the stars until, inverse to their arrival, they suddenly disappear.

This track is taken from their CDLP/DVD ‘Black Beach’ on Paw Tracks which you can buy here.

Excepter – Castle Morro

20JFG’s favourite Franco-Krautrock insurrectionist Turzi also returns this month with the alphabetic inevitability that is ‘B’. The penultimate track on the album, Bogota submerges its throbbing metronomic beat under opposing layers of guitars competing for space, with serrated synth stabs keeping peace between the two. Like a cross cutting prelude to a blood slick giallo money shot, the internal divisions of the track rise to the surface and recede, each having their moment of prominence before fading back into the night.

You’ll be able to order ‘B’ from Record Makers on it’s release next week here but I’m sure it’ll not be too hard to find in your local record store.

Turzi – Bogota

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For those of you in NYC, your faithful Stateside XXJFG brother will be djing at a few things tomorrow in conjucture with CMJ. First I’ll be playing at the True Panther showcase which happens at Pianos, and where Restless People, Janka Nabay, Glasser, Delorean and Lemonade will be doing their thing.

Later on in the evening I’ll be DJing again from 2.00 a.m. at the mammoth sized Pitchfork party which has been set up as a benefit for Showpaper. The whole thing commences at 1.00 p.m. with the awesome likes of Cold Cave, Javelin, and Small Black playing live til Midnight, at which point the DJs take over and play til 7. Basically it’s going to be zombifying.

The Ark – Patronus Winter

The Ark myspace page

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Mi Ami – Ark of the Covenant

Mi Ami myspace page

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No Age with David Scott Stone – Switches

No Age myspace page

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Back by popular demand: Turzi Mixtape:

Turzi – Mixtape 2OO7

Tracklist:

1- Deuter – Night Rain
2- Ash Ra Tempel – Le sourire vol
3- Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes – Paix
4- Igor Whakevitch – Rituel de guerre des esprits de la terre
5- Ennio Morricone – Cita violenta
6- Kevin Ayers & Nico – Irreversible Neutral Damage
7- Faust – (…)
8- Agitation Free – Play for us today
9- Brainticket – Radadaguda

Incidently, Turzi is starting a tour of the UK with dates in London, Leeds, Glasgow, Brighton, and others – check the myspace page kraut fans!

TURZI //// MIXTAPE 2OO7

Tracklist:

Deuter – Night Rain
Ash Ra Tempel – Le Sourire Vol
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes – Paix
Igor Whakevitch – Rituel de Guerre des Esprits de la Terre
Ennio Morricone – Citta Violenta
Kevin Ayers & Nico – Irreversible Neutral Damage
Faust – (…)
Agitation Free – Play for Us Today
Brainticket – Radadaguda