" I've finally (finally) compiled a mix tape for 20JFG. And it is a mixtape in the most literal sense of the word. From my Technics 1200 to my Nakamichi deck to Audacity (for the digital transfer, of course) to you. So, no crossfades or beat matching, but plenty of strange cassette malfunction. It's called Static Gravity for the Chrome track that starts the mix. Hope you find something you like in it. " It seems we have tele-transported to a planet of understatements, and humbleness. This compilation by comrade Matt RVNG is power that doesn't corrupt, beauty that [...]
This post is definitely not about cat parasites . This post is definitely not about the fact that each member of 20JFG is surrounded by at least one cat on a daily basis. This post will not postulate what the cat parasite wants with us. It will merely point out that we are all from (marginally) diverse backgro unds and ideologies, brought together by some strange force to promote our love of occasionally popular music; to draw around us those who have also been inexplicably attracted to these strange, hypnotic, sometimes discordant, sometimes sexual, sometimes devoid of all meaning and [...]
Mannequin records continue their admirable exercise in Italian noir archaeology with their reissue of Central Unit's 'Loving Machinery', a landmark exercise in robotic ennui that was released thirty years ago but sounds like tomorrow. Saturday Nite dissects the bathos of weekend expectations disappointed with a withered surgical dance device whose synths doppler-effect like the sirens of an ambulance roaming the city for heartbreak victims (it always arrives too late), it's P-funk telegraph tries to lure our despondent protagonist into the dancefloor, but instead he walks into the winter without, alone with his self-consciousness. [...]
(Our post was given some colour by Philip Caza via 50Watts ) Our genotype mutates slowly, its dominant components a mostly stable tarot deck of archetypes of literary, visual, digital-graphic and subcultural derivation – things that hit us hard in the head when we were being formed, things that perhaps we shouldn't have been exposed to. Because, as if through osmosis, they penetrated our skin and attached themselves to our soft nervous system. There they remain, never to be dislodged, we return to them again and again in a Nitzschean drone... [...]
Welcome Ashley Marlowe aka Donga aka curator of the very excellent Well Rounded / Individuals family with a 100% vinyl shagged needles and ailing mixer very friendly mixtape which is "kinda house but with a more psychedelic edge". Top class, as ever. Donga Very Friendly Mix Tracklist: 1. FLOETRY - 'Say Yes (Remix)' (white) 2. LINKWOOD - '?' (SHEVC004) 3. ROBERT OWENS - 'One Tear' (Tevo Howard Recs) 4. VIDEODROME - 'Temptation's Daughter (Donga [...]
Week 4 and Exile is turning into residence. Two cascading pieces of electronic music. RxGibbs ' Proxy falls through the hazy memories of a Kompakt future: a land of brushed metal and milk. Where reclaimed architectural unit s of the past; are put into service as the unblinking backdrop; to the entropy of elegance into decadence. The crisp frame to the final moments of a 48 hour binge. RxGibbs' Proxy continues to fall. Straight through the part 4AD , part Gainsbourg ecstatic/mournful signing of a female voice. Falling back [...]
(Post title off China Miéville's stunning Embassytown, go read ). Dear 20jazzfunkgreats, Last night I had a dream. I dreamt of a blue orb spinning in the unfathomable blackness, over a turbulent ocean governed by invisible forces. It shone like a candle about to be snuffed out, the shining I saw was that of life spread across this orb, one that illuminates, however feebly, the quadrant of space it has been allocated. The light's shifting frequencies contained the fractal complexities of the ecosystem that fuels it. I [...]
The dystopian scenarios of the cyberpunk literature explore the distributional outcomes of a winner-takes-all tech-powered economy, where the powerful get their kicks out of implementing convoluted conspiracies, meddling with drugs, perversion and crime as a the only channel to reintroduce uncertainty in their sheltered and spoiled lives. Creativity and innovation still thrive in the forlorn street, that street that finds its own use for things, but it's all hustle, a far cry from the utopias imagined by Vannevar Bush and the sapient pioneers of the Golden Age. Sentient constructs swim under the data surface of this world, threatening the status [...]
The Head Technician from Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services made us a mixtape, which we are very happy to share with you today. Pye Corner Audio - A magnetically aligned ferrous mixtape from The Head Technician Tracklist : Kuedo - Ant City Stratus - Look To The Sky Ekoclef - we march triumphant over your bones Walter - Dinner in Trieste Walls - Raw Umber/Twilight Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Jumblegloss [...]
Dear 20JFG, The banality of familiarity has kicked in. Sorry. Those simple stereotypes of home are becoming more believable the more the memory of the complexity fades. It's all rock , new media companies and hen nights, no? No? The music we post always has a pretty fuzzy chronology and we've always had an equally fuzzy approach to reading press releases. For the last week or so the baroque Italian-English of La Bambola Del Dr Caligari has been soundtracking [...]
Where to now used to be a radio show and a night where they played great records. It's now expanded to become one of our favorite record labels, and we are lucky enough to have todays mixtape made for you, by them. Where to now? - Jan 2012 xxjfg mixtape Tracklist : creature lab : he calls himself the seeker (part 5) (forthcoming. where to now?) kyle bobby dunn : dropping sandwiches in chester (desire path) apemoth : [...]
120 Megabytes – Episode 19 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
(More here ) On the 19th of January 2012, a zillion innocent songs faced obliteration . They had been caught in the middle of a battle pitting a Mount Rushmore of severe lawyerly faces, pockmarked with threatening takedown tendrils, and the khaki lords of the cloud, bloated by the windfall of a thousand network effects. No-one cared for the songs. They had long lived miserable existences locked in the zip cells of a cybernetic prison, crammed between adverts for scantily dressed ladies and pills supposedly [...]
Dear 20JFG, The portal that you provide back to my former life - all glittering floors and narrow streets - continues to be very much appreciated. I have made repeated excursions this week, attempting to pierce the membrane that keeps me from you; a needle repeatedly stopped in time, on the verge. But to no avail. I remain idealising from afar and plotting my eventual return. Without the 'penguin huddle' that your city's wayward building practices provides I have been repeatedly [...]
120 Megabytes – Episode 18 brought to you in association with @markbrown and our friends over at Network Awesome
Imagine a 3D model of someone's bedroom containing every single object within it, and every single bit of information concerning that object. Where it is positioned, how it arrived there, what was done with it, what was felt about it. Imagine it as a digital version of Georges Perec in Life: A User's Manual. Photographs, t-shirts and books, disintegrating sneakers and second hand furniture, posters and fanzines, chunky red toys, piles of papers, train ticket & gig stubs, discarded packets of cigarettes, coffee mugs embossed with novelty slogans. The cause of that smear in the sofa and the [...]
Songs like black cats, we cannot fathom whether they exist superimposed to our surroundings, or shadowlessly embedded within them, spilling through their invisible channels like ink on water, love or corruption. We link this peculiar effect to the continuity of their shape, the smoothness of their flow, their coating in a cloak of velvet and fuzz, which blurs them into the background, from where they machinate unacknowledged, counsellors of our subconscious. Alenka Sottler illustration via 50Watts . Logosamphia's Passage [...]
Oxidised gears have started turning at the industrially revolutionary 20jazzfunkgreats manor. Our haphazard mixtape series welcomes 2012 with 'a bunch of weird stuff no one listens to', as our curator today, the excellent Speculator, master of WT Records , puts it. Any seeker out there knows that when uttered by the right person, the stream of words before mean 'awesomeness', and you couldn't find a righter person than Speculator to utter them. Flying over the phantasmagorical streets of New Los Angeles, I glimpsed her. You can imagine the rest. Speculator's Sophisticated goth mix [...]
Dear 20JFG, Streets are quiet, sporadic interactions with residents have been friendly. Skies are large and blue. The sea is far beneath us. The world is full of comforts, like a trap. A bit like that bit in Labyrinth in where Jennifer Connelly thinks she's home but…she's not! …have attempted communication with the cat, in his language. Cats are stupid. Everything is single storied. …internet: patchy. Thanks for the parcel. [...]
Francis Bebey's legacy in the popularisation of African music and African styles can not be disputed, having released a mass of popular albums and being largely responsible for throwing the music of Manu Dibango into the limelight, he was also a famed novelist & artist...dude was busy, so busy infact that there's a whole bunch of recordings that have gone fairly unnoticed and under appreciated for years, ridiculous considering that these are potentially the most forward thinking forays into the combining of minimal electronic techniques & traditional African instrumentation to emerge. Thankfully [...]
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