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| Filed Under: | Music / Dance & DJ | |
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| Archived Since: | February 9, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Transcendental Weaponry
(Photography by Kevin Baluff.) In 2013, minimalism is making a lot of sense. Fire, too. It’s hard to describe why brass can sometimes be such a great communicator, but certainly in the right hands and lungs a honking saxophone can be supremely lyrical. This horn’s thudding, pulsing bleats are industrial and rusty. It sounds like... Read the full post »
Ecology of Eden
Having spent almost two weeks trapped in the throbbing FTL Drive of Stellar OM Source’s Joy One Mile has led us to develop a theory about the constitution of its sound. Here we outline this theory, contrast it with the reality of its making, and find a poetic way of integrating both things. The theory: ... Read the full post »
Chicago Sprawl
This is a post about mid-90s Asian cinema, late-80s cyberpunk and Footwork. This is how it goes down. Though Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express was often pilloried for its sentimentality, its true calling was as a mainline to a vision of Hong Kong beneath all the hyper-capitalism. While the idea of Tokyo as a living... Read the full post »
lower-case synth-odyssey
(Art is by the excellent Gordan Shark.) It’s like getting really, really close up to a Roy Lichtenstein painting – smudging your face up against the glass and crossing and uncrossing your eyes, focusing on a cluster of dots at a time and rocking your head back and forth to approximate some sort of internal zoom... Read the full post »
Screeching Tyres, Gunshots, Ejaculating Fire Hydrants
The debut Fantomas album – Patton’s first major release since leaving Faith No More – was intended as a literal musical transcription of a comic book, one which the listener is not privy to, but instead has to decode in the stampeding drums, electric-shock guitar-bursts and gibbered vocals – all postmodern ‘KAPOW’s and ‘KERRUNCH!’s Delirium... Read the full post »
Everything converges in the human
This post is dedicated to our friend Matt. We have long known that good science fiction isn’t really about the future but about the present. Contemporary situations, concerns and trajectories of development are stretched to fit an altered framework, and from this strange viewpoint, we reach new insights. This means that good science fiction isn’t... Read the full post »
Loves of Life
To celebrate the release of Peter Gordon and Factory Floor‘s Beachcombing, we spoke to Peter and Nik Colk Void about the tracks which influenced this most XXJFG of collaborations. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme part 1: Acknowledgements Peter: “As a kid, I used to listen to this every night as I would fall asleep.... Read the full post »
A message from the UK European Party
It is not everyday that 20JFG gets to feature contemporary politicised Serbian electro-body-pop music of a beauty and energy such that it flares over the cardboard industrial complex of the nouveau fashion zombies turning them into statues of ash which are then projected against concrete walls, like the nuclear shadows of humans caught in the... Read the full post »
It Takes a Million Whirling Machines
It took a million whirling machines to fashion the simple electronic waves of the past. In a race to circumvent analogue’s unwanted, granular detail; their future was hard won and noiseless. Kit Grill transports us to a world where the simplicity of Laurie Spiegel‘s electronic experiments are gospel. These are pure smooth tones, clustered like... Read the full post »
Never Bored
First thought was an unpleasant one: Ariel Pink. I know that might be considered blasphemy, especially from the one of the several mouths in the giant mercurial Cerberus-face that is XXJFG, and yeah that Tascam Portatudio sound was a smear of loveliness in itself, and Pink did had an entire genresworth of back catalogue committed... Read the full post »
Ox Hunting
The press release for the Vision Fortune ‘Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune’ (MFCEGVF) could be the best that 20JFG has ever received – it describes its songs by reference to the Parable of the Ox written by John Kay of the Kay Review of Equity markets and long-term decision making fame. In fact, MFCEGVF is... Read the full post »
Praise the Sun!
The sun’s stumbled drunkenly through the door, muttering incoherently about being late. How it’s very sorry; lost track of the time; won’t do it again. And we sigh and forgive it because with the windows open and the heating off we can indulge in late night communiques with the stars. The most ethereal of music... Read the full post »
Kwaidan
Kwaidan (or ‘kaidan’) is an old-fashioned term for a Japanese horror or ghost story. It’s also the name of a magical 1964 cinematic anthology of supernatural Japanese myths and legends, directed in 1964 by Masaki Kobayashi. Although you wouldn’t think it to look at it – with its simple, but elegant and highly-stylised painted backdrops,... Read the full post »
Relay
(Artwork of the Bernal Sphere by Don Davis/NASA via Astrona) We can pinpoint each of the three moments when The Cargo is transmitted by three spaceships whose trajectories comprise the three segments of a journey which is the complete journey of The Cargo they carry, a weapon to start the counterattack against the forces of... Read the full post »
20JFG Podcast: This is my Happening and it Freaks me Out!!!
This time… they’ve really gone. This is not a sequel. There has never been anything like it. The world is fill of them, the super-octane girls who are old at twenty. If they get to be twenty. Please enjoy, as normal there is no tracklist but we trust in you dear readers to suggest one... Read the full post »
Death Will Do Nothing
It amazes me that, in the face of industrial indifference, people can still sit down and create pieces of music as fragile and downbeat as this. As if the safety net of a musician’s wage still existed to catch their psyches as they fell through the blackness of their own work. Mayerling‘s La Mort Ne... Read the full post »
Trill a Little Hymn to the Cosmos
(Art is by Frank R. Paul) If, like me, you have been reading this blog for some time, then as well as finding comfort in the reassuringly regular infobombs of ectoplasmic synth goo, post-nuclear pop, and technocratic techno, from time you time you probably wonder: what exactly IS the selection process for the MP3s... Read the full post »
Oh, Whistle…
The Coombe’s self/titled EP on Mannequin has invaded the screen of our psychic radar like a flotilla of aeroplanes loaded with ghost-drugs that add extra layers to our sensory input. Depending on the song, this may be the muslin-like textures of the ectoplasm of Victorian mediums, iridescent bubbles dancing past the dada architectures of a... Read the full post »
“In Return for Your Homage, I Bring You a New Era!”
Beppe Loda is a legendary Italian DJ, who made a name for himself in the early 80s with an Afro sound (having been DJing since the early 70s). He started a mix we posted (in June last year) with Bionic Boar, a track we wrote about last week. Seance Centre is a collaborate between Loda,... Read the full post »
Happy Spasms Forever
(art is by the awesome Tony Digital Art) The first thing we heard by Teruyuki Kurihara aka Cherry was the light-dashed slow-motion glide of 1969, a 26-minute epic that not only manages to transport your head to an entirely different place from where it was when it first started, but actually seems to move through you simultaneously.... Read the full post »