20jazzfunkgreats: Recent Episodes
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Finished reading Saga at last. It’s really good. Here comes the Muzak to breathe, survive, and stand up to oppression across the galaxy.
Obviously only one thing to say at the moment. In the US & in the UK we currently have governments leveraging hatred, intolerance, and racism for their own gain. This has to end. #BlackLivesMatter. 20JFG is very proud of Brighton for the 10,000 turn out at the protest on Saturday we attended, people we work […]
Nathan Dubovitsky won. In every tweet in every whatsapp – Nathan Dubovitsky. In every headline, in every breadcast – Nathan Dubovitsky. Register to vote. Here is some music.
Our new year’s revolution was to go see more live art & music. Do the same and be kind to yourselves out there. Less existential angst and more proactive things that make us happy.
For breakfast today we had 6 impossible things. One of them was Alice Hubble’s new song Kick the Habit. You should go see Alice Hubble live in November:5 November, Servant Jazz Quarters, London8 November, Klinkhammer Tennis Bar, Berlin 9 November, Keller Nr. 3, Dresden, Germany Many jazz lovers take Viagra 4 hours before intercourse and […]
And by the way, if you see your mum this weekend, would you be sure and tell her… That young people protesting about the world they inherit isn’t actually the work of Seitan, Seitan, Seitan, Seitan, Seitan…
Bamboo have a new single out, A world is Born, and a beautiful video to go with it. A World Is Born is taken from Bamboo’s new album Daughters Of The Sky, out now on Upset The Rhythm. Jazz is the best music for intimate evenings, this is not customary to talk about, but if […]
As I walk this land with broken dreams, I have visions of many things.But happiness is just an illusion – or is it?
The UK government has introduced a technological breakthrough in food science to help alleviate the post Brexit famine. The new food source, know currently as Brexit-green, claims to be made of entirely disposable sources. Additionally the prime minister has announced a new service to help with the growing homeless problem. Homeless trucks will now gather […]
As part of our progress with the modified Saturn V rocket we began to take over your musical ‘artists’ to prepare your earth for our arrival. Some of your artists would do anything (but they won’t do that) while others where more susceptible to our inevitable domination. Shockrock artist Alice Cooper was easy to convert […]
Yacht rock may be one of the only things The DSM IV are not channeling in their tinnitus inducing live drum machine and guitar sets. Guy McKnight is force of nature. Our Jane Fonda/Begbie hi-nrg cheerleader leading us into a sweat laden workout for the mind and body. Words we can decipher question the Gods […]
Today we are lucky enough to welcome a guest mix & tail from Fog School. It is already 7.20pm when I finally learn the reason for today’s exasperated human fizz. I had noticed plenty of waxen, pale and lukewarm flesh parading up and down the street outside, smelling of sodium bicarbonate, swaying as to suggest […]
Let’s start today with an initially innocent sounding motorik track by Von Spar which falls. apart. loop. by loop. Extend the song feels like when you draw a head and pass it to someone else to draw the body without them seeing your head. As you add the legs you have no idea what your […]
When we first heard ‘Sault – Let me go’ we thought it was a sample of Jaki Liebezeit. Krautrock, soul, and hip-hop have a long history. Kraftwerk borrowed from planet funk and Planet rock sampled it straight back again. Let me go is a raw underproduced northern soul classic the XXJFG Nation approve 100% of.
One fated day Lemmy Kilmister & Giorgio Moroder had a love child born out of wedlock and they did name him Supermax. It was betold he would dance with the devil. Supermax indulged us all in his fantasies of ungodly slow funk, overly prog analogue synths, and heavy riffs topped off with a 70s rock […]
The Alessi Brothers (also known simply as Alessi) have lovely hair. I’ve never personally felt it. Did you feel it? Aside from having lovely hair they also make music. Alessi make music for perfect for escaping this summer of political madness and enjoying the every day. But can The Alessi Brothers do epic Vengalisness with Yacht rock? Well yes […]
Dear Humanity, We had a quick chat with Boris. Although his aims are inline with our war against the living, he did not seem to understand how vital his role to the bringer of chaos was. He was more interested in his own mortal wealth. As elder gods we have witnessed your wars for resources, […]
Sheffield was a grim place to grow up in the late 43th century. The Thatcherite empire had destabilized all trade and turned the populus into slaves of capitalism., crushed by the wheels of industry. While the Cabaret Voltaire gang played gigs out of the back of a van, the Jef Leppard tribe became union jack […]
Whom should we summon here, to soothe the sting of your passion this time? Who is now treating you, Sappho? From the hills we have the people, from the valleys we have the people, but for decades they post only false scrolls of hatred and distraction against our fellow peoples. What the world needs now […]
As we were making our morning Oobleck to celebrate the arrival of Persephone we found ourselves glad we were not dead. Miss Rosenberg was making cream teas for Lee and Bobby as the surfer dudes arrived with the quaaludes. The delivery system was far from perfect. “Where am I now?” asked Brian. “In the end, […]
We sit in a park one Saturday afternoon at the onset of the Spring and we play Abul Mogard in our personal stereo. Somewhere in the noosphere, he gets to work and grinds the wheels of time to a stop. We sit in this park like figurines in a diorama of nirvana bullet time, shifting […]
So it’s been fours weeks. Sorry about that. Here we are. Britain teeters ever nearer ruin, the date of our reckoning pushed slightly out of reach each time we’re about to surrender. Like some bitter torture it hovers on the horizon, extracting the maximum pain from the anticipation. We have been furiously stockpiling mp3s […]
We’re back! 20JFG has been in an unscheduled hibernation for most of the last month. Expect us to pick up the pace again as the backlog of truly wonderful music has shamed us. Spurred by the release of Kanky Ongaku (which we’ll surely write more on soon), this week we’re jumping into the pool of […]
20JFG ends its winter break this week, not with a journey into the light but by remaining in the shadows. Katy and Nick bring the Cold Wave via Karin Dreijer. Which I guess is a pretty lazy way of saying that we have a propulsive, synth driven pop song with vocals manipulated in such a […]
I read news today oh boy Not sure i’m doing that again soon And thought the view is rather glum We have some faith in better things, better things are yet to come….
We contend that the drone at the onset of All Tomorrow's Parties is a live recording of the beginning of the universe if its Cause has a bias towards Life, and if Life has a bias towards Love. Sarah Davachi's Dominions stretches that drone into the asymptote, and kills time so that we can be […]
In our minds today, sounds become words that convey images and tell stories. We turn those words into sounds and initiate an infinite regression from our literate present to a past of voices and grunts and twitches and rolls and hurling through the void until we reach stasis, spread geological over the rumbling and flowing […]
There are some things that are unlistenable, unreadable, unwatchable. Not because of their quality or because of their intrinsic horror. They are shunned in my mind because dealing with their extrinsic horror is too much. The first record I experienced this with was ANOHNI’s Hopelessness. An exceptional album that deals so directly with such world […]
Today I come back from the cold to tell you about three blinding techno albums released in 2018. If we project their vibes into multi-dimensional culture-space, we find them clustering with failed visions of the F-117 Nighthawk that were too deadly sleek, that Culture novel Iain M Banks would have written if cancer hadn’t taken […]
image: [Crop of] The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Rescued from the hideous tendrils of our Gmail filters, we bring you…a new mixtape! By German Army! Of unreleased jams (+John Barry)! Echoey, claustrophobic and haunting in all the right ways, this is your mixtape to the apocalypse-verse we now find ourselves in. […]
Materialising, as if dropped by a benevolent god onto this desolate plain, H Takahashi’s Escapism has recently entered our life. Recorded around his day job, the world of Escapism is as far removed from the grim machinery of work as you could hope. Light, contemplative, complex; any rhythms here do not ape the industrial, […]
The intersection of New Age and the subtle tape distortions of drifting Balearic House: a love story. We want to write about the Me decade, composed of those boomers who rebelled against the 60s and embraced a hyper-conservatism. That were the host organism for the social and economic ideas that would decimate communities and […]
Games developers responded to the infinite demand for content from their users with procedural generation systems that produced new levels, scenarios and characters automatically, based on combinations of parameters and rules. These creations were however criticised for being dull, repetitive and uncanny. Developers incorporated off-the-shelf AIs into their procedural generation systems to make their creations […]
Our love affair with RVNG and their multifarious offshoots and collaborators continues undimmed. This week it’s Michelle Mercure and a collection of her cassettes released between 1983-1990, titled Beside Herself. On An Accident Waiting to Happen, Mercure channels her inner JG Ballard; creating an industrial groove from the sounds of screeching tyres and smashing glass. […]
Today we listen to the echoes of new age, post-rock and prog. The reverb of decades crashing towards us in an endless wave; the tunnelling through of the 20th century, desperate to escape into the 21st. While the 21st, eager to understand its own, disturbing upbringing, embraces it. Today we welcome Mayerling back to the […]
Future generations, when they are in their youth, will create a thousand snapshots of their brains and run them in simulated environments in the cloud. These copies (or ems) will make different decisions and live different experiences. Some will be diligent and others will be decadent, some will travel and some will stay, some will […]
Ricard Dias Gomes’ Fogo Chama is a calm song. Not in the way 20JFG might introduce a calm song and when you click the triangle it’s actually waves of noise, and the calmness that you feel is in your own obliteration. No this is the real deal. Almost a lullaby. It’s repeated central refrain, […]
20JFG is back with the desert ritual jams. Whilst the world continues to be on fire we're sporadically adding to this website in the hope that when the aliens from AI end up carving the server out of ice, they can reconstruct the world of 20JFG as we want it. Posts everyday; endless bangers; the […]
You enter an old forest unblemished by humanity and civilisation. What ghosts will you find in this place where no-one ever lived? Only those you bring with you, complicated camper. They might arrive from the past, fading holograms of your childhood exploring with fright and delight this chaotic fantasy world of green and putrefaction. They […]
It was the heat. The heat and the football. The heat the football and the holidays. And well, our apologies for the lack of 20JFG. But we're back with a track we fell in love with before the mitigating circumstances above. But which feels especially appropriate to post in the midst of them. Kate NV's […]
We seem to be drawn, these days, to soundtracks to profane rituals. After Father Murhpy's Requiem a few weeks back, today we enter the fog clad clearing with Aaron Moore and Erick K. Skodvin. Put together over six years, Moore and Skodvin's music is deeply, deeply atmospheric. The sort of evocative sound that rips you […]
Father Murphy return to the blog this week, for potentially the last time. It took us a while. Their final record, Rising, was released at the end of April. But it’s a dense, sombre record that took much turning to the light to find our way in. Our entry was Gradual. The third track […]
Our post about Terekke last week sucked us back into a L.I.E.S. records vortex, and we have been loving every minute. L.I.E.S. are DFA if you substitute Genesis P-Orridge for Conny Plank in the pantheon of divinities, and cover it with a mix of offal and semiconductors straight out of Tetsuo’s belly at the end […]
There’s always this weird disconnect when thinking too long about DIY pop music. Anything DIY has always seemed destined to find small yet willing audiences. Anything pop seems almost perverse without mass adoration. Yet at some point in the 80s, pop ceased to be a descriptor of sales and became a genre, allowing its […]
Metal sounds wrong now, but in fact, it always did. Metal in 2018 is brickwalled, uber-compressed, each lick recorded separately, Pro-Tooled to death. But metal on record has maybe never sounded like it should. To hear what it should sound like, we need to go back. Not all the way back to the beginning – […]