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20JazzFunkGreats - Mi Ami
Mi Ami raise from the ashes of Dischord knuckle-duster disco dudes Black Eyes like a Nubian phoenix of percussion. Shrieking they crash past the beyond of a space which is most definitely the place. Their debut album Watersports, out on Touch and Go sounds like Eno and Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts after two months spent crawling in the mortar-shelled trenches of some apocalyptic grindcore jungle. It grabs your throat with a deft bass hand and slices your eyeballs open with shards of serrated guitar. Cultural tourism my ass, this is total pow.
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Also, if you’re about, we’ll be DJing at Mi Ami’s Upset the Rhythm show in London on the 10th April.
20JazzFunkGreats - Telepathe and Dismemberment
What better way to kick off the 09 than with a good dose of psychedelic mayhem? Transcend kids, transcend.
Imagine a level of Dead Space where you get splattered with liquid ecstasy whenever you carry out a strategic dismemberment. You have a revamped arsenal of tools at hand, including the Steve Reich orgone accumulator and the esoteric black dice, which, when thrown at the slimy feet of one of the abominations that lurk in the corridors of the USG Ishimura, deploys a lattice of abstracted blue devastating party power. Only if you score snake eyes though. Otherwise you are fucked. Gyratory System would make the soundtrack, and we would sit in front of the screen drooling like The Lanmower Man had never happened.
20JazzFunkGreats - MP3s and Samurai
PHOTO: SALEM
In a year of regurgitation of forgotten classics and unearthed gems – otherwise known as edits – it’s nice that a story of moderate underground success can shine like a tarnished sheet of corrugated metal fashioned into some sort of award for being generally awesome. SALEM are one such entity.
20JazzFunkGreats Write For Viceland
If you care about weird, celestial, underground music. If you’ve ever had a passing interest in electro, italo, garage rock or any music that sounds like dystopian badlands, then you’ll have trawled 20jazzfunkgreats. They were the first blog to tell me about Crystal Castles, Salem and Teengirl Fantasy - always in their own eternally cerebral manner. They are also only one of about ten cool things to ever come out of Brighton. Now 20jazzfunkgreats have scuttled into Viceland to tell you (and let you hear) the most exciting music booming from under their office door. They’ll be appearing every week, welcome XXJFG.
