UK INDUSTRIAL LABEL LP THROBBING GRISTLE 20 JAZZ FUNK..

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TRACKS:

1. 20 Jazz Funk Greats    
2. Beachy Head    
3. Still Walking    
4. Tanith    
5. Convincing People    
6. Exotica    
7. Hot On The Heels Of Love    
8. Persuasion    
9. Walkabout    
10. What A Day    
11. Six Six Sixties    

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'20 Jazz Funk Greats' remains one of the key albums of the late-1970s - predicting most of what was to follow (electronica, industrial, avant-garde, ambient, new wave etc.) & also being one of those varied long-players common to that era (see Can's 'Tago Mago', Faust's 'IV' or Eno's 'Another Green World'). The cover is very British, I think - the so-called 'wreckers of civilisation' - dressed in standard-dress of the seventies - some members look like they could be in The Fall, another a stock-hippy - while Genesis P-Orridge has a snappy white-blazer on (the white & the ironic title a deliberate move against the fascist-nazi tags being placated on TG due to songs like 'Zyklon Z. Zombie'). & Cosey Fanni Tutti remains the epitome of cuteness; the smile & the rest is put into context by the reverse of the cover & the  pic of an abandoned Range Rover, nodding to 'Beachy Head'

The title track opens proceedings- an industrial-groove that was borrowed for Scritti Politti's 'The Sweetest Girl' starts, later followed by P-Orridge's atonal-violin & some syn-drums (that would later find their way into Joy Division; see 'Insight').
TG sang when they felt like it, so 'Beachy Head' (named after the popular British suicide-point) drifts toward the ambient - after Eno & capturing the vibe of such a place (a body lies undiscovered at the bottom- no one stops you as you step off - no sound as you are falling...). This is most definitely after-Eno & along with tracks from 'In the Shadow of the Sun' & 'Journey Through a Body' is TG's most ambient-work (the violin lulls colliding with ambient electronica could be seen to influence Silver Mt Zion or The Aphex Twin, say...).  'Still Walking' shudders into life, a spoken-word vocal ups the sinister stakes as violin-drones (after Cale) drift in the background. Various TG-members speak the lyrics - another instrumental track ('Tanith') pops up next : this one sounds like a Krautrock-vision of 'Headhunters' or 70s-Miles Davis.

A key TG-moment is next- the timeless anthem 'Convincing People', which was one of the few older songs TG played on their recent reformation (others included a vastly reworked 'What a Day'- much better than the one here & 'Hamburger Lady'). 'Convincing People' I've always seen as TG's defence of art - perhaps rejecting it all with "We don't want to convince people..." ; then again, it's probably about the Occult, or cultdom, or brainwashing...who knows? One that would fit on a playlist next to 'Rocket USA', 'Nag Nag Nag', 'Being Boiled' & 'Kitchen Person', however...

'Exotica' is another ambient-instrumental exercise - Richard D. James was most definitely aware- it sounds like something from 1994's 'Selected Ambient Works II' The classic 'Hot on the Heels of Love' is next - this featured on Rough Trade's 'Electronic 01' compilation a few years ago & along with 'Walkabout' finds TG in a realm not far from the hallowed Kraftwerk. 'Hot on the Heels...' as well as later tracks like 'Adrenalin' & 'United', predict the so-called rave-culture that would develop in the mid to late 1980s.

The album ends on the minimal-electro-dirge 'Six Six Sixties' - which features terrifying guitar from Cosey Fanni-Tutti

'20 Jazz Funk Greats' remains a classic, who cares that the technology has dated? It probably is the most approachable TG-album, but still pushes the envelope with tracks like 'Discipline', 'Persuasion' & 'What a Day'.

Without this, a lot of other bands and records thereafter may not exist, or in quite the way they are/were. Demented British-artists and their demented art...wonderful!
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CONDITION:

DISC

I acquired this copy in 1979 and while it has been played quite a few times it has always been handled with the utmost care . Therefore you will find nothing wrong with it. It looks AS NEW and will play as such.

SLEEVE

Excellent. Absolutely flat. Bright clean sheen to the front gloss cover, with few signs of handling or wear. Spine has a small hint of wear in the central area.
All edges excellent. Front glaze excellent but a very slight hint of ring-wear to the upper area of the front sleeve. .

No wear to the open edges, and generally it looks very strong and still stiff. 

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