10-07-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2019-2021] 2h 28m

10-07-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2019-2021] # Yung, Holy Fuck, The Writhing Squares, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Mike Dillon, The Kills, PWNT, Midnight Sister,  Deserta, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Mike Krol, Rival Sons

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A Danish indie rock quartet who merge driving dance-rock with lush, brooding post-punk proclivities, Yung is led by singer and songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær.

Yung 

Progress 3:54

Autobiograhy 4:02

from Ongoing Dispute 2021

Showcasing an angsty, unsettled indie rock with dark post-punk and heavier inclinations, Denmark's Yung made their international debut with A Youthful Dream in mid-2016. The quartet spent the next nearly five years preparing the follow-up, with bandleader and main songwriter Mikkel Holm Silkjær citing members' varied musical tastes as a challenge in finding the right balance of noise and tunefulness... 

Canadian electro-rock outfit Holy Fuck play dance music without modern electronic equipment, instead preferring to use standard rock instrumentation as well as unconventional vintage devices and machines, synthesizers and unconventional instruments

Holy Fuck

Luxe feat. Alexis Taylor  6:10

San Sebastian 3.14

from Deleter 2020

Toronto electro-rock group Holy Fuck have managed to hone their junk shop aesthetic into a surprisingly coherent form of warped pop music... Like their previous albums, this one was born from impromptu jams and sketches at rehearsals and soundchecks. At this point in their career, the group's chemistry is so strong that the music seems to naturally flow from them, and they've never sounded this tight before. Having incorporated buried, distorted vocals into their last few releases, here they invite a few guests to give a bit more of a human touch to their machine rhythms...  Tipping closer to dance-pop than noise-rock, Deleter is one of Holy Fuck's most finely tuned albums, yet the band sound as spontaneous as ever.

Philly duo with a gnarled take on space rock that includes pulsing drum machines and galactic saxophone leads.

The Writhing Squares 

Dirt in My Mind’s Eye 4:31

A Whole New Jupiter 19:49

from Out of the Ether 2019

Even though Philly-based band the Writhing Squares is made up of just two people, they conjure enough layers of sonic sludge to sound not just like a large band on full power, but a wall of beautifully gnarled noise calling out from the depths of a black hole. Building on the clatter of decidedly primitive drum-machine rhythms, Daniel Provenzano's overdriven bass lines wobble and churn as his bandmate Kevin Nickles fills in any space with tentacular waves of saxophone, delay-drenched vocals and deep-fried electronics... Even at their most meandering, the Writhing Squares' dense and hulking sound belies its own considered design. Out of the Ether is the strongest chapter of their work to date and points towards even more interesting space explorations to come.

18-05-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2018-2021] (2h 23m)

18-05-2021 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [2018-2021] # Cursive, Galactic, The James Hunter Six, Sunwatchers, J Fernandez,Coma, Mike Dillon, Morcheeba, Yung, Holy Fuck, The Writhing Squares, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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Challenging indie rock outfit with literate lyrics and an angular post-rock sound.

Cursive 

Black Hole Town (Cursive)

I Am Goddamn (Cursive)

Get Fixed (Cursive)

from Get Fixed 2020

It turns out that if you don't make an album for six years, you might end up with a lot of ideas for songs... But rather than send out a two-disc set, where they felt some of the material might get lost in the shuffle, they opted to split the bounty into two separate releases, and Get Fixed arrived 12 months after Vitriola.... Cursive are a bit less speedy than they once were, but the gravity and ferocity of their attack is as strong as ever on Get Fixed, and the angular shards of sound and precise volleys of guitar, keyboards, horns, strings, and drums are an ideal complement to the rage and confusion of these songs... Get Fixed is another bitter but meaningful State of the Union Address from Cursive, as well as evidence that when the band's creative process shifts into gear, they can deliver both quantity and quality.

Their down-home blend of New Orleans funk, R&B, and hip-hop has managed to appeal to traditionalists and new heads alike.

Galactic 

Already 8Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)

Goose Grease (Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)

Ready Already (Ben Ellman / Robert Mercurio / Stanton Moore / Jeff Raines / Rich Vogel)

from Already Ready Already 2019

New Orleans' Galactic is one of the most restless acts to emerge from the jam band scene of the 1990s. With every album they've expanded their musical palette to embrace other sounds and styles while keeping the musical gumbo of their hometown squarely at the center of everything they do... Galactic juxtapose modern dancefloor and funk rhythms alongside electronic instrumentation in putting across their ass-shaking funk pop & roll... Where Galactic's live sets are chock-full of improvisation and surprise, their studio recordings tend to focus on tight songwriting and arranging; this offering is no different -- there are few solos on this set and there is no jamming... Already Ready Already is bookended by two of three high-powered instrumentals, titled appropriately enough "Already" and "Ready Already." While the former is under two minutes, and the latter is under three, they offer twin impressions of intro and outro to the proceedings... The instrumental "Goose Grease" delivers Galactic's post-midnight brand of Meters-inspired jazz-funk inside a sound-effects tunnel riddled with synths, gunshot samples, and swelling B-3...

The gritty, passionate, longstanding backing band of British soulman, songwriter, and guitarist James Hunter.

The James Hunter Six 

I Don't Wanna Be Without You (James Hunter)

I Got Eyes (James Hunter)

Blisters (James Hunter)

from Whatever It Takes 2018

James Hunter has stubbornly been making retro R&B records since the mid-'90s... Whatever It Takes is the James Hunter Six's second outing for Daptone. It was produced by label boss Bosco Mann (Gabriel Roth) and recorded live in the label's California studio, direct to eight-track analog tape and pressed to an acetate. The sound is flat, immediate, and just a tiny bit muddy -- it's all it should be... After signing to Daptone, Hunter met his future wife Jesse after a gig in New York. They were married in New Orleans and moved to England. She is the prime inspiration for many of the songs here, and it's more than likely their marriage may account for the unusual tenderness in Hunter's singing voice. His songwriting is more ambitious than at any other time in his career to date. While these songs unabashedly reflect the early days of soul -- from the late '50s through the mid-'60s -- they do so with a sense of rhythmic invention we haven't heard since the early days of New Orleans R&B and pre-Motown Northern soul...