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Johnny Jewel

08-02-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Johnny Jewel, Heron Oblivion, Katie Dey, Airiel, Kate Nash, Israel Nash, Jacob Banks, Electric Six, Marilyn Manson, The Trouble with Templeton, Fat White Family, King Khan / The Gris Gris, Tav Falco, Le Butcherettes

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Producer, label founder, and member of many projects whose eerie, nostalgic synth pop helped shape the sound of the early 21st century. 
Johnny Jewel
Digital Rain 5:19
The Runner 1:42
Seven Corners 2:02
from Digital Rain 2018
Appearing less than a year after the release of Johnny Jewel's solo debut Windswept, Digital Rain is an even more independent effort. Where Windswept included tracks Jewel recorded with bands like Symmetry as well as on his own, each track here is a solo composition -- and feels like it was recorded in solitude. After establishing himself in the arid city of Los Angeles, Jewel began to miss the rain and snow of places where he used to live, and challenged himself to create a wordless, beatless evocation of watery weather in its many forms...

Psych-folk group led by Meg Baird and featuring members of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of Admittance. 
Heron Oblivion
Beneath Fields 7:45
Sudden Lament 3:32
from The Chapel 2017
San Franciscan psych-folk group Heron Oblivion followed their excellent 2016 full-length debut with this live recording, captured in the band's home town in early 2017. Six of the album's seven songs are performed here, and while these takes aren't grand departures from the studio versions, they demonstrate the acute focus of the group's vision. Featuring drummer/vocalist Meg Baird, guitarists Noel von Harmonson and Charlie Saufley, and bassist Ethan Miller, the band alternate between fragile, dreamy folk and heavy psych-rock, often featuring delicate vocals and crushing dual guitar solos in the same song...

Experimental bedroom pop musician from Melbourne, Australia known for her unconventional arrangements and distorted vocals. 
Katie Dey
All 1:30
So You Pick Yourself Up 2:21
Only a Trip and Fall Down Again
from Flood Network 2016
Australian singer/songwriter Katie Dey's singular brand of fragmentary home-recorded pop is fragile, strange, and sometimes frightening. Taking full advantage of the recording and editing capabilities of her laptop, she vibrantly strums her scratchy-sounding guitar and programs nervous, glitchy beats. Nothing is ever straightforward with her music; it constantly feels like it's mutating and being pulled apart against its will. Most jarring of all is her voice, which she distorts into an unsettling digital croak. Similar to tUnE-yArDs, Dey's vocals are not for everyone, and may be a dealbreaker for many listeners. In the context of her music, however, they make total sense, and it's hard to imagine hearing pristine, angelic vocals over such broken, mutilated arrangements...

04-01-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past]

Iglooghost

04-01-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Iglooghost, The Besnard Lakes, Dhani Harrison, Anna Calvi, John Maus, Steve Mason, KATIEE, Letherette, Melkbelly, Gudrun Gut, Johnny Jewel, Heron Oblivion, Katie Dey, Airiel, Kate Nash

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Irish producer blending hip-hop, juke/footwork, IDM, pop, and video game-like concepts into an intense, hyperkinetic rush. 
Iglooghost
Pale Eyes 2:24
Super Ink Burst 3:27
from Neō Wax Bloom 2017
Iglooghost is an Irish lad named Seamus Malliagh, and his music appears on Brainfeeder, the Flying Lotus-helmed imprint which often releases abstract hip-hop and jazz, but it could just have easily appeared on an obscure Japanese netlabel like Maltine Records, or experimental meta-pop collective PC Music. Malliagh's productions are giddy, cartoonish, and extremely busy, with densely packed samples and squeaky voices flying around at an impossibly rapid pace...

Montreal-based psych/space rock unit led by the husband-and-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. 
The Besnard Lakes
The Bray Road Beast 5:30
Pressure of Our Plans 5:21
from A Coliseum Complex Museum 2016
There are five musicians in the Besnard Lakes, but it sounds like some sort of pop orchestra was on hand to record the group's fifth full-length album, 2016's A Coliseum Complex Museum. The scope of this music is vast, combining the melodic angles of indie pop with the grand scale ambitions of prog rock, and group founders Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas are determined to make the most of it, filling every nook and cranny of these songs with banks of guitars, keyboards, percussion, and massed vocals, until the music takes on the shape of a vast ship at sea, moving deliberately but with a strong sense of purpose through choppy waters in the chilly nighttime...

Son of the Beatles’ George Harrison formed his own band the newno2 in the late 2000s. Dhani Harrison started his musical career relatively late, switching from the automotive industry to performing following the death of his father, George Harrison, in November 2001. Initially, Dhani served as the custodian of his dad's legacy, assisting family friend Jeff Lynne in the completion of George's posthumous 2002 album, Brainwashed...
Dhani Harrison
Never Know 5:23
Úlfur Resurrection 7:24
London Water 7:52
from IN///PARALLEL 2017
Like other children of the Beatles, Dhani Harrison found himself drawn to music and, like all of the members of this select group, he was reluctant to capitalize on his famous father. He initially solved this problem by burying himself within the confines of thenewno2, a band he formed in 2002, but after a decade of playing with the group, he decided to pursue a solo career. Maybe this 15 years of experience is the reason why 2017's IN///PARALLEL doesn't feel tentative in the way so many first albums do. Harrison exudes a quiet confidence, letting IN///PARALLEL unfold surely and steadily, keeping the music meditative and slightly trippy...

British singer/songwriter with influences ranging from Nick Cave's post-punk to Django Reinhardt's flamenco. Hailed as "the best thing since Patti Smith" by Brian Eno, as well as being included in the BBC's Sound of 2011 list, the hype surrounding London-born Anna Calvi came to a crescendo in late 2010. Gaining critical acclaim among music journalists, Calvi drew comparisons with passionate and brooding musicians like Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. The dense and rich musical influences that inhabit Calvi's world are broad and distinctive strokes of sultry flamenco, smoke-filled blues, and seductive goth pop/rock. Adding to this tapestry of influences, Calvi claims to have been inspired by the films of David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, and Wong Kar Wai; the cinematic element of her music contributes a mysterious and unyielding undercurrent to her work.
Anna Calvi
As a Man 3:46
Indies or Paradise 4:41
from Hunter 2018
Anna Calvi took a five-year break after releasing 2013's One Breath, but the intervening time didn't diminish the grand sound she's been cultivating since her debut. From the title track's breathy opening to the soaring melody of "Away," her gift for elucidating the drama of a bygone era is intact and just as effective. If anything, the lustily provocative nature of her artistry reaches its dizzy apex on Hunter...