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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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.
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...
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...
