Showing posts with label Excepter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excepter. Show all posts

20.2.10

covered in white



In 2006, my old experimental electronics group opened for Excepter, whom I'd booked at the Oberlin College club. In the haze of the next day— the Excepter dudes know how to party— my friends and I realized that one of them had left a backpack with an amazing iPod inside of it. Needless to say, we ripped a lot of stuff off of the iPod, sent it back to its owner, and the whole thing seemed to be over.

Then, in 2008 (or 2009?), I got a note from the guy whose iPod had been left behind, and it turned out we were both living in the Bay Area. Now, that guy (Mr. Girardin to you) does this amazing one-man project called Jaws. While sometimes similar to early Excepter tracks in terms of the density of sound, there's something infinitely more troubling, paranoid, and awesomely confrontational about the early Jaws output. Though he assures me that new material is more danceable and less claustrophobically great, I thought that I'd share a track from the older stuff with you today, since Jaws is performing tonight at AMNESIA, b/w 19th and 20th on Valencia in the Mission. See you there, and check out the spacey doom (and absurd panning) of the slice below.

Jaws- Covered in White

Tomorrow, some pppuuunnnkkkkkk.

12.4.08

don't you cry



If we're going to talk about scarily claustrophobic noise-dance insanity, I think that it is fair to say that Excepter are kings. No band has ever made me flip my shit more than John Fell Ryan & Co., so today I'm presenting you with a pretty fly live recording I did when I brought Excepter to the fair town of Oberlin, Ohio. Almost an hour of truly stimulating, beat-oriented noise, recorded right before the official release of Alternation.

Excepter- Live 10-05-2006 @ the 'Sco

The after-party was pretty bananas, as you can well imagine.

Tomorrow, thinking about a mix...