| Excepter / Alternation |
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| Album: | Alternation | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Excepter | Added: | Jan 2007 | |
| Label: | 5 Rue Christine | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-04-22 | Pull Date: | 2007-06-24 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica |
| Week Ending: | Jun 10 | Jun 3 | May 27 | May 13 | May 6 | Apr 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 22, 2010: | mini-panic Whirl Wind | 4. | Jun 07, 2007: | The Adventurer's Choice Apt. Living | |
| 2. | Nov 10, 2010: | panic!##! Icecream Van | 5. | May 31, 2007: | Finneman's Market Icecream Van | |
| 3. | May 20, 2009: | Signal to Vroom Whirl Wind | 6. | May 24, 2007: | 408's Finest Icecream Van |
| Album Review |
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| Scott Coomes Reviewed 2007-04-20 | ||
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Excepter: Alteration (5RC) Arty/slacker electro. Apathetic/soul vox muffled low in mix, occasionally in neo-tribal vein. Simple drum machines and old school synth. Lots of electronic squiggles and goodies shuffling about in background. “Songs” in an IDM, rather than pop, sense. Not a whole lot happens in each track, but the whole album has a definite cool feel. Lounge-y at times. Slow beats, low energy. A contrived apathy/coolness. No Fccs. Mic break music? Order of preference: #1, 9, 6, 3, 10, 4, 11, 2, 8, 5, 7 1) 6:02 –starts w/ sad synth melody. Driving dance beats. Dark mumbling vox, but upbeat synth melody. lyrics to “do your ears hang low?” at one point. Upbeat and cool, but melancholy… 2) 5:20 –starts w/ erratic eletroc-beat, which then gets regular. Lo-fi synth. White noise/guitar crash samples. Unsettling xylophone taps. Dark, moaning vox. Ends w/ swirling noises. 3) 6:45 –funky beat w/8-bit tones. Monotone slacker rock vox. Feels lengthy 4) 1:58 –simple, slow, mid-tempo beat. Minimal vox mumbles. a little synth. Drone crescendos. 5) 7:17 –starts w/odd vox sample. Cheesy synth crescendos, simple drum machine beat. Muffled vox. Ends with cool distorted synth weirdness. 6) 5:00 –quicker beat. Sick bell synth swirls, robot buzzing, reverb lo-fi vox. Buzzings slowly get more intense. 7) 1:40 –sounds of someone beating on pipes in a basement somewhere. 8) 6:31 –kinda dark sounding. Med tempo beat plods along. Tense synth. 9) 6:12 –laid-back organic, hollow beat. Sample shufflings low mix. Kinda mysterious beeps. Laid-back scat singing + mumbling. Cool… 10) 8:46 –simple synth beat. Builds w/ more pieces (synth melody loops, drum machine beats, vox whispers). Heavy reverb vox groans hover behind tinny casio melody. 11) 9:53 –mechanical beat; sounds like funky assembly line. Cut-up vox samples. Tinny video-game melody. Beat decays at end. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Icecream Van | 6. | Whirl Wind | |||
| 2. | Lypse | 7. | (The Pipes) | |||
| 3. | The "Rock" Stepper | 8. | Knock Knock | |||
| 4. | The Ladder | 9. | Apt. Living | |||
| 5. | If I Were You (Live) | 10. | Op Pop | |||
| 11. | Back Me Up (Show) | |||||