Excepter, Stream 40
Self-released, 2007
Stream 40 is exactly what it sounds like, the 40th in series of self-released streaming media audio documents straight outta computers from the Excepter camp, the only difference being that this particular podcast is five hours long! I shit you not, five hours of pure unadultered Excepter pouring out your iPod headphones like the Dalai Lama decided to spend damn near 1/4 of a day in your head praying and chanting on a bed of synthesizers. Not only is this the longest podcast or encoded mp3 in the history of the digital age, it's a solid slab of Excepter's dub-inflected, noise-hop hybridization from start to finish. Stylistically, Stream 40 runs the gamut from the lo-fidelity sci-fi ghettotronics of the Tank Tapes cassette to the howling dub spiritual sound-system psychedelinoise of Throne and KA, skullfully approximating the alternating sounds of this ever-mutating group from past to present, laying down a five-hour blueprint that sounds more like a five-year plan of what's yet to come. Excepter have been releasing these streams through their site on podomatic for a couple of years now, but never have these free downloads been so essential. Excepter recently saw the potential in these releases and put out a slimmed down 2-disc compilation of all the quality cuts through Fusetron called entitled Streams 1, but you'd be missing out if you didn't go to their page on podomatic now and grab all these streams while they're still free.
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