Excepter

If multi-hour long rituals of improvisational electronic music is your thing, then Excepter is your band. They have an approach to music that is becoming more and more scarce in the age of multitrack home recording heroes; they believe in the act of playing music. With a current line up of six members, this group is all about the communication between players, and with the audience as well (member Jon Nicholson compares their sets to a game of exquisite corpse with instruments). With this dedication to "the performance", Excepter posted all of the live sets from last year's tour online as podcasts (publishing them from the road so fans could follow along from anywhere). They can all still be downloaded here.

They have a new album out called Presidence which complies the best of a 14 hour long marathon concert in Brooklyn during the 2008 election, aimed at affecting the political outcome with their musical power to control the collective conscious. Founding member John Fell Ryan, compares these marathon sessions to yoga and that can be what listening to Excepter feels like too. It's hard to escape the trance of their possessed group drone. Using all analog equipment they musically capitalize on the simple, repetitive nature of the instruments. If the extended pysch jams are a bit much for you, then at least check out their (more accessable) album "Debt Dept" which is even more amazing then this video for "Kill People".