Sunday was a very special day for Arthur Radio. We never thought that co-host Hairy Painter would return to Brooklyn after spending a month building Mardi Gras floats and dancing to “sissy bounce” music in Nola, but he surprised us at the station door — out of breath, suitcase in hand — right when we were about to go on. And we never thought we would be able to cram one sound engineer, one baby, five DJs, half a dozen synthesizers, and all six members of Excepter inside the Newtown Radio studio, but somehow we pulled the whole production off without a hitch. Following the release of their new double album Presidence on Paw Tracks last Tuesday, (“Presidence Day observed”), Excepter graced the Arthur airwaves with a set so on point it caused unnoticed seismic shifts beneath a 24-hour techno-rave in Istanbul. Visitation Rites engaged Jon Fell Ryan in a wobbly Q&A, and Ivy Meadows and Hairy Painter piled on layer upon layer of wax ellipses to set the scene…
“Arthur Radio Transmission #6: The Excepter Episode”
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Words: Emilie Friedlander
GreenerMags package: Camilla Padgitt-Coles
Dream Magazine Comp – The Radio is Dead
Martin Rev – Island
Medio Mutante – Another Land (played at 33rpm)
Wicked Witch – Under Your Spell / Liquid Sky – Me and My Rhythm Box
COIL – Where Even The Darkness is Something to See
Sensations Fix – Astride a Vibration
[LIVE INTERVIEW WITH JFR of EXCEPTER]
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic – Sound Valentine
Shits and Giggles – Spellcaster (clip)
Mazing Vids – Cowrie Bells
[LIVE SET BY EXCEPTER]
Steve Hillage – Garden of Paradise
In Aeternam Vale – The Next Step
Shits and Giggles – More Valium on the Mellotron
Earth – Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine Part 1 / Moo-lah – terror is Real / Yat-Kha – Kargyram / Erzulie – Ti-jean (Spirits of Life – Haitian Voodoo)
Sounds of The Indian Snake Charmer
Tony Conrad / Genesis P-Orridge
The Congos – Fisherman
Yoko Ono – Mind Train
Voice of the Seven Woods – Fire in my Head
Edgar Broughton Band – Out Demons Out
The Advancement – Stone Folk
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
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