[sdiy] FW: New F/i reissue on Lexicon Devil

[Grant Richter]

My early synth work is now back in print.

Recordings use home built modulars.
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> LEXICON DEVIL ANNOUNCES THE MUCH BELATED CD REISSUE OF THE HIDEOUSLY RARE
> F/i BOX SET: THE PAST DARKLY/THE FUTURE LIGHTLY
> 
> Wow! How's that for a mouth-filling non-catchy headline? Gotcha hooked? OK,
> well maybe the following details will...
> 
> An all-too-brief layman's guide to F/i, starting...now... internationally
> praised underground Milwaukee stalwarts... well over half a dozen albums to
> their credit... 20 years and running as a unit... words of endorsement for
> their sounds from the likes of Joe Carducci, Thurston Moore, Byron Coley,
> Johan Kugelberg and other tastemakers... the sonic missing link between
> Hawkwind, Throbbing Gristle, Flipper, Can and Blue Cheer... heavy-assed cult
> following... original LPs considered the Holy Grail by socially-challenged
> collector geeks worldwide... band and spin-off unit Vocokesh have discs on
> reputable labels like RRRecords and Drag City... F/i still operating and
> recording as we speak.
> 
> OK, if you can make sense of that, it's on with the show... Continuing on
> with Lexicon Devil's CD reissue campaign for F/i - especially in getting
> back into circulation all their hideously out-of-print '80s vinyl efforts on
> the RRR label - we finally have their epochal 1989 3-LP box set, The Past
> Darkly/The Future Lightly: Rare and Unreleased 1983-1989, out and about to
> do the rounds again as a 2CD pack. And what a set it is! Originally released
> in the ludicrously small edition of only 300 copies in '89, it was quickly
> scooped up by fans (and likely non-fans alike), disappearing so fast it
> entered the world of mythic collector lore within months of its release.
> Bespectacled record store clerks worldwide were seen asking the question at
> dusty swap-meets: Did that F/i 3-LP box set of outtakes and rarities ever
> really exist? Well, it did, and due to that oft-asked question being
> constantly emailed to Lexicon Devil, we whipped Franecki, Wensing and crew
> into line to unleash the original tapes, dust them off and give 'em a tweek
> and a remaster here and there and hand them over to LexDev HQ, pronto.
> 
> So what you have is this: A) a rare box set from Milwaukee's leading cult
> band on CD for the first time, newly remastered, in a ltd. edition of 500
> copies; B) a 2-CD pack at a nice price, with all the info and waffling liner
> notes you probably don't need; C) an excellent sonic brew that encompasses
> the band's work from a seven-year period, from their embryonic electronic
> days to their later space-rock psychedelic blowouts; D) a CD that long-time
> fans have been drooling for, and one that will appeal to fans of everything
> from Hawkwind to Krautrock to Flipper to Merzbow to the current crop of
> stoner/doom titans.
> 
> Let's read what others have said about F/i...
> 
> "...F/i are always compared to Hawkwind, Amon Duul 2, etc. and that makes
> sense - some awesome bass riffing w/ lotsa whirling electronics overhead.
> Like their mentors they're at their best when they keep a beat and don't get
> lost in space. They've got a million cassette releases and I need them
> all." - Jimmy Johnson, review of the F/i/BDC split LP in Forced Exposure
> #11, 1987.
> 
> "From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, F/i has been around since 1981, releasing half a
> dozen LPs on RRRecords. The band started out as a unit elaborating on noise
> structures in the tradition of Throbbing Gristle's "Heathen Earth" or Nurse
> With Wound's "Insect and Individual Silenced". F/i throbs like a stub toe.
> The band sounds like "Space Ritual"-era Hawkwind, Roxy Music circa "Music
> For Your Pleasure" and Spaceman 3 at their best. Applied to this retro-art-
> psychedelia thing is the fine sonic landscaping of late '70s-early '80s
> industrial music" - Johan Kugelberg, Details(!!) magazine.
> 
> "This is one of the most exciting US bands working today, and deserves lots
> more recognition". - Option Sound Choice.
> 
> "By maintaining a good deal of basic rockism, it becomes hard to compare
> these guys to anything but Hawkwind, or various Krautrock, but that is not a
> bad thing. And its lack of obvious "cosmic vibes" makes it plenty appealing.
> As you should understand". - Jimmy Johnson, review of ...Alan! in Forced
> Exposure #13
> 
> "After over two decades of obscurity Milwaukee's F/i aren't about to become
> household names, but thanks to Australian label Lexicon Devil at least a few
> enlightened souls now have a chance to sample their awe-inspiring
> psyche-throb power. Initially inspired by the electronic primitivism of
> Throbbing Gristle, by the time F/i recorded 1987's Why Not Now?... Alan! and
> 1988's Space Mantra they were combining analogue drone-scapes with some
> seriously mind-expanding trance-rock churn. Available on CD for the first
> time, along with spin-off group Vocokesh's Ispepnaibara, these
> Flipper-meets-Hawkwind jams'll cure just about anything that ails you." -
> Andrew Carden, MOJO magazine, October 2002.
> 
> The Past Darkly/The Future Lightly (lexdev005) is now available to order.
> For wholesale distributors, CDs are US$9 each. Stores and mailorder
> customers please write for details.
> 
> 
> Also available:
> 
> lexdev001: F/i - Space Mantra/BDC split LP CD (F/i's 1988 meisterwerk, along
> with their side to the 1986 Boy Dirt Car split LP)
> lexdev002: Vocokesh - Ispepnaibara CD (Richard Franecki's post-F/i project;
> CD reissue of rare out-of-print vinyl material from 1990 and '92. Awesome
> space-rock scorch)
> lexdev003: Boy Dirt Car - Heatrig CD (Milwukee's leading industrial
> racketeers' long-lost 1989 opus, finally released. Beautiful noise from Die
> Kreuzen members)
> lexdev004: F/i - Why Now Now?... Alan! CD (Killer 1987 LP given a
> remastering and bonus material. Intense psychedelia, without the drugs. A
> minor masterpiece)
> 
> lexdev001, -002 and -004 are US$7 each for wholesalers; lexdev003 is US$6.
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> LEXICON DEVIL
> PO BOX 125
> RICHMOND VIC
> 3121 AUSTRALIA
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