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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.

LEXICON DEVIL
PO BOX 125
RICHMOND VIC
3121 AUSTRALIA


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