F/i - Mulwaukee - Sep 1989 - Hawkwind Heads take heed :) torrent

Much kudos to zombiewoof on Dime who seeded this on 18th March, especially for his inclusion of 'HAWK HEADS LOOK!' in the Dime page title. Yep, a good move.

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Quality: 7

Imagine Lou Reed / Velvet Underground (circa White Light White Heat) crossed with Space Ritual-era Hawkwind. And vocals are replaced by plenty of spacey synth bits. That's pretty much what F/i sound like.

"From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 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 Gristles "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 "For Your Pleasure", and Spaceman 3 at their best. Applied to this retro-art-psychedelic thing is the fine sonic landscaping of late '70s-early '80s industrial music."
-Johan Kugelberg - New Revolutions - Details Magazine

Track six (threshold) has been given a post-Dime tidy-up, as there were several volume dropouts near the end.

Richard Frenecki - guitar/processing/treatments
Brian Wensing - guitar/space box
Tom Schnear - bass
Jan Schober - drums
Grant Richter - electronics


01. stop at the left 2:55
02. 8:34
03. from poppy with love 9:47
04. 9:23//
05. //15:27
06. threshold 8:38