This is one of the band’s earliest releases, a cassette tape from 1987 released on a French label called SJ. If you enjoyed Paradise Out Here, this is a grittier, more industrial version of the space rock contained on that record. The heavy rhythms are present, but that noisy space guitar is threatening to bury them beneath its wall of screaming white noise. Their guitar drones, despite being recorded over twenty years ago (!!!) sound modern.
By his own admission, guitarist Brian Wensing describes the groups earlier releases, such as Threshold, as “harsh, power-electronics, drum machines, no guitars, no vocals. Just industrial noise assaults. We would record anything that came across. Sounds of the guys beating on dumpsters, whatever, just throw it in the mix.”
F/i has done it right. They formed in 1983 (the same year I was born) and haven’t once compromised their artistic integrity. The band still plays a couple shows each year. Money is of no object. “We just play for the door and hopefully we get enough people there. And we try to make it an event with the lights, and the fog, and really make it something where a person can walk into the show and lose themselves for a while.”
Enjoy. This recording was made available by the generous folks at Mutant Sounds, the website to whom I once donated my recordings of Chorchazade’s Made To Be Devoured and Death Is Eeklo.
F/i
Threshold
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