Excerpt track from the FSS Cassette "Relinquishment".

A Story of Rats "Composition ii Excerpt"

Brendan Burke details the inspiration for the new Interbellum album thusly:

I moved into a new apartment in the same building.  A family with two small children had been living here for several years previously. The textured wallpaper in the bedrooms has all these "sun shadows", where art and pictures had previously hung.  These spots are much darker than the other spots on the wall, and so they form rectangular areas that are easily discernable and where other people's memories and things used to be. To me, that's sort of an interesting thing.   

From the initial bass dredging on “Some Rather Poor Advice,” it is evident that layers of static and disruption have been woven into Burke’s plangent melodies. A palpable sense of absence, loss and contradictory discovery are expressed across This was an important place in their lives.

Interbellum "Some Rather Poor Advice"

Gore "Loaded"

From the upcoming Scilens cassette release.

Haptic "Winter Wasp"

Tetras is Jason Kahn (drums), Christian Weber (contrabass) and Jeroen Visser (organ, electronics).  This is an edited version of the first track on their "Pareidolia" double LP.

Tetras "Pareidolia i (promo edit)"

New to the FSS roster! Father You See Queen is the new project from Makr of To Kill a Pretty Bourgeoisie.

Father You See Queen "Edmund"

Second track from the upcoming Cristal album "Apostate."

Cristal "II  1. Oscines 2. Last in the Heights  3. Dormition (reprise)  4. Bels"

Ringing Bell "With Positive Actuator to Project and to Retract Thereby"

Annie Feldmeier Adams with Steven Hess

Annie Feldmeier Adams - vocals
Steven Hess - drum, clock, contact microphone, manipulated audio tape and electronics
Brendan Burke - synthetic hammond organ and piano
Joseph C. Mills - dulcimer, morse code instructograph and electronics
Recorded by Todd Carter at Experimental Sound Studios, Chicago
Mastered to stereo by Mike Hagler at King Size Sound Labs, Chicago

Annie Feldmeier Adams with Steven Hess "Requiem"

Reform is the first work by Stave. The album is an exercise in precision and spacialization, with isolated electronics and icy beats producing a grisaille of vaporized metals. Tracks move from disembodied murk and blunted pulses to sustained forcefulness. Touch points include techno, ambient and industrial predecessors, all bent gravitationally towards a dark, cold and unsettling soundworld.

Based in Chicago, Stave is the solo project of Jonathan Krohn who also collaborates in the group Male. Krohn appears with Karl Meier under the name Talker on a track for the upcoming Downwards 20th Anniversary compilation Our Previous Correspondence.


Stave "Tower9"

FSS is an independent label. Music is released on limited edition, high quality 180 gram vinyl LPs , EPs, singles, cassettes, with print sets,  and as digital downloads. Label artists include A Story of Rats, Wrnlrd, Dead Meat, Gore, Cristal, Interbellum, Haptic, Locrian, Father You See Queen, Tetras and Grief No Absolution.

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