F/i – Invisible Men (LP Vinyl)
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Milwaukee's F/i operated in the early-to-mid 1980s in near-total obscurity, circulating their work through the cassette underground at a moment when that network was one of the only real pipelines for music this far outside the margins. That tape culture, connecting isolated experimenters across continents before the internet existed, deserves its own history, and releases like this one are a big part of why.
Birdman Records is proud to be reissuing Invisible Men, the early space explorations of electronic music pioneer F/i. In the mid-80s F/i was on the cutting edge of electronic bombast, producing cassette tapes of late-night interstellar sessions to be traded world over with the handful of heads that were plugged into similar perambulations. As a linkbetween Throbbing Gristle and the Spacemen 3, this period of F/i has been woefully forgotten, until now. Later in the 80s, F/i would morph into Vocokesh continuing their space rock explorations.The 2LP set features founding member Richard Franecki, Brian Wensing and Steve Zimmerman, and includes the ultra-rare recording Air (produced around the same time as Invisible Men). For the first time on vinyl, a limited run of 500 copies will be released on June 26th.
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Side B
UPC: 607287013916
Label: Birdman
Release Date: 6.26.26
Format: LP Vinyl