Name: Eternal Home - Instrumentals
Brand: Fire-Toolz

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CDHAUSMO114

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-22

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634457077911

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Artist

Fire-Toolz

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Electronic

Label GB

Hausu Mountain

Producer / composer / multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid records music under the moniker Fire-Toolz. With a diverse range of musical aliases, Fire-Toolz remains the central focus of this prolific artist's universe. Fire-Toolz has released several full-length albums on Chicago label Hausu Mountain, including 2021’s Eternal Home and 2023’s I am upset because I see something that is not there, along with an LP on Ohio label Orange Milk, and a wide array of self-released music.

The project draws energy from the constant fluctuation between seemingly disparate styles, yet Marcloid pulls off the impossible feat again and again of making chaotic deviations and improbable jump-cuts between ideas sound natural. Bursts of harsh textural noise cut into drifts of new age synth bliss, while miniature screamo verses bookend passages of hyper-technical prog rock. Breakbeats collide with death metal-inspired drum programming into cybernetic spikes of intensity.

At times, Marcloid offers us some form of pop music, carried in passages of clean vocals and bright synth tones. Though Fire-Toolz weaves together far-flung elements of Marcloid’s musical upbringing, the project never engages in outright nostalgia. These vocabularies are not relics of the past dusted off and presented as novelties. They’re living traditions that the artist works with in the present tense.

With one tentacle threaded through the US noise underground and one ear fixed on a worldwide online network of freak-friendly minds, the Hausu Mountain label has pumped a diverse menu of experimental music from its volcanic peak at a steady clip since 2012. Founded in Chicago by musicians and roommates Doug Kaplan (who records as MrDougDoug) and Maxwell Allison (who records as Mukqs), the label originally served as a home for their own projects, including the trio Good Willsmith.

As Kaplan and Allison discover new projects from touring the DIY circuit and scraping through the strangest corners of the internet, *Hausu Mountain*’s wide catalog grows to encompass everything from otherworldly synthesizer composition to frantic beat production in the IDM tradition to strains of free jazz infused with electronics alongside horns or drums – onward through any number of genre-bending mutations you might find in the “???” or “Avant/Noise” bin in your local record store. As much as *Hausu Mountain*’s releases diverge in terms of style, the label’s aesthetic hinges on the conception of music as a force to both challenge listeners and entertain them in equal measure. Any given release resists stasis, skips at will through disparate musical vocabularies, and leads listeners through dense sonic narratives that defy expectations as each new idea or unpredictable juxtaposition pierces through the cosmic jelly.

Doug and Max run *Hausu Mountain*

Various solo monikers, collaborations, and band memberships stand as monuments in the landscape, focusing in on certain styles associated with each project ' the Weather Channel jazz fusion / new age of Nonlocal Forecast, or the hazy vapour nostalgia of Mindspring Memories, to give a few of many examples. The music of Marcloid's flagship project Fire-Toolz sits as the bottomless pit in the centre of the lush environment, drawing ideas and signifiers from all corners into its depths.While Eternal Home maintains Fire- Toolz's role as the outlet for Marcloid's most overloaded and audacious compositional gambits, Eternal Home [Instrumentals] enters the catalog as the album's illuminating companion piece. 

Shorn of Marcloid's vocal components, the album takes on a new sheen as it highlights the sheer level of detail present in each meticulously sculpted production. Compositional elements that were previously elided in the context of the full vocal album suddenly shine in all their bewildering complexity. Stripped of the shrieks and the clean- toned vocal melodies that supplied the hooks within each track, Eternal Home [Instrumentals] plants Marcloid's opus a few steps further away from what could be considered pop-adjacent music and situates the album closer to an all- encompassing epic of progressive electronic recombination and unfettered experimentation.

Eternal Home - Instrumentals

Music GB