Name: I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There
Brand: Fire-Toolz

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LPHAUSMO131

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2024-01-19

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634457160507

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CDHAUSMO131

2023-04-21

634457130708

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Fire-Toolz

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Electronic

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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*

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Producer / composer / multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid records music under the moniker Fire-Toolz, though, Marcloid's output emerges in a litany of aliases and projects from the jazz fusion / new age of Non-local Forecast to the vaporous nostalgia of Mind Spring Memories the Fire-Toolz catalogue remains the central focus of the prolific artists musical universe and a home for Marcloid's most ambitious work. "I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There.", the fifth Fire-Toolz album to join the Hausu Mountain catalog since 2017, follows 2021s sprawling double-album 'Eternal Home' and 2022s self-released EP 'I Will Not Use The Body's Eyes Today'. 'I Am Upset' offers listeners a prismatic cross-section of juxtaposed genres and compositional contortions to explore, maintaining Fire-Toolz's signature density and complexity while tightening the scope of Marcloid's experimentation into the projects most focused song cycle to date. 

Perhaps more than any previous Fire-Toolz album, 'I Am Upset...' presents some form of pop music, carried in Marcloid's passages of clean vocals, in the bright synth tones that animate its tracks, in the yearning saxophone lines that pour into view and whisk the narrative onto a new path. The format of a one-person 'band' carries a different weight in a landscape of solo artists crafting modernist productions that don't allude in the slightest to various twentieth-century rock-related traditions. Fire-Toolz exists on both sides of this divide. The music of Fire-Toolz draws energy on a moment-to-moment basis from the constant fluctuation between seemingly disparate styles, yet Marcloid repeatedly pulls off the impossible feat of making chaotic deviations and improbable jump-cuts between ideas sound holistic, as if such compositional gambits were already logical to begin with. Bursts of harsh textural noise cut into drifts of new age synth bliss, while screamo verses bookend passages of hyper-technical jazz fusion.

I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There

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Discover "I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There" by Fire-Toolz. Available in CD format from Hausu Mountain. A prismatic cross-section of genres and compositional contortions awaits.