Pivoting from cybergrind to New Age jazz is nothing new for Fire-Toolz s Angel Marcloid. What s new is the fanbase she s cultivating for her wild experiments.
She’s the musician with many names. Angel Marcloid has produced music under more than 50 aliases and bands — including Toad Computers, Nonlocal Forecast and MindSpring Memories — to explore different projects without rules. She also runs Angel Hair Audio, a mixing and music production service. Producing under the alias Fire-Toolz, her main project, the.
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Elevator music gets a bad rapâunfairly so. Like wallpaper, it asks nothing of you, not even that you pay attention; itâs just there to help you pass the time. Itâs easy to connect that particular strain of soft, inoffensive jazz with the unpleasant experience of waiting or being put on hold. Muzakâs association with actual elevators is an inherited cultural memory at this point, but a bitter aftertaste still lingers.Â
Chicagoâs Angel Marcloid is best known as Fire-Toolz, but with Nonlocal Forecast, her vaporwave-indebted side project, sheâs dispelling some of those negative connotations. Last yearâs