After getting hooked on this band through their Out Of Space & Out Of Time disc that RRRecords put out, I picked up some of their Recycled Music cassettes as well from RRR. Like all of the tapes released in this series, F/i's cassette is duped onto a prerecorded cassette with colored duct tape covering the cover and the tape, and both scrawled on in black magic marker. I can't find any information on F/i's entry into the Recycled Music catalog, what year it was recorded, where the material comes from, nada. All I know is that the tape is a roughly 50 minute long collection of live performances, studio improvisations, and other assorted material from this Milwaukee band who traffic in a kind of noise-damaged space rock, equal parts Hawkwind and mid-80's midwestern post-punk. Most of the stuff that is on this tape is pure Hawkwind worship, and several tracks could easily be mistaken for some long lost Hawkwind outtakes from the mid-70's, but other tracks spin off into heavy, hypnotic post-punk dirge and spacey, psychedelic jamming built from pounding percussion and howling industrial noise. On the more rocking tracks, F/i wrap their sludgy, sometimes Sabbathoid riffs and warbling oscillator freakouts over a pounding, monotonous 4/4 rhythm, and just like their full length disc for RRRecords, this sounds like a cross between the early feedback/trance/dirge rock from Skullflower, and the murky, stoned sound of early Hawkwind. Pretty cool.