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Pivoting from cybergrind to New Age jazz is nothing new for Fire-Toolzs Angel Marcloid. Whats new is the fanbase shes 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...

Bandcamp / Buy Elevator music gets a bad rap—unfairly so. Like wallpaper, it asks nothing of you, not even that you pay attention; it’s just there to help you pass the time. It’s easy to connect that particular strain of soft, inoffensive jazz with the unpleasant experience of waiting or being put on hold. Muzak’s association with actual elevators is an inherited cultural memory at this point, but a bitter aftertaste still lingers.  Chicago’s Angel Marcloid is ...