07-30-24
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An Old Beginning
Sweeping passages of synthesizer mayhem swirl like dust devils before a Berlin thunderstorm. Below ground, Vangelis encounters Kitaro in a cave and they fight over the last remaining battery pack while Alva Noto absconds with it. The Decaying World by Ancient Futures represents a return to basics for our experimental record label, but also pushes the envelope enough to cause a paper cut. Hear the coagulating edge of electronic music from Texas.
11-05-23
After Carrier Pigeons
Remember tacking fliers to bulletin boards to promote your concert? In their new exhibition, Cellphone: Unseen Connections, The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History informs digital natives of a time when bands like Mission Giant and Hyperbubble hoofed it around town to get the word out using paper. In fact, a print flier featuring both bands (and designed by Mission Giant’s Shane Culp) is part of a display.
(photograph by Hugh Talman and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution)
04-01-23
Episode 11: The Perfect World
Part 11 of the 11-part series by Infinity Asylum: “Everybody loves a happy ending. Or is this where you began?” This episode concludes the series.
02-07-23
Fellowshipwreck Film Festival
The letter F never served such a fine function as it will with Fellowshipwreck Film Festival. Shorts by Paisley Babylon, Nite Risk, and Infinity Asylum kick off the event. That’s followed by feature-length documentary Cowgirls and Synthesizers by hoedown heroes Hyperbubble. Happens 02-19-23 at The Lonesome Rose, San Antonio, TX.
02-01-21
Finally, Finale
Nine years of blood, sweat, absinthe, and motor oil and it’s finally here. Nite Risk’s first and last album is the beginning and the end, the past and the future. Finale is ten songs of gothic, histrionic, synthetic, poetic, sonic beauty. Play it while you drive from your local hospital or to your local cemetery.
12-12-20
Nothingness, Nothing Less
Fellowshipwreck’s final release of a banner year for misery is a fitting set of dark ambient songs from mystery band 4321 Zero. Their self-titled effort recalls the stark soundscapes of Thomas Köner, cinematic touches reminiscent of Jerry Goldsmith’s horror work, and the interplanetary adventurousness of labelmates Moonrox. Passages of hope crumble into chaos. Chaos crescendos to nothingness.
08-20-20
Message of Love and Bionics
Happy Bionic Love Day! Is that a thing? Can we start one? OK then. Consider Hyperbubble’s new album an early Valentine’s Day card or perfectly-timed birthday present if your birthday happens to be today. Whatever your reason for listening, we hope you dig the gift. Love and Bionics is a wonderful mix of cover songs and it’s electronically yours.
05-24-20
Hills Alive
Another childhood home, another album. Gavin DeCuir gives us a new set of 12 synthesized tone poems for the electronic age. Digital and analogue devices glide, gurgle, and moan throughout instrumentals with titles that suggest discovery and growth. Indeed, proceedings sound deeper and more mature this time around. Explore Greenhills.
06-7-18
Pill Pop
Time to Medicate. One long Moroderesque beat strings everything together: churning bass sequences, pensive pads, suppressed lead screams…and hand claps. How there are hand claps! Medicate is a barbituate oppression you will come back to again and again. An unnerving cure you will gladly consume. Listen twice daily and share it with a friend.
05-24-18
Longing Songs
After 3 years of fiddling around with various knobs, keys, plugs, cables, buttons, pads, and sliders, Gavin DeCuir is releasing his wonky labor of love, Chime Court, just in time for the change in seasons. This short album is a paean to carefree childhood play and endless summers. We picture chubby young hands having trouble pressing the right things at the right time, yet songs hold together with charm to spare.
07-07-17
Twenty Is Plenty
Happy 20th birthday, us! Fellowshipwreck has been around since 1997. What better random day to celebrate than the 7th day of the 7th month of 2017? A long, yellow thanks to all the visitors, supporters, and artists who have made this label possible. The bus may have slowed down in recent years, but there’s still some gas in the tank. Keep your eyes on the road.
01-24-17
Way-Out West
Hyperbubble is back from Nashville and they’ve rounded up a herd of electronic country cover songs for your listening pleasure. Whether you pogo or two step, you’ll surely want to shake it when you hear the space-age yet down-home ditties. We are pleased to present our 2nd CD offering, Western Ware, available starting February 26. That’s just in time for Johnny Cash’s birthday.
04/30/15
The Big Bubble Theory
Buckle into the captain’s chair and prepare for takeoff. Hyperbubble has created a stellar score for the film Dee Dee Rocks the Galaxy. This is the first single, “Queen of the Universe”. It’s bouncier than a walk on the moon and faster than the speed of love. The super-mega-bonus remix by Synthetik FM will dépêche you to the planet Mode and back, and then some.
04/01/15
The Hallow Men
Spectres, wraiths, and phantoms knew well enough to be in attendance when Nite Risk brought musical fright to Ascension coffee house and wine bar on October 31st, 2014. Now you too can partake via a recording of those Halloween proceedings. Josh and Gavin steer the ghost ship while special guest Shane from Pioneers of the New Idea clangs the ship’s bell with his dazzling array of hand-made modular synthesizers.
(photograph by Consuelo Gutierrez)
03/31/15
Time … Enough
After centuries of toil, Nite Risk has seen fit to allow the launch of their maiden release, Time. It’s a fantastic collection of dark, danceable delicacies. These 6 songs will haunt, taunt, and inspire your troubled soul. These 6 songs will intoxicate and emancipate your pained mind. These 6 songs will wrack and contort your dancing body. Dig in while you still have time.
(photograph by Victoria Estrada-Berg DeCuir)
07/01/14
New Heights
Hyperbubble has scored make-believe soundtracks before, but their new soundtrack is very real and frighteningly good. “Sky Smasher” is the first single from Attack of the Titans. It provides the key theme by which overgrown, rampaging kids shoot lasers and breathe fire. Brace yourselves for the onslaught of the loftiest music Hyperbubble has ever made.
04/27/13
Recurring Candy Apple Nightmares
Nine out of ten electronic music experts say that if you have the same nightmare more than once, it’s actually a dream. The remaining electronic music expert says to use a synthesizer as a pillow. Fellowshipwreck says that Hyperbubble’s Candy Apple Nightmares has been reformulated to provide listeners with the most deliciously-wicked listening experience scientifically possible.
(photograph by Joe Wallace)
01/01/13
It’s a Fistery
Why are Aidan Casserly and Hyperbubble having a friendly musical exchange in the arena of electropop? Who put the in fist the mirror? Well, we can tell you is wasn’t Fellowshipwreck. We need our mirrors to safely drive the bus. The new single “Fist in the Mirror” by Aidan Casserly Vs. Hyperbubble is a puzzle worth investigating.
11/25/12
Star Power
Space exploration takes time and synthesizers. Over the last seven years, Moonrox has been busy surveying the nether regions of the universe. They have experienced much that cannot be described by words, pictures, or analog instrumentation. They have also attended a space fete or two. To aid in your understanding of these findings, Moonrox present their latest single, “Stars”.
03/27/12
March Clouds March
What do clouds do in March? No. Of course they don’t march. They run time laps in time lapse. San Antonio director Hondo Aguilar created this short for a recent video festival. It features music by Moonrox, who especially enjoy the video since it shows a side of Earth’s atmosphere they rarely get to see.
10/31/10
Tricks and Treats
Has Hyperbubble allowed their impossibly sweet songs to fall into evil hands? Yes, and it’s a spooky remixed delight! Candy Apple Nightmares is a twisted take on their Candy Apple Daydreams release from earlier this year. It’s the perfect companion piece, the yang to the yin, the black to the white, the Darth Va…you get the idea.
(photograph by Joe Wallace)
10/17/10
Island Delights
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the airwaves…a new single and a new album from Mission Giant! “The Same Genre of Time Frame” single and an outtakes collection called Zanzibar are sure to cause much consternation, fear, and excitement. Repeated listens may cause hallucinations of oases.
(photograph by Rachel Cox)
06/11/10
Goop Redux
Goop is back via Turntabling Records, but they never really went away, did they? Goop is and has always been the original new-wave-of-the-new-wave-of-the-new-wave band. Even the crustiest cave paintings depict early humans with funny haircuts and primitive synthesizers playing twitchy music in tar pits.
12/15/09
Max Planckroom
Fellowshipwreck was recently included in a 2009 netlabel research report conducted by Max Planck Institute Researcher Patryk Galuszka and featured at the Phlow Magazine website. Were he around today, Herr Planck himself would most likely dig the synthetic electronic sound particles Fellowshipwreck so freely distributes.
12/15/08
Hyperbubblewrap
What’s under the tree this year? A present from three wise men? Sort of. It’s the ultimate pop trio Bee Gees paid tribute by the ultimate pop duo Hyperbubble! Jeff and Jess Hyperbubble, with a little help from chanteur Gracie DuVin, give you Christmas with The Bee Gees. Three mixes in all, at least one is right for you. Like every good gift, it’s free.
03/03/08
The Biggest Campfire
Mission Giant finally rubbed two synthesizers together long enough to start a raging, out-of-control fire of an album. Their latest, Golden Triangle, is sure to warm the rubber-insulated cockles of your artificial heart. It’s also the first mass-produced CD on Fellowshipwreck. We proudly present it here.
01/01/08
Dubble Fun
With Airbrushed Alibis in DUB, Hyperbubble continues their tradition of alternate album versions of proper releases. Kick back in your comfy chair or get up and shimmy if you like. Either way, the electro-dub vibes will both thrill and chill. MP3s are available here for a limited time before they go up for sale on iTunes.
02/21/07
Oops
We didn’t see that coming! Ten years, fourteen artists, and fifty releases later, Fellowshipwreck Music is proud to present Wreckollection, a retrospective of the sonic egg breaking and, at times, perfect cake making of our bands. Download the free compilation from the MP3s page.
10/07/06
Secret Productivity
“It’s already fall and there is no new music in my life!”, you may shout. The problem isn’t with you, and it’s not even with us. Behind the clock face of nothingness are many gears clicking and ticking. For one, Mission Giant is putting the final touches on their upcoming CD. To stop fingers from nervously tapping on the desk, try your hand at the Mission Giant video game (Shockwave Player required) which contains sneak peek sound samples.
04/01/06
Holiday Gone Haywire
This is no April Fool’s Day joke. Mission Giant spent last Halloween scaring trick-or-treaters with an eerie brew of Samhain sounds and Allhallows Eve audio mixed with just a pinch of pulverized bat bones. In case you were afraid to come up and ask for candy, you can now listen to the proceedings from the safety of your own computer.
(photograph by Bill Burch)
11/27/05
Dark Side of the Moonrox
Apparently, the sweetest band in the universe has a score to settle. They’ve donned their flight leathers and have entered super-spy-stealth mode. But who are the good guys and who are the bad? We’re not really sure what Moonrox is up to, but initial reports have confirmed it to be funky.
03/06/05
Bubble Machine on Full Blast
San Antonio popmaker Hypberbubble continues their recent wave of wonderful releases with their latest offering, Sol!d Pop: The Rem!x Ed!t!on. All of the songs you sing and dance to in your sleep are here, but in different forms. These remixes will remind you of some of the best in the business; Depeche Mode, Eon, Joy Electric. Quite certain to get the party started.
01/11/05
Gracie DuVin Is Your Man
Lover of many a fine AM radio song and of many a lady, Gracie DuVin has released a very special collection of songs now available at Fellowshipwreck Music. His new album, Imposters, celebrates the good ol’ days of 1970’s lite rock, but it is nowhere near old-fashioned. Music by Hyperbubble gives your old favorites a synth-heavy spin, and Gracie’s varistyled vocals are sure to keep you guessing. Real or Imposters?
12/27/04
Putting Things into Perspective
Mission Giant, never quiet for too long, has released another round of Background Music. MGBGM was created for use as noise snippets between songs during live shows. MGBGM2 shares this possible use, but has taken on a life of its own. For a limited time both MGBGM one and two are available for download on the MP3s page.
12/21/04
Mission Giant Make Waves
In 2004 Mission Giant performed live on two Texas radio shows, the KVRX 91.7 FM Local Live show in Austin, and KNON 89.3 FM Rocket Radio which was broadcast to the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. The 2-disc set Live and on the Air documents these two performances. Select tracks are available as free MP3s at the official Mission Giant Web site.
12/04/04
Worlds Music
In a celebration of what they call “world music”, extraterrestrial band Moonrox has crafted songs that draw inspiration from the rhythms and styles of planet Earth. Their latest release, Two Worlds, is the product of years of careful study of musicians indigenous to Earth, but you can be certain that Moonrox adds their own flavor to the proceedings.
11/19/04
Potentially Yours
Mission Giant’s classic, “Potential for Future Dynamics”, has been painstakingly transcribed note-per-note into beautifully cheesy MIDI. Four versions in all are contained on the new maxi-single entitled MGMIDI. An MP3 of the first track is available as a hidden “Easter egg” at the official Mission Giant Web site. Find it if you can.
08/18/04
Pez Facts
Mission Giant unveils its latest Fellowshipwreck release, Pez Fax. The EP consists of 6 new Mission Giant tracks, each one remixed by a currently active member. Although each member worked in isolation on his given track, the resulting whole is quite cohesive. Sort of like The Beatles’ White Album, except that it holds together. Oh yeah, and the cover is black. Available in its entirety for free download at the official Mission Giant Web site.
06/01/04
New Moon Tunes
After careful observation of human viewing and listening habits, Moonrox has composed 20 short pieces designed for optimum planetarium enjoyment. Of all the musical groups in existence, Moonrox best understand how to synthesize astronomy with audiology. Although specifically designed for viewing the cosmos, Music for Planetariums can serve as a soundtrack for almost any experience.
05/21/04
Funky Business
The Solar Panel has finally gathered all the juice needed to launch their debut album. The Business of Funk is now available for rattling even the tightest of trunks. The panel’s highly unusual pairing of electronic bleeps with butt-pleasing funk is sure to turn automatons around the world into stylish groove machines. Simply ghetto-fabulous.
(photograph by Victoria Estrada-Berg DeCuir)
04/07/04
Howdy Partners
Life partner and Crevice have now been posted on the MP3 page. Noisecrafters Life Partner bring you a special blend of loops, glitches, and homespun tones generated by the likes of Mr. Tone Generator, Mr. Drum, and other circuit-bent creations. The ultra-long version of “Think of Pleasant Things” by South Texas ambient group Crevice provides a nightmarish soundtrack to your most beautiful dreams.
04/04/04
Moonrox MP3s and More
The entire Moonrox catalog to date is now freely available on the MP3 page for transmission on the information superhighway which, as most of you know, is no longer just global, but galaxy-wide. The Synthetic Reasons album by San Antonio new wavers Goop is also available on aforementioned page. Check out the original version of “Life”. More to come.
03/05/04
IMRN: New and Approved
The International Music Rehabilitation Network is now online. Musical procedures performed on tired tunes bring about rejuvenated versions of your favorite albums. Numerous bands including Fellowshipwreck associates Crevice, Mission Giant, The Solar Panel, and Moonrox, all take part in the operation. The network shares a common interest in technology, ability, and creativity.
- The International Music Rehabilitation Network Web site
01/17/04
Mission Giant’s Call to Arms
After much intensive laboring on new studio material, Mission Giant is preparing for a slew of live performances in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The band is wielding an arsenal of synthesizers and it is rumored they have contructed a musical fortress from which they will perform. Ye olde show dates are available at their official Web site.
(photograph by Jessica DeCuir)
01/02/04
Here Come the Suns
A sunny day in January has given The Solar Panel just the energy boost they needed to finish its long awaited debut. The panel also found time for some relaxation playing frisbee and lounging on the hammock in between putting finishing touches on their upcoming album. The Business of Funk commences this spring on Fellowshipwreck Music.
(photograph by Victoria Estrada-Berg DeCuir)
11/07/03
Meet the Solar Panel
The Solar Panel has just returned from a successful meeting at the DMA and is finishing work on their debut, The Business of Funk, scheduled for release this fall. Their exclusive blend of sampled toys, stingy beats, and drifting synths is sure to empower listeners’ rumps.
(photograph by Elliott Johnson)
10/25/03
Moonrox Welcome You to Space
Fellowshipwreck Music is pleased to announce the release of the new Moonrox EP, Disco Magic, and the entire Moonrox backcatalog. The band that pays earth a visit every holiday season now has the following titles available: Disco Magic, Numrox, Megamix, Triple Fun, Module, Holiday in Space.
10/20/03
New Wave for the Goop Age
The newest wavers Goop have joined the Fellowshipwreck Music family. Their first album, Synthetic Reasons, has been years in the making. Fallout never sounded so good.