City Weekly: Future Music Picks

Local Binge: FOUNTAINavm

"Record label" is too limited a term for the scope and influence of local multifaceted culture-creator and -curator FOUNTAINavm. Founded by Adam Michael Terry—AKA DJ Finale Grande around the club circuit—the label is home to all things niche yet expansive, and all things utterly cool. Label artists including Fisch Loops, Concise Kilgore, Gila Man, Tyler Bloomquist, Ian Camp, 1990bling, Applegreen, Lloyd Miller, Rhino Horn Placebo, White Squalor and Finale Grande himself all have digital and physical releases up on the site, whose clean, compelling aesthetics are maintained by Terry's partner Alysha Kester-Terry. Many of FOUNTAINavm's artists are vinyl heads and experienced producers around town, which has resulted in the patchwork project called The Plastic Age—an "explorative, archival, archeological, audio anthropological mix series," that finds label artists pulling from vinyl, cassettes and other found recordings. Also up on the site are recordings from live events, such as Fisch Loops Live at Peasantries and Pleasantries and Live at Diabolical Records: Critical Beatdown Nite, to name a few. A fantastic resource for familiarizing oneself with a tight-knit community of cross-medium creators, it's also a great way to get out of a music rut and learn something new about the genres these artists constantly reference, experiment with and build upon.