DMS is
the solo project of musical savant Steve Lamos. While the
project began as a one-man band, it was expanded to include the
guitar and bass work of Ben Wilson. It
features towering guitar loops, jazz drumming, programmed
keyboards, samples, and assorted gizmos and gadgets. Lamos and
Wilson began collaborating fresh off their stint as the rhythm
section for Cargo artists the Firebird Band, whose constant
touring helped to solidify the rapport between the two. After
several years of sporadic shows and the release of a couple of
tracks on a split release for Ascetic
Records, Wilson departed the outfit, leaving Lamos as the
sole creative force. Reference points for the DMS sound include everything from Miles
to Sly, Squarepusher to Gastr Del Sol, and Drive Like Jehu to
Iceburn.
In addition to his work in DMS and the Firebird Band, Lamos has worked with many of the
Midwest's finest post-rockers, spent much of the last decade in Champaign-Urbana
bands of one sort or another, including a three-year stint as
drummer and co-songwriter for influential Polyvinyl artists
American Football, a stint in the File-13 artists National
Skyline, and trumpet work on several albums for the likes of
Braid and Absinthe Blind.
The debut production release for DMS was a solo effort on the
part of Lamos, a 6-song EP recorded and mixed in the twin-cities
by Jimmie Myers and Brendan Gamble (who has engineered sessions
for the likes of American Football, Braid, Sarge, and Wolfie).
The disc also includes video footage of two live tracks (one of
them unreleased), viewable with Quicktime or Windows Media
Player, both of which are free downloads. A new full-length DMS
album featuring the expanded line-up will be released in 2002.
DMS has shared the stage with the likes of 5ive Style, Oval, Q
and Not U, Ted Leo, Pele, Dalek, Add N to X, the Faint, HIM, Del
Rey, the Up On In, the Promise Ring, Utah!, Red Shirt Brigade, Volta Do Mar, and countless
others.
In different ways and at different times DMS has been inspired,
assisted or otherwise prodded by Tracy Pearce, Eric J Herboth,
Laura Maupin, TEAM AV, Kevin Smith, Steve Holmes, Mike Kinsella,
Ben Wilson, Chris Broach, Andy Hawthorne, Paul Preissner, Paul
Depczyk, Rob Moates, Brendan Gamble, Jimmie Myers, the Firebird
Band, Absinthe Blind, Defender, Dalek, Haymarket Riot, the Up On
In, Dodge minivan research, Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Tony
Williams, Sly and the Family Stone, the Beatles, Busta Rhymes,
Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and the line of high performance rock
eyewear by Sports sunglasses.
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