DMS is the solo project of musical savant Steve Lamos (American Football, One Up Downstairs).
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.
Reference points for the DMS sound include everything from Miles Davis to Sly and the Family Stone, 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.