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APA#100 covers for Ian

Ronseal time. All four Frank's #100 covers, each less than 200k.

Musik Tankstelle, kein wurst dabei.

Hi-dee-ho Apaites.

Hereby the TOAD I self-assembled in Vienna at the museumquartier. At a digital library you could compile your own selection of independent Austrian music for a tenner.
I kind wrote a Vienna report some Apa's ago (in the*officially you need to pay me back* zine). For the newcomers, a part of it is copied and pasted below:

"In Vienna I compiled a redbook cd with Austrian mp3’s of old jazz, 80’s wave, schlagers and new electronic music. I’m gonna put this one up on the APA blog soon, as a Vienna TOAD cos it’s a quicky selection that most of you will be eager to discover."

I'm betting that Ian, Irene and Winkle will have a field day with the faux-pas new wave and krauty electrofunk songs. It's like reliving the days of Falko and Numan, confessed and blessed.

right so. krautwaveschlagerelectrofunkbigbandtronicasoundscapes from Vienna, yay!

1. Blümchen Blau - Heimatlos

2. Bobby Hammer - Papa Was a Rolling Stone

3. Chuzpe - Tausend Takte Tanz

4. Chuzpe - Marilyn

5. Heinz Conrads - Guat Schau Ma Aus

6. Drahdiwaberl - Killen Killen Killen

7. Fatty George Jazzband - Come Back to Sorrento

8. Fatty George Jazzband - Zoot

9. Fatty George Jazzband - Sensation Rag

10. Gustav - One Hand Mona

11. Martin Siewert - Attraktor

12. Sluta Leta - Kära Sjukskörterska


ps, sorry for the yousendit links. I haven't figured out the handier mediafire ways yet.
I will refresh these links after the meet up. But at least you have 7 days though.
enjoyyyyy and see most of you very soon!

Blind Children at Hide & Seek

A TOAD for Frank's APA #100.

1. "Take Me Into Your Skin" - Trentemoeller (The Last Resort)
2. "Lass Mich" - Faust & Nurse With Wound (Disconnected)
3. "Once Again" - Girl Talk (Night Ripper)
4. "Theory of Machines" - Ben Frost (Theory of Machines)
5. "Cusp of Something" - Yeti (Volume, Obliteration, Transcendance)
6. "Soft Temple" - Grails (Burning Off Impurities)
7. "Symbol #2" - Aluk Todolo (Symbol 7")
8. "Missing You" - A Place to Bury Strangers (A Place to Bury Strangers)
9. "Fractured Skies" - Parts and Labor (Mapmaker)
10. "Embers" - Minsk (The Ritual Fires of Abandonment)
11. "Little Prince" - Eel (Little Prince)
12. "Ashes" - Rameses III (Matanuska)
13. "I Never Lose. Never Really." - Belong (October Language)
14. "The Hemophiliac's Dream pt.1" - 5ive (The Hemophiliac's Dream)

Some brand-new noises for you all. Nasty over-designed cover included in the package.

Download part one (91MB)
Download part two and cover (86MB)
and that missing track five (Yeti) (16MB)

Enjoy!

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You?

A TOAD for Frank's 100.

1. "Kankan Diarabe" - African Virtuoses
2. "Armee Guineenne" - Bembeya Jazz National
3. "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You?" - Funkadelic
4. "Hard Times" - Baby Huey & The Babysitters
5. "If You Want Me To Stay" - Sly & The Family Stone
6. "Final Request" - Josef K
7. "Arabian Knights" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
8. "23" - Blonde Redhead
9. "Wamp Wamp (Whut It Do)" - Clipse
10. "Atlas" - Battles
11. "People Person" - Pissed Jeans
12. "A History Of Bad Men" - Melvins
13. "Everybody Daylight" - Brightblack Morning Light
14. "Sum'bulala" - Brenda Fassie

Download Part 1 (56MB)
Download Part 2 (81MB)

Full sleeve notes in the mailing.

Frank's #100 - The Big List

The 100th mailing of Frank's Apa is approaching rapidly - if any former members should happen to see this and have an interest in making a one-off contribution to F-Apa 100, or rejoining on an ongoing basis, then please contact crumpw at vista hyphen express dot com. The deadline for contributions will be the first Friday in September.

Below I am posting a list of all members, past and present. Current members - if you can contact any of the ex-members on the list, post the names below as a comment and we can start marking off the people who have been contacted. Which I am doing by marking them in bold until I come up with a better solution.

Bill K'tepi
Kealan Horan
William Crump
Trish Byrne
Eoghan Barry
Mark Winkelmann
Dave Berry
Paul Baynes
Marc Gascoigne
Scott Watkins
David A. Simpson
Dave Howarth
Seb Bassleer
Ian Moore
Irene O'Dowd
Wood
Rory Carr
Nessa Johnston
Andrew Shillito
Anna Holloway
Thom Allott
Lorraine Glendenning
Nick Drage
Dermot Sreenan
John Waring
DJ Krossphader (IM)
Brian Haunton (DB)
Rooshin Vadgama
Jonathan Skinner
Andrew Farrell (IM)
Chris Taylor (IM)
Aline Lemos (IM)
Mark Wilsher (IM)
Paul Watts (IM)
Ady Foley
Steve Hewitt (IM)
Sara Kojaku
Adrian Barber (IM/DB)
Brian Duguid (BD)
Scott Rogers
Pete Strover (IM/DB)
Paul Mason (DB)
Maurice Thomas (IM/DB)
Ed Morgan
Tom Ewing (IM)
Steve Wilsher
Mary Savege (BD)
Diann Thome (IM)
Trish Halligan
James Wallis (MG)
Eunice Pearson
Sean Haugh (IM)
Eamonn Maher (IM)
Alex Thomson (IM)
Vicki
Te-Bo Steele
Dave Castle
Conor Kostick (IM)
KFR Inc (IM)
Steve Albini
Anne l'Henoret (IM)
Emma Ridley
Caroline Whyte (IM)
Mysterious Batlike Figure
Lisa Donnelly
Heloise McCarthy
Declan Kelly
Steve Freitag (DH)
John Breakwell
Gavin Kostick (IM)
Bob Carey
Jim Burgess (IM)
Alison Coad
Mike Jarvis (IM)
Damian Edwardson
Robin ap-Cynan (IM)
Georg Patterson
Ben Goodale
Malc Arnold
Ian Marsh (IM)
Nigel Fletcher (DH)
Ross Cowin (DH)
Paul Crowley (DB)
Zoe Price
Alex Zbyslaw (DB)
Kay Dekker (DB)
Sylvia Shepperson (DH)
Sue Bamford
Sarah Ovenall

Oh No! Not The Beast Day

(cough, cough) Christ, it's kind of dusty in here.

By way of apology for the inadequacies of my zine for Franks 99B, here is the long-heralded upload of Mark's TOAD. Two .zip files, 320kbps mp3s.

Part One

Part Two

Krautrock #21: Code III - Planet of Man (1974)

Those charming Freeman Bros had this to say about this most mysterious of records (more sound effect collage than riffing): "The sleeve of Planet Of Man showed the visual message impressed in gold and sent with the Voyager satellite on its journey into deep space. Yep, this is a real sci-fi concept album! In fact, so conceptual that there is no real division into single tracks, rather a continuous flow of musical themes. The makers of it all were Manfred Schunke and the mysterious Ed Key, surely a pseudonym?! Klaus Schulze was also involved, offering a helping hand with the artificial head stereo mix and even some drumming! Fans of Schulze's early, cosmic music will love this album for sure! The album was released in a fold-out cover on Delta Acustic, a short-lived, minor label releasing productions made with the freshly developed artificial head stereo system, offering a unique stereo effect when listening to the music via headphones. The Code 3 album is now very rare and seldom seen offered for sale."

I couldn't make my mind up about any representative tracks, so I chucked up a rip of the entire, impossible-to-find album, acquired courtesy of the might 8 Days in April [no URL; he keeps it hidden these days]:
01. Formations/The Genesis
02. Dawn of an Era
03. Countdown/Phoenix Rising
(mp3, 79.8 mb)

Krautrock #20: Cluster - Cluster II

This is all of side one of the album and the last track is the first piece of Cluster music I heard back in ’78 or so crammed at the end of one side of a Brain Records sampler (£2.99 though over the years that damn record must have cost me hundreds of squiddlies). Things have developed from the ’71 album but we’re still a long way from the pastoral sounds of the mid-late ‘70’s.
Plas sounds like the music is a 3-D entity, a plastic form that is hovering in the air being moulded by the laboratory technicians tweaking the tone generators. Yes it’s all gone a bit Jon Pertwee around here. Im Süden changes things by having a loop of an insistent guitar phrase that nags at you while more machines hum in the background. Bizarrely enough another machine is making cicada type noises, is this the island of Dr. Moreau?
Fur Dïe Katz I won’t say anything more about other than its lovely and at 3 minutes makes my idea of a perfect pop song.
Plas
Im Süden
Fur Dïe Katz
Mega 320 powerissimo
djh

Krautrock #19: Cluster - Cluster '71

15:33 Yup that’s the track name. If I said that Cluster (and the earlier Kluster to be found later in the list) pre-dated Industrial Music buy a goodly number of years- I hope I’m not putting people off. You might also mention mad Mr. L. Russolo and his “intonarumori “ noise making machines. Although the guitars can occasionally be heard in the mix it’s the fog of electronic noise a disorientating swirl that really grabs you. It’s not in anyway threatening like alpha-male posturing of far too much industrial music.
This is the more Kosmiche musik side of the Krautrock Coin (the other is more prog meets R ‘n’ B) and is where I got on the bus and where I’m happiest most of the time. Makes sense if my point of entry was Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Klaus Schulze.
15:33
feel the everlovin' power of the mighty 320
djh