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„First
Take Then Shake" is the 11th studio album of F.S.K. In the
more than 20 years of their existence F.S.K. (still Thomas Meinecke,
Michaela Melián, Justin Hoffmann, Wilfried Petzi and Carl
Oesterhelt) have travelled an uncompared musical journey from new
wave to country and since their 1996 disko B 12'' "4 Instrumentals"
(db61) and the two albums "Tel Aviv" (1998) and "X"
(2000) on Sub Up Records deeper and deeper into band-oriented electronic
music and its repetitive sound-structures between post-rock and
post-electronica.
F.S.K. are still the most invited non-english band to attend Peel-sessions
and are one of the few german bands besides Can who were granted
an entry in a book called the „Unknown Legends of Rock'N'Roll".
In February 2003 they went to Uphon Studio/Weilheim with engineer
Mario Thaler (The Notwist, Tied + Tickled Trio) for the fourth time
and recorded their new album with one half of the tracks being instrumentals
and the other half (again) songs with lyrics.
The roughmixes of these songs were sent to the Detroit-based afro-american
techno/house legend Anthony "Shake" Shakir. F.S.K goes
afro-germanic. In september Shakir flew to Munich with his sampler
and one more week was spend together with the band in Weilheim producing
"First Take Then Shake". A band Photograph was shot in
front of the legendary BMW building: motor cities united. The first
praise of this unusual cooperation already appeared in the most
important german music magazines months before the album's release.
"First Take Then Shake" is the first full length album
of F.S.K. on disko B
The artwork for the design of the album was realized by the german
artist Olaf Nicolai. The portraits that were used for the cover
are part of the series "The Blondes" (2003/2004).
Tracklisting:
1. Swing To Bop / 2. Ballroom / 3. Kinski Jones / 4. Salt Peanuts
/ 5. In Loving Memory / 6. Incident With The Dogs / 7. Dr. Buzzard's
Original Savannah Band / 8. Black Music / 9. The Blues And The Abstract
Truth / 10. Tiger Rag / 11. Tiger Rag Remixed
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