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| |_| '__/ _` | '_ \|_  / | |_ / _` | |/ __| |/ / _ \ '_ \| '_ \ / _` | | | / __|
|  _| | | (_| | | | |/ /  |  _| (_| | | (__|   <  __/ | | | | | | (_| | |_| \__ \
|_| |_|  \__,_|_| |_/___| |_|  \__,_|_|\___|_|\_\___|_| |_|_| |_|\__,_|\__,_|___/
                                                                                
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| |_| |_| | |_) | (_) | |  __/\ V /  \__ \ |_| \__ \ ||  __/ | | | | |          
 \__|\__,_| .__/ \___/|_|\___| \_/   |___/\__, |___/\__\___|_| |_| |_|   .        .    
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                    ||||| ____________               ||      \___  _ |
                    | | |   |                        \|________ \ __ |    .
                    | | |   |____|______|_            | __|  __  \   |          .
              .     | | |   |    |      |             |   |       \_ |
                   |     |  |____|______|             |   |___     | |
    .              |     |       |      |             |  ///\\\\    \|      .
           .      /   |   \  ____|______|___          |   ----       |
                 /    |    \     |      |              |            |
                /_____|_____\  __|______|_____         |__|______/  |
      .       _/      |      \_  |      |                |__________|_
             /________|________\        .         ______/\  / \   /   \________
           _/         |         \_   ........    / o_o_   \ \_/  /   /   ___o o\
          /_________|   | ________\     .       /         | / \ |   /           \
         /         || | ||         \    .      /        | |/   \|  /             |
        |__________|  |  |__________|  ...... /         | |     ||/              | 
        |__________|_| |_|__________|   .    /          \ |     |                |
        ||__|___|_/ =| |= \_|___|__||   .
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*** TOP SECRET ***

Let's return to the height of the late cold war - circa 1987
BONN was the capital of West Germany - the CHAOS COMPUTER CLUB ruled supreme -
the Commodore AMIGA was the most advanced home computer on the market -
New Wave and Punk were making way for a new strange electronic subculture

The mis-en-scene of FRANZ FALCKENHAUS - WESTERN EUROPEAN SUPER SPY

Giallo records is going to release a compilation of previously CD only
FRANZ FALCKENHAUS material entitled TUPOLEV SYSTEM

It will be the first time this material will be released on vinyl and will
come with a full color artwork sleeve. Releasedate somewhere in February.

For those who don't know - Franz Falckenhaus is a fictional cold war spy who
released four albums on the defunct Strange Life records - mostly in the minimal
wavish cold war electro soundtrack genre. He made four albums between 2006 and
2010. The first two ones were made in a couple of days on an EMU Vintage Pro
through a Korg Ampworx FX unit. Later on Falckenhaus switched to a DX7IID and
TR808.

There was also a videogame based around him called TRIDENT CRISIS.
This came out on the Commodore 64 in 2010 and was programmed rather hastely
for an Intergalactic FM benefit auction event. The game came with the Secret 
Microcassettes release  - of which only 1 copy exists which sold at the auction
for 200 UK pounds to someone in England.

Trident Crisis is considered to be one of the worst videogames ever on the
commodore 64. Presented as an exciting cold war 'interactive spy novel' it was
a text only adventure game with an extremely basic unintelligible A.I.parser.

The aim of the game is to escape from the eastern bloc state Dagavonia,
dodging enemy agents and police, finding a covert way to escape on a
train to the west.

You can download it here and run it on a Commodore 64 emulator.

TRACKLISTING Franz Falckenhaus TUPOLEV SYSTEM
coming on GIALLO RECORDS February 2018

A1 – My Cold War
A2 – Siberian Missles
A3 – Rainy Roads Through Gypsy Forest
A4 – Transylvania Airlines
A5 – MIT Research Theme
B1 – Falckenhaus Cosmic Dance
B2 – Alpenland Detective
B3 – The Europa Judgement
B4 – Manhunter
B5 – The Tragic Sadness Of F. Falckenhaus