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The Faust Tapes [CD]

Faust Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (3 Dec 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Rer
  • ASIN: B000008QKZ
  • Other Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By freewheeling frankie TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
As one of the albums that launched the Virgin label back in 1973, and priced as a loss-leader at 49p, this album briefly put the extremely underground Faust into the public eye (mind you even at 49p it didn't chart...)
In its original incarnation on LP, and even the first CD issue, there was no track listing, or tracks - at least on the LP you had two sides. Now at last you can go to the track you want, which is not necessarily a good thing. Far better to listen to it all the way through and let the very varied individual pieces wash over you. With far more tracks than any other 70s Faust album, nothing lasts too long and you get a good idea of their range - including plangent, slightly odd acoustic ditties, driving rock, musique concrete, dialogue and lots of just unique music. This makes the album a very good place to start if you've not heard Faust before - and essential if you've already heard other Faust albums and liked them.

Though influential, Faust sound like no one before or since - during the period when they recorded this material, Polydor provided them with their own studio (an old school out in the country near Hamburg) and a top notch live-in engineer in the shape of Kurt Graupner, who created unique effects boxes for them and made their numerous sonic experiments possible in much the way as George Martin did for the Beatles. Even at their most abrasive (and they get pretty extreme at times - one sequence on this album features what sounds like a treated electric drill) there's something positive and wholesome about the noises Faust make - they're not trying to hurt you and they're never sick like Throbbing Gristle, and far more listenable for most people - though if you like your music predictable and unchallenging this is not for you.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By Stephen Rogers VINE™ VOICE
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Originally the band's private tapes circulated to their friends, The Faust Tapes was released by Virgin in 1972 for 49p. After selling 60,000 copies, becoming a Top 10 album, and thus losing the record company £2,000, it was deleted, later resurfacing on CD at normal price. So many people bought it for the price and discovered when they got it home that it was enormously unusual. Beautiful, strange and threatening electronic and tape effects, seeded with an unpredictable stream of acoustic, rock, jazz, free-form, ambient and classical music, weave an alien tapestry of sound. There is nothing like The Faust Tapes, even in Faust's other work (which is also worth hearing, by the way).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this as at 0.49p first time around and was instantly captivated.
I had almost not bothered to buy it because frankly I felt the first LP Faust was a gimmick because of its cover art and continued no music worth bothering with. My feelings towards Faust were changed a lot by the record, which is interesting and charming, containing some worthwhile experiments and even some half decent tunes. To this day I still play this record quite often. In my opinion this is Faust's most consistent LP, it comes close in my mind to Neu's excellent first album. So why might you ask do I not give it five stars? To be honest its down to the relatively poor production and the lo-fi sound. Never the less, if you are at all interested in German rock music you should own this and Neu before you start to delve into the darker and more mysterious bowels of Kruat rock.
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