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  • Audio CD (3 Dec 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rer
  • ASIN: B000008QKZ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,675 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Exercise (With Several Hands On A Piano)
2. Exercise (With Voices Drum And Sax)
3. Flashback Caruso
4. Exercise
5. J'ai Mal Aux Dents
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8. Dr Schwitters
9. Exercise
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12. Dr Schwitters
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Among the first bands to use the studio as an instrument, Germany's Faust stitched engrossing albums from bits of improvised ensemble play, primitive electronics, lovely folk motifs, lo-fi musique concrete, and fragments of punk, psychedelic, jazz, and progressive music. THE FAUST TAPES is even more of a splendid mishmash than the earlier FAUST and SO FAR, as the album is sequenced as a single track. As haphazard asTAPES' construction might seem, with an excess of ideas that almost seems to have tumbled out of the Faust 5 at random,one must realise that "construction" is the operative word here.
TAPES is a rare relic of cut-and-paste creativity from the days before sampling, and Faust's revolutionary jigsaw post-production techniques provided the model for future musical collages from other bands. TAPES' coarse cut-ups andabrupt splices continue to influence music, clearly informing the work of the so-called "Plunderphonic" artists (John Oswald, Negativland, Severed Heads), the lo-fi home tapers, and such post-industrial experimental outfits as Cabaret Voltaire, Death in June, and Nurse With Wound.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Faust virgins start here, 6 Jan 2006
By freewheeling frankie (north London, England) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The experiment was a complete success!, 14 Aug 2005
By Stephen Rogers (Totnes, Devon, England) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Faustian, Packed, 17 Jun 2009
By Lord KitchenKnife (Castle Dracula) - See all my reviews
By far their most accesible (& ubiquitous - vinyl copies where literally everywhere until the mid 90s), The Faust Tapes is a superb introduction to one of Krautrock's most enduring experiments (I've only been listening to this for 17yrs & still find new angles to explore). Assembled in an influential cut & paste style (reminiscent in many respects of The Beatles' 'White Album') and brimming with ideas, The Faust Tapes is a lysergic soundtrack to an imaginary movie projected onto the back of your mind. Or someone else's.

If you're at all interested in the genre but know not what to invest your precious pocket money, this record & CAN's supreme statement 'Tago Mago' are the perfect places to begin your very own excavations...good luck, Caruso.
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