Browse by Artist: FAUST

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	In Autumn
Label:	DIRTER PROMOTIONS (UK)
Format:	3CD/1DVD
Price:	$46.00
Catalog #:	DPROM 059CD

"Krautrock legends Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set. Recorded last year in the UK, it features many enduring Faust classics performed live for the very first time after all these years. The first two CDs in the set consist of an ideal recording of a complete and unedited show from the Carling Academy, Newcastle. The 3rd CD is a collection of tracks culled from other dates on the tour. The 4th disc is a DVD compiling the finest footage from the tour, which has been hailed as their best tour since Faust's reformation in 1992. This fantastic box set really captures a legendary band at the absolute top of their game and truly on fire! Includes a 32-page booklet and liner notes from Faust frontman Jean-Herve Peron."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Ravvivando ? Remixed By Soft Cell
Label:	KLANGBAD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KLANGBAD 62832

"The new single consists of a series of remixes of the track 'Wir brauchen dich' from Ravvivando, all by Dave Ball (Soft Cell/The Grid) and Ingo Vauk. Dave Ball & Co. have managed to showhorn Faust into the Neu! framework. Think 'Motorik Noise'. Think Kraftwerk(!). Think Industrial-Can. Think of it as the single that might put Faust into record collections that have never seen their like before. All pop records should sound like this, only with each one just ever so slightly different so we can tell them apart. Strange to tell, but Ball and Vauk have done a fantastic job. I can't wait for the full Ravvivando remixes album.... But on this evidence there should be a campaign to get Ball & Vauk to do some more remixes."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Freispiel
Label:	KLANGBAD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KLANGBAD 62892

"Faust, the legendary Krautrock band, is back again In their 31st year they are releasing a remix album, proving once again their timeless importance to the international music scene.This album is a collection of remixes of most tracks from Faust´s spectacular masterpiece Ravvivando, released in 1999. Take your time listening to it, and you will get lost in these amazing soundscapes and more dancefloor-tracks of Freispiel. As you might know, musical borders and limits do not exist in the fantastic sound world of Faust. The knowledge about this first Faust-principle was a great challenge for the participating artists of Freispiel. The wide diversity of sounds spans from The Resident's work to the infectious dance grooves by the Sofa Surfers and Soft Cell to deconstructed versions by people like Funkstoerung and Howie B. You will also fall in love with the final track the Canadian band Dead Voices On Air (who had been involved with the Can-solo-projects) made of the Faust-song 'Du weißt schon'. Freispielshows Faust in a complete new framework and is a must for any serious record collector and the urban club-scene of many open-minded people. Wherever you go, in the tube, in the cafe, on the street under water...you will hear the sound of Faust since all sound is potential music, music like Faust´s, limitless.. So the unlimited world around us is both the laboratory and the stage for this outstanding German band."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Edinburgh 1997
Label:	KLANGBAD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KLANGBAD F2

Live at the Flux New Music Festival in Edinburgh. "Three weeks of festival, theatre, pantomime, experimental arts and music. In amongst these, Faust: A legend for the connoisseur, with constantly changing sound experiments over the past 25 years. Faust mixes industrial noise with tattered sounds, jazzy harmonies and rock rhythms. Unfettered and minimalist. A concert at a venue resembling a low, hot cave. There is a huge metal sheet in front of the stage beyond the reach of the audience. Guardian: '... an alarming, emotionally exhausting and strangely uplifting ritual and probably the most intense live theatre of the Edinburgh Fringe. Worth selling your soul for, in fact!'"

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Od Serca Do Duszy
Label:	LUMBERTON (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	LUMB 008CD

"This double CD set catches legendary German experimental rock outfit Faust's debut concert in Poland, from Krakow's Loch Ness Club, on the 15th November 2006. Spread over both discs, we are afforded a perfect opportunity to hear a blend of the band's classic songs and material previewed from their new studio album played energetically and with a vigour reflecting precisely how happy they were to be in a completely new environment which, in turn, welcomed them with open arms. The entire concert was recorded and mixed professionally by two of Poland's most experienced sound engineers, Piotr Papier and Marcin Cheblowski. The release itself also arrives courtesy of Poland's AudioTong label, with whom it is shared and wouldn't have happened without."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	BBC Sessions +
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RER F5

"Of the five CD's in the box, only the BBC Sessions, derived from a John Peel radio session, has never been available before on CD. The radio session was first broadcast 1/3/73, and is 20 minutes of pure Faustian hell. The Lurcher is a kind of electric period Miles Davis slouching drum rhythm, augmented by stabs of horn and electric guitar. Krautrock is a 12-minute post Velvet Underground riff, drone and noise-driven meditation, far superior to the version on the Virgin release Faust IV. The session ends with Do So, an outrageously corny slice of sixties pop. The remaining 30 minutes of the CD is prime Faust, culled from the ReR LPs The Last LP and Munic and Elsewhere (which could not appear on the ReR CD release Faust- 71 Minutes for reasons of space). They feature splattered repeating percussion, half heard voice-overs, stray dogs, renaissance music played by kazoos, the surreal song 'We Are the Hallo Men', and alternative and wonderful versions of the classics So Far and Meer."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Faust
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RER F6

Single disc , remastered version (as included in the Wumme Years box, in digipak. "Inventors of Kraut Rock, iconoclasts extraodinaire, Faust are key figures in the history of rock music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop as an art-form with a specifically European attitude. Virtually imprisoned by svengali producer Uwe Nettlebeck in their studio at Wumme, near Hamburg, they overturned our whole notion of what makes a pop record. They improvised with industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, created shockingly wilful studio collages, and dabbled with every conceivable musical genre sometimes simultaneously. Kurt Grapner, a Deutsche Gramaphon engineer who was seconded to the project, furnished Faust with innovative effects units and built a spontaneous recording environment which perfectly complemented Faust's conceptual ideas, satirical humour, and insane passions. After twenty years in the wilderness Faust re-formed in 1993, and have been touring and releasing new albums ever since. Their re-appearance has only served to bolster the legend, and the box set of all Faust's early work, from 1971-73, was released by ReR to tremendous acclaim. Though part of the box set, this 1st album has been unavailable for years as a single issue, so we're quite happy to offer it again. It is arguably Faust's finest hour, and has stood as a landmark in the annals of Rock music for over 3 decades."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	So Far
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RER F7

Single disc version (also available on a Collector's Choice two-fer) of the all-time-classic 2nd Faust album from 1972. Originally issued by Polydor. "Inventors of Kraut rock, iconoclasts extraodinaire, Faust are key figures in the history of rock music. In the early 70s, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they reinvented pop as an art-form with a specifically European attitude. Being light years ahead of their time, Faust are arguably the most important figures in the progression of rock music."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	The Wumme Years: 1970-1973
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	5CD
Price:	$75.00
Catalog #:	RER FB1

"The ultimate collection from the legendary inventors of krautrock. This 5 CD set contains all Faust's early classic albums, a John Peel session, and unreleased early material. The 40 page booklet is stuffed with unpublished photos, stills from Super 8 footage from the famous studio at Wumme, and revealing interviews with many of the key players in the Faust story. CDs: Faust (the famous clear first album), So Far (the famous black second album), The Faust Tapes (for the first time ever with a track listing), 71 Minutes (The Last LP and Munic and Elsewhere LPs), BBC Sessions (classic radio session plus substantial extra material). Interviews include band members Jean Herve Peron and Jochen Irmler, with a memoir from Blegvad. Reclusive producer Uwe Nettlebeck and legendary sound engineer Kurt Graupner speak here for the first time. Many of the photos illustrating the book are from private collections, and have never been published." This box set is a limited edition and it's long term availability is not likely. The enclosed albums will be available as individual CDs in the future, but the booklet is exclusive to this box set.

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Patchwork 1971-2002
Label:	STAUBGOLD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	STAUB 037CD

"'Yes. Faust will forever be heralded as a pioneer in the electronic/rock avant garde, emerging in the early seventies branching off from Brit/American commercial rock bands, employing the use of alterior sonic landscapes to create a new musical tangent.' (Alternative Press). For this very special release Staubgold label manager Markus Detmer and Faust member Hans Joachim Irmler compiled unreleased Faust recordings from 1971 to 2002, covering the legendary Wümme Years (1971 - 1973) and the time at Virgin's Manor studios (1974- 1975) as well as their new start in the early 80s and recent years. Compiled as a collage, as the title suggests, Patchwork unfolds the core qualities of Faust and gives a deep impression of their working method."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	Rien
Label:	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	TOE 024CD

Mid-90s album, repressed at last! Produced by Jim O'Rourke. "From 1971 to 1975, Germany's Faust carved a megalithic reputation as the greatest avant-garde group of the era. Formed in the spirit of the May '68 uprisings, they inspired the term 'Krautrock,' influenced generations of subsequent bands, and to this day define an entire genre. In 1994, Table of the Elements brought the reclusive Faust to America for the first time, taking them on tour and orchestrating their return to the studio. The result is Rien, the first studio recordings from Faust in over 20 years. With major contributions from producer and performer Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), as well as guest members Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha), Steven Wray Lobdell (Redford-David Triad) and Michael Morley (The Dead C), Faust have managed to create a record as unflinchingly audacious and uncompromising as their earliest work. An aggressive collection of electronic pastiche, musique concrete, power tools and group improvisation results in an extraordinary return by one of the seminal experimental ensembles of all time. Out-of-print since 1995, this the first and finest of the records by the 90s-era Faust, notoriously packaged entirely in silver, with spoken credits hidden on the CD."

Artist:	FAUST
Title:	IV
Label:	VIRGIN (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	VIR 56362CD

2006 digital remastered version, double CD. Bonus disc features rarities, alternate takes, a BBC John Peel radio session and expanded liner notes. The fourth and final album to be released during Faust's original lifespan, originally released by Virgin Records in 1973. Opens with one of their most relentlessly mantric tracks, "Krautrock", a searing post-VU drone, and then delves into what is some of the most accessible Faust material ("The Sad Skinhead," "Jennifer," etc. Less revolutionary than its predecessors (Faust, So Far, Tapes), but still contains many memorable moments & this is the definitive version.

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