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Start Date: December 1, 2014
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Band/Record: Faust - The Faust Tapes

Label/Matrix: UK 1973 Virgin VC 501 with A-1U/B-1U 

Condition Record/Sleeve: EX+/EX- 

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original UK 1st press on white Virgin label ...wow .. ex+ dream audio ... VERY RARE !!

~~ Absolutely the defining moment in Faust's career. Brain damaging, drug addled, and absolutely brilliant. If you only want one Faust release, this is it! The album, as the title indicates was made of tapes lying around and assembled into one big 43-min track (how that was possible without having an audible cut somewhere, is beyond me

While the first Faust albums were definitive Krautrock statemernts, their collab (Dream Syndicate) with a minimalist obviously perverted their spirit and Tapes is the real result: one of the very first RIO album (avant-la-lettre, though) that boggles the mind, but can also disturb unaware/unwarned listeners (which is exactly what I was last time I rented this album from the library. This often-phantasmagoric soundscape is one of its decade's most influential albums, obviously heard by the Henry Cows and others. Rather hard to describe, the music often is just "bruitages" and montages of almost-industrial noises, but has some rather more accessible (almost easy) moments and some downright strange/disturbing "tunes", rendering the whole mix quite unnerving. Quite a strange but sometimes-wonderful trip, but by the time you get to the French-sung finale (by bassist Jean-Hervé Peron), you'll be glad the album is over. And unless having masochist tendencies, you shall not press replay right away.

After this album, Faust would go on to release their fourth album, which turned to be their last of the decade, even though the group has been sporadically active for the last three decades. It is hard to rate this essential album correctly, because of the fact that it is historically important and absolutely highly influential .. perhaps even a bit slightly over-rated because of its cult status, but hey it is an ICONIC ALBUM !!

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