| The Faust Tapes | ||||
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| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | Wümme, Bremen, Germany June 1971 – June 1973 | |||
| Genre | Experimental music, musique concrète, krautrock, sonic collage | |||
| Length | 43:26 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Uwe Nettelbeck | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
The Faust Tapes is the third album by the German krautrock group Faust, released in 1973. The album sold well in the United Kingdom (60,000 copies)[2] because of a marketing gimmick by Virgin Records that saw it go on sale for the price of a single.[1] This exposure introduced British audiences to Faust.
Recommended Records reissued the album on LP in 1980, and on CD in 1996 and 2001, both mastered from vinyl sources. The Recommended LP reissue used a brand new cover design and was packaged in an oversized plastic bag. Neither CD edition included the original LP artwork; the 1996 CD used the cover art from the second "Faust Party 3" extract single as the front cover and the 2001 CD used the cover art from the Munich and Elsewhere album as the front cover. The Virgin and Recommended LP releases, and the first Recommended CD release had no track titles. In 2021, the German label Bureau B released the box set 1971-1974, in editions of 2000 seven LP/two 7" sets and 1000 eight-CD sets, consisting of their first four albums (including Tapes), the previously "lost" album Punkt, two albums of previously unreleased tracks, and two singles (one previously unreleased). Both editions are now out of print, but the label has released Tapes digitally on their Bandcamp page. For all of these releases, all of the tracks that were previously Untitled or Exercises were given new titles.
The Faust Tapes consists of segments of songs woven together in pieces spread out over two sides of the LP.[1][3]
- ^ a b c Unterberger, Richie. "The Faust Tapes". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Archived article". Melody Maker. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
- ^ Starostin, George. "Faust". Only Solitaire. Retrieved 10 July 2016.