Faust

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The mother of all groups

Website: http://www.faust-pages.com/
Members: 20
Created By: Andy Wilson
Latest Activity: 19 hours ago

Faust

CHRIS CUTLER (1996 Recommended Records)
" Inventors of 'Kraut Rock', iconoclasts extraordinaire, Faust are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically European art-form. Virtually imprisoned by Polydor in their own studio for two years, they were able to revolutionize the whole process of musical production; they improvised with Industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, indulged in shockingly wilful studio-based collages, and dabbled with every conceivable musical genre, sometimes simultaneously! Every now and then they found time for a burst of satirical pop, or occasional waves of delicate ambience. Amongst those Faust have strongly influenced we must count Brian Eno, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Department, Neubauten, My Bloody Valentine, Julian Cope and a host of Industrial and Techno bands. The music has lost none of it's immediacy or relevance - it sounds as if it was recorded last week, not last decade."

JULIAN COPE
"There is no group more mythical than Faust"

MELODY MAKER
"Faust are essential, not just as a history lesson, but as a living legacy and as a reproach to an underachieving age."

NME
"A radical mix of Musique Concrete, Stockhausen, the Velvet Underground, and moments of almost pastoral beauty."

TIME OUT
"Faust were first!"

Discussion Forum

Reviews from Wonderful Wooden Reasons Magazine
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From the Wonderful Wooden Reasons site Faust - Collectif Met(z) 1996-2005 (art-errorist) 3CD & 1DVD box A new Faust album is always cause for much rejoicing in this house (on my part at least... Continue

Started by Andy Wilson. Last reply by ian holloway 19 hours ago .

Od Serca Do Duszy
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Just got my copy today and having listened to it I must say its the best since - well since Disconnected. It may be a bit naive to say it but it seems to me if the band are enjoying themselves then... Continue

Started by jake shields. Last reply by jake shields 8 Jan.

disconnected Review from Brainwashed

by our faust list/ning member john kaely http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com the massive influence Faust have had on Nurse With Wound (with Stapleton as a young man famously travelling to ... Continue

Started by fabio vercoquin 2 Nov 2007