1971 - Faust (1983 Japan Reissue) [16/44.1]
Год выпуска: 1983
Лейбл: Polydor – 23MM0236
Страна-производитель: Japan
Треклист:
A1 Why Don't You Eat Carrots
A2 Meadow Meal
B1 Miss Fortune
Rip Info
Cleaned with KAB EV-1
Audio-Technica AT33PTG II Cartridge
JMW-10.5i Tonearm
VPI Classic 1 Turntable
Musical Surroundings Phonomena II
Recorded with Audacity
ClickRepair 3.4.1 in manual mode
1972 - So Far (Original UK 1st press) [24/96]
Год выпуска: 1972
Лейбл: Polydor – 2310 196
Страна-производитель: UK
Треклист:
A1 It's A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl
A2 On The Way To Abamae
A3 No Harm
B1 So Far
B2 Mamie Is Blue
B3 I've Got My Car And My TV
B4 Picnic On A Frozen River
B5 Me Lack Space...
B6 ...In The Spirit
Rip Info
Rip by Euripides, May 4th, 2014
Equipment: VPI HW-17F Vacuum Record Cleaner, Technics SL 1210 MKII T/T, Rega RB 250 Tonearm (Re-wired), Ortofon Rondo Blue M/C Cartridge, Cambridge Audio AZUR640P M/C Stage, M-Audio Profire 610 A/D, Adobe audition 3.0
Method:
Clean records on Vpi, rip (PCM@96/32), remove inaudible subsonic (0Hz to 17Hz ~ 0db, with sloped filter ‘Scientific’ from 17Hz to 20Hz). Manual and carefully targeted automatic de-clicking in Adobe Audition using custom scripts and presets. I make sure this doesn’t damage natural clicks. Occasional use of noise masking techniques such as ‘footprint’ sampling the groove noise and fading it to mono during track changes, etc. Normalize whole sides to 100% (After deciding if the sides are cut the same), Split tracks, FLAC, MD5, M3U, Discogs Tagging (where available), Create DR Log, Make RAR, +Redbook (16-bit dithered in Audition), FTP.
1973 - Faust IV (2009 US Reissue) [16/48]
Год выпуска: 2009
Лейбл: Virgin – V 2004
Страна-производитель: US
Треклист:
A1 Krautrock
A2 The Sad Skinhead
A3 Jennifer
B1 Just A Second
B2 Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableu
B3 Giggy Smile
B4 Läuft... Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald... Läuft
B5 It's A Bit Of A Pain
Rip Info
Played on AudioTechnica Lp120 with stock cartridge. Recorded with Audacity, tracks segmented manually.
The B-side has somewhat confusing track listings. I've opted to segment the tracks as per the original 1973 release.
1973 - The Faust Tapes (Original UK 1st press) [24/96]
Год выпуска: 1973
Лейбл: Virgin – VC 501
Страна-производитель: UK
Треклист:
A Side One
B Side Two
Доп. информация
The music on this album, drawn from Faust’s own library of private tapes, was recorded informally and not originally intended for release. However, since British interest in the group has been unusually great, it has been decided to make some of this unofficial material available to the public in this country.The Faust Tapes reveals Faust at their most personal and spontaneous. It’s a unique glimpse behind the scenes of a group which European and British critics have hailed as one of the most exciting and exploratory in the world.
Original album without track titles. Some were specified on later reprints.
With some avant-garder parts difficult to listen at first,and also with great moments in electronic and progressive rock music.
Amazing how Virgin mades this album,as was a non comercial issue.
Rip Info
Equipment: CLEARAUDIO Turntable, Music Hall amplifier, Roland Quad-Capture, PC W7-64 bits.
VPI semi automatic-record cleaner
Software: Adobe Audition CS 5.5, (in manual DECLIKER, Db poweramp music converter (From Wave to Flac lossless level 8).
Доп. информация
Faust is a German krautrock band, originally composed of Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter Wüsthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner. The group formed in Wümme in 1971 and soon began recording their debut, “Faust”, which sold poorly, but established a devoted fanbase. With a series of early 1970s releases, Faust became one of the most significant bands in the genre that would eventually be known as krautrock.
Faust became one of the first acts to sign to Richard Branson’s Virgin Records, who issued the band’s “The Faust Tapes” at the price of a single, 49 UK pence, leading to a chart placing in the United Kingdom.
Faust were arguably the most radical of the groups of their era, using advanced studio techniques and electronics in a way that opened up new possibilities for studio composition. At the time they may not have appeared to have had the same impact as a number of their German peers (notably Kraftwerk, Can and Tangerine Dream), but they are increasingly recognised as the most far-sighted of the German groups of that era.
Faust broke up in 1975 after Virgin had rejected their fifth album (some of the recordings later appeared on the “Munich and Elsewhere” album), but reissues of their recordings and various additional material through Chris Cutler’s Recommended Records maintained a level of interest. The groups’ activities between 1975 and 1990 remain shrouded in mystery.
In 1990, members Irmler, Diermaier and Péron reunited for performances, including touring the United States for the first time. They have continued to perform in various combinations and with various additional musicians ever since.
Péron left the group in June 1997. From mid-1997 to 2004, Faust tours as Zappi W. Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Steven Wray Lobdell, Lars Paukstat, Michael Stoll.
Diermaier and “art-errorist” Péron rejoined in 2004 by immediately recording Trial and Error, a DVD released in 2007 by Fuenfundvierzig Label. Zappi proposed to Péron to start a “new” Faust together with Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat from Ulan Bator.
Faust now exists in two completely different incarnations, both active and each reflecting different aspects of the original group.
Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust’s creator and producer, died 17 January 2007.
Faust’s influence has been wide-reaching, and continues to this day, most notably in the music of post-rock, noise, and electronic artists.