Name: Something Dirty
Brand: Faust

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Limited edition

Release date

2011-01-31

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Shellshock

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Faust

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Krautrock

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German for "fist", and also the protagonist of Goethe's eponymous play, Faust were among the first bands to use the recording studio as an instrument and one of the originators & central pillars of the Krautrock genre. After two albums for Polydor, they were dropped due to a lack of commercial success and signed with the fledgling Virgin label. The first release to come of this new partnership was The Faust Tapes - a record comprised of edited older material, with no clearly demarcated tracks, and no titles or other information on the sleeve. In what could be seen as an early attempt at viral marketing, the disc was priced as a single and as a result sold over 50,000 copies.
Faust IV was released later the same year, and had been recorded on night shifts at the label's Manor studio while Mike Oldfield tracked Tubular Bells during the day. While the group would carry on for another two years after the release of IV, no new releases appeared before the band seemingly vanished.
Throughout the 1980s, Chris Cutler's ReR and Recommended labels released Faust's first three records along with various unreleased archival material. This marked their creative partnership which would see him go on to perform with Jean-Hervé Peron's later iteration of Faust decades later. In 1994, Faust reactivated; performing live in Europe and releasing

cd digipack. faust have been around for over 40 years. since 2007, the line-up of the krautrock legend has comprised founder members jean-herve peron and zappi diermaier, the english musician james johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers gallon drunk and long-standing member of nick cave and the bad seeds, plus the english painter, filmmaker, author and musician geraldine swayne. on 'something dirty' the creativity and musical ideas of these four personalities coalesce into a perfect symbiosis of sound. it is at once hypnotic, repetitive, melodic, exhilarating, psychedelic, menacing, dadaist, ethereal. johnston's guitar saws its way through diermaier's archaic beats, harmonically enriched by peron's powerful bass and swayne's psychedelic keyboards. time and again, faust revisit their avant-garde roots, experimenting with voices and unusual instruments. (a flamethrower and goat hooves can be detected in their arsenal of sonic sources.) best of all, however, faust have succeeded in reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances on 'something dirty'. breathtaking stuff.

Something Dirty

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