As soon as I found out about it from your channel I pre-ordered it. I picked it up from the shop yesterday copy 497 of 2000.Can’t wait to listen to it!
It is really interesting, we have very much in common besides the age (I am 55). I have also always collected audiophile LPs, mainly classical music, but also been interested in avantgarde, experimental and electronic music and the so called "New Music" and I am a musician myself. And this is somehow an outsider position in the "audiophile community" which often tends to be rather conservative musically and listens to the same sixties to eighties rock titles over and over again. This is an exaggeration of course and I concede this has improved over the last years, but anyway I am always pleasantly surprised when there are people who have such a broad musical horizon like you.
Hi everybody, I am not an audiophile listener, I own a copy of the CD boxset and to my ears sounds fantastic. Bureau B is located in Hamburg, in the Altona district. Last year I went from Milan (I am Italian) to Hamburg for tourism and paid them a visit. Nice people, absolutely caring for the music. These boxsets should have a reissue in my opinion, I know they are sought after.
I discovered this band in 1974, A friend of mine turned me on to them and I said , this is different and experimental. It B was the Faust so far album. I love it and found as a import and cost a lot, but it was worth it. The album I didn't know about was the first album with x-ray picture. I just discovered it last year. I followed them thru out the years and love Faust 4 .
I wish their self-titled debut was the transparent version, that really makes the x-ray of the hand stand out in a striking way. Anyway, I already have that pressing so might as well get the box set too.
I scored a new copy of the 2007 reissue of the self titled debut on Lilith Ltd on clear vinyl last spring. It’s in a transparent jacket with the x-ray cover and lyrics printed on the front. So it’s out there if you’re looking for a reissue to complement your original LP. Found the Bureau B box set for pre-order in the US just now - reasonably priced - think I need this 😀 And a lot of Bureau B catalog is available on Bandcamp already. Very excited for this. Correction: it’s a clear insert within the clear jacket
At first - before you started talking about the conjunction with Kraut Rock - I mixed it up with „Feist“ 😃 from whom I have two great albums…but different story. Interesting video, Michael
I really love this band. Almost everything they have done, also the newer stuff since they have split into two different groups. Thankfully, also the newer albums are all available on vinyl. Faust are of course not such good musicians as Can are, but they share the same kind of open spirit.
Great important band. I bought it online when it first came but then cancelled my order a couple of weeks later. This boxset was way too much money for what you get in my opinion and when you added up all the extra cost of bringing it over to Canada it was a no brainer. I'm hoping to build up a decent section on Kraut rock and this will now be a hole in that collection. Another great video and I hope you do a follow up video when you have made a definitive decision on it.
I agree with you about the 70s version of this band being the best but I have a fondness for the 90s LP Rein which sounds amazing and was issued on vinyl on the Table of the Elements label. I haven’t received my box yet so can’t compare to originals yet.
What a great band 👌 I hope that these albums get reissued separately on vinyl in due course. I already own a great copy of "Faust" and a UK original pressing of "Faust Tapes", so I didn't preorder this boxset.
I'm kinda of glad I don't care for so much different music as you and to forgot some of the old bands I used to listen… nevertheless, good show, very interesting.
Love to watch your channel, I used to Nektar and fro Grobschnitt , never heard of Faust. I see you mention Steven Wilson for his remasters. Do you listen to his music? He’s my fav artist. Thx for your show . Art
BBC sessions and 71 Minutes / Munich Tapes and all RER pressings are fantastic, and it seems nothing of the extras on those are included in this box, and both 2 extra cds/lps include ALL NEW Material
Good to hear the bonus stuff is worth it. I have all the German copies of this so wasn't going to grab it. But tempting nonetheless for the unreleased material. Thanks for covering this unique and essential band
FAUST - graet and interesting music. I collected FAUST since my last year in Highschool in 1973. By the way, I don’t like the word „Krautrock“. I prefere „German Rock“. Take care. Hubert/Mosbach
Terrible mastering - very over-compressed. For example, the CD versions are in the range of 6-8 DR. They are LOUD. The original Caroline Faust IV CD is for comparison is a healthy 13DR. With regards the vinyl box, I could not get past one track of Faust IV. One friend who also has the vinyl box has stuck it in the cupboard in disgust. The person who mastered these recordings is not even a professional engineer but a guitarist from a noise rock band. And that's probably why his mixes of the unreleased tracks are dense and congested, making the band sound a modern noise band, and robbing the music of all the space, dynamics, and nuance that their music deserves. A much better way to hear (some of) those Munich recordings is the ReR Wumme CD boxset. In terms of the first four studio albums, this box is only for people who do not have earlier pressings. 'The 45rpm Audiophile', l keeps calling this box great. I beg to differ. A great band, yes. But the box is not great sounding, and the unreleased material poorly selected and poorly presented. Admittedly, he hints at it but is seemingly unprepared to say so. A wasted opportunity. Recommended Records did Faust so much better.
Totally agree on that - I find the mix totally annoying - the mix on Faust V (unreleased LP) is buried and less dynamic - just listen to the Wumme Box or the existing bootleg - miles away to this shit mix here! As a die-hard-fan really disappointed!
I own the first two LPs as originals. But I'm quite honest, I can't explain why I bought these confused sound collages once. Because of your video I put on the debut album and I find it totally overrated. Why is that considered important and influential today ? For me, much of the Krautrock is much too hyped. A lot of it was just diletantish crap that is elevated to cult status today. Just because it falls out of the norm or is so-called Krautrock, it is not good.
In a way you are right. But many of the most interesting experimental new wave/post punk bands in the late seventies and early eighties were also dilettantes in a strictly traditional musical sense. And it was exactly this lack of technical background that often brought about worthwhile, fresh results.
@@markusberzborn6346 I can live with that and your statement is true in some cases, but still, some of those bands from that time are considered more influential than they really were. I was born in 1954 and have moved in the 70s and 80s in the music scene, mainly in Hannover, at that time a music stronghold. Since you could still little with technology beautiful in this time, that was partly really cruel. There were more bad than good bands. Faust was certainly one of the technically good bands, but what good is all that if the music, as we say in Germany, "auf den Sack geht". I was at the Faust concert with about 150 spectators. After a good half hour, only about half were still there, probably the stoned ones.
@@theheepster But this is actually a good sign. As Holger Czukay from Can said: "If you have never had the experience that everybody has left at the end of your gig, you are no good." 🙂
I understand you may not like the band's music, but you say: 'A lot of it was just diletantish crap'. In what sense can it be described as 'diletantish' ?
Sorry for the lighting Problems too much Sun this Morning :)
i didnt even notice
I just ordered this on vinyl. I learned about this box set yesterday and it's been on my mind so much, had to get it.
As soon as I found out about it from your channel I pre-ordered it. I picked it up from the shop yesterday copy 497 of 2000.Can’t wait to listen to it!
It is really interesting, we have very much in common besides the age (I am 55). I have also always collected audiophile LPs, mainly classical music, but also been interested in avantgarde, experimental and electronic music and the so called "New Music" and I am a musician myself. And this is somehow an outsider position in the "audiophile community" which often tends to be rather conservative musically and listens to the same sixties to eighties rock titles over and over again. This is an exaggeration of course and I concede this has improved over the last years, but anyway I am always pleasantly surprised when there are people who have such a broad musical horizon like you.
Hi everybody, I am not an audiophile listener, I own a copy of the CD boxset and to my ears sounds fantastic. Bureau B is located in Hamburg, in the Altona district. Last year I went from Milan (I am Italian) to Hamburg for tourism and paid them a visit. Nice people, absolutely caring for the music. These boxsets should have a reissue in my opinion, I know they are sought after.
All right Mikey! Love Faust!! About time you do something that has nothing to do with Norman Spazzlov
I discovered this band in 1974, A friend of mine turned me on to them and I said , this is different and experimental. It B was the Faust so far album. I love it and found as a import and cost a lot, but it was worth it. The album I didn't know about was the first album with x-ray picture. I just discovered it last year. I followed them thru out the years and love Faust 4 .
I preordered this set pretty much blind after your upcoming box set video. Hoping for great things. :-).
Cant wait for my box to come! Love Faust!
I wish their self-titled debut was the transparent version, that really makes the x-ray of the hand stand out in a striking way. Anyway, I already have that pressing so might as well get the box set too.
You are right with the OP but the Box is really worth it still Mutton
still on sale on the website of the company
I scored a new copy of the 2007 reissue of the self titled debut on Lilith Ltd on clear vinyl last spring. It’s in a transparent jacket with the x-ray cover and lyrics printed on the front. So it’s out there if you’re looking for a reissue to complement your original LP.
Found the Bureau B box set for pre-order in the US just now - reasonably priced - think I need this 😀 And a lot of Bureau B catalog is available on Bandcamp already. Very excited for this.
Correction: it’s a clear insert within the clear jacket
We’ll done. Thank you
At first - before you started talking about the conjunction with Kraut Rock - I mixed it up with „Feist“ 😃 from whom I have two great albums…but different story. Interesting video, Michael
♥️Faust. I really like Irmler's solo output too.
th-cam.com/video/Tfk3Za6tH78h/w-d-xo.htmlttps://th-cam.com/video/Tfk3Za6tH78h/w-d-xo.htmlttps://th-cam.com/video/Tfk3Za6tH78h/w-d-xo.htmlttps://th-cam.com/video/Tfk3Za6tH78/w-d-xo.html
Good review. Many of those early Virgin artists are some of my favorites: Faust, Henry Cow, Gong, Mike Oldfield...
I really love this band. Almost everything they have done, also the newer stuff since they have split into two different groups. Thankfully, also the newer albums are all available on vinyl. Faust are of course not such good musicians as Can are, but they share the same kind of open spirit.
I love Faust. Hopefully my copy will arrive soon.
Virgin sold the album for 50p or 10 shillings in the UK when a LP was about £3.00 I still have my original, along with my original Neu, Can, kraftwerk
Great important band. I bought it online when it first came but then cancelled my order a couple of weeks later. This boxset was way too much money for what you get in my opinion and when you added up all the extra cost of bringing it over to Canada it was a no brainer. I'm hoping to build up a decent section on Kraut rock and this will now be a hole in that collection. Another great video and I hope you do a follow up video when you have made a definitive decision on it.
I agree with you about the 70s version of this band being the best but I have a fondness for the 90s LP Rein which sounds amazing and was issued on vinyl on the Table of the Elements label. I haven’t received my box yet so can’t compare to originals yet.
i am eager to hear your opinion james
very good video, waiting my copy, i totally agree it ok that they are called krautrock, they even feel so themselves ;)
Great edition! Nice video as always :) what do you think of Allan holdsworth, do you like his Music?
As always, great work! Will you ever do a Faust or Can worst to best vid?
What a great band 👌
I hope that these albums get reissued separately on vinyl in due course. I already own a great copy of "Faust" and a UK original pressing of "Faust Tapes", so I didn't preorder this boxset.
I'm kinda of glad I don't care for so much different music as you and to forgot some of the old bands I used to listen… nevertheless, good show, very interesting.
I have to try it. Another great vídeo Michael.
Love to watch your channel, I used to Nektar and fro Grobschnitt , never heard of Faust. I see you mention Steven Wilson for his remasters. Do you listen to his music? He’s my fav artist. Thx for your show . Art
Nektar and Grobschnitt are progressive rock, Nektar werent from Germany even if they lived there. none are Kraurock or Kosmiche.....good though ;)
i recommend Faust - BBC sessions. on cd. an awesome version of Kraut rock. believe me
BBC sessions and 71 Minutes / Munich Tapes and all RER pressings are fantastic, and it seems nothing of the extras on those are included in this box, and both 2 extra cds/lps include ALL NEW Material
By the way, do you own Outside The Dream Syndicate, which Tony Conrad made with Faust?
No i do not own this Seamus
Good to hear the bonus stuff is worth it. I have all the German copies of this so wasn't going to grab it. But tempting nonetheless for the unreleased material. Thanks for covering this unique and essential band
👌👌
FAUST - graet and interesting music. I collected FAUST since my last year in Highschool in 1973. By the way, I don’t like the word „Krautrock“. I prefere „German Rock“. Take care. Hubert/Mosbach
Hi Hubert,
kennst du Agitation Free?
Sie spielen im Juli kostenlos in Erlenbach am Main.
Wäre nicht so weit von Mosbach,
Viele Grüße
th-cam.com/video/C6huQHDcjWY/w-d-xo.html
Kommentar über die Band "Faust"
Very dark video has you electricity been disconnected 🤣🤣
Terrible mastering - very over-compressed. For example, the CD versions are in the range of 6-8 DR. They are LOUD. The original Caroline Faust IV CD is for comparison is a healthy 13DR. With regards the vinyl box, I could not get past one track of Faust IV. One friend who also has the vinyl box has stuck it in the cupboard in disgust. The person who mastered these recordings is not even a professional engineer but a guitarist from a noise rock band. And that's probably why his mixes of the unreleased tracks are dense and congested, making the band sound a modern noise band, and robbing the music of all the space, dynamics, and nuance that their music deserves. A much better way to hear (some of) those Munich recordings is the ReR Wumme CD boxset. In terms of the first four studio albums, this box is only for people who do not have earlier pressings.
'The 45rpm Audiophile', l keeps calling this box great. I beg to differ. A great band, yes. But the box is not great sounding, and the unreleased material poorly selected and poorly presented. Admittedly, he hints at it but is seemingly unprepared to say so. A wasted opportunity. Recommended Records did Faust so much better.
Totally agree on that - I find the mix totally annoying - the mix on Faust V (unreleased LP) is buried and less dynamic - just listen to the Wumme Box or the existing bootleg - miles away to this shit mix here! As a die-hard-fan really disappointed!
I own the first two LPs as originals. But I'm quite honest, I can't explain why I bought these confused sound collages once. Because of your video I put on the debut album and I find it totally overrated. Why is that considered important and influential today ? For me, much of the Krautrock is much too hyped. A lot of it was just diletantish crap that is elevated to cult status today. Just because it falls out of the norm or is so-called Krautrock, it is not good.
In a way you are right. But many of the most interesting experimental new wave/post punk bands in the late seventies and early eighties were also dilettantes in a strictly traditional musical sense. And it was exactly this lack of technical background that often brought about worthwhile, fresh results.
@@markusberzborn6346 I can live with that and your statement is true in some cases, but still, some of those bands from that time are considered more influential than they really were. I was born in 1954 and have moved in the 70s and 80s in the music scene, mainly in Hannover, at that time a music stronghold. Since you could still little with technology beautiful in this time, that was partly really cruel. There were more bad than good bands. Faust was certainly one of the technically good bands, but what good is all that if the music, as we say in Germany, "auf den Sack geht". I was at the Faust concert with about 150 spectators. After a good half hour, only about half were still there, probably the stoned ones.
@@theheepster But this is actually a good sign. As Holger Czukay from Can said: "If you have never had the experience that everybody has left at the end of your gig, you are no good." 🙂
I understand you may not like the band's music, but you say: 'A lot of it was just diletantish crap'. In what sense can it be described as 'diletantish' ?