Faust - The Wumme Years 1970-73 (2000) (HDCD) [Re-Up]

The members of Faust are the jokers in the Krautrock pack -- jokers because they never formed with any serious intentions, and jokers, too, because whatever preconceptions you might have in approaching that most disreputable-sounding of sonic genres, Faust is guaranteed to explode them. Julian Cope, author of the music's most lasting textbook (1995's Krautrocksampler), steadfastly describes Faust as the most mythical of all the bands forced to the surface by the cultural earthquakes of late-'60s Germany -- and that's mythical in every sense of the word.