| Rien | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Krautrock | |||
| Length | 42:41 | |||
| Label | Table of the Elements | |||
| Producer | Jim O'Rourke | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
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Trouser Press called the album "more a return to form than The Faust Concerts, with droning violins, pounding industrial synthesizers, odd sound effects, trumpet improvisations and, of course, power tools combining in an experimental haze." [5]
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I had tapes of live shows and I went through them and found a point where the bass drum was hit and you can't hear anything else, so that's my bass drum. And oh, here's a guitar part where he plays a note very distinctly and you can't hear anything else. So, all of the guitar parts and the singing and everything else is all pieced together note by note.
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