RECOMMENDED

 

An arm of Chris Cutler's 'Re' Records, devoted to material which didn't feature Cutler himself either solo or in collaborations.  Recommended started out in 1978 as a mail-order service but soon developed into a label.  Like its parent, it leaned towards unusual / Avant Garde material.  Although its first releases appeared in 1979 the vast majority of them came in the 1980s.  It concentrated on albums, but it was responsible for a few 7" records, one of which came out in 1979 and earned it a place on this site.  The record in question was an EP, 'Extracts From Faust Party 3', containing two tracks by German group Faust, 'Extract 1' and 'Extract 4'.  It had a catalogue number of RR One Point Five, and it appeared in four different forms in 1979-80; the differences are listed on the Discogs site.  Another two extracts were issued in 1980.  Early Recommended records seem to have been given blank or handwritten labels; the 1979 Faust EP had a green one on one side and a red one on the other, as the scans show.  The Recommended label was combined with Re in the 1990s to form the ReR Megacorp, which is still going today.




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