RECOMMENDED
RECORDS
Recommended Records was 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. 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 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. Thanks to Robert Lyons
For The Info.
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Faust
Faust
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
ONE
79
Faust
Extracts From Faust
Party 3
RECOMMENDED
RR
1.5
79
Faust
So Far
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
TWO
79
Art
Zoyd
Musique Pour
L'Odyssée (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
THREE
79
Univers
Zero
Heresie
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
FOUR
80
Slapp
Happy
Acnalbasac Noom
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
FIVE
80
Slapp
Happy
Alcohol
RECOMMENDED
RR
5.75
80
Faust
The Faust Tapes
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
SIX
80
Faust
Faust Party 3
Extracts #2
RECOMMENDED
RR
6.5
80
Znr
Barricade 3
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
SEVEN
80
Vogel
Good
Morning
RECOMMENDED
RR
7.5
81
Various
Recommended Records
Sampler
RECOMMENDED
RR
EIGHT
82
Various
Artists
The Recommended
Records Sampler
RECOMMENDED
RR
8.9
82
Various
Recommended Records
Sampler
RECOMMENDED
RR
NINE
82
Univers
Zero
Ceux Du Dehors
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
TEN
82
Univers
Zero
Triomphe Des Mouches
RECOMMENDED
RR
10.5
82
Sun
Ra
Nuits De La Fondation
Maeght Vol. I. (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
11
82
Slapp Happy / Henry
Cow
Desperate Straights
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
12
82
Not
Issued
RECOMMENDED
RR
13
82
Art
Zoyd
Phase Iv
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
14
82
Art
Zoyd
Manège
RECOMMENDED
RR
14.5
82
Art
Zoyd
Phase Iv
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
15
82
Patrick Portella /
Joseph Racaille
Les Flots Bleus
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
16
83
Joseph
Racaille
6 Petites
Chansons
RECOMMENDED
RR
16.5
83
Wha-Ha-Ha
Wha-Ha-Ha
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
17
84
The
Homosexuals
The Homosexuals'
Record (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
18
84
Unrest Work &
Play
Informs
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
19
84
After
Dinner
After
Dinner (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
20
84
Mnemonists
Horde
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
21
85
Various
Artists
Aide Memoire / Folk
Music / Sonáty Slavíckové (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
22
86
Jaroslav
Krcek
Raab
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
23
86
Kalahari
Surfers
Living In The Heart
Of The Beast (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
24
86
Faust
Munic & Elsewhere (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
25
86
Kalahari
Surfers
Sleep Armed
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
26
87
Biota
Bellowing Room
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
27
87
Roberto Musci /
Giovanni Venosta
Water Messages On
Desert Sand (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
28
87
Wondeur
Brass
Simoneda, Reine Des
Esclaves (Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
29
88
Steve
Moore
A Quiet Gathering
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RER
30
88
Biota
Tinct
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RR
C
31
88
Jocelyn
Robert
Stat Live Moniteur
(Album)
RECOMMENDED
RER
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