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Viva freaktronica! This month's Electronic Sound cover stars are the legendary Faust, the wildest and weirdest of the 1970s krautrock outfits. We have interviewed all of the surviving original members of the group for our in-depth piece, while elsewhere in the magazine you'll also find Haiku Salut, Chvrches, Jerry Casale, Janet Beat, Sarah Davachi, Nik Kershaw and Gemma Cullingford.

To accompany the issue, we're releasing a clear vinyl seven-inch featuring two of Faust's finest moments – the relentlessly driving 'J'ai Mal Aux Dents' and the delightfully tweaky 'Ricochets'. The tracks initially appeared on 'The Faust Tapes', the band's debut album for Virgin, which sold over 60,000 copies when it came out in 1973. They were recorded at Faust's isolated studio-cum-commune in the woods in northern Germany, where they took acid, smoked weed, drank beer, walked their dogs naked, jammed for days on end, and recorded solos from their beds (with extremely long cables snaking into the control room).

As with all our seven-inch releases, this record is strictly limited and available exclusively to readers of Electronic Sound, so make sure you grab your copy while you can.