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kaden · Post by **kaden** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:08 pm

A long time ago I worked on the first version of the Spoon Records/Can website. I was already hugely into the band, so just working on the site was a pretty big deal for me. Anyway, along with being well paid in real money for the job, I received in the mail one day a package containing the *entire* Can catalog (including solo releases) freshly remastered on CDs. It was a lifetime's worth of Christmas Mornings all at once, and being able to listen to the whole lot sequentially was an education unto itself.

The Can guys are from the future, plain and simple.

K

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:10 am

Some of Holger Czukay's solo stuff is really good too, especially his ambient albums with David Sylvian.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:15 am

i met him in holland a few years back,as i was buying one of his singles he just happened to be at the counter

of course signed now

justified · Post by **justified** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:02 pm

kaden, so was that you who designed that can (I mean tin

) with windows and door picture? It rocked.

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:07 pm

Didn't one of Can go totally bonkers on stage and get sectioned or something?

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:17 pm

donkey tugger wrote:Didn't one of Can go totally bonkers on stage cand get sectioned or something?

yeah - that was Malcom Mooney, the original singer. oops! I think he just kept repeating the same phrase over and over, and was, er, led to a quiet dark place

Didn't he "recover" and re-emerge in the reformed Can though?

That drummer though...

LuMar · Post by **LuMar** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:31 pm

For those of you who are interested in "Krautrock":

Universal Music has just reactivated the legendary "Brain"-Label, home of many many German rock bands in the seventies, with several CD-Reissues.
So the 2 HARMONIA-albums (the band of Michael Rother after the split of NEU) are available on CD for the first time (I think). Brian Eno once declared HARMONIA as the best rockband of all time...
Several more reissues will follow later this year.

Don't know if they will be released in other countries but they could be ordered here in Germany via the internet anyway...

Best wishes
LuMar

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:51 pm

LuMar wrote:So the 2 HARMONIA-albums (the band of Michael Rother after the split of NEU) are available on CD for the first time (I think).

oooooooh!

visa tapani · Post by **visa tapani** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:35 pm

Those into krautrock would do well to check out this band called Circle. Amazing post-rock with heavy krautrock influences. Most of their stuff is excellent, but I'd recommend starting with Zopalki, and then moving into perhaps Andexelt, Meronia, Hissi and/or Prospekt.

justified · Post by **justified** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:06 pm

kuniklo wrote: A short list of essentials (imo, of course):

can
faust
amon duul ii
agitation free
ash ra tempel
neu/la dusseldorf
guru guru (especially kanguru)

Please suggest some one or two groups to start with for a can fan.

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:15 pm

justified wrote:
kuniklo wrote: A short list of essentials (imo, of course):

can
faust
amon duul ii
agitation free
ash ra tempel
neu/la dusseldorf
guru guru (especially kanguru)
Please suggest some one or two groups to start with for a can fan.

Ok. If you like the funkier side of Can (Ege Bamyasi), check out Agitation Free's "2nd" and "At the Banks of the River Rhine" and Neu. If you like the more out there Can (Tago Mago), check out Ash Ra Tempel's first album and Faust's "Faust IV".

justified · Post by **justified** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:21 pm

kuniklo thanx!

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:47 pm

justified wrote:kuniklo thanx!

Sure. Hope you like them!

Can - actually my favourite (well, one of my most favourite)