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carlca · Post by **carlca** » Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:26 pm

Hi Urs, I'm currently reading "All Gates Open - The Story of Can" by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt. Just past the middle of the book, there's a section about Holger Czukay's post-CAN activities, and it mentions Holger's wife who went by the name of U-She... coincidence??!!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:44 pm

Coincidence, sorry to disappoint... I was known as Urs Heckmann long before I heard Can. And u-he.com was simply available as domain name when uh/u-h weren’t.

muki · Post by **muki** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:01 am

carlca wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:26 pm U-She...

ursa major aka ursula kloss
in case you didn't know:
uschi (sounds the same as u-she) is the german language nick/short for ursula (aka ursa)

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:01 am

I have it on good authority that u-he.com’s preferred pronouns are they/them.

Dirtgrain · Post by **Dirtgrain** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:00 am

Urs wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:44 pm Coincidence, sorry to disappoint... I was known as Urs Heckmann long before I heard Can. And u-he.com was simply available as domain name when uh/u-h weren’t.

We are on to you, Sheckmann.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:12 pm

i met holgar once, in a record store in amsterdam.
nice bloke.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:00 am

IIRC I met him just once, many years ago in Can studio (converted small cinema) in Weilerswist. Never seen U-she.

krans · Post by **krans** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:01 pm

Talking of u-he naming, can someone please remind me where the names Uhbik and Runciter come from?
I imagine it's from some literary universe, but I'm not able to find it.

MrJubbly · Post by **MrJubbly** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:23 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:01 am I have it on good authority that u-he.com’s preferred pronouns are they/them.

Sounds like quite the Diva!

Also, surely they are "u" and "he?"

mevla · Post by **mevla** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:02 pm

He he, some years ago I wrote an homage song to Jaki Liebezeit and CAN. Of note, the bass was made using ACE. Guitar is a Shiraki acoustic.

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/flownotion

gauderbock · Post by **gauderbock** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:23 pm

krans wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:01 pm Talking of u-he naming, can someone please remind me where the names Uhbik and Runciter come from?
I imagine it's from some literary universe, but I'm not able to find it.

Ubik was a sci-fi novel by PHillip K. Dick, I'm not sure about Runciter...

Viktor [TUC] · Post by **Viktor [TUC]** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:39 pm

"Runciter Associates" is an organization in the Ubik novel, run by Glen Runciter.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:46 pm

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 3:01 pm

Viktor [TUC] wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:39 pm "Runciter Associates" is an organization in the Ubik novel, run by Glen Runciter.

I am quite excited about how Hive features MST-EST, NKS, and MPE!

raring · Post by **raring** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:44 pm

krans wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:01 pm Talking of u-he naming, can someone please remind me where the names Uhbik and Runciter come from?
I imagine it's from some literary universe, but I'm not able to find it.

I think that the name "UHBIK" is, because as I remember Urs once mentioned that he very much liked the Ensoniq DP4 and maybe it means "U-He-Big-Soniq(k)".

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