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Can / Delay 1968
(Vinyl LP – Spoon Records)
Delay is the classic “first album” originally recorded in 1968 that got stuck in the vaults until 1981 when Holger Czukay edited the archived tapes and officially released the album. Delay is a compilation album of early outtakes of Can’s work with singer Malcolm Mooney, including some of the band’s earliest material.
Can / Monster Movie
(Vinyl LP – Spoon Records)
Monster Movie is the debut album of Can, recorded and released in 1969. The use of improvisation, experimentation, editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Can’s subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which were seminal to the freewheeling avant-garde style dubbed “krautrock” by the British music press.
Can / Tago Mago
(2 x Vinyl LP – Spoon Records)
Black vinyl edition. You couldn’t do much better than beginning with 1971’s Tago Mago, freshly reissued in vinyl format. It’s a colossus of an album, the product of a band that was thinking huge, pushing itself to its limits, and devoted to breaking open its own understanding of what rock music could be. The core of Can was four German musicians from wildly different backgrounds– when they initially came together in 1968, two of them had studied with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, one had played jazz, and one was a teenage guitar whiz. They recorded soundtrack music and a few straightforward rock songs early on, but what they were really interested in doing was going beyond kinds of music for which they had language. Mute finally release the CAN studio album reissues individually on vinyl. The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London.
Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore. Of all the band’s oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as the most influential and features the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and was recorded at Schloss Nörvenich in 1971.