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B 185LP
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"Extremely rare recording of Can performing live at Aston University in Birmingham, on March 4, 1977 and featuring the new addition of Rebop Kwaku Baah (the Ghanian percussionist well-known for his work with Traffic, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, etc.) and Roscoe Gee (a Jamaican bassist who had also recorded with Traffic). Holger Czukay, now freed from bass duties, began experimenting with an array of electronic sounds, which he also began adding to the mix in part to counterbalance Can's new supercharged rhythm section. This period was actually the band's most commercially successful, with their disco-infused single 'I Want More' topping the UK charts in 1976." 140 gram clear vinyl in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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B 184LP
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"High quality live FM radio broadcast from Hannover on 11 April 1976 featuring the 'pied piper' of the early seventies British hippy scene 'Magic Michael' (Michael Cousins) on vocals. Michael, like Rodney Bingenheimer, was more famous for who he knew than for what he actually did, although he did appear on the Greasy Truckers Party LP in 1972, the A Bunch of Stiff Records compilation in 1977, and also collaborated with members of the Damned. Michael had also auditioned to be Can's vocalist after Damo left the band, but was rejected, so it is interesting to hear what a post-Damo Can might have sounded like with Magic Michael at the helm." 140 gram clear vinyl in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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B 181LP
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"Vocalist Damo Suzuki's departure from Can in 1973 had forced the band to re-evaluate their sound. Now with Michael Karoli and Irmin Schmidt sharing vocal duties, the band had also begun drawing on influences from disco and glam. While still remaining staunchly outside the mainstream, they undoubtedly became more accessible to a wider audience, and soon had a huge fan base in the UK. In fact, just a few months after playing the live show found on this double LP (recorded in Lyon in January of 1976), Can was even on Top of the Pops!" Double 140 gram clear vinyl with multicolored labels in a PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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SPOON 9543CD
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$22.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
Triple CD 8-panel digipak release with a 24-page booklet. Same content as the previous version, but now in superior, more manageable packaging; this edition replaces the now out-of-print box version. "Unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material. The Lost Tapes was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore. When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau. Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music. What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons. This set includes material never released anywhere."
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B 167LP
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"This album is made up of one long jam session recorded live-in-studio at Inner Space in Cologne during the 1973 Future Days sessions. More ambient than their previous efforts, Future Days was also singer Damo Suzuki's final album with Can. Members of Can had first encountered the self-defined '20th century nomad,' Kenji 'Damo' Suzuki, a few years earlier on the streets of Cologne. It was shortly after original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney had left the band and they were left without a singer on the night of a sold-out concert. Upon spying Damo on the streets of Cologne, Holger Czukay just walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to sing at the concert - no rehearsal, just get up on stage with the band and sing. Damo, of course, accepted and the classic Can line-up was born." 140 gram LP. Clear purple vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies.
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B 165LP
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"Formed in Cologne in 1968, the year of the student riots that rocked Europe, Can was the band that rose from the ashes. Three ex-students of avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli), well-known German jazz drummer, Jacki Liebezeit and American singer, Malcolm Mooney took rock music and turned it on its head. Although the band was still playing traditional instruments, their 'spontaneous compositions' had little to do with the rehearsed conventions of rock. Tracks like 'Father Cannot Yell' and the 20-minute 'Yoo Doo Right' from their debut LP Monster Movie, and recorded live in Cologne in July 1969, were the first steps into the beyond, setting the tone for a whole new genre of German music that the world would soon be calling 'krautrock.'" 140 gram LP. Red vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. [By the way, "recorded live" is kind of a mis-leading statement, this is from the same rehearsal sessions that the actual Monster Movie album was culled from; same 4 tracks in the sequence, only a few seconds difference in track times. Is it the exact same recording as the original album? It's very similar...possibly an alternate mix?]
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B 166LP
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"Recorded in 1971 at Can's Inner Space Studio in Cologne during the Tago Mago sessions. These two long tracks represent a live-in-studio jam where Damo's vocals have really become an essential component in the band's sound. Amazing groove-heavy jams that were eons ahead of their time. This band was at its absolute creative peak. In 1971, you could press a record while they were using the bathroom and it would still sound good." 140 gram LP. Clear red vinyl with red label in PVC sleeve with black lettering. Limited edition 500 copies.
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SPOON 9537CD
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"Can's seminal albums, Flow Motion and Unlimited Edition, were originally issued in 1976. These remastered CD editions stand to replace the SACD editions, issued in 2004, which are no longer available. Flow Motion (1976) saw Can moving towards a somewhat more conventional style as their recording technology improved. 'I Want More' from Flow Motion became their only hit record outside Germany including an appearance on UK's Top of the Pops, where Holger Czukay performed with a double bass."
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SPOON 9538CD
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2012 remastered edition. "Unlimited Edition is a double compilation album, an expanded version of the 1974 LP Limited Edition which was limited to 15,000 copies (tracks 14-19 were added). The album collects unreleased music from throughout the band's history from 1968 until 1976, and both the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured."
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SPOON 9519CD
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"The new 40th Anniversary Edition of this genre-defying album comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring (almost) fifty minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011. Tago Mago, the first album with Damo Suzuki on vocals, 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 Norvenich in 1971, released later that year on United Artists. Can's influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied. Of all the band's oeuvre, Tago Mago has been most often cited as an influence for a host of artists including John Lydon, Radiohead, the Fall, Ariel Pink, Fuck Buttons, Sonic Youth, Factory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age."
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