Sounds like "Canaxis"

http://detritus.net/archive/kissingjesus/
(scroll down, their server's always clogged these days tho)

ps. tim canaxis predates can.

Here they are:

Canaxis 5 was written in the light year 77, sometimes called the year of Galactical Score Expedition. Time elapsed between the first founding of the lunar calendar with man's first cough on the moon cow settlement. Leaving behind a flag that waved in a strong moon storm! Plastic man turned himself around on the planet of the moon, trying to reach Canaxis 5. Which is the galaxy of the sound expedition? It was lightning's stroke procedure onto a 45 track recorder, engineered by the robots Ho and Ro. Their laboratory was a stationary space with an orbit outside of the planet KO-V' produced with better sound equipment which was connected electronically with the Inner Space Productions Sound Space Team in a little village in Vietnam. There you can find a secret compter centre of all greater kinds of coloured lightnings.

i own this book. it is roffleray.

http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/oswald_john/mystery_tapes/KJiTD/

the only nice thing that's happened so far today. what a fucked up day this is. what a completely worthless fucking fucked up piece of shit day that's still fucking 9 hours away from being over.

thanks & friendly

No thread on ILM? A search pionts me in this direction.

Anyway, I bought the Revisited Records 2006 reissue earlier today and I'm totally in love with it. There are a few liner notes, some parts of which are more interesting than others. The blurb cited above, apparently the liner notes on the original public release, is written by Malcolm Mooney.

About the making of the album: it was released a few months after Monster Movie and Czukay writes that he and Dammers started collecting instruments and recordings that would be used to make the album a few months after the foundation of Can. They first tried to make it at Dammers' home using three tape machines and a five-track soundboard, but this didn't really result in something they were happy with - the main reason being that Dammers' hardware didn't allow changing the speed of the tapes. Since this was possible at Stockhausen's electronic studio they thoroughly prepared a new session, waited for Stockhausen to leave his home, snuck into the studio and recorded the entire album in one single night (spring 1969).

Great story, isn't it?

Also quite funny is the reason why Czukay and Dammers left Germany for Switzerland (both actually worked there as a music lecturer for a few years. one of Czukay's students was Karoli). I quote:
"Inspired by a comment made by Stockhausen, who based his artistic independence on the wealth of his wife, Czukay and Dammers also sought to secure their musical freedom with the help of wealthy women. "It was our goal to meet a millionairess in Switzerland and to marry her so we were financially secure and could exclusively take care of our music", Czukay admits frankly." lol

The reissue also contains two extra tracks, recorded in 1999 as part of the Can solo projects show (does anyone know anything about those? I've never seen them mentioned before): "Cruise" and "Epilogue". Both are great and fit in really well with the original tracks.

sounds like canaxis: David Sylvian "word with the shaman" parts 1-3. sylvian used the vocal tapes from canaxis czukay gave him to use on these tracks. no sylvian vocals on this in case you're allergic.

words with the shaman:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vx7z67

Man Sylvian makes some bad stuff tho

this is real good though.