CAN....S and D?

Dam dud spend time in rural ireland before he returned to Germany so not sure if he picked up any English here. I think he was pretty quiet so possibly not a great deal.

Xpost it's possible but I doubt it.

New series of archival live albums coming! The first is Live in Stuttgart 1975 and there's an excerpt on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6bXpkbwzs

CAN

...and will!

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great news obv but man what I wouldn't give for a soundboard quality recording of these folks

there's some, but not a ton, I'd have to dig

Live CAN incoming!! 🎉💥😀

the Radio Days boot LP has some killer FM live stuff iirc

i think this stuttgart thing is a soundboard ... there's a fair amount of live can soundboards out there. like the Box Music set.

the live excerpts from the Lost Tapes set are truly bonkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aI2PzN7j24

listening to that stuttgart excerpt, even if its not a soundboard it might as well be, sounds great

can't hear too much CAN

awesome! am i allowed to hope that these will be cd/download releases as well and not vinyl only

if it's vinyl only I will buy it and rip it for you

srsly

2CD set available for pre-order in the Mute store.

boom

Random Hold probably were the band that tried hardest to actually straddle prog and new wave, to very little acclaim.

Sorry, meant for the Genesis thread.

Holy shit this is incredible news, particularly when this is just the first in a series!

There's at least one live set by Can up on Spotify taht I hadn'tseen before like 2 weeks ago.
Surprised me because they're playing tracks taht are from soundtrack work . KInd of assumed a s/trk th8ng might be a very ephemeral thing that would only have been played in tandem with a replay of teh film involved though don't know their actual methodology with things like that.
Reminds me I picked up a 3lp set under irmin Schmidt's name at one point without a cover so I really don't know details of who was involved does sound like several tracks with can though that I really enjoyed. THink it cost me like £1 if that at the time .

Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Fünf!
Which probably means one of them will be split over two sides so I'll probably go for the cd option. Excited for the whole series!

whatever, I'm getting the vinyl, long live CAN

Hope more Damo-era material surfaces tbqh

^^^

Vinyl (already sold out on in UK mute store) seems not to contain "Fünf":
Side A: Eins
Side B: Zwei
Side C: Drei (Part 1)
Side D: Drei (Part 2)
Side E: Drei (Part 3)
Side F: Vier

It's still for order at Mutebank? But indeed does not contain "Fünf", regrettably.

I was one day late and missed it??? 😢 not Fünf

Says both CD and LP version are available in the US Mute store.

right here https://store.mute.com/browse/can/products/can-live-in-stuttgart-1975

got it thank you!!

ordered

I guess the lp version gives you the download with fünf

I'm listening to "Jilala" by Jilala, Brion Gysin & Paul Bowles’ legendary 1966 recordings of Moroccan Sufi trance rituals which is often cited as being an influence on Can. I was previuously sceptical that its influence could be heard in Can's music but I can definitely detect some "Mushroom" DNA here.

one thing that always surprises me when I revisit their catalogue is how great all the recordings sound. especially something like Monster Movie, freaky psychedelic rock from 1969....it sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday.

Agree, but also recording tech was better then than now so that is why.

true but how many weirdass European bands had access to that? I can think of a lot of great 70's ones that certainly didn't.

Yeah makes sense. Great production was available to those who wanted and could afford it.

CAN's studio always sounded like it was pretty amazing

I'd say the main reason for that is Holger Czukay. They certainly did not have a lot of expensive equipment!

Aside from a very basic sound mixer, four microphones and four cheap pairs of headphones manufactured by the German post office (which Czukay was proud to tell everyone had cost him only one Deutschmark apiece), the centre of Can's recording setup was two quarter‑inch Revox two‑track machines.

Also worth remembering, that everything from "Monster Movie" to "Tago Mago" was recorded at Schloss Norvenich, they didn't move to Inner Space Studio till the end of 1971.

future days is just incredible sounding, I'm guessing the set up was more sophisticated by then. maybe not as much as I'd expect

I always assumed the foregrounded bass & drums on that album were based on sly & tfs' fresh but just found out they were both released around the same time. so whose idea it was to mix it like that and why idk but it works

Future Days is one of the most magical sounding albums ever.

in my experience if the rhythm section is badass you can't really go wrong foregrounding it in the mix (see: every reggae track ever)

No, they were using the same set up on "Future Days", they didn't move to 16-track till 1975. The interesting thing about "Future Days" is that Czukay and Liebezeit weren't happy with the mix on "Bel Air", they thought the rhythm section was too loud!

I'd say the rhythm section was foregrounded on all of Can's recordings before "Future Days", if anything it seems like maybe they were trying to get away from that on "Future Days" and subsequent recordings?

some more about the recording setup at Schloss Norvenich, from https://www.loudersound.com/features/can-the-making-of-landmark-album-tago-mago

They had what Czukay calls “the perfect reverberation room” – a 40-square-metre chamber lined with cardboard egg cartons stuck on the wall by the band. “They didn’t help acoustically,” says the bassist, “but we pretended they did.” But their forward-looking musical vision wasn’t matched by their primitive equipment. They laid down basic tracks using a pair of two-track tape recorders. They had just three microphones, shared between Liebezeit and Suzuki. There was no mixing console. “Everything bled,” says Czukay, who recorded the album. “Balance was difficult. But the album has amazing acoustic qualities, even if the sound quality is junk.”

there was obviously a huge leap in audio quality between taco and ege, much more space and “liquidity”

Business idea: Taco Mago taco stand

I'll have the ege taco to go