HOLGER CZUKAY

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I need a 6 minute edit of boat woman song!

demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

Those reissues bug me to no end. Those two tracks aren't bonus tracks -- the new version isn't a complete reissue, it dropped half of side two!

Then there's things like this, compiling two of his albums and replacing half the tracks with alternate mixes that are pretty much objectively less interesting than the originals - http://www.discogs.com/Holger-Czukay-Der-Osten-Ist-Rot-Rome-Remains-Rome/release/5943736🔗

Someone stop him

I'm so confused. Is this comp from Virgin in 1987 of Rome/Der Ostenremixes as well? Or is it the original mixes (minus a few tunes)?

http://www.discogs.com/Holger-Czukay-Rome-Remains-Rome-And-Excerpts-From-Der-Osten-Ist-Rot/master/23194

Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link

the one you link is the Virgin 1987 CD, the original mixes with a few tracks axed from Der Osten ist Rot (even though both albums would have fit on one disc without a problem)

the one I linked is the bizarro recent Groenland one with radically different mixes.

Milton Parker, Friday, 23 October 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link

Ok, right -- the Virgin CD is the one I have. And yes, I had always wondered why we were being denied the other Der Osten ist Rot tracks (pretty sure all of Rome Remains Rome is on there).

Re. the Groenland issue, that's really bizarre. Sometimes these guys can't just leave well enough alone.

Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 October 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link

some of the new mixes are interesting and would make fun bonus tracks, like the new alt versions of 'Boat Woman Song' and 'Plight & Premonition' on that new ep Eleven Years Innerspace; it's just frustrating when they're featured on 'reissues' where the originals aren't available

Milton Parker, Saturday, 24 October 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link

Listening to this now. It would seek there is a lot less material here than on the Virgin CD – including no Photo Song!!

I actually always preferred the Der Osten ist Rot material a bit – in part because I can only take so much Sheldon Ancel. And yes, the edits on that are much more dramatic – the title track is particularly memorable in that respect, oscillating between the brass playing the anthem and the ambient synth drone, while Jaki patters away in the background over both. Assuming that's one of the re-edited cuts on the new one based on what I'm hearing on Spotify.

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 24 October 2015 01:29 (eight years ago) link

eight months pass...

thank you spotify discover playlist for introducing me to "cool in the pool"

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyqkIr-1Vk8

Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link

just the time of year for it too!

ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link

Lol, I sing that song pretty much every time we go to a pool.

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link

Letz get cool in ze pool, letz get hot in ze dancing spot

ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link

OH IS IT HOT?

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link

phew, wow, then letz get cool in ze pool

ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa8RdpYMycs

brimstead, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link

... there's a strange video out there for that track that Holger shot himself.

They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link

this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EH5GFP2Otk

brimstead, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link

... yes, and I've just discovered there's one for 'Cool in the Pool' too.

They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link

Lol, I sing that song pretty much every time we go to a pool.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:56 PM (4 hours ago)

I sing it pretty much every time a pool is mentioned, or the weather, or dancing. I love it so.

emil.y, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link

(btw that was not meant to be a competitive statement, though on re-reading it does kind of come off that way)

emil.y, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link

ON THE DANCING...
...
...
...
SPOT

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link

xp I sing Cool in the Pool five times a day facing Mecca

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

We are so
NORMAL

scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link

ty for reminding me to listen to this important artwork

hollywood symphony also superb from that album, got that breezy germanic cheerfulness I find irresistible

ogmor, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link

thrilled that this was not an rip revive, long may his moustache reign

brexit through the rift shock (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link

movies (home of 'cool in the pool') has just been reissued as movie!.

Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link

"Reworked" LOLger.

LP version has an instrumental CITP, buy otherwise the same?

Noel Emits, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link

*but"

Noel Emits, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link

Instrumental mix of "Cool in the Pool" is objectively awesome. It's like a miniature of everything I like about Holger. Weird varispeed dictaphone edits, jittery French horn and synth blasts, chunky little guitar rhythms, and his very underrated liquid guitar leads.

Have to say: I've always struggled a bit with the two longer tracks on Movies (née Movie). They feel a lot like Can's mid-period stuff but leave me a bit cold.

Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Oh come on

albvivertine, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link

Oh no

harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link

Holger Czukay is dead. The great Cologne musician and co-founder of the band "Can", died at the age of 79 years in the legendary "Can" studio - an old cinema in Weilerswist - which he had converted into the apartment in recent years.
When and exactly what the musician with the black hair and the conspicuous mustache has died, is currently determined by the Kripo.

Because construction workers had not seen him on the site for a few days, they informed a neighbor who was looking-and found Czukay lifeless in his apartment. An emergency surgeon could only determine his death.
Holger Czukay, who revolutionized the musical world from 1968 to 1978, died only a few days after his wife Ursula, who died on July 28th on her 55th birthday.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link

damn ... RIP. one of the best.

tylerw, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link

:-(

stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link

Oh man, I caught my breath there, thought he might have died!

― Tom D., Friday, 4 April 2008 09:09 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... and now he has ;_; One of the most important and talented musicians of the last 50 years, RIP Holger. Sad times. ;_;

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link

Rotten news

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZHN1CX77Q

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link

RIP big guy

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link

Will be throwing on Ege Bamyasi as loud as possible tonight. RIP, a legend.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBSLVtg083U

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link

Thank you, Holger Czukay.

I am becoming less sure that we're not in the hands of some horrible cosmic jokers at this moment in world history.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link

With Stockhausen, pre-moustache...

http://www.czukay.com/news/122/images/stockh.jpg

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link

JUst had to ask myself if he was still with us. I knew he was getting on. I think he was already oldish for a new band member when Can started. Sad tohear he's gone though.
Hope his passing wasn't overly painful or slow.

He's left behind some awesome music anyway.
THink I need to pick up another couple of titles by him. I iknow On The Way to the Peak of Normal is great. NOt sure what else fo his solo stuff is as necessary.

Is Irmin Schmidt still with us?

Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link

Yes, Schmidt is still here, along with Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link

Irmin is still with us. He was the oldest too.

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link

One More Night one of my top 5 favorite bass lines of anyone ever

harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link

RIP my dude. ;_;

emil.y, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link

grateful for such a true original musical adventurer and brilliant mind.

brimstead, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link

One More Night one of my top 5 favorite bass lines of anyone ever

Undoubtedly played more of my favourite basslines than any other bass player... even Bootsy!

Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link

Love him. RIP.

jmm, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link


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