OFF: Can and Neu - which albums?

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

Can BBC CD is just awsome - the 'Bakerloo' improv with Suzuki is simply
magical - darned thing's deleted now too, so get around those used shops,
ladies and gentlemen.
'Tago Mago' is the ultimate Can album but 'You Doo Right' off Monster Movie
is the ultimate Can track.
I saw them in concert  at a cold and dingy Wolverhampton Civic Hall in '75,
I think, and while the place held about 1500+, there were only about 100-150
of us in the sudience spread as best we could in the first few rows.
The group came on stage, peered around, clearly thought ' shine on, it's
going to be one of those nights' ,  plugged in and proceeded to play. The
first number ended and feedback guitar faded to a halt. There was the
briefest of stone-cold silences as the track ended and the band nervously
waited for a response.
We cheered and clapped and stomped like 1500 at what had been a fantastic
opener.
The band grinned broadly, swiped up their instruments and proceeded to play
one of THE most fantastic 2 hour concerts I've witnesed - they put their
heart and soul into every bit and the audience responed accordingly -
electrifying just wasn't the word. Awesome stuff.
Take my advice and get the video with the box set if you can find one, also.
As to Neu, all CD's remastered and a ltd edition box set of them too, all
due out very soon.
Back to the original electronic point, you could do worse to check out the
CDS electronic highlights of 2000 at:
www.andygee.dial.pipex.com/synth.htm
and see if any of my recommendations grab you.
Andy Garibaldi.
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From: "Chris Warburton" <desdinova at MADASAFISH.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Can and Neu - which albums?


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> >------Original Message------
> >From: David Bottomley <merlinas at DIRCON.CO.UK>
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> >Sent: March 23, 2001 2:54:33 PM GMT
> >Subject: Re: OFF: Can and Neu - which albums?
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> >Mike asked:
> >
> >>I've been meaning for a while to give these bands a spin. My
> >>electronic music tastes run to mid-period Tangerine Dream
> >>(Rybycon until Hyperborea), Tim Blake, the more melodic stuff
> >>of Klaus Schulze, Ian Boddy, Software... What would you folks
> >>reccommend?
>
> I'm not really sure that I'd call Can "electronic" since virtually
everything was done on conventional instruments, I don't think Irmin Schmidt
even used synths per se, though I think they did use the odd oscillator here
and there. Holger Czukay was in to tape manipulation early on in a "musique
concrete" fashion, and there are incidences of "found sound" (e.g. random
radio reception) here and there. Jaki Liebezeit would probably paradiddle on
your head until your skull cracked if you suggested they'd used drum
machines *g*