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Can - The Lost Tapes

- Source: Uncut.co.uk

It's a testament to how far out Can 's music still seems, over 30 years after the band originally split, that we try to understand it not by looking for musical answers, but by clinging to fantastical suppositions.

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Can: The Lost Tapes

- Source: Prefix Magazine

Reviewing a Can album is like trying to describe the very first time you heard the Velvet Underground, or explaining what a truly superb pizza tastes like as it dissolves onto your tongue -- attempting to verbalize it just feels straight up contrived.

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Can – The Lost Tapes

- Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Apart from being celebrated for spearheading the late '60s/early '70s outpouring of experimental, more or less rock-orientated music from Germany, usually bundled under the unflattering "krautrock" umbrella, Can were renowned for a work ethic that made most of their contemporaries seem positively lethargic.

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Can - The Lost Tapes

- Source: BBC Music

Three CDs of rehearsal tapes, live recordings, studio jams and forgotten soundtracks might, in the case of most bands, seem like an overwhelming, most likely futile, indulgence.

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CAN: Interview

- Source: Prefix Magazine

We spoke with Irmin Schmidt about the discovery of The Lost Tapes, the future of music production, and the formation of CAN.

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David Sylvian: A Victim of Stars: 1982-2012

- Source: Pitchfork Media

David Sylvian 's voice bears such a calmly forceful cadence, full of carefully enunciated words that trail off into a pristine nasal murmur, that he can dart between genres and surface with music positioned resolutely in his own sound world.

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CAN - TAGO MAGO R1971

- Source: Uncut.co.uk

The castle discovered with the excavation rectangular four bay window towers was 25 metres about 11 times and had a kennel offshore to the north.

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JAH WOBBLE, THE EDGE, HOLGER CZUKAY

- Source: WAVES AT NIGHT

It's a collaboration that would not be believed until you literally saw it printed on the record, but in 1983 Jah Wobble (Public Image Ltd., Holger (Can) and The Edge (U2) came together to release the mini-LP 'Snake Charmer'. The album sank despite input from other luminaries such as Jaki Liebezeit (also of Can), and production from the iconic Paradise Garage DJ, François Kevorkian.

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