Can - The Lost Tapes

I kinda hope they have separate boxes, vinyl and CD, or at least if they are packaged together that it doesn't become prohibitviely expensive.

Even though their website is still up, SAF Publishing has pretty much gone under... Very much doubt anything will get reprinted from them..

aw, I have the Can book and the CabVol one.

Even though their website is still up, SAF Publishing has pretty much gone under... Very much doubt anything will get reprinted from them..

― Talcum Mucker, Friday, July 13, 2012 3:28 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Question was more did it happen at the time, I always wondered if it had seen a short run reprint before they sunk.

There are some very good books on that imprint so one might hope somebody else might pick up some of them. Thought there were other labels like Esoteric or Sunbeam might be interested in redoing some of them.
Probably other labels I can't think of immediately too.

2) Soundslike, are you ever going to get that blog going again? It was fantastic and I still check once a week or so in the hopes that its active again.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:02 AM (2 days ago)

Glad those mixes got you to give the maligned late-Can a chance. It isn't on par with the first half--but neither is 99.99% of other music, so that doesn't mean it's not great.

I've hoped to to get it going again, but returning to graduate school and working intensively in the summer has meant I've never been able. I've got about six or seven mixes for which I started culling songs, and several music-friends are working on mixes, so hopefully there will be some new content over the next year. Vast projects like '1981' are a thing of the past for me, unfortunately.

'A lot of it was bollocks'

http://thequietus.com/articles/09376-can-the-lost-tapes-interview

Thanks Soundslike! I totally understand "real life" gettnig in the way, I just wanted to thank you for your work on Musicophilia and to let you know it was appreciated.

been waiting for a copy of this for the last few weeks only to find that my order's still on hold.
Think I was having an intermittent trouble with signing into mute bank so ordered through a Can store I'm not sure how I connected to.
Pah

Great quote here

The reason why Can weren't this horrible, academic, German, up its own arse collective was because they had an African American singer who lit the fuse and gave them a proper sense of grit. He wasn't just any African American either, he was a proper artist and bonkers to boot. When we played the tapes at home my daughter, who was five at the time, would be jumping up and down singing along to 'Waiting For The Street Car'.

::facepalm::

NOT HERE

HORRIBLE :(

One can only guess that Jono has some unresolved issues with his father-in-law.

A lot of Holger Czukay's contributions to that Quietus interview are word for word stuff that I've read in previous interviews, is Holger really that boring?

he sampled himself

xp I noticed that too! Especially in regards to the first show w/ Damo, did they just take that section from a different interview?

Well that was what I was thinking, but then Holger seems to consider himself something of a comedian so maybe he just repeats the same amusing anecdotes

5lp box set version, £55 out in December, apparently

.. dudes

Just saw a party of a '73 live set from French tv yesterday. Don't think I've seen it before and didn't remember it being on the dvd.
Looked like it could be a half hour show or something, is it POP 2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAKoCJCL6w&feature=share

Potentially of minor interest to Can fans, a remix of sorts I did of "Vitamin C" mixing it with Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain (Part II)" (and Alvin Lucier deep in the mix) a few years back:

http://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-various-collidecoalesce-1950-2004/

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Ha! Did anyone else get the email from Can with this in it?

Thanks for your support of Can this year, The Lost Tapes has been more enthusiastically received than we were expecting, we hoped a few people would be pleased that Irmin was persuaded to listen to the old Can tapes, it was beyond everyone's wildest dreams that so many people would love it and that it would get rated so highly in so many magazine end of year polls.

Anyway, we are writing to you as you bought The Lost Tapes from one of the Mute or Spoon sites, which gives us the opportunity to thank you directly, so thank you!

Along with the thank you we'd like to give you this track 'Fingers' by Cyclopean, an early Christmas present if you like.

I know, I know, I can hear you saying already "why are you giving me this track, you crass marketeers, this has nothing to do with Can", but actually, this is a brand new track from Irmin Schmidt and Jaki Liebezeit, it's a new project they have created with Burnt Friedman and Jono Podmore called Cyclopean.

Pronounced like this.

The four of them got together at Irmin's house in France in 2011 and Cyclopean was born.

aw I want an email from Can! How's the track sound?

Oh, that's nice.

I got a 'standard edition' off ebay, didn't know it existed. Basically, it's the three discs, in a wraparound CD sleeve with a booklet.

I don't know what the big box contained, beyond those things.

I've never been able to find this, so haven't bought it yet

Yours doesn't have the book? The book was really fun and informative (for me at least).
I haven't listened to the track yet, but gimme a sec...

It's like they didn't expect it to sell or something (xp)

The booklet is fun and informative. And slightly less than 5" square.

Deadly Doris and Dead Pigeon Suite are still two of my favorite songs I heard this year. Esp Deadly Doris. I LOVE it.

My booklet is full of pictures and about twice that size.

I ordered from Mute and have not seen that mail.. :-(
When did you receive it LL?

Ok I listened to it. Starts out kinda Pure Moodsy/late (not great) PV, somewhat corny beats, it evolves into some quasi "ethnic drumming" and then it gets pretty groovy and then it's over. That's my expert review. Would listen again. I didn't dislike it.

I got the email this morning, like 15 min ago? It took me all of 15 seconds to post here after I got it because i wondered if anyone else had gotten it.

I'll be happy to forward the email if anyone wants to hear the track. Don't know if they're being weird about how many downloads are allowed, but prob not.

Just got my vinyl set this week. It's a thing of beauty.

have we talked about how awesome this whole thing is? wow. one of the best outtakes collections ever.

yeah a while ago i listened to it all on spotify and flagged the must-have tracks. It turned out to be like 70% of the collection.

totally worth buying in the format of your choice imo
even though i have listened to it a bagrillion times already, i still get genuinely happy when dead pigeon suite pops up on my ipod while i'm walking

just endlessly great, what a cool band! also may have tipped me over to malcolm in the can vocalist championship sweepstakes.

too many box sets which I "need" "urgently"!

-this one
-Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall deluxe reiss
-BOC Complete Albums
-Star Trek TOS Complete Scores
-grrarghh the $$$$$

"dead pigeon" is probably my favorite but yeah this is a pretty amazing collection. I don't like some of the avant-garde stuff on disc 1 but almost everything else is ace

kinda neat to have a "lost tapes" boxset that consists of actual lost tapes (not just stuff that wasn't good enough for a studio album)

yeah this thing is wall-to-wall amazing, a gift that keeps on giving.

yeah a while ago i listened to it all on spotify and flagged the must-have tracks. It turned out to be like 70% of the collection.

hah, this was exactly my experience as well

Having another listen to this in honor of this thread getting bumped. I think that the ratio of 70% good/30% wtf is about right; but there is about 2 LPs worth of raw, prime-era Can material here which is way more than I was expecting out of something like this. God I love this band.

at the part where the 16-minute live "Spoon" kicks up, just hearing the echo of that little shuffle and the keyboards is sending shivers to my brain

yeah and the audience participation at the start of that spoon is amazing, not really like yr standard "hey everyone clap along" thing but almost as if the band is *playing* the audience.

Can anyone tell me if the vinyl box comes with a download code?

mine didn't....

i've been listening to disc 3 on repeat while i get ready in the morning for weeks
messer, scissors, fork and light especially

so great!

it's the perfect start to every day

I am taking that idea