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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― 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.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 14 July 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
'A lot of it was bollocks'
http://thequietus.com/articles/09376-can-the-lost-tapes-interview
― prior, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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'.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
::facepalm::
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
NOT HERE
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
HORRIBLE :(
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
One can only guess that Jono has some unresolved issues with his father-in-law.
― doug watson, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
he sampled himself
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
xp I noticed that too! Especially in regards to the first show w/ Damo, did they just take that section from a different interview?
― frogbs, Friday, 20 July 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
5lp box set version, £55 out in December, apparently
― Mark G, Friday, 5 October 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
.. dudes
― Mark G, Friday, 5 October 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
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/
Skip to ~50:30
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 06:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
aw I want an email from Can! How's the track sound?
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
I've never been able to find this, so haven't bought it yet
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
It's like they didn't expect it to sell or something (xp)
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
The booklet is fun and informative. And slightly less than 5" square.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
I ordered from Mute and have not seen that mail.. :-(When did you receive it LL?
― willem, Friday, 7 December 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Just got my vinyl set this week. It's a thing of beauty.
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 8 December 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
have we talked about how awesome this whole thing is? wow. one of the best outtakes collections ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
totally worth buying in the format of your choice imoeven 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
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
just endlessly great, what a cool band! also may have tipped me over to malcolm in the can vocalist championship sweepstakes.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 $$$$$
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
"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)
― frogbs, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this thing is wall-to-wall amazing, a gift that keeps on giving.
― sleeve, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
hah, this was exactly my experience as well
― original bgm, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Can anyone tell me if the vinyl box comes with a download code?
― pollo, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
mine didn't....
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
i've been listening to disc 3 on repeat while i get ready in the morning for weeksmesser, scissors, fork and light especially
so great!
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
it's the perfect start to every day
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I am taking that idea
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I highly recommend it! Before too long you will start to hear the turbocharged Spoon long after it has stopped playing.
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
When they launch into the "ooooooohhhhhh" part on Spoon it blows me away every time
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I need to buy the rest of this, so far only have a few tracks on iTunes
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
i was a little disappointed by this. hardly anything outstanding and a couple of tracks i don't care for like waiting for the streetcar, desert, godzilla fragment, on the way to mother sky, barnacles and mushroom.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link