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| This sleeve caused the facial recognition software in my camera to go bananas! |
Continuing this month's unplanned '70s theme, I purchased a copy of this Hybrid Super Audio CD (playable on all CD players) a couple of weeks ago. It is still listed at UK distributor Mute Records , as is a digital download. Such is availability of early "Krautrock" bands like Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Faust and Amon Düül II that you are best buying the product when you see it as this stuff tends to be in and out of print.
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| Packaging is rather different to my old LP copies! |
This is my third copy of this album. A guy at school gave me his copy as he didn't much care for the album. That LP was on Virgin, but my copy soon wore out and eventually I bought a replacement import copy on the Harvest label. This is a fine remastering of a terrific album and is now on Can's own Spoon label. It's far from the band's trendiest release, but I love it. It kicks off with the warped pop of "Full Moon On The Highway" and disturbed gems "Half Past One" and "Hunters And Collectors". You can find these on YouTube if you fancy trying something extraordinary. Many of the instruments are treated and distorted. The imagination used in this process means there are sounds here that you won't hear on releases by other bands. The album descends into hypnotic jamming by the time of the final track "Unfinished".
Remarkably after this release, the band went on to achieve a hit single with the disco parody "I Want More". All credit to Virgin for getting that one into the Top 30! Can finished as a band some time ago, and with the untimely death of guitarist Michael Karoli a decade or so ago, we are unlikely to see any further group activity.
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