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It’s the December radio show!

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Christmas just came early, as our December show is now streaming over on Camp’s Mixcloud page:

“But, Ned” you cry “since your radio show returned, you don’t talk between songs and just rattle off a list at the end! How ever will we know what we just heard?”

Gareth Babb winks in reply and points you towards the time stamped tracklist below

1:39 – Nonexistent – Untitled 7. (Raising Ocean)

5:45 – German Ocean – Horseshoe Hut (Pipe, Paper, Dread)

11:24 – The Bug Feat. Jason Williamson – Treetop

15:30 – Sine Rider – Emblem

18:10 – Luke Requena – Metallic Plastic

23:56 – David Bowie – The Mysteries

29:55 – Arthur King – An Sgurr

37:40 – Cluster – 7.42

44:20 – Black Channels – In The Mouth of The Night

47:21 – Boris – Last Christmas

51:37 – Rival Consoles – The Cloud Oracle

54:22 – Ash Ra Tempel – Look At Your Sun

59:54 – The Herods – Noel Nouvelet

1:03:30 – Vis-a-Vis – Vic Sanbra

1:09:37 – Can – Drei

1:17:26 – Burd Ellen – Taladh Chriosda

1:21:06 – The Owl Service – She Moves Through The Fair

1:25:30 – The Summerisle Trio – Willow’s Song

1:29:40 – Jessica Moss – Let Down

1:38:28 – Anna Von Hausswolf – The Truth, The Glow, The Fall (live)

1:50:30 – field recording of my garden

The July radio show is now available on Mixcloud

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Yesterday Was Ist Das? returned to CAMP Radio to resume our monthly radio show. Now you can listen again on Camp’s Mixcloud page:

The tracklist is:

The Bug – Opening Credits (theme for Kris)

Old Million Eye – Return of the Son

Eric Arn – The Glass Scarab

Wil Bolton – Beyond The River

System 7 – AlphaWave (Gliss Mix)

Expo Seventy – The Slow Death of Tomorrow

Burial – Dark Gethsemane

Liles/Maniac – Soulburn

Violet Cold – Pride

Six Organs of Admittance – J’ai Mal aux Dents

Laibach – Smrt Za Smrt

Josh Doss – No Conditions

Can – Zwei

Can Box Set With All Albums On Vinyl Out For Christmas

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CanFind out this Christmas if someone really loves you – on December 2nd, Mute Records are putting out a Can box set containing no less than 17 records. Containing all the established albums including the previously omitted “Out Of Reach” and a new live album entitled “Can Live, Sussex University 1975” which they say will not be released anywhere outside of this box set.

The box set uses brand new masters, created and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator, Jono Podmore.

sneaky peek at Can’s Lost Tapes

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In the post today from Mute Records came a tantalising 5 track sampler CD for Can’s Lost Tapes box set, which comes out on Monday. Five tracks at first sounds a bit meagre at first but remember, this is Can. There’s no two minute wonders.

1.Millionenspiel
Starts off with a deceptively low-fi intro and then kicks off in full on high fidelity. A classic TV theme from Can with a fast-paced, groovy stomp. Kind of what might have been if Can had done the Bond theme instead of John Barry.

2.Deadly Dorris
This one has Malcolm Mooney on vocals. Seems more raw, low-fi compared to the other material on here. Has more of a ‘Delay 1968’ than a ‘Monster Movie’ vibe to it. Sorta Jimi Hendrix singing for The Velvets in punk mode.

3.Abra Cada Braxas
A mad session with Damo doing some insane vocal aerobics. He sounds like an opera singer on LSD. The band groove out on a mellow “Future Days” era style beat and then it goes into a mad wig-out ala “Soup” or the second disc of “Tago Mago”. The big shock comes when they finish and you hear an audience screaming with delirious approval. The sound quality is so vivid, so excellently mastered, I had no idea this was a live track until they applauded.

4.Midnight Men
Instrumental jam, very in the “Landed” mode, slightly reminiscent of “Vernal Equinox”. Beautiful driving space rock with tight rhythms, searching guitar and some of the most beautiful keyboard work Irmin has ever done – very trippy sounds he’s getting here. It goes into a weird, percussive breakdown like a Martian/African ethnological forgery. In fact, this is the trippiest thing I’ve ever heard from Can.

5.Mushroom (live)
It’s “Mushroom”, Jim, but not as we know it. As with the third track on here, this is amazing sound quality (must buy the “Tago Mago” reissue with the live disc, going by the quality here). Obviously, they’re doing something very different here. The rhythm is recognisable but differently paced. Damo occasionally uses the old “I was born/and I was dead” refrain but for the most part is making it up. Irmin and Michael are doing something very new and different. I’d go as far as to say quite a menacing version.

So, just a teaser lasting 35 minutes but it’s got me psyched. I knows there’s other tracks out on the web for streaming but this is the real deal, fully mastered on CD and played through my hi-fi not some crappy digital format played through my laptop’s speakers.

“The Lost Tapes” is out on Monday 18th June and is currently £29.99 from Amazon

Can announce “The Lost Tapes”

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cut and pasted from the Mute website:

Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.

The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.

When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.

Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.

What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.

Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.”

The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.

Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.

According to Spin CDs, the box set will be a “very limited edition, numbered 10” square, old fashioned tape box style packaging with 24 page 10” booklet.” and retail for less than £30. They also have a tracklist:

The Lost Tapes – Part 1

1. Millionenspiel
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. Evening All Day
4. Deadly Doris
5. Graublau
6. When Darkness Comes
7. Blind Mirror Surf
8. Oscura Primavera
9. Buble Rap

The Lost Tapes – Part 2

1. Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. The Agreement
4. Midnight Sky
5. Desert
6. Spoon (Live)
7. Dead Pigeon Suite
8. Abra Cada Braxas
9. A Swan Is Born
10. The Loop

The Lost Tapes – Part 3

1. Godzilla Fragment
2. On The Way To Mother Sky
3. Midnight Men
4. Networks Of Foam
5. Messers, Scissors, Fork and Light
6. Barnacles
7. E.F.S 108
8. Private Nocturnal
9. Alice
10. Mushroom (Live)
11. One More Saturday Night (Live)

Can news! At last!

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So, news in at last. Special editions, box sets, free downloads & previously unreleased material. Read on.

Spoon Records are teaming up once again with Mute for the 40th anniversary of Can’s classic landmark album “Tago Mago”.

This new edition comes packaged in the original UK artwork for the first time since 1971, and includes a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972, remastered in 2011.

Tracklisting:

*CD1*
Paperhouse (07:29)
Mushroom (04:04)
Oh Yeah (07:23)
Halleluwah (18:33)
Aumgn (17:37)
Peking O (11:38)
Bring Me Coffee Or Tea (06:47)

*CD2*
Mushroom (Live 1972) (08:42)
Spoon (Live 1972) (29:55)
Halleluwah (Live 1972) (09:12)

Can – Bring Me Coffee Or Tea by Mute UK

To further celebrate this landmark album, Abtart gallery in Stuttgart (16 Sep – 5 Nov) (www.abtart.com) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (24 Nov – 18 Dec) (www.bethanien.de) will host *Halleluwah!*, a visual homage to Can. Artists have been invited to interpret Can’s pioneering role in composition, sound, playing technique, and group dynamics.

Comprising painting, drawing, videos, objects, and sound pieces that relate to the broad spectrum of the band’s manifestations and to the facets of the collective, including critical considerations of its being turned into a myth, some works will respond to the covers of CAN albums, others will be investigations or continuations of sound into the present, while yet others will simply be hallucinatory bows before these
great musicians. For further information, and a full list of confirmed artists which includes Albert Oehlen, Daniel Richter, Malcolm Mooney, Carsten Nicolai, go to: http://www.spoonrecords.com/

All 14 of Can’s studio albums have been newly cut to vinyl from the remastered tapes for release as a vinyl deluxe box set in early 2012. This will include CDs of all the albums, extensive booklets, an exclusive never released live album (vinyl only) and a newly remastered “Out Of Reach” (previously missed out of the reissue campaign). The vinyl deluxe box set will be available for pre-order at the beginning of October 2011.

In addition, there will be a box set, “The Lost Tapes*, will be released in March 2012. Curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, and edited and compiled by Jono Podmore, this will include unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Michael Karoli’s death on the 17th November 2011, Spoon Records will offer a Best Of Michael Karoli Edit for free download on their site www.spoonrecords.com
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6th Birthday: The Roots of Was Ist Das?

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Well, judging by the greetings on facebook, it is now August 19th in Japan, so that means the 6th birthday of Was Ist Das? has begun. It’s also the second anniversary of when Was Ist Das? 2.0 was born, as that’s when the domain name registration was freed and I could start again with a brand new website with a new host & registrar.

To celebrate, here’s a DJ mix exploring the music that inspired & informed my musical tastes. Included are many old favourites and songs used as nuggets in the podcast/video review intro theme:

CAN OPEN THE VAULTS

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In this months Mojo magaizne, Irmin Schmidt reveals some exciting news for Can-heads. He states there are 20 to 30 hours of unreleased music in the Can archive and that he has begun digitising it. He mentions there are live recordings and a lot of soundtrack work and alternative versions of existing songs (he cites Vitamin C as an example of a song they tried out in different styles).

In Autumn, deluxe vinyl editions of the classic Can albums will be released with the unreleased material to follow:

“It might be a series of albums, two or three at least” he is quoted as saying “There are some really nice and strange jams of the four of us alone in the studio which have never been heard since. There will be songs with Malcolm and Damo; there’s a live piece with Malcolm I remember, and two or three with Damo”

When asked what will happen to the rest of the archive he is quoted as saying it will be put on the internet for download.