Unlimited Edition (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Unlimited Edition
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Can


Released = 1976
Recorded = 1968-1976
Genre = Krautrock
Length =
Label = Spoon Records
Producer = Can
Reviews = * Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15996-future-days-soon-over-babaluma-unlimited-edition-landed?artist_title=15996-future-days-soon-over-babaluma-unlimited-edition-landed link]

Last album =
This album = "Unlimited Edition"
(1976)
Next album = "Delay 1968"
(1981)

"Unlimited Edition" is a compilation album by the band Can. Released in 1976 as a double album, it was an expanded version of the 1974 LP "Limited Edition", which as the name suggests was a limited release of 15,000 copies (tracks 14-19 were added). The album collects unreleased music from throughout the band's history from 1968 until 1976, and both the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured.

Track notes

The abbreviation "E.F.S.", appearing in several of the track titles, refers to "Ethnological Forgery Series", a series of songs in which Can self-consciously imitated various "world music" genres. "Mother Upduff" is a retelling of an urban legend involving a family whose grandmother dies while they are on holiday together, and whose corpse – left wrapped up on the roof of the family car – is later stolen along with the car. [ [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/deadgran.asp Snopes.com article] ]

Track listing

# "Gomorrha" – 5:41 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Doko E" – 2:26 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "LH 702" – 2:11 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki)
# "I'm Too Leise" – 5:10 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Musette" – 2:08 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki)
# "Blue Bag (Inside Paper)" – 1:16 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "E.F.S. No. 27" – 1:47 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki)
# "TV Spot" – 3:02 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki)
# "E.F.S. No. 7" – 1:05 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Suzuki)
# "The Empress And The Ukraine King" – 4:40 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney)
# "E.F.S. No. 10" – 2:01 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Mother Upduff" – 4:28 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney)
# "E.F.S. No. 36" – 1:55 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Cutaway" – 18:49 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Connection" – 2:20 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney)
# "Fall Of Another Year" – 3:20 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney)
# "E.F.S. No. 8" – 1:37 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Transcendental Express" – 4:37 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)
# "Ibis" – 5:00 (Karoli, Czukay, Liebezeit, Schmidt)

Personnel

*Holger Czukay: bass guitar
*Michael Karoli: guitar, shehnai on No. 3
*Jaki Liebezeit: drums, percussion, winds on No. 4,9,11,16,36
*Irmin Schmidt: keyboards, synthesizer, schizophone on No. 10
*Damo Suzuki: vocals on No. 2,4,6,7,8
*Malcolm Mooney: vocals on No. 10,12,15,16

Production Credits

* Composed, written & produced by Can
* Recording by Holger Czukay & Rene Tinner at CAN Studio, Weilerswist, Germany
* Frontcover: Trevor Key

References

* [http://www.spoonrecords.com/disco/unlimitted.html 'Unlimited Edition' at the official Can/Spoon Records site] . Accessed 30 April 2008.
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=3514 'Unlimited Edition' at the ProgArchives.com] . Accessed 30 April 2008.

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