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  • Audio CD (1 Aug 2005)
  • Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered, SACD
  • Label: Grey Area
  • ASIN: B0009RJPA0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 95,211 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Dizzy Dizzy (2005 Digital Remaster) 5:40£0.69
Listen  2. Come Sta, La Luna (2005 Digital Remaster) 5:42£0.69
Listen  3. Splash (2005 Digital Remaster) 7:45£0.69
Listen  4. Chain Reaction (2005 Digital Remaster)11:09£0.69
Listen  5. Quantum Physics (2005 Digital Remaster) 8:31£0.69

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The second wave of Can reissues, freshly remastered by bassist/studio wizard Holger Czukay, keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, and engineer Jono Podmore repeats the trick pulled on the first batch, stripping away background hiss and muddiness and leaving these epochal recordings sounding impossibly fresh.

The pick is undeniably Future Days, considered by many to be the group’s finest hour: the last album to feature deranged Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki, it sees the band working as one, crafting long vistas of blissful ambient sound powered by Jaki Liebzeit’s steady, machine-like drumming. 1974’s Soon Over Babaluma is an underrated Can moment, however: guitarist Michael Karoli switches to violin on "Dizzy Dizzy", even adding a hushed, mantric vocal, while the eleven-minute "Chain Reaction" offers the first taste of Can’s disco-influenced future.

Something of a mixed bag, Unlimited Edition is most interesting as an example of Can’s musical breadth: a compilation spanning five years, it features everything from the cranked Velvets garage of "Mother Upduff" – featuring original vocalist Malcolm Mooney - to "Cutaway", seventeen minutes of dizzying tape-splice experiments. Finally, 1975’s Landed: it’s far from a highlight of Can’s back catalogue, but "Hunters And Collectors" and the raging "Vernal Equinox", featuring some furious Karoli soloing, are not without their charms. --Louis Pattison

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars If anyone can, Can can, 23 Oct 2007
By Patrick Neylan "Patrick Neylan" (Orpington, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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Can simply baffle and entrance. If you decide that they're not for you, then you'll never understand why a surprisingly large number of musos describe them as the greatest product of late 20th Century music.

Soon Over Babaluma won't clarify your decision either way, though Dizzy Dizzy is one one of their most accessible tracks. It's a piece of dub reggae with blues violin, which merely leaves one wondering how anyone could contemplate playing dub reggae without a blues violin. The other obvious stand-out track is Splash - effectively a furious work-out by the band's two stand-out musicians: Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit. Karoli plays a seven-minute, screeching, distorted guitar and violin solo while Liebezeit concocts a jazz rhythm behind it that grows in skill and complexity till it becomes simply breathtaking.

On the strength of these two tracks alone I would recommend Soon Over Babaluma, but there is more. True, I could happily go quite a long time before hearing 'Come Sta, La Luna' again, while 'Quantum Physics' (which closes the album) doesn't stand up on its own but only works as a coda to the rest of the piece. However, 'Chain Reaction', the centrepiece of side two, is a beautiful venture into the disco rhythms that were starting to make themselves felt at the time, and is only let down by its vocal (a criticism I will heretically make of most Can albums, regardless of whether it's Karoli, Schmidt, Suzuki or Mooney singing). If you're going to have a pregnant 4-minute intro, your first lines need to better than "Elephant... dominating..." Karoli briefly manages to sample a Doors guitar solo as well (Love Her Madly, if you must know).

If, like me, you can enjoy Can simply for the shallow pleasure of listening to Jaki Liebezeit's wonderful drumming, then waste no more time and put this CD in your shopping basket right now. If you're curious about this near-legendary band, then this isn't a bad place to start (better than the baffling Ege Bamyasi recommended by some reviewers). And, if you're interested in 70s prog rock, then this makes an interesting partner to King Crimson's Red, recorded at the same time and cited by some as "the last prog album". Both are somewhat minimalist, stripped-down works of focused, jazz-tinged, adventurous music - hardly prototype punk rock, but aeons away from Tales from Topographic Oceans.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars underrated_can, 14 Mar 2006
This was the first album after the departure of Damo Suzuki. Michael Karoli takes over the lead vocal duties as well as adding violin, both of which sit very comfortably within the classic Can sound. Jaki Liebezeit's metronomic drum grooves hold the whole album together in the same way as their previous work - so there is much here to enjoy for the Can fan. It is an album that is often overlooked in favour of "Future Days" or "Tago Mago", however this is still a very credible album, and one of my personal favourites. I also feel that it is a better album than its follow up "Landed". If I could give this a four-and-a-half rating I certainly would. This particular reissue also comes in the CD cases that are slightly rounded on the corners - which is a nice design idea and still fit into a normal racking or storage system.
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4.0 out of 5 stars My Favourite Can Album., 26 April 2008
Chain Reaction was problably the track that set me up for a lifetime of loving psycheldelic music. Some people consider heavy rock to be the most heavy music, but I think underground psycheldelic rock bands like Can (and Hawkwind at that time) leave plain rock bands such as Nirvana and the Killers for dead. Can were just far too heavy for most people. The recording sounds a little tame nowadays, but Chain Reaction and Dizzy Dizzy have been my biggest influence with the music I make. Today I am into bands like Broadcast, Electrelane, and Magnetic Fields plus dance bands like James Holden who carry the mantle (for me anyway) for underground experimenatal rock.
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