Unlimited Edition (album)

Unlimited Edition
Compilation album by Can
Released	1976
Recorded	1968-1975
Genre	Krautrock
Label	Harvest Records, Caroline Records
Producer	Can
Can chronology
Landed (1975) Unlimited Edition (1976) Delay 1968 (1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	(7.9/10) [1]

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 on United Artists Records 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.

Contents 1 Track notes 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 Production credits 5 External Links 6 References

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.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Gomorrha" (Dec. 73) – 5:41
2. "Doko E" (Aug. 73) – 2:26 +
3. "LH 702 (Nairobi/München)" (Mar. 72) – 2:11
4. "I'm Too Leise" (Mar. 72) – 5:10 +
5. "Musette" (Jan. 70) – 2:08
6. "Blue Bag (Inside Paper)" (Oct. 70) – 1:16 +
7. "E.F.S. No. 27" (Dec. 70) – 1:47 +
8. "TV Spot" (Apr. 71) – 3:02 +
9. "E.F.S. No. 7" (Sep. 68) – 1:05
10. "The Empress and the Ukraine King" (Jan. 69) – 4:40 ^
11. "E.F.S. No. 10" (Jan. 69) – 2:01
12. "Mother Upduff" (May 69) – 4:28 ^
13. "E.F.S. No. 36" (May 74) – 1:55
14. "Cutaway" (Mar. 69) – 18:49
15. "Connection" (Mar. 69) – 2:20 ^
16. "Fall of Another Year" (Aug. 69) – 3:20 ^
17. "E.F.S. No. 8" (Nov. 68) – 1:37
18. "Transcendental Express" (Jul. 75) – 4:37
19. "Ibis" (Sep. 74) – 9:19

All songs written by Can (Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt), except:
^ Can and Mooney
+ Can and Suzuki

Personnel

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

Production credits

• Composed, written and produced by Can
• Recording by Holger Czukay and Rene Tinner at CAN Studio, Weilerswist, Germany
• Frontcover – Trevor Key

External Links

• 'Unlimited Edition' at the official Can/Spoon Records site. Accessed 30 April 2008.
• 'Unlimited Edition' at the ProgArchives.com. Accessed 30 April 2008.

References

1. ^ Pitchfork Media Review
2. ^ Snopes.com article

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