![]() Few bands have been so prescient and so consistently experimental as Can. Started in the late 1960s by bassist Holger Czukay and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, both students of the German composer and electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen, Can’s music was a blend of unlikely combinations: It had the minimalism of Velvet Underground it incorporated electronic and synthesizer experiments inspired by Stockhausen but also had the funk, groove and R&B influences of musicians and bands such as James Brown and New Orleans’ The Meters.Īlthough some music journalists sloppily slap the label “Krautrock" on Can’s kind of music, it is an inaccurate way of describing the band. And although they were prolific (11 albums in 10 years till 1979, plus an additional one that came out of a surprise reunion in 1989), they were confounding during their career-to both listeners and some critics. ![]() ![]() Yet Can’s brand of music is quite unclassifiable. ![]()
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