Lost Tapes (Standard Ed), The ((3XCD))

Lost Tapes (Standard Ed), The ((3XCD))

• Can- The Lost Tapes

THE LOST TAPES was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel<br>Miller, and compiled by Schmidt and long time collaborator<br>Jono Podmore.<br>When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the<br>German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including<br>the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection,<br>and relocated it to Gronau. While dismantling the studio,<br>master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive.<br>With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on<br>these until Irmin and Jono started to go through over 30 hours<br>of music. What they found was years of archived material, not<br>outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety<br>of reasons.<br>Can's influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact<br>they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been.<br>They themselves have always been impossible to classify and<br>reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have<br>cited Can as a major influence is varied from John Lydon to<br>Radiohead, The Fall to Portishead.